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Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance
Ruth Kelso
Cloth978-0-252-00693-7
$42.00
| Pub Date: | 1997 |
| Pages: | 488 pages |
First published in 1956, Ruth Kelso's Doctrine for the Lady of the Renaissance is a landmark work that has lived up to its early, laudatory reviews by remaining in demand among scholars of Renaissance studies and of women in the Renaissance. It both offers a comprehensive account of Renaissance views on woman and acknowledges that women were "in many ways excluded from the freedom and enlightenment characteristic of the period."
This new printing retains the foreword by Katharine Rogers that was added to the 1978 edition.
From earlier reviews:
"Magnificent. . . . [Kelso has] charted and subtly questioned the overt praise and construction of the virtuous woman in Renaissance texts and the exalted, powerful position great women held presumably as men's equals in Renaissance Italy." -- Barbara Becker-Cantarino, Signs
Subjects:
Medieval & Renaissance Studies / Women's Studies
