Poet, mystic, widow, wife : the extraordinary lives of medieval women / Hetta Howes.

Women writers of the Middle Ages : a critical study of texts from Perpetua ([dagger] 203) to Marguerite Porete ([dagger] 1310) / Peter Dronke.

To the glory of her sex : women's roles in the composition of medieval texts / Joan M. Ferrante.

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Women and literature - Europe - History - To 1500

Works from the collections

Poet, mystic, widow, wife : the extraordinary lives of medieval women / Hetta Howes.

Women writers of the Middle Ages : a critical study of texts from Perpetua ([dagger] 203) to Marguerite Porete ([dagger] 1310) / Peter Dronke.

To the glory of her sex : women's roles in the composition of medieval texts / Joan M. Ferrante.