Women and Latin in the Early Modern Period

by Campion Hall, Jane Stevenson, University of Oxford

The first early modern women Latinists lived in mid-fourteenth century Italy, and were educated as diplomats. By the fifteenth century, other upper-class women were educated in order to perform as prodigies on behalf of their city. Both strands of education for women spread to other European countries in the course of the sixteenth century: the principal women humanists were either princesses or courtiers. In the seventeenth century Latin lost its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004529756
• ISBN13: 9789004529755
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 124 Pages