Women and Latin in the early modern period / by Jane Stevenson.

Author/creator Stevenson, Jane, 1959
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Description116 pages ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Women and literature--History. --To 1500.
Women and literature--History. --16th century.
Women and literature--History. --17th century.
Latin literature--Women authors. --To 1500.
Latin literature--Women authors. --16th century.
Latin literature--Women authors. --17th century.
Women classicists--To 1500. --Biography.
Women classicists--16th century. --Biography.
Women classicists--17th century. --Biography.

SeriesBrill Research Perspectives in Latinity and Classical Reception in the Early Modern Period, 2772-3852
Latinity and Classical reception in the early modern period. 2772-3852 UNAUTHORIZED
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Women and Humanism in Renaissance Italy -- 3. Beyond Italy: France, Spain and Northern Europe in the Sixteenth Century -- 4. Educated Women and Work: The Sixteenth Century -- 5. The Seventeenth Century and After: Change and Continuity -- 6. Conclusion.
Summary "The first early modern women Latinists lived in mid-fourteenth century Italy, and were educated as diplomats. By the fifteenth century, other upper-class women were educated in order to perform as prodigies on behalf of their city. Both strands of education for women spread to other European countries in the course of the sixteenth century: the principal women humanists were either princesses or courtiers. In the seventeenth century Latin lost its importance as a language of diplomacy and was no longer needed at court, but there was still a place for the 'woman prodigy', and a variety of women performed in this way. However, the productions of seventeenth and eighteenth-century women Latinists are more extensive and more varied than those of their predecessors, and include scientific writing and ambitious translations. By the mid-nineteenth century the integration of studious women into the wider academy was well under way." -- Backside cover.
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