Reading families : women's literate practice in late medieval England
Rebecca Krug argues that in the later Middle Ages, people defined themselves in terms of family relationships but increasingly saw their social circumstances as being connected to the written word. Complex family dynamics and social configurations...
Print Book, English, 2002
Cornell University Press, Ithaca (N.Y.), 2002
IX, 238 p. 24 cm
9780801439247, 0801439248
1014631123
Introduction: from law to practice: women, resistance, and writing -- Husbands and sons: Margaret Paston's letter-writing -- Margaret Beaufort's literate practice: service and self-inscription -- Children of God: women Lollards at Norwich -- Reading at Syon Abbey -- Conclusion: medieval women authors?.