Medieval Origins of Literature Written By and For Women - YMSMK062PV

• Title: Medieval Origins of Literature Written By and For Women
• Guaranteed by: Programme Electronic Culture and Semiotics (24-KEKS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Humanities
• Actual: from 2025 to 2025
• Semester: both
• E-Credits: 4
• Hours per week, examination: 2/0, C [HT]
• Capacity: winter:unknown / unknown (5); summer:unknown / unknown (5)
• Min. number of students: 5
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: YBEC205
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; you can enroll for the course in winter and in summer semester
• Guarantor: Mgr. Klára Petříková, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Mgr. Klára Petříková, Ph.D.
• Co-requisite : {The course under this code is intended for MA level students. If a course is shared, BA students may register for the bachelor’s version of the course, identified by a course code beginning with “YB".}
• Incompatibility : YBEC188, YBEC205
• Is incompatible with: YBEC205

Annotation

This lecture series explores medieval women’s life experiences within their historical, social, and cultural contexts, with particular attention to the diverse roles women played in medieval society and the strategies they used when they negotiated power and authority in a world where their opportunities were often shaped and limited by misogynistic attitudes. These roles are examined through a selection of representative texts, written both by and for women, including devotional texts and spiritual guides, conduct literature, romances, poems by troubadours and trobairitz, and the texts that respond to and challenge ideas that were critical of women.

Last update: Petříková Klára, Mgr., Ph.D. (18.04.2026)