Satiric Advice on Women and Marriage: From Plautus to Chaucer
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- Synopsis
- Scholars of classics and religion, mostly British or American, sample satiric attitudes about women and marriage written in Latin from about 200 BC through Walter Map in the 12th century, with two closing chapters on Chaucer writing in Middle English during the 14th. Among their topics are Roman education and Greek rhetorical thought on marriage, advice on sex by the self-defeating satirists, Jerome and the asceticization of satire, change and continuity in pagan thought and Christian invective on women and marriage from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, and antifeminism in the High Middle Ages. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc. , Portland, OR (booknews. com)
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9780472026296
- Publisher:
- University of Michigan Press
- Date of Addition:
- 05/06/11
- Copyrighted By:
- University of Michigan
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.