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- Title
Revisiting Gendered Representations of Humility: An Examination of Sources from Late Medieval Italy.
- Authors
Negri, Silvia
- Abstract
During the Middle Ages, gender‐neutral representations of humility as a quality linked to spiritual love and voluntary service competed with representations according to gendered patterns, such as those related to the naked and dressed body in terms of its biological and social functions and its appearance. Moving from Dante's examples of humility in Purgatory, Canto X, this article focuses on representations of humility in textual and pictorial sources authored by women and men between the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries in Italy. By showing the complexity of these representations, this article revisits and reconsiders one‐sided historiographical narratives according to which humility in the Middle Ages was intrinsically, persistently and negatively related to feminine suppression and servility.
- Subjects
ITALY; HISTORY &; gender; GENDER in literature; GENDER in art; NUDE in art; HUMILITY; DIVINE Comedy, The (Poem : Dante); DANTE Alighieri, 1265-1321; MIDDLE Ages
- Publication
Gender & History, 2023, Vol 35, Issue 3, p881
- ISSN
0953-5233
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/1468-0424.12633