The Literary Subversions of Medieval Women

1. Introduction: The Discursive Strategies of the Marginalized
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2. St. Agnes and the Emperor’s Daughter in Saxon Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Feminizing the Founding of the Early Roman Church
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3. Marie de France Versus King Arthur: Lanval’s Gender Inversion as Breton Subversion
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4. Marguerite Porete’s Annihilation of the Character Reason in Her Fantasy of an Inverted Church
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5. Unhomely Margery Kempe and St. Catherine of Siena: “Comunycacyon” and “Conuersacion” as Homily
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6. Conclusion: Toward a Minor Literature: Julian of Norwich’s Annihilation of Original Sin
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Keywords: Literature, Medieval Literature, Gender Studies, History of Medieval Europe, Classical and Antique Literature