This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom.

"In a study that features close readings of little-known and very well known texts and examination of marginalia and other indications of reader response, [Francomano] deftly traces the troubled relationship between women and wisdom . . . an overview cannot do justice to the richness and complexity of Emily Francomano's book." - Speculum

Autorentext
EMILY C. FRANCOMANO is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, USA.

Inhalt
Bodies of Knowledge: Lady Wisdom, Personification, and Memory Lady Wisdom My Brother: Reading Sapientia in Medieval Castile Figures of Matter and Form: Feminine Personification and Epistemology in the Visión deleytable The Wise Virgin's Confounding Body of Knowledge Sor Juana and St. Catherine: From Blood Martyrdom to a Holocaust of the Intellect Commonplaces and Common Women: Lady Wisdom, the Strange Woman, and Bawdy Bodies of Knowledge