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Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

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Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century - Stevenson, Jane
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A completely new investigation of educated women in pre-modern Europe, based entirely on original archival research in twelve countries, bringing to light an unsuspected treasure trove of women's writing in Latin, and requiring a complete 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, and all texts are translated.

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Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century 2008, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780199229734

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Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender, and Authority, from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century 2005, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198185024

Hardcover