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Author Solterer, Helen, author.

Title The master and Minerva : disputing women in French medieval culture / Helen Solterer
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations
Series ACLS Fellows' Publications
Contents pt. 1. Profiles in mastery: Ovidian and Aristotelian figures -- The trials of discipleship: Le Roman de la poire and Le Dit de la panthère d'amours -- The master at work: Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour -- pt. 2. Proliferating responses: Contrary to what is said: The Response au Bestiaire d'amour and the case for a woman's response -- Defamation and the Livre de leesce: the problem of a sycophantic response -- Christine's way: The Querelle du Roman de la rose and the ethics of political response -- The libelous affair: The Querelle del la Belle Dame sans merci and the prospects for a legal response -- Coda: Clotilde de Surville and the latter-day history of the woman's response
Summary Annotation Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language.<br />Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a broad range of Old French literature to the early modern Querelle des femmes, she shows how the figure of the female respondent became an instrument for disputing the dominant models of representing women. The female respondent exploited the criterion of injurious language that so preoccupied medieval masters, and she charged master poets ethically and legally with libel. Solterer's work thus illuminates an early, decisive chapter in the history of defamation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index
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Subject French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
Women -- France -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500
Women and literature -- France -- History
Quarreling in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Dialectic.
Law and literature.
dialectic.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
Dialectic
French literature
Law and literature
Quarreling in literature
Rhetoric, Medieval
Women and literature
Women -- Middle Ages
SUBJECT France -- History -- Medieval period, 987-1515. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051266
Subject France
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520915299
0520915291
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