Moral Combat : Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature /
Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2018]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Philosophical History of the Armed Woman; 2 The Poetic and the Real: The Chivalric-Epic Commentary of the Armed Woman; 3 Women Writers Demanding Warrior Masculinity: Catherine of Siena, Laura Terracina, Chiara Matraini, and Isabella Cervoni; 4 Classical and Christian Models of ƯWarring Women: From Plutarch to Boccaccio; 5 The Noble Warrior Woman (1440-1550); 6 The Fame of Women and the Infamy of Men in the Age of Warring Queens (1550-1600); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.