From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's
infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the …

" James shapes a new and original understanding of elegy. The author's agenda of
foregrounding the viewpoint of the docta puella should stimulate major changes in the way …

The single woman is a troubling and disruptive category. Does it denote all unmarried
women, therefore creating a group which every female was part of at some stage in her life …

Taking as her focus a body of writings in poetic, didactic, and legal modes that circulated in
England's capital between the 1380s—just a generation after the Black Death—and the first …

Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy examines how and why time appears to affect men
and women differently in Latin love elegy. Considering the genre's brief flowering during the …

Home is one of the most emotive words in any language but our experience of being at
home is historically and culturally specific. This article reviews a range of recent scholarship …

In historical records, women appear as widows, sometimes as wives or singlewomen, but
one thing they had in common was they all were daughters. Through an examination of the …

This essay proposes that between about 1200 and 1700, commerce was rescued from the
margins of the European moral economy with the help of a gender binary that took shape …

This paper argues that Catullus's characterization of Ariadne in c. 64 plays an important role
in shaping the puellae of Augustan elegy. In particular, Ariadne's spatial, temporal, and …

Although ownership of real property was crucial to the economic opportunities of medieval
urban women, few studies systematically investigate the gender distribution of medieval real …