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Author Ferrante, Joan M., 1936- author.

Title To the glory of her sex : women's roles in the composition of medieval texts / Joan M. Ferrante
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1997]
©1997

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages)
Series Women of letters
Women of letters (Bloomington, Ind.)
Contents Women in correspondence -- Religious text -- Women and the writing of history -- Courtly literature -- Women's visions of women -- Women representing women
Summary To the Glory of Her Sex presents an account of medieval women's activities as correspondents, readers, writers, and literary patrons from antiquity through the fourteenth century. The writings explored here represent a cross-section of virtually every field in historical and literary studies, including Latin literature, romance literature in French, political and religious correspondence, theological and moral treatises written for women, and histories and biographies commissioned by or addressed to women. Reading in the public and private correspondence of medieval women, for example, Ferrante discovered to what degree their involvement in affairs of the world and their role in the work of prominent men have been underestimated. Among the major figures in this panorama are Elisabeth Schonau, Hildegard of Bingen, Hrotsvit, Marie de France, and Christine de Pizan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 270-282) and index
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Subject Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Literature, Medieval -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Women and literature -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Authors and patrons -- Europe -- History -- To 1500
Literature, Medieval.
Women.
Women and literature -- Europe -- History
Authors and patrons -- History
Literary patrons.
Literature, Medieval
Women
women (female humans)
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Women Authors.
Women
Literary patrons
Authors and patrons
Literature, Medieval
Literature, Medieval -- Women authors
Women and literature
Literatur
Frau Motiv
Vrouwelijke auteurs.
Littérature médiévale -- Histoire et critique.
Femmes écrivains -- Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature -- Europe -- Histoire -- Moyen-Age.
Femmes écrivains -- Histoire -- Moyen-Age.
Geschichte 500-1500.
Europe
Europa
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585001278
9780585001272
9780253332547
0253332540
9780253211088
0253211085
9786612079603
6612079606
Other Titles Women's roles in the composition of medieval texts