Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 45013
Author(s): Allor, Danielle,
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Title : Dame Sirith (ca. 1272–82)
Source: Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe.   Edited by Cameron Hunt McNabb .   punctum books, 2020.  Pages 292 - 303. Available open access from the JSTOR website: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11hptcd.28
Year of Publication: 2020.
2. Record Number: 27900
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Contributor(s): Curley, Michael J., trans.
Title : XX. On the Elephant [The text recounts in part the way in which the female and male elephant copulate. While the female elephant gives birth in water, the male elephant stands guard against snakes. The elephants are allegorized as Eve and Adam who do not have “any awareness of the mingling of their flesh” until the female ate of the tree (in the elephant’s story mandrake) and became evil. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Physiologus. .   University of Chicago Press, 2009.  Pages 29 - 32.
Year of Publication: 2009.
3. Record Number: 27901
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Title : XXXVII. On the Beaver [The male beaver’s genitals are used as a medicine. When a hunter pursues the beaver, the animal bites off his genitals and throws them at the hunter to save himself. So too, the author allegorizes, should we throw our sins at the devil and acquire spiritual fruits including continence and chastity in good works. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Physiologus. .   University of Chicago Press, 2009.  Pages 52 - 52.
Year of Publication: 2009.
4. Record Number: 27903
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Title : XXXVIII. On the Hyena or the Brute [The hyena can alternate as both male and female, and is thus unclean. The author allegorizes the hyena as a double-minded man who is courageous at a gathering but womanly afterward. The woman’s nature is further equated with being unfaithful. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Physiologus. .   University of Chicago Press, 2009.  Pages 52 - 53.
Year of Publication: 2009.
5. Record Number: 27904
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Title : XLIII. On the Turtle-Dove [The turtle-dove remains faithful to her mate, even if he is captured or killed. The author notes her chastity and allegorizes her as the Church faithful to her crucified mate. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Physiologus. .   University of Chicago Press, 2009.  Pages 56 - 57.
Year of Publication: 2009.
6. Record Number: 87
Author(s): McCash, June Hall.
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Title : Swan and the Nightingale: Natural Unity in a Hostile World in the Lais of Marie de France
Source: French Studies , 49., 4 (Oct. 1995):  Pages 385 - 396.
Year of Publication: 1995.
7. Record Number: 3560
Author(s): Spiegel, Harriet.
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Title : The Male Animal in the "Fables" of Marie de France [The author explores both female and male worlds in both the public and private spheres].
Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7.   University of Minnesota Press, 1994. French Studies , 49., 4 (Oct. 1995):  Pages 111 - 126.
Year of Publication: 1994.
8. Record Number: 1875
Author(s): Solterer, Helen.
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Title : Seeing, Hearing, Tasting Women: Medieval Senses of Reading [comparison of the woman reader's five senses in the "Bestiaire d'Amour" and the response by an anonymous woman author].
Source: Comparative Literature (Full Text via JSTOR) 46, 2 (Spring 1994): 129-145. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1994.
9. Record Number: 10008
Author(s): Ziolkowski, Jan M.
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Title : A Fairy Tale from before Fairy Tales: Egbert of Liege’s "De puella a lupellis seruata" and the Medieval Background of "Little Red Riding Hood" [The author analyzes Egbert’s eleventh-century Latin poem as an early analogue to the famous fairy tale about a girl and a wolf. Folklorists differ on the value of medieval texts for their studies, because most see them as too literary to be pure representations of an oral tradition and yet too early to qualify as literary fairy tales. Egbert claims an oral origin to his poem, which appears in a schoolbook for students learning Latin. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 67., 3 (July 1992):  Pages 549 - 575.
Year of Publication: 1992.
10. Record Number: 10799
Author(s): Holten, Kathryn I.
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Title : Metamorphosis and Language in the Lay of "Bisclavret" [The author shows that Marie uses the image of the domesticated werewolf to both awaken and soothe cultural anxieties regarding feudalism (a system which relies upon language codes to function). Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: In Quest of Marie de France: A Twelfth-Century Poet.   Edited by Chantal A. Marechal .   Edwin Mellen Press, 1992. Speculum , 67., 3 (July 1992):  Pages 193 - 211.
Year of Publication: 1992.
11. Record Number: 11820
Author(s): Pulsiano, Phillip and Kirsten Wolf
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Title : The "Hwelp" in "Wulf and Eadwacer" [The symbolic meaning of the "hwelp" (whelp, young dog or wolf) in is much debated in this Old English poem. Some critics interpret the "hwelp" as representing a child who is born as a result of an illicit love affair, but the authors argue that many references to wolves in Old Norse literature and law suggest that the "hwelp" in this poem is the child of an outlaw father. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: English Language Notes , 28., 3 (March 1991):  Pages 1 - 9.
Year of Publication: 1991.
12. Record Number: 11041
Author(s): Beer, Jeanette Mary Ayres.
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Title : A Fourteenth-century 'Bestiaire d'amour' [The author studies MS. New York Pierpont Morgan Library 459, and shows it to be an unconventional derivative of the earlier "Bestiaire d'amour," produced by a scribe who seems to have had little knowledge of its original author. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society , 4., ( 1991):  Pages 19 - 26.
Year of Publication: 1991.
13. Record Number: 11200
Author(s): Owen, Charles A., Jr.
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Title : The Falcon’s Complaint in the Squire’s Tale [In its form and content, the falcon’s lament departs from the traditional poetic genre of the complaint. The poetic structure (including rhyme and meter) of this passage differs from other poems in the complaint genre, and the passage serves a narrative function as well as a lyric one. It relates the story of the falcon’s betrayal by her male lover and simultaneously expresses her emotional state through a complex series of poetic devices, including metaphors and allusions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Rebels and rivals: the contestive spirit in The Canterbury tales.   Edited by Susanna Greer Fein, David Raybin, and Peter C. Braeger Studies in medieval culture .   Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1991. Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society , 4., ( 1991):  Pages 173 - 188.
Year of Publication: 1991.
14. Record Number: 10684
Author(s): McCash, June Hall.
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Title : The Hawk-Lover in Marie de France's "Yonec" [Allusions to hunting and hawk imagery play an important role in this poem. Although hawks and falcons could hold many different meanings to medieval writers, Marie draws upon courtly conventions that compare the knight and lover to a hawk pursuing his prey. In her poem, she reverses the predatory imagery associated with hawks by making the knight (who transfomrs into a hawk) a symbol of faithful love and self-sacrafice. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Medieval Perspectives , 6., ( 1991):  Pages 67 - 75.
Year of Publication: 1991.