Title Women Latin poets : language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century / Jane Stevenson

Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 659 pages) Contents Antiquity and late antiquity -- Classical Latin women poets -- Sulpicia -- Sulpicia II and other poets of the early empire -- Epigraphy as a source for early imperial women's verse -- Women and Latin poetry in late antiquity -- Proba -- The last pagan poets -- The first nuns -- The Middle Ages -- Women Latin poets in early medieval Europe -- Dhuoda -- Anglo-Saxon England -- Hrotsvitha and the Ottonian renaissance -- Anonymous verse from the early Middle Ages -- Women and Latin verse in the High Middle Ages -- Anonymous lyrics -- Women Latinists in England and France -- Women Latinists in northern Europe -- The Renaissance -- Italy : Renaissance women scholars -- The fourteenth century : women and the universities -- The fifteenth century : women and the humanists -- Isotta Nogarola -- Women and Latin in Renaissance France -- The queens and the court -- Camille de Morel -- French women humanists -- Women Latin poets in Spain and Portugal -- Luisa Sigea -- Portugal -- Women Latinists of the Renaissance in northern and central Europe -- Germany -- The Low Countries -- Central Europe -- Poland -- Women Latinists in sixteenth-century England -- The early modern period -- Italian women poets of the sixteenth century and after -- Olimpia Morata -- Tarquinia Molza -- Philippa Lazea, Jean-Jacques Boissard, and evidence for the lives of learned women -- Learned women and the convent in post-Tridentine Italy -- Elena Lucrezia Piscopia -- Martha Marchina -- Learned women in seventeenth-century society -- French women Latinists in the 'grand siec̀le' -- Anna Maria van Schurman and other women scholars of northern and central Europe -- Germany -- The Low Countries -- Scandinavia -- Poland -- Women and Latin in early modern England -- The New World -- Colonial and revolutionary America -- Ibero-America -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Checklist of women Latin poets and their works Summary This investigation of educated women in pre-modern Europe, based entirely on original archival research in 12 countries, brings to light an unsuspected treasure trove of women's writings in Latin. It prompts a re-evaluation of women's access to education in that period. All texts are translated Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 596-616) and index Notes Print version record Subject Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Women authors -- History and criticism Latin poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life Feminism and literature -- Europe Women and literature -- Europe Authority in literature. Sex role in literature. Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- History and criticism Latin poetry -- History and criticism Women and literature -- Europe -- History POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval. Latin poetry, Medieval and modern Latin poetry Authority in literature Feminism and literature Sex role in literature Women and literature Women -- Intellectual life Schriftstellerin Latijn. Letterkunde. Vrouwen. Europe Latein. Genre/Form History Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191518584 0191518581 9780191714238 0191714232

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