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Although there were a number of women writers of the late Middle Ages, it was not thought that women composed lyric poetry. Classen's investigation, however, pr

The study takes the received view among scholars that women in the Middle Ages were faced with sustained misogyny and that their voices were seldom heard in pub

Examines gender issues that appear in the heroic epics Nibelungenlied, Diu Dlage, and Kudrun, all of which revolve around women. Reviews the conventional schola