The omnipotent Ruler who alone created everything, That we know to have been written by an English woman. That initial letter from Leoba is short, but it is significant. The two of them worked closely together, even hoping to beīuried together. Boniface then invited her to join his mission to convert Francia Boniface, asking for his protectionĪnd support. South-west England] she wrote to her kinsman, St. Life, when Leoba was a nun at Wimborne, [in Key locations discussed in the “Women’s Literary Culture Before the Conquest” project, © Diane Watt. She was an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon missionary and abbess of Tauberbischofsheim in Francia. You tell us about one of the woman writers you’re researching?ĭiane: Well, the best-known of them is possibly Leoba. Diane is currently undertaking a project funded by the Leverhulme Trust called “ Women’s Literary Culture Before the Conquest.” I set out to learn what light her project will shed on this important subject.ĭiane Watt, Leverhulme Major Research Fellow and Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University of Surrey. To know about them all, and I want to share that knowledge with every person IĪnd so, I interviewed Diane Watt, professor of medieval literature at the University of Surrey. To the margins of this literary canon, there’s simply no turning back. Once you hear about the fascinating women pushed While elite, aristocratic and ecclesiastical men certainlyĭominated literary culture during the early medieval period, they were in no These are almost always assumed to have been Is on the Old English poetry produced alongside Latin works in this period.īecause of the way this poetry survives (in far too few manuscripts), Iĭeal mainly with anonymous texts. But I think it can be partly chalked up to the fact that most women writing in this period were using Latin. I myself didn’t know the name of a single female writer from my field of study-early medieval (or Anglo-Saxon) England, from roughly CE 600–1100-until my PhD was well underway. There were women writers in the Middle Ages.
#SALVES IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS SERIES#
You can find the rest of the series here. This is Part 13 of The Public Medievalist’s special series: Gender, Sexism, and the Middle Ages, by Megan Cavell.
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