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03711aam a2200385 i 4500 001 1C34257EFDB111E7BCC604F996128E48 003 SILO 005 20180120010217 008 140523t20142014be b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 2503550126 020 $a 9782503550121 035 $a (OCoLC)880556189 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d YDXCP $d UKMGB $d BTCTA $d NLE $d OCLCO $d TXA $d OHX $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 050 4 $a PR317.W66 $b S35 2014 100 1 $a Schieberle, Misty, $e author. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2015017721 245 10 $a Feminized counsel and the literature of advice in England, 1380-1500 / $c Misty Schieberle. 264 1 $a Turnhout : $b Brepols, $c [2014] 300 $a x, 224 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Disputatio ; $v v. 26 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a The term 'feminized counsel' denotes the advice associated with and spoken by women characters. This book demonstrates that rather than classify women's voices as an opposite against which to define masculine authority, late medieval vernacular poets embraced the feminine as a representation of their subordination to kings, patrons, and authorities. The works studied include Gower's 'Confessio Amantis', Chaucer's 'Legend of Good Women' and 'Melibee', and English translations of Christine de Pizan's 'Epistre Othea'. To advise readers, these texts draw on the politicized genre of mirrors for princes. Whereas Latin mirrors such as the 'Secretum secretorum' and Giles of Rome's 'De regimine principum' represented women as inferior, weak, and detrimental to masculine authority, these vernacular texts break traditional expectations and portray women as essential and authoritative political counsellors. By considering Latin and French sources, historical models of queens' intercessions, and literary models of authoritative female personifications, this study explores the woman counsellor as a literary topos that enabled poets to criticize, advise, and influence powerful readers. 'Feminized Counsel' elucidates the manner in which vernacular poets concerned with issues of counsel, mercy, and power identified with fictional women's struggles to develop authority in the political sphere. These women counsellors become enabling models that paradoxically generate authority for poets who also lack access to traditionally recognized forms of intellectual or literary authority. 650 0 $a English poetry $y Middle English, 1100-1500 $x History and criticism. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103205 650 0 $a Women in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85147587 650 0 $a Advice in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008020024 650 0 $a Counseling in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85033426 650 0 $a Society in literature. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008649 650 0 $a Literature and society $z England $x History $y To 1500. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107009 650 0 $a Social history $y Medieval, 500-1500 $v Sources. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010113550 600 10 $a Gower, John, $d 1325?-1408. $t Confessio amantis. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2014069033 600 10 $a Chaucer, Geoffrey, $d -1400 $x Women. $x Women. 600 00 $a Christine, $c de Pisan, $d approximately 1364-approximately 1431. $t EpiÌtre d'OtheÌa aÌ Hector. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93086188 830 0 $a Disputatio (Turnhout, Belgium) ; $v v. 26. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003106538 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180120054428.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1C34257EFDB111E7BCC604F996128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search