Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 14136
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Furlan , Francesco.
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  • Title: L'idea della donna nella cultura della prima metà del Quattrocento toscano [for the Middle Ages we have vastly more material written by men than by women, and the evidence is skewed in favor of the upper classes; much of early and high medieval writing on women was influenced by the misogyny of Jerome and favored celibacy; late medieval theologians came to speak more highly of marriage and the family, but they still favored discipline as the ideal for women; the humanists placed even greater emphasis on marriage; Italian merchants placed a great emphasis on procreation, but their memoirs can speak of wives in loving terms].
  • Source: Ilaria del Carretto e il suo monumento: la donna nell'arte, la cultura, e la società del '400. Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi, 15-16-17 Settembre, 1994, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca.  Edited by Stéphane Toussaint. Translated by Clotilde Soave Bowe..  Edizioni S. Marco Litotipo, 1995.  Pages 251 - 270.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Alberti, Leon Battista, Humanist Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence and Saint Bernardino da Siena, Theologian and Saint Dati, Goro, Author Jerome, Theologian and Saint Marriage Misogyny Velluti, Donato, Florentine Judge Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 12- 13- 14- 15
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  • Year of Publication: 1995.
  • Language: Italian
  • ISSN/ISBN: Not Available