Contents
Abbreviations
Prologue
Introduction
I: Antiquity and Late Antiquity
1. Classical Latin Women Poets
Sulpicia
Sulpicia II and other poets of the early Empire
2. Epigraphy as a Source for Early Imperial Women’s Verse
3. Women and Latin Poetry in Late Antiquity
Proba
The last pagan poets
The first nuns
II: The Middle Ages
4. Women Latin Poets in Early Medieval Europe
Dhuoda
Anglo-Saxon England
Hrotsvitha and the Ottonian Renaissance
Anonymous verse from the early Middle Ages
5. Women and Latin Verse in the High Middle Ages
Anonymous lyrics
Women Latinists in England and France
Women Latinists in northern Europe
III: The Renaissance
6. Italy: Renaissance Women Scholars
The fourteenth century: women and the universities
The fifteenth century: women and the humanists
Isotta Nogarola
7. Women and Latin in Renaissance France
The queens and the court
Camille de Morel
French women humanists
8. Women Latin Poets in Spain and Portugal
Luisa Sigea
Portugal
9. Women Latinists of the Renaissance in Northern and Central Europe
Germany
The Low Countries
Central Europe
Poland
10. Women Latinists in Sixteenth-Century England
IV: The Early Modern Period
11. Italian Women Poets of the Sixteenth Century and After
Olimpia Morata
Tarquinia Molza
Philippa Lazea, Jean-Jacques Boissard, and evidence for the lives of learned women
Learned women and the convent in post-Tridentine Italy
Elena Lucrezia Piscopia
Martha Marchina
Learned women in seventeenth-century society
12. French Women Latinists in the ‘Grand Siècle’
13. Anna Maria van Schurman and Other Women Scholars of Northern and Central Europe
Germany
The Low Countries
Scandinavia
Poland
14. Women and Latin in Early Modern England
15. The New World
Colonial and revolutionary America
Ibero-America
Conclusion
Appendix: Checklist of Women Latin Poets and their Works
Bibliography
Index
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