Watch your tongue
Marina Warner, 20 August 1992
Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love
by Howard Bloch.
Chicago, 308 pp., £14.95, February 1992,0 226 05973 1 Show More
by Howard Bloch.
Chicago, 308 pp., £14.95, February 1992,
Women of the Renaissance
by Margaret King.
Chicago, 328 pp., £13.50, December 1991,0 226 43618 7 Show More
by Margaret King.
Chicago, 328 pp., £13.50, December 1991,
The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographical Romances of the 13th Century
by Brigitte Cazelles.
Pennsylvania, 320 pp., £35, November 1991,9780812230994 Show More
by Brigitte Cazelles.
Pennsylvania, 320 pp., £35, November 1991,
Heavenly Supper: The Story of Maria Janis
by Fulvio Tomizza, translated by Anne Jacobson Shutte.
Chicago, 184 pp., £19.95, December 1991,0 226 80789 4 Show More
by Fulvio Tomizza, translated by Anne Jacobson Shutte.
Chicago, 184 pp., £19.95, December 1991,
Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators of Literature in the English Renaissance
by Tina Krontiris.
Routledge, 192 pp., £25, April 1992,0 415 06329 9 Show More
by Tina Krontiris.
Routledge, 192 pp., £25, April 1992,
“... and she was a hundred or more years too late to be believed. Several 16th-century English women, Tina Krontiris points out in Oppositional Voices, chafed against the restrictions of their families, and consequently joined the old, forbidden religion: Catholicism at least offered the cloister as well as the hearth, whereas the Protestants only sanctioned ... ”
