Making and Unmaking Woman:Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris [Famous Women] in its medieval and Renaissance contexts

乔瓦尼·博卡西奥于13世纪60年代创作的《著名女性》是西方后古典文学史上女性传记的第一次尝试。它用一种人文主义的女性观重写了中世纪的厌女症。当代批评普遍对文本不屑一顾。人们会争辩说，《名媛》是人文主义在形成阶段的意识形态复杂性的一个例子。这一项目的目的是表明，该文本在重新评估早期现代欧洲的女性概念方面发挥了关键作用。该项目将出版第一部关于著名女性的主要专著。

Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, [Famous Women] composed in the 1360s is the first attempt at female biography in the history of post-classical Western literature. It over-writes medieval misogyny with a humanistic vision of women. Contemporary criticism has generally treated the text contemptuously. Famous Women, it will be argued, is an example of the ideological complexities of humanism in its formative stages. It is the aim of this project to show that the text played a pivotal role in reassessing the conception of woman in early modern Europe. The project will produce the first major monograph on Famous Women.