Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: Top, University of Latvia (Faculty of Modern Languages), course: MA in English Literature, language: English, comment: Final essay for the course on historical novel, had top grade (10), abstract: According to Finke, " i]n mediaeval scientific writing woman is both weaker than and inferior to man" (ibid.) Classical writers, such as Galen and Aristotle did not even believe that there were two separate genders but viewed women as defective, underdeveloped men. Christian writers, in turn, viewed women as seductresses,...