Gender, Writing and Performance: Men Defending Women in Late Medieval France, 1440-1538.

Helen J. Swift is Fellow and Tutor in Medieval French at St Hilda's College, Oxford.

Gender, Writing, and Performance book.

This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern .

This book explores the poetics of literary defences of women written by men in late-medieval and early-modern France. It fills an important lacuna in studies of this polemic in imaginative literature by bridging the gap between Christine de Pizan and a later generation of women writers and male, Neo-Platonist writers who have recently all received due critical attention.

Gender, Writing, and Performance : Men Defending Women in Late .

Gender, Writing, and Performance : Men Defending Women in Late Medieval France, 1440-1538. Helen Swift examines late-medieval and early-modern French imaginative literature written by men in defence of women of great popularity in its own time - including catalogues of virtuous women, allegorical narratives, and debate poems.

Verse Saints’ Lives Written in the French of England: Saint Giles by Guillaume de Berneville; Saint George by Simund de Freine;Saint Faith of Agen by Simon de Walsingham; Saint Mary Magdalene by Guillaume Le Clerc de Normandie. Translated, with Notes and Introduction by Delbert W. Russell. French of England in Translation Series, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Tempe, Az: University of Arizon Press, forthcoming. Swift, Gender, Writing, and Performance: Men Defending Women in Late Medieval France, 1440–1538 . Swift, Gender, Writing, and Performance: Men Defending Women in Late Medieval France, 1440–1538 (Oxford: Clarendon, 2008), p. 2. oogle Scholar. CrossRefGoogle Scholar. And Woman His Humanity’: Female Imagery in the Religious Writing of the Later Middle Ages, in Gender and Religion: On the Complexity of Symbols, ed. Caroline Walker Bynum, Stevan Harrell, and Paula Richman (Boston: Beacon Press, 1986), p. 26.