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Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts
Alcuin (Ed.) Blamires
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paperback. This sourcebook of texts in modern translation makes accessible key anti-feminist works, together with a surprising range of early texts championing women. Editor(s): Blamires, Alcuin. Num Pages: 342 pages, 8 pp black and white plates, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452. Very good copy showing some shelf wear on exterior. Text is crisp and clean
`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. 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 ... Read more
`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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Oxford University Press Oxford
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
342
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198710394
SKU
KMK0024760
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Reviews for Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts
`fascinating anthology ... a tremendous repository of reference material ... A steady, cumulative reading of the anti-feminist tracts in Woman Defamed is an opportunity to peer into the distant and past and find it disturbingly familiar.' The Women's Review of Books