Title Sex and gender in medieval and Renaissance texts : the Latin tradition / edited by Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1997

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 330 pages) Series SUNY series in medieval studies SUNY series in medieval studies. 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-319) and index Notes Print version record Subject Latin literature, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism Feminism and literature -- Europe -- History Women and literature -- Europe -- History Gender identity in literature. Sex role in literature. Renaissance. Renaissance. TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Feminism and literature Gender identity in literature Latin literature, Medieval and modern Renaissance Sex role in literature Women and literature Europe Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book Author Gold, Barbara K., 1945- Miller, Paul Allen, 1959- Platter, Charles, 1957- LC no. 96016249 ISBN 0585090742 9780585090740 1438404271 9781438404271

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