Wisdom and Her Lovers in Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Literature [Paperback]

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 Visi?n 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

In a study that features close readings of little-known and very well known texts and examination of marginalia and other indications of reader response, [Francomano] deftly traces the troubled relationship between women and wisdom . . . an overview cannot do justice to the richness and complexity of Emily Francomano's book. - Speculum

EMILY C. FRANCOMANO?is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Georgetown University, USA.