Empowering Collaborations: Writing Partnerships Between Religious Women and Scribes in the Middle Ages

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This study examines partnerships between medieval women and scribes. Kimberly Benedict argues that medieval female visionaries often play prominent roles in collaboration while their male amanuenses serves as supports and foils.

Author(s): Kimberley M. Benedict
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture, 27
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 112
City: New York

List of Illustrations vii
Series Editor’s Foreword viii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction x
Chapter One: Precedents 1
Chapter Two: Genre 17
Chapter Three: Mediation 33
Chapter Four: Sexuality 49
Chapter Five: Revisionary Histories 61
Notes 82
Works Cited 85
Index 89