Women and Women's Writings from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages: Representative Works

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WOMEN AND WOMEN'S WRITINGS FROM ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE MIDDLE AGES: REPRESENTATIVE WORKS

Abutsu-ni

Izayoi nikki (travel diary) mid 13th century

Aeschylus

Oresteia (dramas) c. 458 b.c.

Aristophanes

Lysistrata (drama) c. 411 b.c.

Ecclesiazusae (drama) c. 393 b.c.

The Bible

Book of Esther (prose) c. 2nd century B.C.

Birgitta of Sweden

Liber celestis revelaciones [Revelations] (prose) c. 1377

Catherine of Siena

Libro della divina dottrina [The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin Catherine of Siena] (prose) c. 1377-80

Geoffrey Chaucer

Troilus and Criseyde (poetry) c. 1385

Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (poetry) c. 1387

Christine de Pizan

Letter of the God of Love (prose) c. 1399

The Book of the City of Ladies (dialogues) c. 1405

Cynewulf

Elene (poetry) c. 8th-9th century

Elizabeth of Hungary

The Revelations of Saint Elizabeth (prose) c. 1231

Euripides

Medea (drama) c. 431 b.c.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

Visioenen [Visions] (prose) mid 13th century

Heloise

Letters of Abelard and Heloise [with Pierre Abelard] (letters) c. 1119-41

Herrad of Landsberg

Hortus Deliciarum [Garden of Delights] (prose) c. 1170

Hesiod

Works and Days (poetry) mid 8th century b.c.

Hildegard von Bingen

Liber Scivias (prose) c. 1152

Homer

Iliad (poetry) c. 9th century b.c.

Odyssey (poetry) c. 9th century b.c.

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

The Martyrdom of the Holy Virgins Fides, Spes, and Karitas (drama) late 10th century

Hypatia

Astronomical Canon (nonfiction) c. 415

On the Conics of Apollonius (nonfiction) c. 415

Izumi Shikibu

The Diary of Izumi Shikibu (diary) c. 1003

Julian of Norwich

Shewings [Revelations] (prose) c. 1373-93

Margery Kempe

Book of Margery Kempe (autobiography) c. 1438

Marie de France

Lais (poetry) c. 1170

Murasaki Shikibu

Genji monogatori [The Tale of Genji] (novel) early 11th century

Ovid

Metamorphoses (poetry) c. 1

Pan Chao (Ban Zhao)

Nujie [Lessons for Women] (nonfiction) 1st century

Han Shu [with others] (history) 1st-2nd centuries

Perpetua

Passio Sanctarum Perpetuae et Felicitatis [The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity] (diary) c. 203

Marguerite Porete

Le Mirouer des simples ames [The Mirror of Simple Souls] (prose) c.1296-1306

Sappho

Sapphic Fragments (poetry) 6th century b.c.

Sei Shonagon

Makura no soshi [Pillow Book] (prose) c. late 10th century

Sophocles

Antigone (drama) 442? b.c.

Trachinian Women (drama) 440-30 b.c.

Electra (drama) 425-10 b.c.

Yu Xuanji

* The Clouds Float North: The Complete Poems of Yu Xuanji (poetry) 1998

* This title is an edition of Yu Xuanji's collected Chinese poetry translated by David Young and Jiann I. Lin; the poems were composed c. 860-71.

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