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Title Woman defamed and woman defended : an anthology of Medieval texts / edited by Alcuin Blamires ; with Karen Pratt and C. W. Marx.

Imprint Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press, 1992.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  828.108352 W84d 1992    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  828.108352 W84d 1992 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiii, 327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-313) and index.
Contents The roots of antifeminist tradition -- The Church Fathers -- The legacy of the Church Fathers -- The satirical tradition in Medieval Latin -- Antifeminist tales -- Vernacular adaptations in the later Middle Ages -- The wife of Bath -- Responses to antifeminism -- A woman defends women.
Subject Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400 -- Sources.
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Sources.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- To 1500 -- Sources.
Literature, Medieval -- Translations into English.
Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500 -- Sources.
Misogyny -- Early works to 1800.
Feminism -- Early works to 1800.
Women -- Early works to 1800.
Added Author Blamires, Alcuin.
Pratt, Karen.
Marx, C. William.
ISBN 0198119712
0198710399 (pbk)

 
    
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