Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia

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Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Iberia is written by Montserrat Piera and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004406492 (ISBN 10) and 9789004406490 (ISBN 13).

This book is devoted to medieval Iberian women, readers and writers. Focusing on the stories and texts women heard, visually experienced or read, and the stories that they rewrote, the work explores women’s experiences and cultural practices and their efforts to make sense of their place within their familial networks and communities. The study is based on two methodological and interpretive threads: a new paradigm to represent premodern reading and, a study of women’s writing, or, more precisely, women’s textualities, as a process of creating words but also acts, social practices, emotions and, ultimately, affectus, understood here as the embodiment of the ability to affect and be affected.