Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance

ISBN-13: 9781349629206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 292 str.

Thelma S. Fenster; Clare A. Lees; T. Fenster

Opis

Modern scholarship generally treats the "debate about women" (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic authors like Chaucer but truly begun by Christine de Pizan (1364-1429), and therefore primarily of English and French origin.

Recenzje

'...essential reading for any medievalist who works on issues related to gender.' - Lisa Perfetti, South Atlantic Review

'...accessible and informative...' - C.S. Cox, Choice

Spis treści

Medieval Christian Debates about Female Nature; A.Matter Debating Women in Anglo-Saxon England; C.Lees & G.R.Overing Legal Discourses and the Encoding of the Debate about Women; R.Karras Declarations of Freedom: Franchise and the Querelle des Femmes; H. Solterer Framing the Debate about Women, Men, and Gender in the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Courtly Fictions; R.Krueger Refiguring the 'Scandalous Excess' of Medieval Woman; A.Blamires The Debate in Play: Gender as Ludic Drama; T.Fenster Editorial Compilation and the Debate about Women in Medieval German Literature; A.M.Rasmussen Debating Gender in Early Modern Spain; J.Weiss The Effects of Female Sovereignty on the Debate about Women in Fifteenth-Century Spain; B.Weissberger Looking Backwards: A Renaissance Scholar's View of the Debate about Women in the Italian Middle Ages; P.J.Benson

O autorze

THELMA FENSTER is Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham University.

CLAIRE LEES is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.