Woman in Medieval Texts and Literature: Misogyny and Praise from Tertullian to Chaucer

Employing a critical and analytical method, this volume takes an innovative approach to existing anthologies of medieval texts, proposing a comprehensive methodology for examining and understanding the historical and cultural construction of the image of women in medieval literature.

Pedro Carlos Louzada Fonseca is Professor at the Faculty of Letters and a Permanent Volunteer Professor of the Graduate Program in Literary Studies and Linguistics at the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil. Having received a PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of New Mexico, he carried out postdoctoral research at the Open University of Lisbon and at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. His most recent publications are mainly about the medieval bestiary and its symbolic and ideological implications; the presence of the medieval imaginary in Portuguese-Brazilian colonial literature; and the religious, cultural, and political issue of defamation and defense of women during the Middle Ages. He is the author of the Portuguese-language books Bestiary and Discourse of Gender in the Discovery of America and the Colonization of Brazil (2011), Chronistics and Colonization of the New World: Gender Discourse, Forms of the Symbolic and Representation of Reality (2017), Women and Misogyny in the Vision of the Church Fathers and Their Medieval Legacy: Study and Reading of Fundamental Texts (2017), Introduction to Medieval Misogyny from Tertullian to Chaucer (2020), and Literary Misogyny and Praise of Women in the Middle Ages.