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The Master and Minerva

Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture
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Can words do damage? For medieval culture, the answer was unambiguously yes. And, as this book 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.

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Helen Solterer is Associate Professor of French at Duke University.
Release date Australia
March 22nd, 1995
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Illustrations
14 illustrations
Pages
325
Dimensions
152x229x18
ISBN-13
9780520088351
Product ID
5014678

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