Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts
- Author / Editor
- Blamires, Alcuin, ed. With Karen Pratt and C. W. Marx.
Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts
- Published
- Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
- Physical Description
- xvi, 327 pp.
- Description
- Documents the details and development of medieval generalizations about women, translating from biblical, classical, patristic, Latin, and vernacular works a wide variety of antifeminist and profeminist selections, each with a brief introduction.
- A general introduction surveys types of antifeminism and responses to them. The anthology supplies generally familiar texts about women, including WBP (in modern English), and a variety of less-well-known pieces, some newly translated or translated for the first time. Useful for cultural history and classroom purposes, the volume is indexed and includes a ten-page bibliography.
- Contributor
- Pratt, Karen.
- Marx, C. W.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.