Gender in Debate from the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance

by Thelma S. Fenster

Book Overview

Modern scholarship generally treats the "debate about women" (querelle des femmes) as a late medieval phenomenon, perhaps touched upon by canonic authors like Chaucer but truly begun by Christine de Pizan (1364-1429), and therefore primarily of English and French origin. That emphasis has obscured the ways in which both writers were participating in a much wider, much older cultural phenomenon with varied and intractable roots. Articles in this collection...

• 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"