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Medieval Literature: Medieval Women Writers

21L.460 · Literature, Women's and Gender Studies · Undergraduate · Spring 2004

Prof. James Cain

MIT · Tier 1

This survey provides a general introduction to medieval European literature (from Late Antiquity to the Fifteenth Century) from the perspective of women writers from a variety of cultures, social backgrounds, and historical timeperiods. Though much of the class will be devoted to exploring the evolution of a new literary tradition by and for women from its earliest emergence in the West, wider historical and cultural movements will also be addressed: the Fall of the Roman Empire, the growt…

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