Title: To the Glory of Her Sex
First published: 1997
Description: To the Glory of Her Sex presents an account of medieval women's activities as correspondents, readers, writers, and literary patrons from antiquity through the fourteenth century. The writings explored here represent a cross-section of virtually every field in historical and literary studies, including Latin literature, romance literature in French, political and religious correspondence, theological and moral treatises written for women, and histories and biographies commissioned by or addressed to women.

Reading in the public and private correspondence of medieval women, for example, Ferrante discovered to what degree their involvement in affairs of the world and their role in the work of prominent men have been underestimated. Among the major figures in this panorama are Elisabeth Schonau, Hildegard of Bingen, Hrotsvit, Marie de France, and Christine de Pizan.
Subjects: History, Literature, Medieval, History and criticism, Medieval Literature, Women authors, Women and literature, Authors and patrons, Literary patrons, Literature, medieval, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, Vrouwelijke auteurs, Literatur, Frau, Littérature médiévale, Histoire et critique, Femmes écrivains, Femmes et littérature, Histoire, Geschichte 500-1500, Languages & Literatures, Literature - General, Women
Places: Europe
Time periods: To 1500
LC classification: PN682.W6 F39 1997