Introduction Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter By Woman's Tears Redeemed: Female Lament in St.Augustine's Confessions and the Correspondence of Abelard and Heloise Nancy A. Jones Hrotswitha Writes Herself: Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis Barbara K. Gold Gender and Negotiating Discourse: Mediated Autobiography and Female Mystics of Medieval Italy Phyllis Culham The Saint of the Womanly Body: Raimon de Cornet's Fourteenth-Century Male Poetics St. John E. Flynn Petrarch's Sophonisba: Seduction, Sacrifice, and Patriarchal Politics Donald Gilman Laurel as the Sign of Sin: Laura's Textual Body in Petrarch's Secretum Paul Allen Miller Woman, Space, and Renaissance Discourse Diana Robin In Praise of Woman's Superiority: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa's De nobilitate (1529) Diane S. Wood The Artificial Whore: George Buchanan's Apologia pro Lena Charles Platter "She Never Recovered Her Senses": Roxana and Dramatic Representations of Women at Oxbridge in the Elizabethan Age Elizabeth Richmond-Garza Latin and Greek Poetry by Five Renaissance Italian Women Humanists Holt Parker Bibliography Contributors Index
Barbara K. Gold is Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of Classics at Hamilton College. She has written and edited two books on literary patronage in Greece and Rome. Paul Allen Miller is Assistant Professor of Classics at Texas Tech University. His previous work includes Lyric Texts and Lyric Consciousness. Charles Platter is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Georgia.
Without question, the topic of this book is significant, the treatment overdue. The word that comes to mind about this book is 'exciting.' The Neo-Latin field will be made more fertile by what this book offers." - Edward V. George, Texas Tech University
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