| Description |
viii, 330 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
SUNY series in medieval studies
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-319) and index. |
| Contents |
By woman's tears redeemed : female lament in St. Augustine's 'Confessions' and the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise / Nancy A. Jones -- Hrotswitha writes herself : 'Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis' / Barbara K. Gold -- Gender and negotiating discourse : mediated autobiography and female mystics of medieval Italy / Phyllis Culham -- Saint of the womanly body : Raimon de Cornet's fourteenth-century male poetics / St. John E. Flynn -- Petrarch's sophonisba : seduction, sacrifice, and patriarchal politics / Donald Gilman -- Laurel as the sign of sin : Laura's textual body in Petrarch's Secretum / Paul A. Miller -- Woman, space, and Renaissance discourse / Diana Robin -- In praise of woman's superiority : Heinrich Cornelius 'Agrippa's De nobilitate' (1529) / Diane S. Wood -- Artificial whore : George Buchanan's 'Apologia pro Lena'/ Charles Platter -- "She never recovered her senses" : Roxana and dramatic representations of women at Oxbridge in the Elizabethan age / Elizabeth Richmond-Garza -- Latin and Greek poetry by five Renaissance Italian women humanists / Holt Parker. |
| Subject |
Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism.
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Feminism and literature -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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Feminism and literature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 16th century.
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Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500.
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Gender identity in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Renaissance.
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| Added Author |
Gold, Barbara K., 1945-
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Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-
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Platter, Charles, 1957-
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| ISBN |
0791432459 (hc : alk. paper) |
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0791432467 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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