Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
- ISBN-10
- 0814318738
- ISBN-13
- 9780814318737
- Category
- European literature
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Authors
- Carole Levin, Jeanie Watson
Description
Examining specific literary, historical, and theological texts, the essays in Ambiguous realities illuminate a number of important issues about women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: the changes in attitude toward women, the role and status of women, the dichotomy between public and private spheres, the prescriptions for women's behavior and the image of the ideal woman, and the difference between the perceived and the actual audience of medieval and Renaissance writers.--Back cover.
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