Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 6743
Author(s): Edgington, Susan B.
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Title : Sont çou ore les fems que jo voi la venir? Women in the "Chanson d'Antioche" [The poet adapted already existing verse to create a three-part cycle about the First Crusade. The author argues that the poet introduces women generally as an element of humor. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Gendering the Crusades.   Edited by Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert .   University of Wales Press, 2001.  Pages 154 - 162.
Year of Publication: 2001.
2. Record Number: 13636
Author(s): Denis, Françoise.
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Title : Primauté d'une politique territoriale dans certains marriages épiques. "Raoul de Cambrai": un cas exemplaire? [The author analyzes the marriages arranged for territorial gain by the king in the epic "Raoul de Cambrai." The king wants to bind the territories in northeast France, including Artois and Ponthieu, to him by installing loyal new men as the husbands of heiresses and widowed noble women. The text is critical of the king's all powerful, ruthless approach. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: L' Épopée romane au moyen âge et aux temps modernes: Actes du XIVe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l' étude des épopées romanes: Naples, 24-30 juillet 1997. 2 volumes.   Edited by Salvatore Luongo .   Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, 2001.  Pages 213 - 227.
Year of Publication: 2001.
3. Record Number: 13638
Author(s): Ion, Despina.
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Title : Politique matrimoniale et stratégies narratives dans "Garin le Loheren" [The author explores the marriage exchanges made by the king, Pippin, which sometimes favor the noble men from Lorraine and sometimes instead help their rivals, the nobles from Bordeaux. There is a great deal of maneuvering with the group from Bordeaux declaring matches invalid. Marriage is generally with a higher ranked woman which confers status and resources on the new husband. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: L' Épopée romane au moyen âge et aux temps modernes: Actes du XIVe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l' étude des épopées romanes: Naples, 24-30 juillet 1997. 2 volumes.   Edited by Salvatore Luongo .   Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, 2001.  Pages 247 - 265.
Year of Publication: 2001.
4. Record Number: 13639
Author(s): Roussel, Claude.
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Title : Réécritures de "Florence de Rome" au XIVe siècle [The author looks at fourteenth century adaptations of the "Florence de Rome" poem, in particular an anonymous version written in epic style. The story of Florence concerns a chaste queen denounced by her brother-in-law (whose advances she rejected), disbelieved by her husband, and forced to wander until she founds a hospital and is declared innocent by her accusers. In comparing the earlier version with the fourteenth century epic account, Roussel notes less reliance on detailed descriptions but more emphasis on awakening the audience's pity for Florence's suffering. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: L' Épopée romane au moyen âge et aux temps modernes: Actes du XIVe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l' étude des épopées romanes: Naples, 24-30 juillet 1997. 2 volumes.   Edited by Salvatore Luongo .   Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, 2001.  Pages 815 - 826.
Year of Publication: 2001.
5. Record Number: 5338
Author(s): Hardman, Phillipa.
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Title : Dear Enemies: The Motif of the Converted Saracen and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" [the author examines the representations of both female and male Saracens in the Middle English romances of Charlemagne; the beautiful Saracen maiden is eager, perhaps too eager, to help the Christian knight with her magical girdle, though it may be at the cost of betraying her father].
Source: Reading Medieval Studies , 25., ( 1999):  Pages 59 - 74.
Year of Publication: 1999.
6. Record Number: 3146
Author(s): Watt, Diane.
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Title : Behaving like a Man? Incest, Lesbian Desire, and Gender Play in "Yde et Olive" and Its Adaptations [Yde masquerades as a man to escape her incestuous father, is given the emperor's daughter in marriage, and miraculously becomes a man].
Source: Comparative Literature (Full Text via JSTOR) 50, 4 (Autumn 1998): 265-285. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1998.
7. Record Number: 2434
Author(s): Picherit, Jean-Louis.
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Title : Le "Miroir aux dames" [note on the mirror metaphor as used to describe a man who attracts women].
Source: Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie , 113., 1 ( 1997):  Pages 26 - 29.
Year of Publication: 1997.
8. Record Number: 8
Author(s): Burns, E. Jane, Sarah Kay, Roberta L. Krueger and Helen Solterer
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Title : Feminism and the Discipline of Old French Studies: "Une Bele Disjointure"
Source: Medievalism and the Modernist Temper.   Edited by R. Howard Bloch and Stephen G. Nichols .   Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie , 113., 1 ( 1997):  Pages 225 - 266.
Year of Publication: 1996.
9. Record Number: 1631
Author(s): Durling, Nancy Vine.
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Title : Social Class Ideology and Medieval Love: Marriage Fictions in "Girart de Roussillon"
Source: Romance Languages Annual , 8., ( 1996):  Pages 84 - 90.
Year of Publication: 1996.
10. Record Number: 5833
Author(s): Sinclair, Finn E.
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Title : Suppression, Sacrifice, Subversion: Redefining the Feminine in the "Naissance du Chevalier au Cygne" [the author argues that the three female characters (the swan-maiden, her mother, and the evil mother-in-law) were changed or diminished from their initial roles in folk stories to the twelfth-century epics in order to support the importance of the male lineage].
Source: Olifant , 20., 40182 (Fall/Summer 1995-1996):  Pages 33 - 61.
Year of Publication: 1995-1996.
11. Record Number: 5646
Author(s): de Gournay, Frédéric.
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Title : Relire la "Chanson de Sainte Foy" [The author argues that the "Chanson de Sainte Foy" was written between 1060 and 1070 by an aristocratic layman who created a world that relied on feudal bonds].
Source: Annales du Midi , 107., 212 (octobre-décembre 1995):  Pages 385 - 399.
Year of Publication: 1995.
12. Record Number: 436
Author(s): Kinoshita, Sharon.
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Title : Politics of Courtly Love: "La Prise d' Orange" and The Conversion of the Saracen Queen
Source: Romanic Review , 86., 2 (March 1995):  Pages 265 - 287. Special issue: The Production of Knowledge: Institutionalizing Sex, Gender, and Sexualiity in Medieval Discourse. Ed. by Kathryn Gravdal.
Year of Publication: 1995.
13. Record Number: 5831
Author(s): Morgan, Leslie Z.
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Title : Berta ai piedi grandi: Historical Figure and Literary Symbol [The author explores the meaning of Berthe's deformed feet as a symbol of evil in the Franco-Italian version of the cycle that explains the necessity for Roland's death].
Source: Olifant , 19., 1- 2 ( 1994):  Pages 37 - 56.
Year of Publication: 1994.
14. Record Number: 10163
Author(s): Peterlongo, Daria.
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Title : Il "compagnonnage" nella leggenda di "Ami et Amile": amicizia e amore nel Medioevo [The chanson de geste "Ami et Amile" deals mostly with male friendship. The leading female characters exist only to give the men sexual pleasure. Even Ami's marriage to the Emperor's daughter is modelled on male friendship. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Medioevo Romanzo , 18., ( 1993):  Pages 423 - 441.
Year of Publication: 1993.
15. Record Number: 11210
Author(s): Matlock, Wendy A.
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Title : Marginality as Woman’s Freedom: The Case of Floripe [In Jean Bagnyon’s 1478 prose rendition of “Fierabras” (a twelfth-century poem), Floripe (the sister of Fierabras) is a rare example of a woman who lives an active life. Floripe’s magical, near-divine otherness as a Saracen princess allows her extraordinary scope of action in both the public and domestic spheres. As an outsider to Christian society, she is able to act freely, and even after her marriage to a Christian nobleman she remains in a powerful space between two societies. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association , 12., ( 1991):  Pages 41 - 59.
Year of Publication: 1991.
16. Record Number: 12803
Author(s): Aird, William M
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Title : Seduction and Suppression in 'Ami et Amile' [The author analyzes the trope of seduction in Ami et Amile in order to argue that women are introduced to the chanson de geste so that they can then be expelled; their exclusion ensures the integrity of the masculine collectivity. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: French Studies , 44., 2 ( 1990):  Pages 129 - 142.
Year of Publication: 1990.