Medieval Woman Saints and their Writings, Fourteenth Century Italy
FAIN: FB-12218-74
Elizabeth P. Martin
University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Amherst, MA 01003-9242)
To study the lives of a selected group of fourteenth century women who were both saints and mystics, and writers. A study of the works of these women includes, a good part of the literature written by women in the middle ages and stands to reveal a great deal that is presently unknown about the lives of women in the fourteenth century.