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Author Milligan, Gerry, 1972- author.

Title Moral combat : women, gender, and war in Italian Renaissance literature / Gerry Milligan.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 332 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Toronto Italian studies
Toronto Italian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover; Copyright; 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 ƯWarring 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.
Summary Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.
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Subject Italian literature -- 16th century -- History and criticism.
Italian literature.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Women in literature.
Women in literature.
War in literature.
War in literature.
Chronological Term 1500-1599
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Milligan, Gerry, 1972- Moral combat. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] 1487503148 9781487503147 (OCoLC)1005105237
ISBN 9781487517274 (electronic book)
1487517270 (electronic book)
9781487503147
1487503148

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