Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 5963
Author(s): Barrett, Jeanelle.
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Title : Sticks and Stones: The Conflict Between Language and Sexism in Chaucer's Humor
2. Record Number: 4412
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Title : A Priest's Worst (K)nightmare: Fabliau Justice in "Le Prestre et le Chevalier" [The author briefly analyzes a fabliau in which a knight seeks revenge against a greedy priest by having sex with both the priest's niece and his mistress; furthermore the knight threatens to sodomize the priest until the priest pays him a large sum].
Source: French Forum , 25., 2 (May 2000):  Pages 137 - 144.
Year of Publication: 2000.
3. Record Number: 4686
Author(s): Marchand, James W.
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Title : Quoniam, Wife of Bath's Prologue D. 608 [The author cites several humorous uses of "quoniam" for vagina in Latin, French, Spanish, and Provençal texts].
Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 100., 1 ( 1999):  Pages 43 - 49.
Year of Publication: 1999.
4. Record Number: 1115
Author(s): Furrow, Melissa.
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Title : A Minor Comic Poem in a Major Romance Manuscript: "Lyarde" [brief tale of impotent old husbands put to shame by friars].
Source: Forum for Modern Language Studies , 32., 4 ( 1996):  Pages 289 - 302.
Year of Publication: 1996.
5. Record Number: 1112
Author(s): Ziolkowski, Jan M.
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Title : The Erotic Pater Noster, Redux [see earlier articles in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 88 (1987): 31-34, and 89 (1988): 212-214].
Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 97., 3 ( 1996):  Pages 329 - 332.
Year of Publication: 1996.
6. Record Number: 1585
Author(s): Westphal, Sarah.
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Title : Camilla: The Amazon Body in Medieval German Literature [psychoanalytic reading of von Veldeke's version of the "Aeneid"].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 1 (Spring 1996):  Pages 231 - 258.
Year of Publication: 1996.
7. Record Number: 2127
Author(s): Geary, John S.
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Title : The "Pitas Payas" Episode of the "Libro de buen amor": Its Structure and Comic Climax [appendix reproduces the text of the "Pitas Payas" episode with the narrative structure marked as Introduction, PreliminarySection, Central Episode, Final Part, and Conclusion].
Source: Romance Philology , 49., 3 (February 1996):  Pages 245 - 261.
Year of Publication: 1996.
8. Record Number: 340
Author(s): Vasvari, Louise O
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Title : Joseph on the Margin: The Mérode Tryptic and Medieval Spectacle [Joseph as Cuckold in paintings and in mystery plays]
Source: Mediaevalia , 18., ( 1995):  Pages 163 - 189. (1995 (for 1992)) Published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton
Year of Publication: 1995.
9. Record Number: 523
Author(s): Cox, Catherine S.
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Title : Grope Wel Bihynde: The Subversive Erotics of Chaucer's Summoner
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 1 (Spring 1995):  Pages 145 - 177.
Year of Publication: 1995.
10. Record Number: 1488
Author(s): Vasvari, Louise O.
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Title : Festive Phallic Discourse in the "Libro del Arcipreste" [discussion of four episodes in the Libro de Buen Amor which are strongly colored by sexual violence and phallic humor].
Source: Corónica , 22., 2 (Spring 1994):  Pages 89 - 117.
Year of Publication: 1994.
11. Record Number: 1407
Author(s): Leicester, H. Marshall, Jr.
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Title : Newer Currents in Psychoanalytic Criticism, and the Difference "It" Makes: Gender and Desire in the "Miller's Tale" [psychoanalytic and post-Lacanian feminist gender theory applied to the figure of Alisoun].
Source: ELH: A Journal of English Literary History (Full Text via JSTOR) 61, 3 (Autumn 1994): 473-499. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1994.
12. Record Number: 1409
Author(s): Dane, Joseph A.
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Title : The "Syntaxis Recepta" of Chaucer's "Prologue to the Miller's Tale," Lines 3159-61
Source: English Language Notes , 31., 4 (June 1994):  Pages 10 - 19.
Year of Publication: 1994.
13. Record Number: 11822
Author(s): Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
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Title : Reading Chaucer's Earnest Games: Folk-Mode or Literary Sophistication? [There is no strict difference between the categories of "ernest" (serious, moral) and "game" (light, entertaining) in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Merchant's Tale, a bawdy fabliau about an unfaithful wife and impotent husband, is an example of an "ernest game," a humorous form of story telling that has its roots in folklore and the oral tradition. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: English Language Notes , 29., 2 (December 1991):  Pages 16 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1991.
14. Record Number: 13044
Author(s): Easting, Robert.
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Title : Double-Meaning in "Atte Ston Castinges" [In this short note the author points to a sexual double meaning in an early Middle English quatrain about a "leman's" disappointing performance. Easting signals an analog in Chaucer's "Parlement of Fowles." Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Notes and Queries , 236., 2 (June 1991):  Pages 160
Year of Publication: 1991.
15. Record Number: 12694
Author(s): O'Connor, Eugene M.
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Title : More on the "Priapeum" of Jacobus Cremonensis [This fifteenth century Latin poem describes an erotic encounter between the Classical fertility god Priapus and the nymph Dione. The author corrects and expands the commentary written on the poem by a previous editor, Ian Thompson. In his commentary, Thompson failed to recognize that many of the Latin terms in the poem are not euphemisms but sexually explicit terms. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Traditio , 45., ( 1990):  Pages 389 - 391.
Year of Publication: 1990.
16. Record Number: 12770
Author(s): Vasvari, Louise O.
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Title : “Chica cosa es dos nuezes:” Lost Sexual Humor in the "Libro del Arcipreste" [The author teases out the ways in which the Libro de Buen Amor uses obscenity and bawdy double entendres to approach forbidden subjects in a humorous way. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , 24., 1 ( 1990):  Pages 1 - 22.
Year of Publication: 1990.
17. Record Number: 31892
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Title : Nun Harvesting Phalluses from a Phallus Tree and a Monk and Nun Embracing
Source: Traditio , 45., ( 1990):
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18. Record Number: 37259
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Title : Joseph, from the Merode Altarpiece
Source: Traditio , 45., ( 1990):
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