Three Medieval Views of Women

Author: Gloria K. Fiero
Secondary Author: Wendy Pfeffer
ISBN: 9780300044423

This bilingual edition of three lively and amusing French poems dating from the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries contains two poems that assail the vices of women and a third that lists women's virtues. The verses, translated here into English for the first time, provide significant insights into the role of women in the Middle Ages as well as into medieval social history and the history of misogyny.

Publisher: Yale University Press
Publish Date: 1989

Subjects: History / General, Poetry / European / General

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Poetry)