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Contents Abbrevations xiii Prologue 1 Introduction 11 I:Antiquity and Late Antiquity 29 1.Classical Latin Women Poets 31 Sulpicia 36 Sulpicia II and other poets of the early Empire 44 2.Epigraphy as a Source for Early Imperial Womens Verse 49 3.Women and Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity 59 Proba 64 The last pagan poets 71 The first nuns 76 II:The Middle Ages 83 4.Women Latin Poets in Early Medieval Europe 85 Dhuoda 91 AngloSaxon England 92 Hrotsvitha and the Ottonian Renaissance 96 Anonymous verse from the early Middle Ages 103 5.Women and Latin Verse in the High Middle Ages 108 Anonymous lyrics 115 Women Latinists in England and France 119 Women Latinists in northern Europe 125 III:The Renaissance 139 6.Italy: Renaissance Women Scholars 141 The fourteenth century: women and the universities 149 The fifteenth century: women and the humanists 152 Isotta Nogarola 156 7.Women and Latin in Renaissance France 177 The queens and the court 179 Camille de Morel 188 French women humanists 193 8.Women Latin Poets in Spain and Portugal 199 Luisa Sigea 211 Portugal 216 9.Women Latinists of the Renaissance in Northern and Central Europe 224 Germany 225 The Low Countries 236 Control Europe 248 Poland 252 10.Women Latinists in SixteenthCentury England 255 IV:The Early Modern Period 277 11.Italian Women Poets of the Sixteenth Century and After 279 Olimpia Morata 285 Tarquinia Molza 288 Philippa Lazea, JeanJacques Boissard, and evidence for the lives of learned women 291 Learned women and the convent in postTridentine Italy 293 Elena Lucrezia Piscopia 302 Martha Marchina 309 Learned women in seventeenthcentury society 312 12.French Women Latinists in the Grand Sicle 324 13.Anna Maria van Schurman and Other Women Scholars of Northern and Central Europe 336 Germany 336 The Low Countries 348 Scandinavia 354 Poland 365 14.Women and Latin in Early Modern England 368 15.The New World 395 Colonial and revolutionary America 395 IberoAmerica 398 Conclusion 409 Appendix: Check list of Women Latin Poets and their Works 428 Bibliography 596 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Latin poetry, Medieval and modern -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Latin poetry -- Women authors -- History and criticism.
Women -- Europe -- Intellectual life.
Feminist and literature -- Europe.
Women and literature -- Europe.
Authority in literature.
Sex role in literature.