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Elizabeth Robertson.
Early English Devotional Prose and the Female Audience.
Published Knoxville: Tennessee U.P., 1990.
ISBN 0870496417.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printed in the USA by BookCrafters, Inc.
Size: 158x234x19mm.
Page count: x,227pp.
Main language: English; quotations generally given with a following translation.
Overall condition good: this copy has some mild general wear but overall doesn’t look too heavily used; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £15.00
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(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 518g.

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Contents: Implications of illiteracy for development of Middle English literature; Anchoress in 13th‑c. England; Medieval views of female spirituality; Female spirituality of Ancrene Wisse; Perfect marriage — Hali Meidenhad; Lives of St. Katherine, St. Margaret, & St. Juliana; Allegory & emotions in "Sawles Warde"; AB texts & Anglo-Saxon tradition; Female reader & 12th‑c. notions of the physical; The question of female style.

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Illustrations: 1, monochrome
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 8pp
Index: yes

See also | Religious literature | Women’s studies | Prose |
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