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- ISBN 9780674011304
- Weight: 358g
- Dimensions: 133 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2003
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted exclusively to women, Famous Women affords a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential. Virginia Brown's acclaimed translation, commissioned for The I Tatti Renaissance Library, is the first English edition based on the autograph manuscript of the Latin.
Virginia Brown is Senior Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto.
