‎Elisabetta Bartoli (ed)‎
‎Medieval Women in Letters Letters by Women, to Women, and about Women in Medieval Literatures‎

‎, brepo, 2025 Hardcover Pages: xiv + 376 p.Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 5 col., 4 tables b/w. Language(s):English, Italian, French. *new. ISBN 9782503616810.‎

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‎ Summary The letter was the most widespread means of communication in the Middle Ages and the most practiced literary genre also among women. This volume, produced under the auspices of the Medieval Women in Letters project from the MedioEvA Center (University of Siena, Rome Sapienza and Tours), explores the rhetorical, literary, thematic, and historical-cultural aspects of the female epistolography in the Middle Ages. Latin literature constitutes a cohesive element between the various vernacular languages that were establishing themselves during the Middle Ages, and this volume promotes the study of women?s literature and medieval woman by adopting a consistently comparative and translinguistic method, analyzing women?s literature in all the languages used in medieval Europe. The methodology focuses on the literary tradition, especially the linguistic and philological spheres. Specialists in Germanic, Middle Latin, Romance, Arabic, Italian, and Byzantine literature discuss published and unpublished female letters, with particular focus on the main challenges that female writing in the Middle Ages presents, including: authorship, the relationship between copyist and author, the degree of female literacy, training structures, the role of writing in the various seasons of the Middle Ages, and the modern critical reception of female epistolography. As a result, this volume seeks to dismantle obsolete critical prejudices and redefine a literary canon that fully includes women. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Reflections on Women and Letters JOAN M. FERRANTE Le lettere delle principesse gote d?Italia PAOLO MASTANDREA Merovingian Female Letter-Writing: The Case of Caesaria II of Arles DONATELLA MANZOLI Arcana Imperii: Matilde a Canossa (1077) e Matelda "in Paradiso deliciarum" CLAUDIA VILLA La figura della monaca Emma nelle epistole poetiche di Balderico di Bourgeuil ARMANDO BISANTI Love and ?Unlove? in Medieval Women?s Letters ELISABETTA BARTOLI A nome di donne: Lettere di Boncompagno da Signa PAOLO GARBINI Qu?y a-t-il de féminin dans les lettres de Gherardesca de Battifolle à Marguerite de Brabant? BENOÎT GRÉVIN Représentation de soi et modèles d?écriture féminins dans l?épître d?amour française à voix de femme SPERANZA CERULLO L?Épitre à la reine de Christine de Pizan: une lettre de circonstance? SYLVIE LEFÈVRE De caritate tua diligenter confidens: The Correspondence between Boniface and Eadburg CLAUDIA DI SCIACCA Olympias and the Others: Female Correspondence in the Byzantine Alexander Romance TOMMASO BRACCINI "Wasalat ruq?atu-ki ...": Female Letters in Ahmad Zak? ?afwat?s ?amharat Rasâ ?il al-?Arab: Presence and Absence of Women in Medieval Arabic Letter-Writing PEDRO BUENDÍA Andrea Acciaiuoli: Une femme de Lettres SABRINA FERRARA Women Writing to Women in Lapa Acciauoli?s Correspondence ELSA FILOSA "Fa scrivere a me perch?io appari": Donne e lettere nelle carte Brancacci ALESSIA VALENTI Antifemmicidio di Cereta FEDERICO SANGUINETI Notes on Contributors‎