TY - BOOK ID - 5286102 TI - Reading the Ovidian heroine : "Metamorphoses" commentaries 1100-1618 PY - 2001 VL - 220 SN - 9004117962 9004351019 9789004117969 9789004351011 PB - Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston ; Köln : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Fables, Latin KW - Mythology, Classical, in literature KW - Women and literature KW - Metamorphosis in literature KW - Heroines in literature KW - Women in literature KW - Fables latines KW - Mythologie ancienne dans la littérature KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Métamorphose dans la littérature KW - Héroines dans la littérature KW - Femmes dans la littérature KW - History and criticism KW - Histoire et critique KW - Ovid, KW - Characters KW - Heroines. KW - Women. KW - Mythology, Classical, in literature. KW - Metamorphosis in literature. KW - Heroines in literature. KW - Women in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - -Heroines in literature KW - -Women in literature KW - Woman (Christian theology) in literature KW - Women in drama KW - Women in poetry KW - Literature KW - Heroines KW - Latin fables KW - Ovid KW - -Ovid KW - -Characters KW - -Heroines KW - -Women KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - -History KW - History. KW - Ovide KW - Mythologie ancienne dans la littérature KW - Femmes et littérature KW - Métamorphose dans la littérature KW - Héroines dans la littérature KW - Femmes dans la littérature KW - Nasó, P. Ovidi, KW - Naso, Publius Ovidius, KW - Nazon, KW - Ouidio, KW - Ovide, KW - Ovidi, KW - Ovidi Nasó, P., KW - Ovidiĭ, KW - Ovidiĭ Nazon, Publiĭ, KW - Ovidio, KW - Ovidio Nasón, P., KW - Ovidio Nasone, Publio, KW - Ovidios, KW - Ovidiu, KW - Ovidius Naso, P., KW - Ovidius Naso, Publius, KW - Owidiusz, KW - P. Ovidius Naso, KW - Publiĭ Ovidiĭ Nazon, KW - Publio Ovidio Nasone, KW - Ūvīd, KW - אוביד, KW - Ovidius Naso, Publius. KW - Fables, Latin - History and criticism. KW - Women and literature - Rome. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5286102 AB - This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood. In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as William of Orléans, the 'Vulgate' commentator, Thomas Walsingham, and Raphael Regius, illustrating the reception of the Ovidian heroine in medieval France and England as well as in Renaissance Italy and Germany. The works analyzed here show that clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged. Both moralizing summaries and Latin editions used as schooltexts are discussed. ER -