Sex and gender in medieval and Renaissance texts the Latin tradition /

Other Authors: Gold, Barbara K., 1945-, Miller, Paul Allen, 1959-, Platter, Charles, 1957-
Format: Book
Language: English
Ancient Greek
Latin
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, [1997]
Physical Description: viii, 330 pages ; 24 cm.
Series: SUNY series in medieval studies.
Subjects:
Table of 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.