Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxviii, 187 pages)
,
illustrations
ISBN:
9789004351011
Series Statement:
Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum 220
Content:
Preliminary Material /Kathryn L. Mckinley -- THE OVIDIAN HEROINE IN CONTEXT: CLASSICAL REPRESENTATIONS OF FEMININE DISCOURSE /Kathryn L. Mckinley -- OVID'S HEROINES AND FEMININE DISCOURSE: METAMORPHOSES 7 AND 10 /Kathryn L. Mckinley -- REPRESENTATIONS OF THE FEMININE IN MEDIEVAL COMMENTARIES ON METAMORPHOSES 7 AND 10 (1100-1328) /Kathryn L. Mckinley -- LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN READINGS OF THE FEMININE IN METAMORPHOSES 7 AND lO /Kathryn L. Mckinley -- CONCLUSION /Kathryn L. Mckinley -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY /Kathryn L. Mckinley -- INDEX /Kathryn L. Mckinley.
Content:
This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood. In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as William of Orléans, the \'Vulgate\' commentator, Thomas Walsingham, and Raphael Regius, illustrating the reception of the Ovidian heroine in medieval France and England as well as in Renaissance Italy and Germany. The works analyzed here show that clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged. Both moralizing summaries and Latin editions used as schooltexts are discussed
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-183) and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004117969
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe McKinley, Kathryn L Reading the Ovidian heroine Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004351011