166 pp. Bound in the publisher's original cloth with the spine stamped in blue. The dust jacket has minor chips and a closed tear to the extremities.

Woman as image in medieval literature, from the twelfth century to Dante

Reference

Ferrante, Joan M.

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Columbia University Press

To the Glory of Her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts (WOMEN OF LETTERS)

"... a beautiful landmark study which elegantly combines feminist arguments with thorough historical and literary-historical investigations." —The Medieval Review
"I admire Joan Ferrante’s ability to balance her obvious zeal and enthusiasm for this worthwhile and timely study with an objectivity, copious methodology, and writing style... her intellectual acumen and perspicacity, and spark of creativity and imagination..." —Envoi: A Review Journal of Medieval Literature
"Joan Ferrante has produced a stunning book, at once impeccably researched and written in smooth, clean, well-reasoned prose that is a delight to read." —Feminist Collections
To the Glory of Her Sex presents an account of medieval women’s activities as correspondents, readers, writers, and literary patrons from antiquity through the 14th-century. These writings, discovered and examined by Joan Ferrante, represent a cross-section of virtually every field in historical and literary studies, including Latin literature, political and religious correspondence, theological and moral treatises written for women, and histories and biographies commissioned by or addressed to them.

To the Glory of Her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts (Women of Letters)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Indiana University Press

The author's readings in the public and private correspondence of medieval women suggested to her that women were far more involved in affairs of the world and in the lives and work of prominent men than is normally acknowledged. Letters of dedication led her to works commissioned by women, or dedicated to them, which often reflect the interests and views of the women. Additionally, works written by women reveal a sense of the achievements of other women as well as of the problems they face in a male and usually misogynist world."To the Glory of Her Sex" looks at the roles women played in medieval literature as patrons or collaborators and as authors. Men who wrote for women, whether religious texts written at their request, historical texts written as propaganda for them or their cause, or romances composed for their favor, offer women models from history and the bible, and from fiction of intelligent, forceful women. Though they were painfully aware of the prejudices against women in public life and the problems women faced in private life, they were more likely to take pride in the achievements of women than to present them as victims.The women who conveyed God's message to men, Hildegard of Bingen and Elisabeth of Schoenau, nuns who wrote for religions and secular audiences, Hrotsvit and Clemence of Barking, and women who wrote for worldly courts, the trobairitz, marie de France, later Christine de Pizan, admired the same qualities of intelligence and courage and independence in other women, and found support in the lives and affection of women for themselves and their audiences.

Indiana Univ. Pr

This new Introductory Sociology text covers the core topics and adds a new way to teach sociology by using the Internet. Joan's students and Joan have isolated the best sites on the Internet that relate to sociological concepts, interests, examples, and data. This book will be first to commit to paper URL site addresses and engage the student with a question and project to do on the Internet to reinforce what they have just learned. The TOC reflects a traditional introductory structure. A Web site will support this text and will have updates on URL sites, inviting questions, possible answers to the questions, etc.

Sociology.Net: Sociology on the Internet

Computers & Technology

Ferrante-Wallace, Joan

Computer Science

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence. Professor Ferrante examines the political concepts of the poem in historical context and in light of the political theory and controversies of the period.
Originally published in 1984.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy (Princeton Legacy Library)

United States

Princeton University Press

Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence. Professor Ferrante examines the political concepts of the poem in historical context and in light of the political theory and controversies of the period.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Poetry

Joan Ferrante analyzes the Divine Comedy in terms of public issues, which continued foremost in Dante's thinking after his exile from Florence. Professor Ferrante examines the political concepts of the poem in historical context and in light of the political theory and controversies of the period.
Originally published in 1984.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature

Associated Faculty Pr Inc

Ancient European stories come to life in the poetry of a now-forgotten medieval woman writer.

The Lais of Marie De France

Marie

Marie, De France

Hanning, Robert W.

Labyrinth Pr

extremely rare,very good condition

Woman As Image in Medieval Literature from the 12th Century to Dante

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Woman as image in medieval literature, from the twelfth century to Dante

To the Glory of Her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts (Women of Letters)

To the Glory of Her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts (WOMEN OF LETTERS)

Sociology.Net: Sociology on the Internet

The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy (Princeton Legacy Library)

The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy (Princeton Legacy Library)

The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy (Princeton Legacy Library)

In Pursuit of Perfection: Courtly Love in Medieval Literature

The Lais of Marie De France

Woman As Image in Medieval Literature from the 12th Century to Dante