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Venus & mars : engendering love and war in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / edited by Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern.

Title
Venus & mars : engendering love and war in Medieval and Early Modern Europe / edited by Andrew Lynch and Philippa Maddern.
Publication
Nedlands, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Lynch, Andrew.
  • Maddern, Philippa C.
Description
viii, 214 p. : ill.; 21 cm.
Alternative Title
Venus and Mars
Subject
  • Civilization, Medieval
  • Europe > Social conditions > 16th century
  • Europe > Social conditions > To 1492
  • European literature > Renaissance, 1450-1600 > History and criticism
  • Literature and society > Europe
  • Literature, Medieval > History and criticism
  • Love in literature
  • War in literature
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
  • "Swich olde lewed wordes" : books about medieval love, medieval books about love and the medieval Book of love / Mary Dove -- "A fre liberal wille" : charity in Piers plowman / Pina Ford -- Friendship and love between women in early modern England / Patricia Crawford -- The body in archaic and classical Greek art / Judith Maitland -- Friend and adversary : some reflections on the body and the soul in medieval English thought / Lee Jones -- "The hoote blood ran freyshly uppon the erthe" : a combat theme in Malory, and its extensions / Andrew Lynch -- Shaving, circumcision, blood and sin : gendering the audience in John Mirk's sermons / Jennifer Smith -- "Pucelle de Dieu" or "Wicche of Fraunce" : fifteenth-century perceptions of Joan of Arc / Stephanie Tarbin -- She-man : visual representations of witchcraft and sexuality in sixteenth-century Europe / Charles Zika
  • (Cont.) Venus in drag : female transvestism and the construction of sex difference in Renaissance England / Clare Everett.
ISBN
1875560459
LCCN
^^^96138983^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library