Telling it slant: Medieval women writing revisited

The Middle Ages has long been marginalized as a period of silence for women. Exploring the apparent paucity of medieval women writing, the article seeks to re-configure the landscape of medieval literary history by negotiating the notion of " an author" and by charting the complexity of medieval women' s literary involvements. The phenomenon of "double-voicing" is identified and analyzed in detail. It is argued that, as a strategy for resistance, double-voicedness created for the women authors a space for public speech and chances to form a poetics of difference.