Master and Minerva

Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture

AvHelen Solterer

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

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. 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-03-22
Mått:156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:325
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520088351

Utforska kategorier

Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Helen Solterer is Associate Professor of French at Duke University.

Innehållsförteckning

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 PROFILES IN MASTERY1 Ovidian and Aristotelian Figures 2 The Trials of Discipleship: Le Roman de la poire and Le Dit de la pan there d' amours 3 The Master at Work: Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour PART 2 PROLIFERATING RESPONSES4 Contrary to What Is Said: The Response au Bestiaire d'amour and the Case for a Woman's Response 5 Defamation and the Livre de leesce:The Problem of a Sycophantic Response 6 Christine's Way: The Querelle du Roman de la rose and the Ethics of a Political Response 7 A Libelous Affair: The Querelle de 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 Notes Bibliography Index