TY  - BOOK
AU  - Solterer,Helen
TI  - The master and Minerva: disputing women in French medieval culture 
SN  - 9780520915299
AV  - PQ155.W6 S65 1995eb
U1  - 840.9/352042/0902 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - French literature
KW  - To 1500
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Women
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Middle Ages, 500-1500
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Quarreling in literature
KW  - Rhetoric, Medieval
KW  - Dialectic
KW  - Law and literature
KW  - Littérature française
KW  - Jusqu'à 1500
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Femmes
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 500-1500 (Moyen Âge)
KW  - Femmes et littérature
KW  - Querelles dans la littérature
KW  - Rhétorique médiévale
KW  - Dialectique
KW  - Droit et littérature
KW  - dialectic
KW  - aat
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - European
KW  - French
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Middle Ages
KW  - Romance Literatures
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Languages & Literatures
KW  - French Literature
KW  - Medieval period, 987-1515
KW  - 987-1515
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-293) and index; pt. 1; 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 --; pt. 2; 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
N2  - 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.<br />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
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