Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Philosophical History of the Armed Woman; 2 The Poetic and the Real: The Chivalric-Epic Commentary of the Armed Woman; 3 Women Writers Demanding Warrior Masculinity: Catherine of Siena, Laura Terracina, Chiara Matraini, and Isabella Cervoni; 4 Classical and Christian Models of ƯWarring Women: From Plutarch to Boccaccio; 5 The Noble Warrior Woman (1440-1550); 6 The Fame of Women and the Infamy of Men in the Age of Warring Queens (1550-1600); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 20, 2018)
