Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (Classical Presences)
Rosie Wyles
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Description for Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (Classical Presences)
Hardcover. This volume celebrates the women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Synthesizing incisive case-studies with overviews of the evolution of the discipline, it explores their legacy and provides scholars of today with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had. Editor(s): Wyles, Rosie; Hall, Edith. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 496 pages, 28 black-and-white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB; HB; JFSJ1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 149 x 227 x 33. Weight in Grams: 692.
Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles from patriarchal social systems and educational institutions - from learning Latin and Greek as a marginalized minority, to being excluded from institutional support, denigrated for being lightweight or over-ambitious, and working in the shadows of husbands, fathers, and brothers - they nevertheless continued to teach, edit, translate, analyse, and elucidate the texts left to us by the ... Read more
Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles from patriarchal social systems and educational institutions - from learning Latin and Greek as a marginalized minority, to being excluded from institutional support, denigrated for being lightweight or over-ambitious, and working in the shadows of husbands, fathers, and brothers - they nevertheless continued to teach, edit, translate, analyse, and elucidate the texts left to us by the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Classical Presences
Number of Pages
496
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198725206
SKU
V9780198725206
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About Rosie Wyles
Rosie Wyles has been a Lecturer in Classical History and Literature at the University of Kent since 2014, having previously held posts at the University of Oxford, the National University of Ireland Maynooth, the University of Nottingham, and King's College London. Her research interests include Greek and Roman performance arts, costume, reception studies within antiquity and beyond, and gender. Her ... Read more
Reviews for Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly (Classical Presences)
Rosie Wyles and Edith Hall ... are eager to rediscover and bring to the light the contribution of many women to the discipline of Classics.
Marco Formisano, Thersites
For researchers invested in tracing the histories of women, or 'unsealing the fountain' of knowledge about their lives, this book is a revelation. Collecting and analyzing what we know about ... Read more
Marco Formisano, Thersites
For researchers invested in tracing the histories of women, or 'unsealing the fountain' of knowledge about their lives, this book is a revelation. Collecting and analyzing what we know about ... Read more