Western intellectual tradition has long been viewed as an exclusive male bastion, but Women in Western Intellectual Culture, 600-1500 proves that this thesis is no longer tenable. By identifying and analyzing the intellectual writings and activities of women throughout the centuries this study, the first of two volumes, documents a level of participation in intellectual matters that will surprise many readers. The quality and quantity of these contributions show that women's voices deserve more attention in intellectual history.

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"Ranft provides a compelling re-vision...with commendable clarity and elegance...essential [for] all libraries..." - L.E. Mitchell, Choice

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PATRICIA RANFT is Professor of History at Central Michigan University, USA.

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Book Title: Women in Western Intellectual Culture, 600–1500
Authors: Patricia Ranft
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230108257
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-60233-5Published: 17 December 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10825-7Published: 03 January 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 279
Topics: Gender Studies, Clinical Psychology, European History, History of Medieval Europe, Social History, World History, Global and Transnational History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

The Early Renaissance

The Creation of a Literate Society

The Coming of the Vernacular

The Vernacular Mothers

Scholastics, Mystics, and Secondary Intellectuals

The Great Theologians

Women Humanists

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