Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 2748
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Rulon-Miller , Nina.
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  • Title: Cynewulf and Cyneheard: A Woman Screams [when the king Cynewulf was visiting a woman's bower in Merton for sex he was ambushed by Cyneheard; the author analyzes the story of the incident as reported in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle with an emphasis on the woman of Merton].
  • Source: Philological Quarterly 76, 2 (Spring 1997): Pages 113 - 132.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Anglo- Saxon Chronicle Feminist Theory Literature- Prose Old English Language Sexuality in Literature Women in Literature
  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 8-9
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  • Author's Affiliation: Drew University
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  • Year of Publication: 1997.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00317977
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