The master and Minerva : disputing women in French medieval culture /
Solterer, Helen,
The master and Minerva : disputing women in French medieval culture / Helen Solterer. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995. - 1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations - ACLS Fellows' Publications. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.
Profiles in mastery: Ovidian and Aristotelian figures -- The trials of discipleship: Le Roman de la poire and Le Dit de la panthère d'amours -- The master at work: Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour -- Proliferating responses: Contrary to what is said: The Response au Bestiaire d'amour and the case for a woman's response -- Defamation and the Livre de leesce: the problem of a sycophantic response -- Christine's way: The Querelle du Roman de la rose and the ethics of political response -- The libelous affair: The Querelle del la Belle Dame sans merci and the prospects for a legal response -- Coda: Clotilde de Surville and the latter-day history of the woman's response. pt. 1. pt. 2.
Annotation Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer 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.
English.
9780520915299 (electronic bk.) 0520915291 (electronic bk.) 0585248176 (electronic bk.) 9780585248172 (electronic bk.) 9780520085657 (alk. paper) 0520085655 (alk. paper) 0520088352 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780520088351 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520085657
00027125
To 1515
French literature--History and criticism.--To 1500
Women--History--France--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Women and literature--History.--France
Quarreling in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Dialectic.
Law and literature.
Littérature française--Histoire et critique.--Jusqu'à 1500
Femmes--Histoire--France--500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Femmes et littérature--Histoire.--France
Querelles dans la littérature.
Rhétorique médiévale.
Dialectique.
Droit et littérature.
dialectic.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
Dialectic.
French literature.
Law and literature.
Quarreling in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Women and literature.
Women--Middle Ages.
Romance Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
French Literature.
France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515.
France--Histoire--987-1515.
France.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PQ155.W6 / S65 1995eb
840.9/352042/0902
The master and Minerva : disputing women in French medieval culture / Helen Solterer. - Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1995. - 1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : illustrations - ACLS Fellows' Publications. .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index.
Profiles in mastery: Ovidian and Aristotelian figures -- The trials of discipleship: Le Roman de la poire and Le Dit de la panthère d'amours -- The master at work: Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour -- Proliferating responses: Contrary to what is said: The Response au Bestiaire d'amour and the case for a woman's response -- Defamation and the Livre de leesce: the problem of a sycophantic response -- Christine's way: The Querelle du Roman de la rose and the ethics of political response -- The libelous affair: The Querelle del la Belle Dame sans merci and the prospects for a legal response -- Coda: Clotilde de Surville and the latter-day history of the woman's response. pt. 1. pt. 2.
Annotation Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And as Helen Solterer 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.
English.
9780520915299 (electronic bk.) 0520915291 (electronic bk.) 0585248176 (electronic bk.) 9780585248172 (electronic bk.) 9780520085657 (alk. paper) 0520085655 (alk. paper) 0520088352 (pbk. ; alk. paper) 9780520088351 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780520085657
00027125
To 1515
French literature--History and criticism.--To 1500
Women--History--France--Middle Ages, 500-1500.
Women and literature--History.--France
Quarreling in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Dialectic.
Law and literature.
Littérature française--Histoire et critique.--Jusqu'à 1500
Femmes--Histoire--France--500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
Femmes et littérature--Histoire.--France
Querelles dans la littérature.
Rhétorique médiévale.
Dialectique.
Droit et littérature.
dialectic.
LITERARY CRITICISM--European--French.
Dialectic.
French literature.
Law and literature.
Quarreling in literature.
Rhetoric, Medieval.
Women and literature.
Women--Middle Ages.
Romance Literatures.
Languages & Literatures.
French Literature.
France--History--Medieval period, 987-1515.
France--Histoire--987-1515.
France.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
PQ155.W6 / S65 1995eb
840.9/352042/0902