Further Reading: Literacy and Gender

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Aston, Margaret. “Lollardy and Literacy.” History 62 (1977): 347-71. Rpt. In her Lollards and Reformers: Images and Literacy in Late Medieval Religion. London: Hambledon, 1984.

Bell, Susan Groag. “Medieval Women Book Owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture.” Signs 7 (1982): 742-68. Rpt. in Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages, ed. Judith Bennett et al. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Blamires, Alcuin. “The Limits of Bible Study for Medieval Women.” In Women, The Book and the Godly, ed. Leslie Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D. S. Brewer, 1992, 1-12. 

Blamires, Alcuin and C. W. Marx. “Woman Not to Preach: A Disputation in British Library MS Harley 31.” Journal of Medieval Latin 3 (1993): 34-63.

Carey, H. M. “Devout Literate Laypeople and the Pursuit of the Mixed Life in Later Medieval England.” Journal of Religious History 14 (1987): 361-81.

Boffey, Julia. “Women Authors and Women’s Literacy in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England.” In Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500, ed. Carol M. Meale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 159-82.

Cherewatuk, Karen and Ulrike Wiethaus, ed. Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

Clanchy, Michael. From Memory to Written Record: England, 1066-1307. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.

Cross, Claire. “ ‘Great Reasoners in Scripture’: The Activities of Women Lollards, 1380-1530.” Studies in Church History, subsidia 1 (1978): 359-80.

Delany, Sheila. Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern. New York, 1983.

Ferrante, Joan M.  "The Education of Women in the Middle Ages in Theory, Fact, and Fantasy" In Beyond their Sex:  Learned Women of the European Past, ed. Patricia H. Labalme.  New York:  New York University Press, 1980. 

Ferrante, Joan M.  To the Glory of Her Sex:  Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1997. 

Finke, Laurie.  Feminist Theory, Women's Writing. Reading Women Writing.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1992.

Gundersheimer, Verner L. “Women, Learning, and Power: Eleanora of Aragon and the Court of Ferrara.” In Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past, ed. Patricia H. Labalme. New York: New York University Press, 1980.

Harding, Wendy.  "Body into Text:  The Book of Margery Kempe." In Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, ed. Linda Lomperis and Sarah Stanbury.  Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993, 168-87. 

Hanna, Ralph. “Some Norfolk Women and their Books, ca. 1390-1440.” In The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, ed. June Hall McCash. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996, 288-305.

Hudson, Ann and P. Biller, eds. Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1531. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Kreuger, Roberta. Women and Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993,

Labalme, Patricia H., ed. Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past. New York: New York University Press, 1980.

 Larrington, Carolyne. Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 1995.

LeSaux, F. “ ‘Hir Not Lettryd’: Margery Kempe and Writing.” In Writing and Culture, ed. B. Engler. Tubingen, 1992.

McCash, June Hall, ed. The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

Meale, Carol. “ ‘Alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch’: Laywomen and their Books in Late Medieval England.” In Women and Literature in Britain 1150-1500, ed. Carol Meale. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, 128-58.

Meale, Carol, ed. Women and Literature in Britain 1150-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Oden, Amy, ed.  In Her Words: Women's Writings in the History of Christian Thought.  Nashville:  Abingdon Press, 1994. 

Parkes, Malcolm. “The Literacy of the Laidy.” In Literature and Western Civilization: The Medieval World, ed. David Daiches and Anthony Thorlby. London: Aldus, 1973.

Schibanoff, Susan. “Taking the Gold Out of Egypt: The Art of Reading as a Woman.” In Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts, ed. Elizabeth A. Flynn and Patrocinio P. Schweickart. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.

Smith, Leslie and Jane H. M. Taylor, eds .Women, the Book and the Godly:  Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Woodbridge and Rochester:  D. S. Brewer, 1995.

Smith, Lesley, and Jane H. M. Taylor, eds.  Women and the Book:  Assessing the Visual Evidence.  Toronto and Buffalo;  University of Toronto Press, 1997. 

Smith, Sidonie.  A Poetics of Women's Autobiography:  Marginality and the Fictions of Self-Representation.  Bloomington:  Indiana University Press,

Staley, Lynn [Johnson]. “The Trope of the Scribe and the Questin of Literary Authority in the Works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe.” Speculum 66 (1991): 820-38.

Stone, Robert Karl. Middle English Prose Style: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. The Hague: Mouton, 1970. 

Stoudt, Debra L. "`ich súndig wip muos schriben':  Religious Women and Literary Traditions." In Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages:  An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to the Study of Middle High German Literature.  Ed. Albrecht Classen.  Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik 528.  Göppingen:  Kümmerle, 1991, 147-68. 

Stoudt, Debra L. The Production and Preservation of Letters by Fourteenth-Century Dominican Nuns," Mediaeval Studies 53 (1991):  309-26. 

Thompson, James Westfall. The Literacy of the Laity in the Middle Ages. New York, Franklin, 1963.

Uhlman, D. R. “The Comfort of Voice, the Solace of Script: Orality and Literacy in The Book of Margery Kempe.” Studies in Philology 91 (1994): 50-69.

Voaden, Rosalynn.  "God's Almighty Hand:  Women Co-Writing the Book."  In Women, the Book and the Godly:  Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993,  eds. Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor.  Woodbridge and Rochester:  D. S. Brewer, 1995, 55-65.