MEDIEVAL WOMEN WRITERS

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This course will survey pre-modern women writers from a global perspective. We will examine literatures written by women from Asia, Europe, and North Africa between the years of 500-1500, and will examine how women helped shape the various literary genres, such as novel, lyric poetry, and autobiography. Authors studied will include, but are not limited to, Murasaki Shikibu, Marie de France, Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, Christine de Pizan, and Margery Kempe.