Woman defamed and woman defended : an anthology of Medieval texts /
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Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1992
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Table of Contents:
- The roots of antifeminist tradition -- The Church Fathers -- The legacy of the Church Fathers -- The satirical tradition in Medieval Latin -- Antifeminist tales -- Vernacular adaptations in the later Middle Ages -- The wife of Bath -- Responses to antifeminism -- A woman defends women.
- From The art of love and Amores / Ovid -- from Satire VI / Juvenal -- Scripture -- from Generation of animals / Aristotle -- from On the usefulness of the parts of the body / Galen -- from Etymologies / Isidore of Seville -- from Monologium / St. Anselm -- from the Summa theologiae / St. Thomas Aquinas -- from The history of the destruction of Troy / Guido delle Colonne -- from The appearance of women / Tertullian -- from Homily IX on St. Paul's epistle to Timothy / St. John Chrysostom -- from On widows ; from Paradise ; from the Commentary on Luke / St. Ambrose -- from Against Jovinian ; from Letter 22, to Eustochium ; from Letter 77, to Oceanus / St. Jerome -- from Confessions ; from The literal meaning of Genesis ; from City of God / St. Augustine -- from the Decretum / Gratian -- from The story of his misfortunes ; from Letter 3, Heloise to Ablard ; from The story of his misfortunes / Heloise and Abelard -- from the Summa theologiae / St. Thomas Aquinas -- from Tristan / Gottfried von Strassburg -- Rule for anchoresses, from part II, from part IV / Anon. -- The life of Secundus / Anon. -- The femme fatale / Marbod of Rennes -- The letter of Valerius to Ruffinus, against marriage / Walter Map -- from On love / Andreas Capellanus -- Against marrying / Anon. -- The book of the wiles of women / Anon. -- The widow / Gautier le Leu -- From sermon 66 in Sermons for all / Jacques de Vitry -- from The romance of the rose / Jean de Meun -- from The corbaccio / Giovanni Boccaccio -- from The lamentations of Matheolus / Jehan le Fèvre -- The wife of Bath's prologue / Geoffrey Chaucer -- The thrush and the nightingale / Anon. -- The good woman / Marbod of Rennes -- from Letter 6, On the origin of nuns / Abelard -- from The book of consolation and advice / Albertano of Brescia -- The response to Richard de Fournival's Bestiary of love / Anon. -- The southern passion / Anon. -- from A lover's confession / John Gower -- 'Whether women are to instruct men' ; 'Whether women are suitable to consecrate the sacrament' / the trial of Walter Brut -- from The register of Bishop Trefnant -- from Dives and pauper / Anon. -- Merelaus the emperor / Anon. -- from The letter of the god of love ; from The quarrel of the rose ; from The city of ladies / Christine de Pizan.