id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
qr46qz2358h	Hailey Jane LaVoy	'Why have you been silent for so long?': Women's Letter Writing in the Early Middle Ages, 700-900	2015		.txt	text/plain	350	10	21	Following an introduction which describes the extant letter collections, and a second chapter in which I contextualize women's letters and letter-writing within the larger corpus of male epistolary activity, I focus on three prominent themes which occur in letters to and from women: petition, gift-exchange, and land and spiritual administration. By unfolding the epistemological significance of these topics and examining individual letters in light of contemporary social, political, economic, and religious conditions of Anglo-Saxon England and Carolingian Europe, I highlight how women were not only engaging with their world, but how these engagements are actually documented through the ephemera of letters.	cache/qr46qz2358h.txt	txt/qr46qz2358h.txt