Moral Combat : : Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature /

Moral Combat : : Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature / / Gerry Milligan.

The Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women’s right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discours...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Milligan, Gerry ,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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 Warring 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

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