Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

by Jane Stevenson

Overview

Women Latin Poets addresses women's relationship to culture between the first century B.C. and the eighteenth century A.D. by studying women's poetry in Latin. Based entirely on original archival research in twelve countries, Stevenson recovers an aspect of history often deemed not to exist: women who achieved public recognition in their own time, sometimes to a startling extent. Presenting, often for the first time, the work of more than three hundred women Latin poets, all translated and included in a comprehensive finding guide, Women Latin Poets substantially revises received opinion on women's participation in, and relation to, elite culture. The sheer number of female Latin poets will require women's historians to completely re-evaluate the idea that all women had "no access to education" before the nineteenth century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198185024
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	08/04/2005
Pages:	680
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.50(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

University of Aberdeen

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Classical Latin Women Poets2. Epigraphy as a Source for Early Imperial Women's Verse3. Women and Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity4. Women Poets in Early Medieval Europe5. Women and Latin Verse in the High Middle Ages6. Italy: Renaissance Women Scholars7. Women and Latin in Renaissance France8. Women Latin Poets in Spain and Portugal9. Women Latinists of the Renaissance in Northern and Central Europe10. Italian Women Poets of the Sixteenth Century and After11. French women Latinists in the 'Grand Siècle'12. Anna Maria van Schurman and Other Women Scholars of Northern and Central Europe13. Women and Latin in Early Modern England14. The New WorldBibliographies16.