Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-319) and index.
Contents
The philosophical history of the armed woman. -- The poetic and the real: the chivalric-epic commentary of the armed woman. -- Women writers demanding warrior masculinity: Catherine of Siena, Laura Terracina, Chiara Matraini, and Isabella Cervoni. -- Classical and Christian models of warring women: from Plutarch to Boccaccio. -- The noble warrior woman (1440-1550). -- The fame of women and the infamy of men in the age of warring queens (1550-1600).
