Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875

Women's Writing from the Low Countries 1200-1875 PDF Author: Lia van Gemert
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
ISBN: 9089641297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 625

Get Book Here

Book Description
This book provides a welcome English translation of a marvelous anthology of women's religious and secular writing, stretching from the visions of the late medieval mystics through the prison testaments of sixteenth-century Anabaptist martyrs to the pamphleteers and novelists of the growing urban bourgeoisie. The translations and introductions demonstrate the ways that women in the Low Countries shaped the intellectual and cultural developments of their eras.