Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 18011
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Bildhauer , Bettina.
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  • Title: Bloodsuckers: The Construction of Female Sexuality in Medieval Science and Fiction [The author briefly examines three texts ("Secrets of Women," Mechthild of Magdeburg's "The Flowing Light of the Godhead," and Der Stricker's "Daniel of the Blossoming Valley"). Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Consuming Narrative: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.  Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters.  University of Wales Press, 2002.  Pages 104 - 115.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Blood Mechthild von Magdeburg, Mystic Monsters Secreta Mulierum, Medical Text Sexuality Stricker (Der), Poet Women in Literature
  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 13- 14- 15
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  • Year of Publication: 2002.
  • Language: English
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