Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2641
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Furrow , Melissa.
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  • Title: A Minor Comic Poem in a Major Romance Manuscript: "Lyarde" [brief tale of impotent old husbands put to shame by friars].
  • Source: Forum for Modern Language Studies 32, 4 ( 1996): Pages 289 - 302.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Edition of Text;Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Editing Texts Humor, Bawdy Husbands in Literature Impotence in Literature Literature- Verse Lyarde, Middle English Comic Poem Manuscripts Sexuality in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 15
  • Primary Evidence: Manuscript; Nottingham, Library of the University of Nottingham, Lincoln Thornton manuscript. Compiled in the mid-fifteenth century by Robert Thornton.
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  • Author's Affiliation: Dalhousie University
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00158518