The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture - Couverture rigide

Solterer, Helen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0520085655 ISBN 13 : 9780520085657

Editeur : University of California Press, 1995

Synopsis

Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And, as this book contends, in French medieval culture the representation of women exemplified the use of injurious language. Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a broad range of Old French literature to the early modern "Querelle des femmes", she shows how the figure of the female respondent became an instrument for disputing the dominant models of representing women. The female respondent exploited the criterion of injurious language that so preoccupied medieval masters, and she charged master poets ethically and legally with libel. Solterer's work thus illuminates an early, decisive chapter in the history of defamation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Helen Solterer is Associate Professor of French at Duke University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520085655
• ISBN 13: 9780520085657
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 325
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible