UID:
almafu_9959237765502883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 332 pages)
ISBN:
1-4875-1728-9
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1-4875-1727-0
Series Statement:
Toronto Italian Studies
Content:
Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.
Note:
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Philosophical History of the Armed Woman; 2 The Poetic and the Real: The Chivalric-Epic Commentary of the Armed Woman; 3 Women Writers Demanding Warrior Masculinity: Catherine of Siena, Laura Terracina, Chiara Matraini, and Isabella Cervoni; 4 Classical and Christian Models of ƯWarring Women: From Plutarch to Boccaccio; 5 The Noble Warrior Woman (1440-1550); 6 The Fame of Women and the Infamy of Men in the Age of Warring Queens (1550-1600); Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
,
Issued also in print.
,
In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4875-0314-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781487517274
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
