:Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century

Abstract

Introduction 1. Classical Latin Women Poets 2. Epigraphy as a Source for Early Imperial Women's Verse 3. Women and Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity 4. Women Poets in Early Medieval Europe 5. Women and Latin Verse in the High Middle Ages 6. Italy: Renaissance Women Scholars 7. Women and Latin in Renaissance France 8. Women Latin Poets in Spain and Portugal 9. Women Latinists of the Renaissance in Northern and Central Europe 10. Women Latinists in Sixteenth-Century England 11. Italian Women Poets of the Sixteenth Century and After 12. French women Latinists in the 'Grand Siecle' 13. Anna Maria van Schurman and Other Women Scholars of Northern and Central Europe 14. Women and Latin in Early Modern England 15. The New World Bibliographies