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Pathologies of love : medicine and the woman question in early modern France
- Title
- Pathologies of love : medicine and the woman question in early modern France / Judy Kem.
- Author
- Kem, Judy
- Publication
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 287 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Judy Kem looks at the writings of Christine de Pizan, Jean Molinet, Symphorien Champier, Jean Lemaire de Belges, and Marguerite de Navarre, examining the role of received medical ideas in the Querelle des femmes"--
- Series Statement
- Women and gender in the early modern world
- Uniform Title
- Women and gender in the early modern world.
- Subject
- 1450-1600
- Women > France > History > Renaissance, 1450-1600
- Women > Health and hygiene > History > France > 16th century
- Sex differences > History > 16th century
- Sex differences in literature > History > 16th century
- Sex role > France > History > 16th century
- Sex role in literature > History > 16th century
- Medicine > Philosophy > History > 16th century
- Medicine > Philosophy
- Sex differences
- Sex differences in literature
- Sex role
- Sex role in literature
- Women > Health and hygiene
- Women > Renaissance
- France
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: early modern medicine and the Querelle des femmes -- Love or seduction? Christine de Pizan's legacy from the Querelle de la rose to the Querelle des femmes -- From physical to spiritual love: Molinet's Romant de la rose moralise (1500) and the Querelle des femmes -- Platonic love, marriage, and infertility in Symphorien Champier's Nef des princes (1502) and Nef des dames (1503) -- Love and death in Lemaire's Couronne Margaritique and the Trois contes de Cupido et d'Atropos: excessive grief and the great pox -- Fatal lovesickness in Marguerite de Navarre's Quatre dames et quatre gentilzhommes and the Heptameron -- Conclusion: from courtly love to fatal lovesickness.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-2770
- ISBN
- 9781496215208
- 1496215206
- 9781496216861 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781496216854 (canceled/invalid)
- 9781496216878 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019015610
- OCLC
- 1090013158
- Author
- Kem, Judy, author.
- Title
- Pathologies of love : medicine and the woman question in early modern France / Judy Kem.
- Publisher
- Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Women and gender in the early modern worldWomen and gender in the early modern world.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1450-1600
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-2770