Medieval and Early Modern Women Authors

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Offered every third year, spring. This course will examine writings by, for, and about (but mostly by) women in the European Middle Ages and the Early Modern period with a focus on secular and religious authors from the twelfth through the fifteenth centuries. We will explore how medieval and early modern female authors found their voices and constructed alternative discourses of gender, religion, and sexuality against the dominant medieval vision of woman as Bride of Christ or Devil’s Gateway. Level: Undergraduate-Graduate