Volume 36, Number 19 · December 7, 1989
All This and Heaven, Too
By Maurice Keen
Hildegard of Bingen, 1098–1179: A Visionary Life
by Sabina Flanagan
Routledge, 230 pp., $29.95
Three Medieval Views of Women
translated and edited by Gloria K. Fiero, by Wendy Pfeffer, by Mathé Allain
Yale University Press, 168 pp., $8.95 (paper)
'It tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me,…the men all so good for nothing and hardly any women at all, it is very tiresome.' That was the verdict on 'real solemn history' of Catherine Morland in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. The two very interesting books here reviewed add to the tally of works that over the last twenty years or so have undermined the second part of Miss Morland's proposition, which was once all too justified; women are without doubt winning their place in history.
Review, 4933 words
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