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The Master and Minerva : Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture by Helen Solterer (1995, Trade Paperback)

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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. Solterer investigates the debates over women between masters and their disciples. Across a broad range of Old French literature to the early modernQuerelle 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.

Author
Helen Solterer
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, European / French, Methodology, European / General, Europe / France, Rhetoric, Women's Studies, Semiotics & Theory, Europe / Medieval, Subjects & Themes / General
Publication Year
1995
Type
Textbook
Genre
Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines, History, Social Science, Philosophy
Number of Pages
325 Pages

Lc Classification Number
Pq155.W6s65 1995
Publication Name
Master and Minerva : Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART 1 PROFILES IN MASTERY 1 Ovidian and Aristotelian Figures 2 The Trials of Discipleship: Le Roman de la poire and Le Dit de la pan there d' amours 3 The Master at Work: Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour PART 2 PROLIFERATING RESPONSES 4 Contrary to What Is Said: The Response au Bestiaire d'amour and the Case for a Woman's Response 5 Defamation and the Livre de leesce:The Problem of a Sycophantic Response 6 Christine's Way: The Querelle du Roman de la rose and the Ethics of a Political Response 7 A Libelous Affair: The Querelle de 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 Notes Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
1996
Lccn
93-047918
Dewey Decimal
840.9/352042/0902
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
20
Illustrated
Yes

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