Women and Women's Writings from Antiquity Through the Middle Ages | Representative Works
Abutsu-ni
Izayoi nikki (travel diary) mid 13th century
Aeschylus
Oresteia (dramas) c. 458 B.C.
Aristophanes
Lysistrata (drama) c. 411 B.C.
Ecclesiazusae (drama) c. 393 B.C.
The Bible
Book of Esther (prose) c. 2nd century B.C.
Birgitta of Sweden
Liber celestis revelaciones [Revelations] (prose) c. 1377
Catherine of Siena
Libro della divina dottrina [The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin Catherine of Siena] (prose) c. 1377-80
Geoffrey Chaucer
Troilus and Criseyde (poetry) c. 1385
Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale (poetry) c. 1387
Christine de Pizan
Letter of the God of Love (prose) c. 1399
The Book of the City of Ladies (dialogues) c. 1405
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