Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts - The Latin Tradition (Hardcover)

Examines some neglected Latin texts produced during the thousand years after the end of most classicists' field-of-view in the fifth century, looking at what ideological values are explicitly encoded by the feminine and the female body. The 11 essays consider such works as Hrotswitha's Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis, Raimon de Cornet's 14-century m