Author: BEER JEANETTE
Title: Beasts of Love: Richard de Fournival's Bestiaire d'amour and a Woman's Response
Description: Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 9780802036124) Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7? - 9? tall. The first gendered prose debate in a European vernacular, Le Bestiaire d'amour and subsequent Response constitute a clash of opposites: a medieval chancellor's erotic bestiary to a woman is countered by the woman's passionate protest against the cleric's misogynistic presuppositions. Jeanette Beer presents a close, linear reading of the two literary texts, examining the context that led to the love-bestiary's production in the thirteenth century, especially an influential version of the Physiologus by Pierre de Beauvais, the suggestiveness of the animal symbolism, and the aftermath of the debate. Very Good/Very Good. Signed by Author.

Keywords: Philosophy, Gender Studies, Signed By Author, Richard de Fourival, Medieval, Scholasticism, le Bestiaire D'Amour , Bestiary, Misogynism, Feminism, Literature, Love, Amour 9780802036124


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