This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant t

This study of medieval women as postcolonial writers defines the literary strategies of subversion by which they authorized their alterity within the dominant t

This volume explores medieval anchoritism (the life of a solitary religious recluse) from a variety of perspectives. The individual essays conceive anchoritism

Deanne Williams offers the very first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor. Whereas previous histories of the actress begin with the Restoration, t

Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exe