Moral Combat

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By Gerry Milligan

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Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women’s militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.

Résumé
Moral Combat explores dozens of primary texts to ask why women's militarism became one of the central discourses of sixteenth-century Italy.

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Introduction

• 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
• sabella Cervoni
• Illustrious 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) Conclusion