Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 8086
Author(s): Innes-Parker, Catherine.
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Title : The "Homicidal Women" Stories in the "Roman de Thèbes," the "Brut Chronicles," and Deschamps's "Ballade 285" [The author summarizes her thesis in this way: "These three phenomena concerning the homicidal-women stories--their participation in the narrow yet strong narrative tradition of women-on-top, their framing in the inaccessible sphere of myth, and their use as a currency of literary prestige--were all coherent with the dominant male ideology and, perhaps more unexpectedly, useful in shaping national politics." (Pages 207-208)].
Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts.   Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price .   University Press of Florida, 2002.  Pages 205 - 222.
Year of Publication: 2002.
2. Record Number: 4278
Author(s): Hayward, Rebecca.
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Title : Between the Living and the Dead: Widows as Heroines of Medieval Romances
Source: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl .   St. Martin's Press, 1999.  Pages 221 - 243.
Year of Publication: 1999.
3. Record Number: 4209
Author(s): Hyatte, Reginald.
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Title : Reading Affective Companionship in the Prose "Lancelot"
Source: Neophilologus , 83., 1 (January 1999):  Pages 19 - 32.
Year of Publication: 1999.