LIBRARY OF MEDIEVAL WOMEN, EDITED BY JANE CHANCE
The Library of Medieval Women series makes available significant works by and about medieval women, from the age of the Church Fathers to the seventeenth century. The subjects of these translations range from theology and mysticism to classical mythology, medicine and science, history and hagiography; the literary forms include epic poems and dramas, memoirs and visions, biography and autobiography, letters, sermons, treatises, and encyclopedias.
Published and Forthcoming Texts in the Library of Medieval Women (Boydell and Brewer)
(individual titles listed)
- Anne of France’s Lessons for My Daughter, trans. Sharon L. Jansen (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2004).
- Goscelin of St. Bertin’s Book of Encouragement and Consolation [Goscelin's Letter to the Recluse Eva], trans. Monika Otter (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2004).
- Late Medieval German Women’s Poetry: Secular and Religious Songs, trans. Albrecht Classen (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2004).
- The Letters of the Paston Women: A Selected Translation. Translated from the Middle English with Introduction, Notes, and Interpretive Essay, trans. Diane Watt (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2004).
- Margery Kempe’s Book, trans. Liz Herbert McAvoy (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2004).
- The Gilte Legende: Middle English Womens’ Saints Lives, trans. Larissa Tracy (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2003).
- Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents in France and England, trans. Vera Petch Morton with Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2003).
- Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine (d. 1315): Life and Revelations, trans. Ulrike Wiethaus (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2002)Agnes Blannbekin, Viennese Beguine (d. 1315): Life and Revelations, trans. Ulrike Wiethaus (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2002).
- The Letters of the Rozmberk Sisters: Noblewomen in Fifteenth-Century Bohemia, trans. John M. Klassen with Eva Doležalovà and Lynn Szabo (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2001).
- The Life of Douceline of Digne, Beguine of Provence, Translated from Occitan, trans. Madeleine Jeay and Kathleen Garay, with Carol Kent (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2001).
- The “Memoriale” of Angela of Foligno, trans. Cristina Mazzoni and John Cirignano (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 2000)
- St. Bride and her Book: St. Birgitta's Revelations, trans. from the Middle English by Julia Bolton Holloway (Newburyport, Mass: Focus Press, 1992; rpt. Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 2000).
- Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): On Natural Philosophy and Medicine, Selections from "Cause et Cure," trans. Margret Berger (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 1999).
- Women Saints’ Lives in Old English Prose trans. Leslie Donovan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 1999).
- Helene Kottanner: Memoirs (1439-1440), Translated from the Early New High German, by Maya Bijvoet-Williamson (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell and Brewer, 1998).
- Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works, trans. Katharina Wilson (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 1998).
- Julian of Norwich (b. 1343), Revelations of Divine Love; The Short Text, Translated from British Library Additional MS. 37750, The Motherhood of God: An Excerpt, trans. Frances Beer (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 1998).
- The Writings of Teresa de Cartagena, trans. Dayle Seidenspinner-Nuñez (Woodbridge, Suffolk, and Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer, 1998).
- Christine de Pizan: The Letter of Othea to Hector, trans. Jane Chance (Newburyport, Mass: Focus Press, 1990; rpt. Cambridge, England: D. S. Brewer, 1997).
- The Writings of Margaret of Oingt, Medieval Prioress and Mystic (+1310), trans. from Latin and the Francoprovençal by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (Newburyport, Mass: Focus Press, 1990).
In Progress:
- Caritas Pirckheimer's Journal of the Reformation, 1524-28, trans. Paul MacKenzie
- Christine de Pizan's Lavision, trans. Glenda MacLeod and Charity Cannon Willard
- Cloistered Women: Selections from Fourteenth-Century Dominican Convent Literature,
Translated from the Middle High German (Christina Ebner, Adelheide Langmann,
Margaretha Ebner, Elsbeth Stagel, Anna von Munzingen, Nuns of St. Katherine's), trans.
Rosemary Drago Hale
- The Inquisition Records of Guglielma of Milan, trans. Nancy Caciola
- Lives of Italian Holy Women of the Late Middle Ages, 1226-1360, trans. Cordelia Warr
- The Lives of Three Anglo-Norman Women Saints, trans. Jane Zatta
- Magdalena of Freiburg and the Imitation of Christ: Selections from her Vitae and Meditative Works, trans. Kate Greenspan
- The Sermons of Humility of Faenza, trans. Catherine Mooney
- The Vitae of Rose of Viterbo, Thirteenth-Century Woman Street Preacher, trans. Darleen Pryds
- The Wooing Group, trans. Michelle Sauer
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