{"product_id":"moral-combat-women-gender-and-war-in-italian-renaissance-literature-hardback-9781487503147","title":"Moral Combat; Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature (Hardback) 9781487503147","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMoral Combat\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWomen, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGerry Milligan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487503147\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 9 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e344 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.9 x 2.7 cm, 0.67 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Milligan\u0026amp;#x2019;s rich and dynamic investigation forges new intellectual approaches and offers important new insights to the study of women, gender, and war in the Italian Renaissance.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Victoria G. Fanti, John Hopkins University (gender\/sexuality\/italy, 5 (2018)) \u003cp\u003e\"Milligan offers a very detailed, well-documented, and illuminating study on gender and war in Renaissance Italy, and brilliantly illustrates how the proliferation of textual representations of warrior women impacted the culture, society, and moral norms of that age.\" \u003c\/p\u003e - Lilia Campana, Texas A\u0026amp;M University (\u003cem\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Italian sixteenth century offers the first sustained discussion of women\u0026amp;#x2019;s militarism since antiquity. Across a variety of genres, male and female writers raised questions about women\u0026amp;#x2019;s right and ability to fight in combat. Treatise literature engaged scientific, religious, and cultural discourses about women\u0026amp;#x2019;s virtues, while epic poetry and biographical literature famously featured examples of women as soldiers, commanders, observers, and victims of war. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoral Combat asks how and why women\u0026amp;#x2019;s militarism became one of the central discourses of this age. Gerry Milligan discusses the armed heroines of biography and epic within the context of contemporary debates over women\u0026amp;#x2019;s combat abilities and men\u0026amp;#x2019;s martial obligations. Women are frequently described as fighting because men have failed their masculine duty. A woman\u0026amp;#x2019;s prowess at arms was asserted to be a cultural symptom of men\u0026amp;#x2019;s shortcomings. \u003ci\u003eMoral Combat\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately argues that the popularity of the warrior woman in sixteenth-century Italian literature was due to her dual function of shame and praise: calling men to action and signaling potential victory to a disempowered people.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003c\/p\u003e \u003col\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Philosophical History of the Armed Woman\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Poetic and the Real: The Chivalric-Epic Commentary of the Armed Woman\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eWomen Writers Demanding Warrior Masculinity: Catherine of Siena, Laura Terracina, Chiara Matraini and \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003esabella Cervoni \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIllustrious Warring Women: From Plutarch to Boccaccio \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Noble Warrior Woman (1440-1550) \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eThe Fame of Women and the Infamy of Men in the Age of Warring Queens (1550-1600)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595458277656,"sku":"9781487503147","price":43.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/moral-combat-women-gender-and-war-in-italian-renaissance-literature-hardback-9781487503147","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}