Women Latin poets : language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth century
"Presenting the work of more than three hundred women Latin poets, many for the first time, this study substantially revises received opinion on women's participation in, and relation to, elite culture. All verse quoted in the text is translated, and there is a comprehensive finding guide that lists manuscripts, editions, and translations."--BOOK JACKET
History
xiv, 659 pages ; 24 cm
9780198185024, 9780199229734, 0198185022, 0199229732
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Antiquity and late antiquity
Classical Latin women poets
Sulpicia
Sulpicia II and other poets of the early empire
Epigraphy as a source for early imperial women's verse
Women and Latin poetry in late antiquity
Proba
The last pagan poets
The first nuns
The Middle Ages
Women Latin poets in early medieval Europe
Dhuoda
Anglo-Saxon England
Hrotsvitha and the Ottonian renaissance
Anonymous verse from the early Middle Ages
Women and Latin verse in the High Middle Ages
Anonymous lyrics
Women Latinists in England and France
Women Latinists in northern Europe
The Renaissance
Italy : Renaissance women scholars
The fourteenth century : women and the universities
The fifteenth century : women and the humanists
Isotta Nogarola
Women and Latin in Renaissance France
The queens and the court
Camille de Morel
French women humanists
Women Latin poets in Spain and Portugal
Luisa Sigea
Portugal
Women Latinists of the Renaissance in northern and central Europe
Germany
The Low Countries
Central Europe
Poland
Women Latinists in sixteenth-century England
The early modern period
Italian women poets of the sixteenth century and after
Olimpia Morata
Tarquinia Molza
Philippa Lazea, Jean-Jacques Boissard, and evidence for the lives of learned women
Learned women and the convent in post-Tridentine Italy
Elena Lucrezia Piscopia
Martha Marchina
Learned women in seventeenth-century society
French women Latinists in the 'grand siec̀le'
Anna Maria van Schurman and other women scholars of northern and central Europe
Germany
The Low Countries
Scandinavia
Poland
Women and Latin in early modern England
The New World
Colonial and revolutionary America
Ibero-America
Conclusion
Appendix : Checklist of women Latin poets and their works
Includes Latin quotations, with parallel English translations