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Author Stevenson, Jane, 1959-

Title Women Latin poets : language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century / Jane Stevenson.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
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 Special Collections on Request  TT 871 STEV    LIB USE ONLY
Book Cover
Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (p. [596]-616) and index.
Contents Antiquity and late antiquity -- Classical Latin women poets -- Sulpicia -- Sulpicia II and other poets of the early empire -- Epigraphy as a source for early imperial women's verse -- Women and Latin poetry in late antiquity -- Proba -- The last pagan poets -- The first nuns -- The Middle Ages -- Women Latin poets in early medieval Europe -- Dhuoda -- Anglo-Saxon England -- Hrotsvitha and the Ottonian renaissance -- Anonymous verse from the early Middle Ages -- Women and Latin verse in the High Middle Ages -- Anonymous lyrics -- Women Latinists in England and France -- Women Latinists in northern Europe -- The Renaissance -- Italy : Renaissance women scholars -- The fourteenth century : women and the universities -- The fifteenth century : women and the humanists -- Isotta Nogarola -- Women and Latin in Renaissance France -- The queens and the court -- Camille de Morel -- French women humanists -- Women Latin poets in Spain and Portugal -- Luisa Sigea -- Portugal -- Women Latinists of the Renaissance in northern and central Europe -- Germany -- The Low Countries -- Central Europe -- Poland -- Women Latinists in sixteenth-century England -- The early modern period -- Italian women poets of the sixteenth century and after -- Olimpia Morata -- Tarquinia Molza -- Philippa Lazea, Jean-Jacques Boissard, and evidence for the lives of learned women -- Learned women and the convent in post-Tridentine Italy -- Elena Lucrezia Piscopia -- Martha Marchina -- Learned women in seventeenth-century society -- French women Latinists in the 'grand siècle' -- Anna Maria van Schurman and other women scholars of northern and central Europe -- Germany -- The Low Countries -- Scandinavia -- Poland -- Women and Latin in early modern England -- The New World -- Colonial and revolutionary America -- Ibero-America -- Conclusion -- Appendix : Checklist of women Latin poets and their works.
Subject Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Latin poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life.
Feminism and literature -- Europe.
Women and literature -- Europe.
Authority in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Collection Transmissions and Transformations of the Ancient World
ISBN 0198185022 (acid-free paper)
ISBN/ISSN 9780198185024
Description xiv, 659 p. ; 24 cm.
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