Description: Introduction: Women's writing in Middle English? ; women's education and culture in the Middle Ages; women, authority and authorship; three strategies for dealing with male authority - the authority of experience, submission and silence, appropriation and assimilation; the problem of anonymous texts; women's writing - a continuing tradition?; the selection of texts. The texts: the 14th Century and earlier - Middle English Trotula texts, Marie de France - Lai le Freine, Mechtild of Hackeborn and Gertrude the Great, The Book of Ghostly Grace, Marguerite Poete, The Mirror of Simple Souls, the Revelations of St Elizabeth of Hungary, Bridget of Sweden - The Revelations and the Bridgettine Rule, Catherine of Siena - The Orchard of Syon, Julian of Norwich - A Revelation of Love; the 15th century - Christine de Pisan, translations, A Revelation of Purgatory, the book of Margery Kempe, The Faits and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Dame Eleanor Hull, the translations, Juliane Berners, The Book of Hunting, some Paston letters, 15th and early 16th century poems, Lady Margaret Beaufort, the translations.

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