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050 4 $aPR317.W66$bS35 2014
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100 1 $aSchieberle, Misty,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFeminized counsel and the literature of advice in England, 1380-1500 /$cMisty Schieberle.
264 1 $aTurnhout :$bBrepols,$c[2014]
264 4 $c©2014
300 $ax, 224 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aDisputatio ;$vVolume 26
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index.
505 0 $aWomen, counsel, and marriage metaphors in John Gower's Confessio Amantis -- 'Lerne this at me!' Alceste as a model for the Poet in the Legend of Good Women -- Exemplarity and Chaucer's Melibee: contexualizing Prudence's authority -- Male translators' identification with women: the Epistre Othea in Middle English -- Conclusion.
520 8 $aThe term 'feminized counsel' denotes the advice associated with and spoken by women characters. This book demonstrates that rather than classify women's voices as an opposite against which to define masculine authority, late medieval vernacular poets embraced the feminine as a representation of their subordination to kings, patrons, and authorities. The works studied include Gower's 'Confessio Amantis', Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' and 'Melibee', and English translations of Christine de Pizan's 'Epistre Othea'. To advise readers, these texts draw on the politicized genre of mirrors for princes. Whereas Latin mirrors such as the 'Secretum secretorum' and Giles of Rome's 'De regimine principum' represented women as inferior, weak, and detrimental to masculine authority, these vernacular texts break traditional expectations and portray women as essential and authoritative political counsellors. By considering Latin and French sources, historical models of queens' intercessions, and literary models of authoritative female personifications, this study explores the woman counsellor as a literary topos that enabled poets to criticize, advise, and influence powerful readers. 'Feminized Counsel' elucidates the manner in which vernacular poets concerned with issues of counsel, mercy, and power identified with fictional women's struggles to develop authority in the political sphere. These women counsellors become enabling models that paradoxically generate authority for poets who also lack access to traditionally recognized forms of intellectual or literary authority.
600 10 $aGower, John,$d1325?-1408.$tConfessio amantis.
600 10 $aChaucer, Geoffrey,$d-1400$xCharacters$xWomen.
600 00 $aChristine,$cde Pisan,$dapproximately 1364-approximately 1431.$tEpître d'Othéa à Hector.
600 14 $aGower, John,$dca. 1325-1408.$0(NL-LeOCL)069887543
600 14 $aChaucer, Geoffrey,$dca. 1340-1400.$0(NL-LeOCL)068386559
600 04 $aChristine,$cde Pisan,$dca. 1363-1430/34.$0(NL-LeOCL)069211191
650 0 $aEnglish poetry$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aAdvice in literature.
650 0 $aCounseling in literature.
650 0 $aSociety in literature.
650 0 $aLiterature and society$zEngland$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aSocial history$yMedieval, 500-1500$vSources.
650 7 $aLiteratur.$0(DE-588)4035964-5$2gnd
650 7 $aMittelenglisch.$0(DE-588)4039676-9$2gnd
650 7 $aBeratung.$0(DE-588)4235028-1$2gnd
650 7 $aFrau.$0(DE-588)4113617-2$2gnd
830 0 $aDisputatio (Turnhout, Belgium) ;$vv. 26.
852 00 $bglx$hPR317.W66$iS35 2014g