Women's Secrets by Helen Rodnite Lemay
Women's Secrets provides the first modern translation of the notorious treatise De secretis mulierum, popular throughout the late middle ages and into modern times. The Secrets deals with human reproduction and was written to instruct celibate medieval monks on the facts of life and some of the ways of the universe. However, the book had a much more far-reaching influence. Lemay shows how its message that women were evil, lascivious creatures built on the misogyny of the work's Aristotelian sources and laid the groundwork for serious persecution of women.
Both the content of the treatise and the reputation of its author (erroneously believed to be Albertus Magnus) inspired a few medieval scholars to compose lengthy commentaries on the text, substantial selections from which are included, providing further evidence of how medieval men interpreted science and viewed the female body.
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Culture and the King
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Holy Men and Holy Women
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Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage
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Anglo-Saxon Styles
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The Place of the Psalms in the Intellectual Culture of the Middle Ages
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Women's Space
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The King's English
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Inscribing the Hundred Years' War in French and English Cultures
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The Discourse of Enclosure
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Chaucerian Spaces
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Devils, Women, and Jews
Helen Rodnite Lemay is Associate Professor of History at State University of New York at Stony Brook.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780791411445 |
| ISBN 10 | 0791411443 |
| Title | Women's Secrets |
| Author | Helen Rodnite Lemay |
| Series | Suny Series In Medieval Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Year published | 1992-10-14 |
| Number of pages | 210 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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