EAN: 9783837656893

AUTHORITY AND AUTHORSHIP IN MEDIEVAL AND SEVENT...

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 Carey  Anne Wentworth and Katherine Chidley  in order to investigate
how these women authorised 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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