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Albrecht Classen
The Power of a Woman's Voice
in Medieval and Early Modern Literatures
Fundamentals of Medieval
and Early Modern Culture
Edited by
Albrecht Classen and Marilyn Sandidge
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Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
Albrecht Classen
The Power of a Woman's Voice
in Medieval and
Early Modern Literatures
New Approaches
to German and European Women Writers
and to Violence Against Women
in Premodern Times
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Walter de Gruyter · Berlin · New York
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Classen, Albrecht.
The power of a woman's voice in medieval and early modern lite-
ratures : new approaches to German and European women writers
and to violence against women in premodern times / by Albrecht
Classen.
p. cm. - (Fundamentals of medieval and early modern cul-
ture ; 1)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-3-11-019941-3 (alk. paper)
1. Literature, Medieval - Women authors - History and criti-
cism.
2. Literature — Women authors — History and criticism.
I. Title.
PN682.W6C56 2007
809'.892870940902-dc22
2007012086
ISBN 978-3-11-019941-3
ISSN 1864-3396
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Cover design: Christopher Schneider, Berlin
Printing and binding: Hubert & Co., Göttingen
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter One
Violence to Women, Women's Rights, and Their Defenders
in Medieval German Literature
Chapter Two
Women Speak up at the Medieval Court: Gender Roles
and Public Influence in Hartmann von Aue's
Erec
and
Gottfried von Strassburg's
Tristan and Isolde
Chapter Three
Women's Secular and Spiritual Power in the Middle Ages.
Two Case Studies: Hildegard von Bingen and Marie de France . . .
Chapter Four
Gender Crossing, Spiritual Transgression, and
the Epistemological Experience of the Divine in
Mystical Discourse: Hildegard von Bingen
Chapter Five
The Winsbeckin - Female Discourse or Male Projection?
New Questions to a Middle High German Gendered Didactic Text
in Comparison with Christine de Pizan
Chapter Six
Domestic Violence in Medieval and Early-Modern German
French, Italian, and English Literature (Marie de France,
Boccaccio, and Geoffrey Chaucer)
Chapter Seven
Reading, Listening, and Writing Communities in Late Medieval
Women's Dominican Convents: The Mystical Drive
Toward the World. The Testimony of the
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