Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance

by Thelma S. Fenster

Book Overview

This collection takes the view that authors like Chaucer and Christine de Pizan, often presented as unique, iconic promoters of a debate thought to have occurred primarily in England and France in the late medieval years, should in reality be considered participants in a larger conversation that served diverse political, social, and economic interests and took varied, culturally-determined forms; that greater frame and its contents are the emphasis...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312232446
• ISBN13: 9780312232443
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.6"