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Gender in Debate From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance

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  • © 2002

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  1. Thelma S. Fenster
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  2. Clare A. Lees
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Part of the book series: The New Middle Ages (TNMA)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Thelma S. Fenster, Clare A. Lees
    Pages 1-18

  3. The Clerics and the Critics: Misogyny and the Social Symbolic in Anglo-Saxon England

    • Clare A. Lees, Gillian R. Overing
    Pages 19-39

  4. The Undebated Debate: Gender and the Image of God in Medieval Theology

    • E. Ann Matter
    Pages 41-55

  5. Refiguring the “Scandalous Excess” of Medieval Woman: The Wife of Bath and Liberality

    • Alcuin Blamires
    Pages 57-78

  6. Beyond Debate: Gender in Play in Old French Courtly Fiction

    • Roberta L. Krueger
    Pages 79-95

  7. Thinking Through Gender in Late Medieval German Literature

    • Ann Marie Rasmussen
    Pages 97-111

  8. The Strains of Defense: The Many Voices of Jean Lefèvre’s Livre de Leesce

    • Karen Pratt
    Pages 113-133

  9. The Freedoms of Fiction for Gender in Premodern France

    • Helen Solterer
    Pages 135-163

  10. Debate about Women in Trecento Florence

    • Pamela Benson
    Pages 165-187

  11. A Woman’s Place: Visualizing the Feminine Ideal in the Courts and Communes of Renaissance Italy

    • Margaret Franklin
    Pages 189-205

  12. “Deceitful Sects”: The Debate about Women in the Age of Isabel the Catholic

    • Barbara F. Weissberger
    Pages 207-235

  13. “¿Qué Demandamos de las Mugeres?”: Forming the Debate about Women in Late Medieval Spain (with a Baroque Response)

    • Julian Weiss
    Pages 237-274

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 275-292
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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 explore how gender is put into debate in Anglo-Saxon, German, Spanish and Italian cultures, and they re-examine French and Middle English debate literature. The collection is carefully planned to be accessible to students seeking an idea of the debate's motifs and contours while maintaining the high level of issue involvement necessary to commanding a more seasoned audience. Contributors include Pamela Benson, Alcuin Blamires, Margaret Franklin, Roberta Krueger, Clare Lees and Gillian Overing, Ann Matter, Karen Pratt, Helen Solterer, Julian Weiss, and Barbara Weissberger.

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'...essential reading for any medievalist who works on issues related to gender.' - Lisa Perfetti, South Atlantic Review

'...accessible and informative...' - C.S. Cox, Choice

About the authors

THELMA FENSTER is Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham University.

CLAIRE LEES is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.

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