Tudor Humanists, London Printers, and the Status of Women
The Struggle over Livy in the Querelle des Femmes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10428877 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John‐Mark Philo (University of Oxford, corresponding author), John-Mark Philo |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 40-79 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Renaissance Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-4338 • E-ISSN: 1935-0236 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/686326 |
| OpenAlex | W2290049486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 26 |
This essay discusses a novel contribution to the Renaissance debate over women. In 1551, William Thomas translated a brief but significant moment from Livy’s History of Rome concerning the repeal of the Lex Oppia, a sumptuary law targeting women in particular. Thomas thereby adapted one of the most arresting examples of women’s engagement in Roman politics. The episode shows the women of Rome taking to the streets to demand the law’s repeal, forcing senators and tribunes alike to acknowledge their protest. By contextualizing Thomas’s translation amid Quattrocento debates over female apparel and contemporary, female-centric works printed by Thomas Berthelet, Thomas’s translation emerges as a clear though hitherto-unacknowledged intervention in the English querelle des femmes
Art · Art history · Humanism · Political science · Politics · Repeal · The Renaissance · Classics · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance Literature and Culture
Disputes and Settlements
A Commentary on Livy Books XXXIV–XXXVII
A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558
Oxford Classical Texts
Rights or Virtues
Cornelius Agrippa, The Humanist Theologian and His Declamations
Debating Gender in Early Modern England, 1500–1700
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Representing Women in Renaissance England
Discourses on Livy
Mundus Muliebris
Silent but for the Word
Les avenues de Fémynie
Heralds of a well‐instructed min
Feminism and the Humanists
The structural transformation of the public sphere
Une histoire des femmes est-elle possible
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |