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OverviewThe Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women’s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women’s right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discourses about women’s virtues, while epic poetry and biographical literature famously featured examples of women as soldiers, commanders, observers, and victims of war. Moral Combat asks how and why women’s militarism became one of the central discourses of this age. Gerry Milligan discusses the armed heroines of biography and epic within the context of contemporary debates over women’s combat abilities and men’s martial obligations. Women are frequently described as fighting because men have failed their masculine duty. A woman’s prowess at arms was asserted to be a cultural symptom of men’s shortcomings. Moral Combat ultimately argues that the popularity of the warrior woman in sixteenth-century Italian literature was due to her dual function of shame and praise: calling men to action and signaling potential victory to a disempowered people. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Gerry MilliganPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.670kg ISBN: 9781487503147ISBN 10: 1487503148 Pages: 344 Publication Date: 09 April 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsIntroduction The Philosophical History of the Armed Woman The Poetic and the Real: The Chivalric-Epic Commentary of the Armed Woman Women Writers Demanding Warrior Masculinity: Catherine of Siena, Laura Terracina, Chiara Matraini and sabella Cervoni Illustrious Warring Women: From Plutarch to Boccaccio The Noble Warrior Woman (1440-1550) The Fame of Women and the Infamy of Men in the Age of Warring Queens (1550-1600) ConclusionReviewsMilligan's rich and dynamic investigation forges new intellectual approaches and offers important new insights to the study of women, gender, and war in the Italian Renaissance. -- Victoria G. Fanti, John Hopkins University * gender/sexuality/italy, 5 (2018) * """Milligan’s rich and dynamic investigation forges new intellectual approaches and offers important new insights to the study of women, gender, and war in the Italian Renaissance."" -- Victoria G. Fanti, John Hopkins University * gender/sexuality/italy, 5 (2018) * ""Milligan offers a very detailed, well-documented, and illuminating study on gender and war in Renaissance Italy, and brilliantly illustrates how the proliferation of textual representations of warrior women impacted the culture, society, and moral norms of that age."" -- Lilia Campana, Texas A&M University * <em>Renaissance Quarterly</em> *" Milligan's rich and dynamic investigation forges new intellectual approaches and offers important new insights to the study of women, gender, and war in the Italian Renaissance. -- Victoria G. Fanti, John Hopkins University * gender/sexuality/italy, 5 (2018) * Milligan offers a very detailed, well-documented, and illuminating study on gender and war in Renaissance Italy, and brilliantly illustrates how the proliferation of textual representations of warrior women impacted the culture, society, and moral norms of that age. -- Lilia Campana, Texas A&M University * <em>Renaissance Quarterly</em> * Author InformationGerry Milligan is an associate professor at the College of Staten Island-CUNY. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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