Gerry Milligan

Moral Combat

Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women’s militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 163mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9781487503147
• ISBN-10: 1487503148
• Artikelnr.: 49447214

Autorenporträt

By Gerry Milligan

Inhaltsangabe

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
4. sabella Cervoni
5. Illustrious Warring Women: From Plutarch to Boccaccio
6. The Noble Warrior Woman (1440-1550)
7. The Fame of Women and the Infamy of Men in the Age of Warring Queens
(1550-1600)
Conclusion