The case for women in medieval culture
Title:
The case for women in medieval culture
Author:
Blamires, Alcuin.
ISBN:
9780191589447
9780585377575
9780198186304
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (279 p.)
Contents:
The formal case: the corpus -- The formal case: origins, procedures -- Honouring mothers -- Eve and the privileges of women -- The stable sex -- Exemplifying feminine stability -- Profeminine role models -- The formal case in Abelard, Chaucer, Christine de Pizan.
Abstract:
Alcuin Blamires examines the relatively unstudied field of profeminine traditions extending back from the Middle Ages to the 4th century. Her sources include Chaucer, Christine de Pizan and Abelard.
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