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Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the...



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"Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath is one of the most exciting books I've read in my thirty-year career as a medievalist. The depth and range of Marilynn Desmond's scholarship is extremely impressive. Desmond makes the theoretical framework she is using clear, compelling, and accessible. This book should appeal to a very wide readership from classicists to medievalists to feminist scholars, for whom it will provide an exciting and sophisticated alternative to flat and reductive ideas about medieval misogyny and courtly love." -- Sherron E. Knopp, Williams College

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    Publisher: MB - Cornell University Press
    Publication Date: 5/2/2006 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780801473173, 978-0801473173
    ISBN10: 0801473179
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    Gender studies: women and girls

    Description

    Book Synopsis

    Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the...



    Trade Review
    "Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath is one of the most exciting books I've read in my thirty-year career as a medievalist. The depth and range of Marilynn Desmond's scholarship is extremely impressive. Desmond makes the theoretical framework she is using clear, compelling, and accessible. This book should appeal to a very wide readership from classicists to medievalists to feminist scholars, for whom it will provide an exciting and sophisticated alternative to flat and reductive ideas about medieval misogyny and courtly love." -- Sherron E. Knopp, Williams College

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