Category:Women's Studies--1450s

Women's & Gender Studies (1450s) The page: Women's Studies--1450s includes (in chronological order) scholarly and literary works in the field of Women's Studies made in the second half of the 15th century, or from 1450 to 1499. Highlights (1450s) Interpreters (1450s)

Timeline (1450s) Women's Studies : 2020s -- 2010s -- 2000s -- 1990s -- 1980s -- 1970s -- 1960s -- 1950s -- 1940s -- 1930s -- 1920s -- 1910s -- 1900s -- 1850s -- 1800s -- 1700s -- 1600s -- 1500s -- 1450s -- Home Timeline : 2020s -- 2010s -- 2000s -- 1990s -- 1980s -- 1970s -- 1960s -- 1950s -- 1940s -- 1930s -- 1920s -- 1910s -- 1900s -- 1850s -- 1800s -- 1700s -- 1600s -- 1500s -- 1450s -- Medieval -- Home Languages Women's Studies : English -- French -- German -- Italian -- Latin -- Spanish -/- Other

History of research (1450s) -- Notes

Medieval legacy

Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris (1374) was the first collection devoted exclusively to biographies of women in Western literature. Among the 106 biographies, only 4 have some interest for “Biblical Studies”: Eve, Athaliah, Mariamne and Poppea.

Inspired by Boccaccio, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote in the 1380s his poem, The Legend of Good Women, which included only a brief reference to Esther.

Christine de Pisan's Le livre de la cité des dames is the first "feminist" treatise of the Renaissance, and the first written by a woman. It mentions several "biblical" women, from both the Old and the New Testament, including Mary Magdalene, the Queen of Sheba, Deborah, Elizabeth, Mary of Nazareth, Esther, Judith, Susanna, Sarah, Rebecca, Ruth, Mariamne, and others.

1450s

In 1473 the editio princeps of Boccaccio's "De mulieribus claris" was published. The work directly inspired Lucretia Tornabuoni's "Sacred Poems". Three of them deal with women (Susanna, Esther, Judith).