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Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Saints'' Lives and Women''s Literary Culture, c.1150-1300: Virginity and its Authorizations.-

Publication: Medium Aevum
Publication Date: 22-MAR-02
Format: Online - approximately 546 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Saints'' Lives and Women''s Literary Culture, c.1150-1300: Virginity and its Authorizations.-(book review)

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(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001). xvi + 314 pp. ISBN 0-19-811279-3. 55.00 [pounds sterling].

This impeccably scholarly and busily factual book resists easy summary or appraisal. The focus is on Anglo-Norman texts that had an especial importance for women: vernacular hagiographies. But the book also excavates a vast amount of historical material relating to laywomen and enclosed women (largely of the seigneurial class) as patrons, translators, writers, and audiences of these texts--women such as the married Lady Elena de Quenci (d....

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