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edited by Alcuin Blamires ; with Karen Pratt and C.W. MarxPublication Details
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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. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
- Chaucer, Geoffrey, — d. 1400 — Sources
- English literature — Middle English, 1100-1500 — Sources
- Literature, Medieval — Translations into English
- Women — History — Middle Ages, 500-1500 — Sources
- Women — Religious aspects — Early works to 1800
- Misogyny — Early works to 1800
- Feminism — Early works to 1800
- Women — Early works to 1800
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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 influence on the status of women in the west. Yet, despite the recent surge of investigations into women’s situation, no one book has sought to collect together the key voices of medieval antifeminism, let alone to present the voices sometimes raised, even at that epoch, in defence of women. The urgent need for a single and substantial sourcebook of these materials in modern translation is met for the first time in this volume, which includes an introduction, notes, and commentary. The accessibility of the better-known texts here (from Jerome to Walter Map; from Heloise and Abelard to Christine de Pizan and Chaucer) will be welcomed by those engaged in medieval and women’s studies; the lesser-known writings concerning for instance the sexual ‘double standard’, and women and the priesthood, will provide unexpected discoveries for specialists and beginners alike. Indeed, a surprising range of early texts championing women - including material never previously available in translation - is here represented. All those concerned with women’s studies and with medieval and later culture (European as well as English) will find Woman Defamed and Woman Defended fascinating to read as well as a useful resource
Contents
- I. The Roots of Antifeminist Tradition. (i). Ancient Satire
- Ovid. From The Art of Love and Amores
- Juvenal. From Satire VI. (ii). Scripture. (iii). Physiology and Etymology
- Aristotle. From Generation of Animals
- Galen. From On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body
- Isidore of Seville. From Etymologies. (iv). ‘Matter’ and ‘Form’ in Later Writings
- St Anselm. From Monologium
- St Thomas Aquinas. From the Summa theologiae
- Guido Delle Colonne. From The History of the Destruction of Troy
- 2. The Church Fathers / Tertullian. From The Appearance of Women
- St John Chrysostom. From Homily IX on St Paul’s Epistle to Timothy
- St Ambrose. From On Widows. From Paradise. From the Commentary on Luke
- St Jerome. From Against Jovinian. From Letter 22, to Eustochium. From Letter 77, to Oceanus
- St Augustine. From Confessions. From The Literal Meaning of Genesis. From City of God
- 3. The Legacy of the Church Fathers / Gratian. From the Decretum
- Heloise and Abelard. From The Story of His Misfortunes. From Letter 3: Heloise to Abelard. From The Story of His Misfortunes
- St Thomas Aquinas. From the Summa theologiae
- Gottfried Von Strassburg. From Tristan
- Anon. Rule for Anchoresses. From Part II. From Part IV
- 4. The Satirical Tradition in Medieval Latin / Anon. The Life of Secundus
- Marbod of Rennes. The Femme Fatale
- Walter Map. The Letter of Valerius to Ruffinus, against Marriage
- Andreas Capellanus. From On Love
- Anon. Against Marrying
- 5. Antifeminist Tales / Anon. The Book of the Wiles of Women
- Gautier Le Leu. The Widow
- Jacques De Vitry. From Sermon 66 in Sermons for All
- 6. Vernacular Adaptations in the Later Middle Ages / Jean De Meun. From The Romance of the Rose
- Giovanni Boccaccio. From The Corbaccio
- Jehan Le Fevre. From The Lamentations of Matheolus
- 7. The Wife of Bath / Geoffrey Chaucer. The Wife of Bath’s Prologue
- 8. Responses to Antifeminism / Anon. The Thrush and the Nightingale
- Marbod of Rennes. The Good Woman
- Abelard. From Letter 6, ‘On the Origin of Nuns’ - - Albertano of Brescia. From The Book of Consolation and Advice
- Anon. The Response to Richard de Fournival’s Bestiary of Love
- Anon. The Southern Passion
- John Gower. From A Lover’s Confession
- The Trial of Walter Brut. ‘Whether women are permitted to instruct men’. ‘Whether women are suitable to consecrate the sacrament’. From The Register of Bishop Trefnant
- Anon. From Dives and Pauper
- Anon. Merelaus the Emperor
- 9. A Woman Defends Women / Christine De Pizan. From The Letter of the God of Love. From The Quarrel of the Rose. From The City of Ladies
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- 0198119712
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