Women's Lives: Self-Representation, Reception and Appropriation in the Middle Ages - Hardcover

by Nahir I. Otaño Gracia (Editor), Daniel Armenti (Editor)

Women's Lives recalls and celebrates the work of Elizabeth Petroff, an eminent scholar of Medieval Women Mystics, by proposing that the lives of medieval women may be read as models of positive transgression. Their representation and reception make powerful arguments for equality, agency and authority on behalf of the writers who employed them.

Author Biography

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia is assistant professor of English at the University of New Mexico and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study. Daniel Armenti is a visiting lecturer in Italian at the College of the Holy Cross.