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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Milligan, Gerry, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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.