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Sex and gender in medieval and Renaissance texts : the Latin tradition / edited by Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY series in medieval studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern--History and criticism.
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern.
- Feminism and literature--Europe--History.
- Feminism and literature.
- Women and literature--Europe--History.
- Women and literature.
- Gender identity in literature.
- Sex role in literature.
- Renaissance.
- Feminism and literature--Europe--History--16th century.
- Feminism and literature--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Women and literature--Europe--History--16th century.
- Women and literature--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 330 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1997.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-0427-1
- 0-585-09074-2
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