Reading Medieval European Women Writers

Albrecht Classen is University Distinguished Professor of German Studies at the University of Arizona, researching and teaching European literature from ca. 800 to ca. 1800. In his more than 80 scholarly books and more than 600 articles he has focused on the history of mentality, gender studies, xenology, comparative literature, ecocriticism, and cultural history. He is the editor of Mediaevistik. He edited the Handbook of Medieval Studies as well as the Handbook of Medieval Culture. Recently his The Forest in Medieval German Literature appeared in print.

• Contents: Medieval European women writers – Hrotsvit of Gandersheim – Marie de France – Christine de Pizan – Julian of Norwich – Elisabeth von Nassau-Saarbrücken – Eleonore of Austria – Helene Kottaner(in) – Leonor López de Córdoba – Marguerite de Navarre.

"Es ist [...] zu wunschen, dass dieses wichtige Buch eine grosse Verbreitung erfahrt und seine Funktion nicht nur als neues Standardwerk zum Thema erfullt, sondern auch daruber hinaus ein neues Literaturverstandnis begrundet." (Bea Lundt, Mediaevisitik 29/2016)