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Authority and authorship in Medieval and seventeenth century women's visionary writings / Deborah Frick.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: LettrePublisher: Bielefeld : transcript-Verlag, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (156 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3839456894
  • 9783839456897
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823/.009382 23
  • 420
LOC classification:
  • PR117
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Conventions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Weakness and Illness -- The Female Body -- Chapter 2: Women and Politics -- Chapter 3: The Vessel of God -- Voice vs. Mouthpiece -- Conclusion -- Bibliography
Dissertation note: Doctoral Thesis Universität Zürich 2019 Summary: In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley, in order to investigate how these women authorized themselves in their writings and what topoi they use to find a voice and place of their own. This comparison, furthermore, and the strikingly similar topoi that are used by the female visionaries not only allows to question and examine topics such as authority, authorship, images of voice and body; it also breaks down preconceived and artificial boundaries and definitions.
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Doctoral Thesis Universität Zürich 2019

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Conventions -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Weakness and Illness -- The Female Body -- Chapter 2: Women and Politics -- Chapter 3: The Vessel of God -- Voice vs. Mouthpiece -- Conclusion -- Bibliography

In medieval and early modern times, female visionary writers used the mode of prophecy to voice their concerns and ideas, against the backdrop of cultural restrictions and negative stereotypes. In this book, Deborah Frick analyses medieval visionary writings by Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe in comparison to seventeenth-century visionary writings by authors such as Anna Trapnel, Mary Cary, Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley, in order to investigate how these women authorized themselves in their writings and what topoi they use to find a voice and place of their own. This comparison, furthermore, and the strikingly similar topoi that are used by the female visionaries not only allows to question and examine topics such as authority, authorship, images of voice and body; it also breaks down preconceived and artificial boundaries and definitions.

In English.

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