Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 12611
Author(s): Denny-Brown, Andrea.
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Title : How Philosophy Matters: Death, Sex, Clothes, and Boethius [Lady Philosophy’s garment has an important symbolic significance, yet Boethius still depicts it as a material object. The materiality of Philosophy’s garment unsettles her supposed status as a purely immaterial abstraction. The corporeal status of her sexually-violated body and the gaps in her garment align her with the Muses of Poetry, negating a perception of Philosophy as pure, perfect, or whole. Her imperfect garment and female body thus symbolize human loss, corruption and mortality. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings. Edited by E. Jane Burns . Palgrave, 2004. Pages 177 - 191.
Year of Publication: 2004.

2. Record Number: 366
Author(s): Semple, Benjamin.
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Title : Consolation of a Woman Writer: Christine de Pizan's Use of Boethius in "Lavision- Christine"

Source: Women, the Book and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 2. [Volume 1: Women, the Book, and the Godly]. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor . D.S.Brewer, 1995. Pages 39 - 48.
Year of Publication: 1995.

3. Record Number: 9489
Author(s): Phelpstead, Carl.
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Title : The “Man of Law's Tale” as a philosophical narrative [The author argues that certain of Chaucer’s tales which are usually considered mainly exemplary in fact explore Boethian philosophical problems of suffering that apply to everyone. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Yearbook of English Studies , 22., ( 1992): Pages 181 - 189.
Year of Publication: 1992.

4. Record Number: 43160
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Title : Philosophy presents the seven liberal arts

Source: Yearbook of English Studies , 22., ( 1992):
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