Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature (The New Middle Ages)

This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of “Lady” Wisdom. Bodies of knowledge : Lady Wisdom, personification, and memory Lady Wisdom, my brother : reading sapientia in Medieval Castile Figures of matter and form : feminine personification and epistemology in the Visión deleytable The wise virgin's confounding body of knowledge Sor Juana and St. Catherine : from blood martyrdom to a Holocaust of the intellect Commonplaces and common women : Lady Wisdom, the strange woman, and bawdy bodies of knowledge. "This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of?Lady? Wisdom"--Publisher description This book explores how Medieval and Early Modern writers reconstructed, and also how readers read, the contradictory meanings of "Lady" Wisdom--Résumé de l'éditeur