Woman Defamed and Woman Defended An Anthology of Medieval Texts

Name: Woman Defamed and Woman Defended An Anthology of Medieval Texts
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ISBN: 9780198710394

ISBN-10: 0198710399

ISBN-13: 9780198710394

Edition: 1992

Authors: Alcuin Blamires, Karen Pratt, C. W. Marx

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"It is impossible / That any clerk wol speke good of wyves." Behind the words of Chaucer's Wife of Bath lies a vast corpus of medieval misogynistic writings. These texts, which range from those of the Church Fathers to a rich array of vernacular literature, have had a profound effect on the status of women in the West. Despite the recent surge of investigations into women's situation, however, no one book has sought to collect the key voices of medieval antifeminism, let alone to present the voices sometimes raised, even at that epoch, in defence of women. This new volume meets the urgent need for a single and substantial sourcebook of these materials in modern translation, including an…

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/19/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 342
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Glyn S. Burgessis senior fellow and professor emeritus at the University of Liverpool.Karen Prattis senior lecturer in French at King’s College London.



List of Plates


Abbreviations


Introduction



The Roots of Antifeminist Tradition



Ancient Satire


From The Art of Love and Amores



From Satire VI




Scripture




Physiology and Etymology



From Generation of Animals



From On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body



From Etymologies




'Matter' and 'Form' in Later Writings



From Monologium



From the Summa theologiae



From The History of the Destruction of Troy




The Church Fathers



From The Appearance of Women



From Homily IX on St Paul's Epistle to Timothy



From On Widows



From Paradise



From the Commentary on Luke



From Against Jovinian



From Letter 22, to Eustochium



From Letter 77, to Oceanus



From Confessions



From The Literal Meaning of Genesis



From City of God




The Legacy of the Church Fathers



From the Decretum



From The Story of His Misfortunes



From Letter 3: Heloise to Abelard



From The Story of His Misfortunes



From the Summa theologiae



From Tristan



Rule for Anchoresses



From Part II



From Part IV




The Satirical Tradition in Medieval Latin



The Life of Secundus



The Femme Fatale



The Letter of Valerius to Ruffinus, against Marriage



From On Love



Against Marrying




Antifeminist Tales



The Book of the Wiles of Women



The Widow



From Sermon 66 in Sermons for All




Vernacular Adaptations in the Later Middle Ages



From The Romance of the Rose



From The Corbaccio



From The Lamentations of Matheolus




The Wife of Bath



The Wife of Bath's Prologue




Responses to Antifeminism



The Thrush and the Nightingale



The Good Woman



From Letter 6, 'On the Origin of Nuns'



From The Book of Consolation and Advice



The Response to Richard de Fournival's Bestiary of Love



The Southern Passion



From A Lover's Confession



'Whether women are permitted to instruct men'



'Whether women are suitable to consecrate the sacrament'



From The Register of Bishop Trefnant



From Dives and Pauper



Merelaus the Emperor




A Woman Defends Women



From The Letter of the God of Love



From The Quarrel of the Rose



From The City of Ladies



Bibliography



Index