The Master and Minerva - Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture (Paperback, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1995
First published:	1996
Authors:	Helen Solterer
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	325
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-08835-1
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
LSN:	0-520-08835-2
Barcode:	9780520088351

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