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Women Latin poets : language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century /

This investigation of educated women in pre-modern Europe, based entirely on original archival research in 12 countries, brings to light an unsuspected treasure trove of women's writings in Latin. It prompts a re-evaluation of women's access to education in that period. All texts are trans...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stevenson, Jane, 1959-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Subjects:
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern > Women authors > History and criticism.
Latin poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women > Europe > Intellectual life.
Feminism and literature > Europe.
Women and literature > Europe.
Authority in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern > History and criticism.
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Europe > History.
Poésie latine médiévale et moderne > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes latins (médiévaux et modernes) > Histoire et critique.
Poésie latine > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes latins > Histoire et critique.
Femmes > Europe > Vie intellectuelle.
Féminisme et littérature > Europe.
Femmes et littérature > Europe > Histoire.
Autorité dans la littérature.
Rôle selon le sexe dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > Europe.
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern
Latin poetry
Authority in literature
Feminism and literature
Sex role in literature
Women and literature
Women > Intellectual life
Europe
Schriftstellerin
Latijn.
Letterkunde.
Vrouwen.
Latein.
Electronic books.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Antiquity and late antiquity
  • Classical Latin women poets
  • Sulpicia
  • Sulpicia II and other poets of the early empire
  • Epigraphy as a source for early imperial women's verse
  • Women and Latin poetry in late antiquity
  • Proba
  • The last pagan poets
  • The first nuns
  • The Middle Ages
  • Women Latin poets in early medieval Europe
  • Dhuoda
  • Anglo-Saxon England
  • Hrotsvitha and the Ottonian renaissance
  • Anonymous verse from the early Middle Ages
  • Women and Latin verse in the High Middle Ages
  • Anonymous lyrics
  • Women Latinists in England and France
  • Women Latinists in northern Europe
  • The Renaissance
  • Italy : Renaissance women scholars
  • The fourteenth century : women and the universities
  • The fifteenth century : women and the humanists
  • Isotta Nogarola
  • Women and Latin in Renaissance France
  • The queens and the court
  • Camille de Morel
  • French women humanists
  • Women Latin poets in Spain and Portugal
  • Luisa Sigea
  • Portugal
  • Women Latinists of the Renaissance in northern and central Europe
  • Germany
  • The Low Countries
  • Central Europe
  • Poland
  • Women Latinists in sixteenth-century England
  • The early modern period
  • Italian women poets of the sixteenth century and after
  • Olimpia Morata
  • Tarquinia Molza
  • Philippa Lazea, Jean-Jacques Boissard, and evidence for the lives of learned women
  • Learned women and the convent in post-Tridentine Italy
  • Elena Lucrezia Piscopia
  • Martha Marchina
  • Learned women in seventeenth-century society
  • French women Latinists in the 'grand siec̀le'
  • Anna Maria van Schurman and other women scholars of northern and central Europe
  • Germany
  • The Low Countries
  • Scandinavia
  • Poland
  • Women and Latin in early modern England
  • The New World
  • Colonial and revolutionary America
  • Ibero-America
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix : Checklist of women Latin poets and their works.