Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45544
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Reno , Christine, Jean Gerson, Thelma S. Fenster and Thomas O'Donnell,
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  • Title: A Poem on Man and Woman
  • Source: The God of Love’s Letter and The Tale of the Rose: A Bilingual Edition.Christine de Pisan and Jean Gerson  Edited by Thelma S. Fenster and Christine Reno, editors and translators.  Iter Press, 2021.  Pages 174 - 175.
  • Description:

    "Unlike Christine's God of Love's Letter and Tale of the Rose, Gerson's poem is not a defense of women. It is translated here to show its clear outline of fifteenth-century belief about the relationship between women and men, authoritatively explained by a leader of the Church with whom Christine was thought to have had an "intellectual friendship."

    [From Jean Gerson, A Poem on Man and Woman, Translated from the Latin by Thomas O'Donnell, Introduction. The God of Love's Letter and The Tale of the Rose: A Bilingual Edition. Iter Press, 2021. Page 171.]
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Gerson, Jean, Theologian Latin Poetry Misogyny in Literature Women in Literature
  • Award Note: Feminae Translation of the Month, February 2022
  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 15
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  • Author's Affiliation: Fordham University [Fenster] ; Vassar College [Emeritus, Reno]
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  • Year of Publication: 2021.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781649590060 (print) ; 9781649590077 (online)