The literature of misogyny in medieval Spain : the "Arcipreste de Talavera" and the "Spill" / Michael Solomon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-216) and index.

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Introduction: The preacher and the physician -- pt. 1. Disease and the medieval clinic. 1. Disease, discourse, and illness: The structure of healing in late medieval Spain. 2. Sexual pathology and the etiology of lovesickness -- pt. 2. The Arcipreste de Talavera and the Spill. 3. The poetics of infection. 4. The poetics of the compendium and the conditions of the clinic. 5. The tortured body and the abjectified voice: Additional therapeutic strategies -- pt. 3. The triumph of the clinic. 6. Women, the power to disease, and the fictions of the counter-clinic.

The Literature of Misogyny in Medieval Spain examines the medical underpinnings of two major misogynist works from the fifteenth-century Iberian: Alonso de Martinez's Arcipreste de Talavera and Jacme Roig's Spill. Michael Solomon argues that these works gained their rhetorical force by linking concerns over health and illness with men's behavior toward women. Solomon shows how the demonization of women in medieval society was more than vaguely cultural; it was part of the healing arts, considered vital to the well-being of men.

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