Books by Marilynn Desmond

This work looks at how Christine de Pizan's texts constantly negotiate the hierarchial and repressive discourses of late medieval court culture. It places Christine's work in the context of larger discussions about medieval authorship, identity and categories of difference.

In this book, Marilynn Desmond reveals how a constructed and mediated tradition of reading Virgil has conditioned various interpretations among readers responding to medieval cultural and literary texts.

Ovid's Art and the Wife of Bath examines how Ovid's Ars amatoria shaped the erotic discourses of the medieval West. The Ars amatoria circulated in medieval France and England as an authoritative treatise on desire; consequently, the sexualities of the...