Jean Gerson and Gender [electronic resource] : Rhetoric and Politics in Fifteenth-Century France /
McLoughlin, N.author.
Jean Gerson and Gender examines the deployment of gendered rhetoric by the influential late medieval politically active theologian, Jean Gerson (1363-1429), as a means of understanding his reputation for political neutrality, the role played by royal women in the French royal court, and the rise of the European witch hunts.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jean Gerson and Gender examines the deployment of gendered rhetoric by the influential late medieval politically active theologian, Jean Gerson (1363-1429), as a means of understanding his reputation for political neutrality, the role played by royal women in the French royal court, and the rise of the European witch hunts.
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Europe—History.
Europe—History—476-1492.
Social history.
Applied linguistics.
Religion.
Sociology.
European History.
History of Medieval Europe.
Social History.
Applied Linguistics.
Religious Studies, general.
Gender Studies.