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Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500 (eBook)

Karen Green, Constant Mews (Herausgeber)

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2011 | 2011
XXXII, 224 Seiten
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This book locates Christine de Pizan's argument that women are virtuous members of the political community within the context of earlier discussions of the relative virtues of men and women. It is the first to explore how women were represented and addressed within medieval discussions of the virtues. It introduces readers to the little studied Speculum Dominarum (Mirror of Ladies), a mirror for a princess, compiled for Jeanne of Navarre, which circulated in the courtly milieu that nurtured Christine. Throwing new light on the way in which Medieval women understood the virtues, and were represented by others as virtuous subjects, it positions the ethical ideas of Anne of France, Laura Cereta, Marguerite of Navarre and the Dames de la Roche within an evolving discourse on the virtues that is marked by the transition from Medieval to Renaissance thought. 
Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500 will be of interest to those studying virtue ethics, the history of women's ideas and Medieval and Renaissance thought in general.



Karen Green is a philosopher and the author of many articles in philosophy and the history of women's ideas, including The Woman of Reason (1995) and with Jacqueline Broad, A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (2009).
Constant J. Mews is a medievalist and specialist in the ideas of Abelard and Eloise. He has published many works including Abelard, and The Lost Love Letters of Abelard and Eloise. Together they published Healing the Body Politic: the political thought of Christine de Pizan (2005). Jointly with Janice Pinder their translation of Christine de Pizan's Livre de Paix won the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature in 2009.
This book locates Christine de Pizan's argument that women are virtuous members of the political community within the context of earlier discussions of the relative virtues of men and women. It is the first to explore how women were represented and addressed within medieval discussions of the virtues. It introduces readers to the little studied Speculum Dominarum (Mirror of Ladies), a mirror for a princess, compiled for Jeanne of Navarre, which circulated in the courtly milieu that nurtured Christine. Throwing new light on the way in which Medieval women understood the virtues, and were represented by others as virtuous subjects, it positions the ethical ideas of Anne of France, Laura Cereta, Marguerite of Navarre and the Dames de la Roche within an evolving discourse on the virtues that is marked by the transition from Medieval to Renaissance thought. Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500 will be of interest to those studying virtue ethics, the history of women's ideas and Medieval and Renaissance thought in general.

Karen Green is a philosopher and the author of many articles in philosophy and the history of women's ideas, including The Woman of Reason (1995) and with Jacqueline Broad, A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 (2009).Constant J. Mews is a medievalist and specialist in the ideas of Abelard and Eloise. He has published many works including Abelard, and The Lost Love Letters of Abelard and Eloise. Together they published Healing the Body Politic: the political thought of Christine de Pizan (2005). Jointly with Janice Pinder their translation of Christine de Pizan’s Livre de Paix won the MLA Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature in 2009.

Acknowledgements 6
Note on the Text 7
Introduction 8
Contents 19
About the Authors 21
Contributors 24
List of Abbreviations 25
List of Figures 26
1 Does Virtue Recognise Gender Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies in the Light of Scholastic Debate 27
2 The Speculum dominarum (Miroir des dames) and Transformations of the Literature of Instruction for Women in the Early Fourteenth Century 38
1 Durand de Champagne and Jeanne de Navarre 39
2 The Speculum dominarum and Religious Writing for Women 42
3 The French Translation of the Speculum dominarum 47
4 The Structure of the Speculum dominarum 50
5 Conclusion 54
3 A Mirror of Queenship: The Speculum dominarum and the Demands of Justice 56
1 The Queen's Milieu 56
2 The Mirror 58
3 The King's Justice 60
4 Queenship 62
5 Kingship 64
6 The Queen's Allies 68
4 A Lady's Guide to Salvation: The Miroir des dames Compilation 70
1 Introduction 70
2 Construction of the Collection 72
3 Conclusion 76
5 Charles V's Visual Definition of the Queen's Virtues 78
1 The Virgin Mary, the Church, and the Queen of Sheba as Models of Virtue for Jeanne de Bourbon 81
1.1 The Virgin Mary and the Church as Model for Young Jeanne de Bourbon 81
1.2 Solomon and the Queen of Sheba as Models for Charles V and Jeanne de Bourbon 84
2 From Conceptual Portraits to Representations of a Royal Educated Family in MS 434 of Besanon 87
3 Franciscan Spiritual Education as a Model for Royal Family 91
4 Presenting the Educated Queen: Jacques de Cessoless Jeu des echecs moraliss and Jean de Meuns Li Livres de confort de Philosophie 94
5 Jeanne's Virtues Justify Tutelage of Royal Children in Royaumont's Charter and Guillaume Durant's Rational des divins offices 96
6 Queens as Wise Counsellors in Charles Vs Grandes Chroniques de France 99
6 Jean Gerson's Writings to His Sisters and Christine de Pizan's Livre des trois vertus: An Intellectual Dialogue Culminating in Friendship 106
1 Omnis doctrina mulierum reputanda est suspecta 109
2 Competing Metaphors of the Fowler (Der Vogelfnger bin ich ja...) 114
3 The Theme of the regalitas of the Virgin in Gerson and Christine 118
4 The Passion Narratives of Gerson and Christine 121
7 From Le Miroir des dames to Le Livre des trois vertus 124
8 Appearing Virtuous: Christine de Pizan's Le Livre des trois vertus and Anne de France's Les Enseignements dAnne de France 139
1 Juste ypocrisie and Cleverness 142
2 The Livre des trois vertus and the Enseignements 145
3 Juste ypocrisie and Virtue 152
9 Weaving Virtue: Laura Cereta as a New Penelope 156
10 Margherita Cantelmo and the Worth of Women in Renaissance Italy 167
1 Introduction 167
2 Margherita Cantelmo and Agostino Strozzi 172
3 Strozzi and Equicola 178
4 The Defensione delle donne 180
11 Like Mother Like Daughter: Moral and Literary Virtues in French Renaissance Women's Writings 186
1 Virtue in the Poetic Exchange between Marguerite de Navarre and Jeanne d'Albret 188
2 Virtue in the Works of Madeleine and Catherine des Roches 192
12 Joanna of Castile's Entry into Brussels: Viragos, Wise and Virtuous Women 197
Bibliography 207
Index of Manuscripts Cited 226
Index 229

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.4.2011
Reihe/Serie The New Synthese Historical Library
The New Synthese Historical Library
Zusatzinfo XXXII, 224 p.
Verlagsort Dordrecht
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Mittelalter
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie der Neuzeit
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Schlagworte Agostino Strozzi • Christine de Pizan • Durand de Champagne • Marguerite of Navarre • Mirror of Ladies • Speculum Dominarum • Virtue Ethics • Virtue of women • women's studies
ISBN-10 94-007-0529-8 / 9400705298
ISBN-13 978-94-007-0529-6 / 9789400705296
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