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Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century Stevenson, Jane (, Reader in Post-Classical Latin and Renaissance Studies, University of Aberdeen.)
Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century
Stevenson, Jane (, Reader in Post-Classical Latin and Renaissance Studies, University of Aberdeen.)
Presents an investigation of educated women in pre-modern Europe, based on archival research in twelve countries. This work brings to light women's writing in Latin, requiring a reevaluation of the idea that all women had 'no access to education' before the nineteenth century. It includes a finding guide to women's poetry in Latin.
676 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 4, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198185024 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 680 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 242 × 41 mm · 1.13 kg |
| Language | English |