Wisdom and her lovers in medieval and early modern Hispanic literature
By: Emily C. Francomano.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Wisdom in literature; Women in literature; Spanish literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism; Spanish literature -- Classical period, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Description: This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Bodies of knowledge : Lady Wisdom, personification, and memory; title: Lady Wisdom, my brother : reading sapientia in Medieval Castile; title: Figures of matter and form : feminine personification and epistemology in the Visión deleytable; title: The wise virgin's confounding body of knowledge; title: Sor Juana and St. Catherine : from blood martyrdom to a Holocaust of the intellect; title: Commonplaces and common women : Lady Wisdom, the strange woman, and bawdy bodies of knowledge.