Master & Minerva - Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture (Paper)

1. Auflage 1995
ISBN: 978-0-520-08835-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 325 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Solterer, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Introduction 
PART 1 PROFILES IN MASTERY
1 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 RESPONSES
4 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

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Solterer is Associate Professor of French at Duke University.