books.google.fr - Beginning with an examination of the different stages of women's lives--childhood, virginity, marriage and widowhood, this Companion addresses various aspects of medieval life that affected women's writing. These include the nature of authorship in the period, the position of women at home or in nunneries,...http://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Cambridge_Companion_to_Medieval_Wome.html?hl=fr&id=S5Etvf7Q1U8C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women's Writing