Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 3996
Author(s): Davidson, Clifford.
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Title : Nudity, the Body, and Early English Drama [The author explores the context in which nudity was presented on the stage, dealing in most cases with the representation of Jesus.]
Source: JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 98., 4 (October 1999):  Pages 499 - 522.
Year of Publication: 1999.
2. Record Number: 10160
Author(s): Lacroix, Jean.
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Title : Les Nus du "Decameron" (pour une erotique Boccacienne)
Source: Études Médiévales , 1., ( 1999):  Pages 129 - 148.
Year of Publication: 1999.
3. Record Number: 9495
Author(s): French, Katherine L.
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Title : The legend of Lady Godiva and the image of the female body [The article examines versions of the Lady Godiva legend to determine how the people of Coventry voiced their concerns about issues of social order and disorder. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Journal of Medieval History , 18., 1 ( 1992):  Pages 3 - 19.
Year of Publication: 1992.
4. Record Number: 11196
Author(s): Ahern, John.
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Title : Nudi Grammantes: The Grammar and Rhetoric of Deviation in Inferno XV [Male genitalia have a complex range of metaphorical meanings. Certain writers in the medieval rhetorical tradition align sexuality and rhetoric, comparing forms unorthodox sexuality (like sodomy) with perversions of language. Most notably, Brunetto Latini, a grammarian and sodomite who appears in the Inferno, uses a series of puns involving the word “fico” (fig or tree), confusing the word’s natural (biological) and grammatical gender. In Latin and Italian, this word (meaning both tree and fruit) could metaphorically stand for either the male or the female sexual organs. Brunetto’s learned yet ambiguous use of language thus suggests his own sexual deviancy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Romanic Review , 81., 4 ( 1990):  Pages 466 - 486.
Year of Publication: 1990.