Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts

Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts

Author: Barbara H. Gold

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1997-03-13

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780791432464

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Examines interrelated topics in Medieval and Renaissance Latin literature: the status of women as writers, the status of women as rhetorical figures, and the status of women in society from the fifth to the early seventeenth century.


British Women's History

British Women's History

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Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 9780719046520

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This is one of a series of bibliographical guides designed to meet the needs of undergraduates, postgraduates and their teachers in universities and colleges of further education. All volumes in the series share a number of common characteristics. They are selective, manageable in size, and include those books and articles which are considered most important and useful. All are editied by practising teachers of the subject in question and are based on their experience of the needs of students. The arrangement combines chronological with thematic divisions. Most of the items listed receive some descriptive comment.


Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante

Author: Elena Lombardi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0198818963

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A study of the figure of the woman reader in medieval Italian literature that places her within the history of female literacy, the material culture of the book, and the ways in which writers and poets of earlier traditions imagined her.


Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006)

Routledge Revivals: Women and Gender in Medieval Europe (2006)

Author: Margaret Schaus

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-12

Total Pages: 2033

ISBN-13: 1351681583

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First published in 2006, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE. This reference work provides a comprehensive understanding of many aspects of medieval women and gender, such as art, economics, law, literature, sexuality, politics, philosophy and religion, as well as the daily lives of ordinary women. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Additional up-to-date bibliographies have been included for the 2016 reprint. Written by renowned international scholars and easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be a valuable resource on women in Medieval Europe.


Lancelot and Guinevere

Lancelot and Guinevere

Author: Lori Walters

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13: 9780815306535

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Twenty-nine collected essays represent a critical history of Shakespeare's play as text and as theater, beginning with Samuel Johnson in 1765, and ending with a review of the Royal Shakespeare Company production in 1991. The criticism centers on three aspects of the play: the love/friendship debate.


Women of the Word

Women of the Word

Author: Judith Reesa Baskin

Publisher: Wayne State University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780814324233

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While individual essays reveal literary discoveries of self and forgings of identity by women rising to the opportunities and challenges of drastically altered Jewish social realities, a significant number also show the sad decline of women writers upon whom silence was reimposed. Several chapters consider how Jewish women were depicted by male writers from the Middle Ages through the mid-nineteenth century.


The Writings of Medieval Women

The Writings of Medieval Women

Author: Marcelle Theibaux

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13: 1135507783

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"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana "The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum