Women Writing Latin: From Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe

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ISBN: 9780415942478 | 0415942470
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Copyright: 9/30/2002

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This is a 3-volume anthology of women's writings in Latin from antiquity to the early modern era. Each volume provides texts, contexts, and translations of a wide variety of works produced by women, including dramatic, poetic, and devotional writing. Volume 1 covers the age of Roman Antiquity and early Christianity; Vol. 2 covers the Middle Ages; and Vol. 3 is dedicated to the early modern era.

Acknowledgments

Women Writing Latin: An Introduction

(12)

Volume 1. Women Writing Latin in Roman Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and the Early Christian Era

Part I. Roman Antiquity

Women Writing in Rome and Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi

(12)

Judith P. Hallett

An Introduction to Epigraphic Poetry

(20)

Jane Stevenson

The Eleven Elegies of the Augustan Poet Sulpicia

(22)

Judith P. Hallett

Women's Graffiti from Pompeii

(18)

Elizabeth Woeckner

The Fragment of Martial's Sulpicia

(8)

Judith P. Hallett

The Vindolanda Letters from Claudia Severa

(10)

Judith P. Hallett

Part II. Late Antiquity and the Early Christian Era

Vibia Perpetua: Mystic and Martyr

103

(28)

Judith Lynn Sebesta

Faltonia Betitia Proba: A Virgilian Cento in Praise of Christ

131

(20)

Bernice M. Kaczynski

Inscriptions on Fabia Aconia Paulina

151

(14)

Victoria Erhart

Itinerarium Egeriae: A Pilgrim's Journey

165

(18)

Victoria Erhart

Appendix

183

(2)

Contributors

185

(134)

Acknowledgments

Women Writing Latin: An Introduction

(10)

Volume 2. Medieval Women Writing Latin

Radegund and the Letter of Foundation

(14)

Jane E. Jeffrey

A Schoolgirl and Mistress Felhin: A Devout Petition from Ninth-Century Saxony

(12)

Steven A. Stofferahn

Hrotsvit's Callimachus and the Art of Comedy

(56)

Mark Damen

Sisters in the Literary Agon: Texts from Communities of Women on the Mortuary Roll of the Abbess Matilda of La Trinite, Caen

(40)

Daniel Sheerin

Hildegard of Bingen: The Teutonic Prophetess

133

(40)

Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Summers

The Problemata of Heloise

173

(24)

Anne Collins Smith

Autobiography or Autohagiography? Decoding the Subtext in the Visions of Elisabeth of Schonau

197

(34)

Thalia A. Pandiri

Herrad of Hohenbourg and the Poetry of the Hortus deliciarum: Cantat tibi cantica

231

(34)

Fiona Griffiths

Anonymous Lives: Documents from the Benedictine Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles

265

(16)

Linda McMillin

Street Mysticism: An Introduction to The Life and Revelations of Agnes Blannbekin

281

(28)

Ulrike Wiethaus

Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bride of Sweden (1303?--1373)

309

(10)

Sandra Straubhaar

Appendix

319

(2)

Contributors

321

Acknowledgments

Women Writing Latin: An Introduction

(10)

Volume 3. Early Modern Women Writing Latin

Angela Nogarola (ca. 1400) and Isotta Nogarola (1418--1466): Thieves of Language

(20)

Holt N. Parker

Costanza Varano (1426--1447): Latin as an Instrument of State

(24)

Holt N. Parker

Cassandra Fedele (1465--1558)

(28)

Diana Robin

Laura Cereta (1469--1499)

(26)

Diana Robin

Conventual Life in Renaissance Italy: The Latin Poetry of Suor Laurentia Strozzi (1514--1591)

109

(24)

Jane Stevenson

Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526/7--1555): Humanist, Heretic, Heroine

133

(34)

Holt N. Parker

Luisa Sigea (1522--1560): Iberian Scholar-Poet

167

(22)

Edward V. George

Johanna Otho (Othonia) and Women's Latin Poetry in Reformed Europe

189

(28)

Jane Stevenson

Elizabeth Jane Weston (1581--1612)

217

(30)

Brenda M. Hosington

Bathsua Reginald Makin (1600--1675?)

247

(24)

Anne Leslie Saunders

Alpha Virginum: Anna Maria van Schurman (1607--1678)

271

(24)

Pieta van Beek

Appendix

295

(2)

Contributors

297

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