Images of Women in Medieval Texts and Literature

Employing a critical and analytical method, this volume takes an innovative approach to existing anthologies of medieval texts, proposing a comprehensive methodology for examining and understanding the historical and cultural construction of the image of women in medieval literature.

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Pedro Carlos Louzada Fonseca is Professor at the Faculty of Letters and a Permanent Volunteer Professor of the Graduate Program in Literary Studies and Linguistics at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. Having received a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of New Mexico, he carried out postdoctoral research at the Open University of Lisbon and at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. His most recent publications are mainly about the medieval bestiary and its symbolic and ideological implications; the presence of the medieval imaginary in Portuguese-Brazilian colonial literature; and the religious, cultural and political issue of defamation and defense of women during the Middle Ages. He is the author of the Portuguese-language books Bestiary and Discourse of Gender in the Discovery of America and the Colonization of Brazil (2011), Chronistics and Colonization of the New World: Gender Discourse, Forms of the Symbolic and Representation of Reality (2017), Women and Misogyny in the Vision of the Church Fathers and Their Medieval Legacy: Study and Reading of Fundamental Texts (2017), Introduction to Medieval Misogyny from Tertullian to Chaucer (2020), and Literary Misogyny and Praise of Women in the Middle Ages.

Inhalt

Introduction: Presence of Misogyny and its Legacy in Medieval Literature

Part 1: Misogyny in the Literature of the Ancient World and its Medieval Legacy

Chapter 1: Pronouncements of the Classical Science of Aristotle and Galen

Chapter 2: Influences of the Classical Literature of Ovid and Juvenal

Chapter 3: Pronouncements of Sacred Scripture

Part II: Misogyny in Medieval Literature

Chapter 4: Literature of the Fathers of the Church

Chapter 5:

Chapter 6: Literary Vernacular Contributions in the Later Middle Ages

Part III: Praise of Women in the Literature of the Middle Ages

Chapter 7: The Anonymous The Thrush and the Nightingale

Chapter 8: Marbod of Rennes

Chapter 9 Abelard

Chapter 10: Albertano of Brescia

Chapter 11: The Anonymous Response to Le Bestiaire d'Amour by Richard de Fournival

Chapter 12: The Anonymous The Southern Passion

Chapter 13: John Gower

Chapter 14: Treatise in Refutation of Walter Brut

Chapter 15: The Anonymous Dives and Pauper

Chapter 16: The Anonymous A demanda do Santo Graal

Part IV: Women in the Bible: Between Defamation and Praise

Chapter 17: Discredited Women

Chapter 18: Admirable Women