Watch your tongue
Marina Warner, 20 August 1992
Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love
by Howard Bloch.
Chicago, 308 pp., £14.95, February 1992,0 226 05973 1 Show More
by Howard Bloch.
Chicago, 308 pp., £14.95, February 1992,
Women of the Renaissance
by Margaret King.
Chicago, 328 pp., £13.50, December 1991,0 226 43618 7 Show More
by Margaret King.
Chicago, 328 pp., £13.50, December 1991,
The Lady as Saint: A Collection of French Hagiographical Romances of the 13th Century
by Brigitte Cazelles.
Pennsylvania, 320 pp., £35, November 1991,9780812230994 Show More
by Brigitte Cazelles.
Pennsylvania, 320 pp., £35, November 1991,
Heavenly Supper: The Story of Maria Janis
by Fulvio Tomizza, translated by Anne JacobsonShutte.
Chicago, 184 pp., £19.95, December 1991,0 226 80789 4 Show More
by Fulvio Tomizza, translated by Anne JacobsonShutte.
Chicago, 184 pp., £19.95, December 1991,
Oppositional Voices: Women as Writers and Translators of Literature in the English Renaissance
by Tina Krontiris.
Routledge, 192 pp., £25, April 1992,0 415 06329 9 Show More
by Tina Krontiris.
Routledge, 192 pp., £25, April 1992,
“... If SS Jerome or Ambrose or Augustine or any of the grim Fathers had been watching television in spring this year, they wouldn’t have had much trouble seeing Marlene Dietrich for what she was. Those lids, those lips, that pillowy mink, those sidelong glances, those shimmering legs and – above all – that voice, would have rendered her lightly accented modern English as plain as the Latin of the Mass to the patriarchs and their friends and forerunners in the penitential Thebaid ... ”
