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

创造与毁灭女人：薄伽丘的《著名女人》在中世纪和文艺复兴时期的语境。薄伽丘创作于1360年代的《名女》是西方后古典文学史上第一次尝试女性传记。它用一种人文主义的女性观，覆盖了中世纪的厌女症。当代评论界对这篇文章普遍持轻蔑态度。我们认为，《著名的女人》是人文主义在形成阶段的意识形态复杂性的一个例子。这是该项目的目的，以表明文本发挥了关键作用，重新评估妇女的概念在早期现代欧洲。该项目将产生第一部关于著名女性的重要专著。

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