Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 4057
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Rumsey , Lucinda.
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  • Title: The scorpion of lechery and Ancrene Wisse [The author explores the symbolic use of the scorpion in the Ancrene Wisse. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Medium Aevum 61, 1 ( 1992): Pages 48 - 58.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Ancrene Wisse, Middle English Devotional Work Lechery Literature- Prose Scorpion, Image of Sins Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 13
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  • Author's Affiliation: Mansfield College, University of Oxford
  • Conference Info: - , -
  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00258385