Title Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance : literary and historical perspectives / edited, with an introduction by Mary Beth Rose

Edition First edition Published Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 1986

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Description xxviii, 288 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm Contents Women's defense of their public role / Merry E. Wiesner -- Heroics of virginity : brides of Christ and sacrificial mutilation / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- Women and the Italian inquisitions / William Monter -- Annihilating intimacy in Coriolanus / Madelon Sprengnether -- John Foxe and the responsibilities of Queenship / Carole Levin -- Shakespeare's comic heroines, Elizabeth I, and the political uses of androgyny / Leah S. Marcus -- Autobiography of a new "creatur" : female spirituality, selfhood, and authorship in The book of Margery Kempe / Janel M. Mueller -- Spiritual fun : a study of sixteenth-century Tuscan convent theater / Elissa Weaver -- Countess of Pembroke and the art of dying / Mary Ellen Lamb -- Inventing authority of origin : the difficult enterprise / Tilde Sankovitch -- Gender, genre and history : seventeenth-century English women and the art of autobiography / Mary Bety Rose Analysis European literature History and criticism Renaissance, 1450-1600 European literature Women authors History and criticism Literature, Medieval History and criticism Women and literature History 16th century Europe Women and literature History To 1500 Europe Women in literature Women History Middle Ages, 500-1500 Women History Renaissance, 1450-1600 Women - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 Notes English Bibliography Includes bibliographies and index Subject European literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. European literature -- Renaissance, 1450-1600 -- History and criticism. Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism. Women in literature. Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- 16th century. Women -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500. Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500. Women -- History -- Renaissance, 1450-1600. Author Rose, Mary Beth. LC no. 85022153 ISBN 0815623518 (hard : alk. paper) 0815623526 (paperback: alk. paper)

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