The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare by Holly A. Crocker

The Matter of Virtue: Women's Ethical Action from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Holly A. Crocker

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If material bodies have inherent, animating powers--or virtues, in the premodern sense--then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter--namely, women--cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethi...

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