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Three medieval views of women : La Contenance des fames, Le Bien des fames, Le Blasme des fames / translated and edited by Gloria K. Fiero, Wendy Pfeffer, Mathé Allain.
Van Pelt Library PQ1327.D5 T47 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- French poetry--To 1500--Translations into English.
- French poetry.
- Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500--Sources.
- Women.
- Women--Poetry.
- English poetry.
- History.
- English poetry--Translations from French.
- French poetry--To 1500.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 168 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- This bilingual edition of three lively and amusing French poems dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries contains two poems that assail the vices of women and a third that lists women's virtues. The verses, translated here into English for the first time, provide significant insights into the role of women in the Middle Ages as well as into medieval social history and the history of misogyny.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contains:
- Contenance des fames. 1989.
- Bien des fames. 1989.
- Blasme des fames. 1989.
- ISBN:
- 0300044410 :
- 0300044429
- OCLC:
- 21871349
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