Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500

List of Illustrations.- Acknowledgements.- Notes on contributors.- Abbreviations. Introduction.- 1. István P. Bejczy: Does Virtue Recognise Gender? Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies in the Light of Scholastic Debate.- 2. Constant J. Mews: The Speculum dominarum (Miroir des dames) and Transformations of the Literature of Instruction for Women in the Early Fourteenth Century.- 3. Rina Lahav: A Mirror of Queenship: The Speculum dominarum and the Demands of Justice.- 4. Janice Pinder: A Lady’s Guide to Salvation: the Miroir des dames Compilation.- 5. Cécile Quentel-Touche: Charles V’s Visual Definition of the Queen’s Virtues.- 6. Earl Jeffrey Richards: Jean Gerson’s Writings to his Sisters and Christine de Pizan’s Livre des trois vertus: an Intellectual Dialogue Culminating in Friendship.- 7. Karen Green: From Le Miroir des dames to Le Livre des trois vertus.- 8. Tracy Adams: Appearing Virtuous: Christine de Pizan’s Le Livre des trois vertus and Anne de France’s Les Enseignements d’Anne de France.- 9. Natasha Amendola: Weaving Virtue: Laura Cereta as a New Penelope.- 10. Carolyn James: Margherita Cantelmo and the Worth of Women in Renaissance Italy.- 11. Catherine Müller: Like Mother Like Daughter: Moral and Literary Virtues in French Renaissance Women’s Writings.- 12. Anne-Marie Legaré: Joanna of Castile’s Entry into Brussels: Viragos, Wise and Virtuous Women.- Bibliography.- Indexes.- Index of manuscripts cited.- General index.