Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 14140
Author(s): Baskins, Cristelle L.
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Title : Scenes from a Marriage : Hospitality and Commerce in Boccaccio's "Tale of Saladin and Torello" [The author reads the panel paintings of a story from Boccaccio in terms of both gender and economics. Adalieta, the wife of Torello, gives him gifts (rather than vice versa as was customary). The Saracen figures in the story need to be domesticated, with
Source: The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy.   Edited by Sherry Roush and Cristelle L. Baskins .   Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.  Pages 81 - 99.
Year of Publication: 2005.
2. Record Number: 11453
Author(s): Owen-Crocker, Gale R.
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Title : Pomp, Piety, and Keeping the Woman in Her Place: The Dress of Cnut and Aelfgifu-Emma [The author analyzes a manscript miniature which depicts King Cnut and his wife Emma (whose Anglo-Saxon name was Aelfgifu) flanking an altar with a cross. Owen-Crocker argues that the clothing and positions of the two figures serve to subordinate Emma to her husband. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Medieval clothing and textiles. Vol. 1.   Edited by Robin Netherton and Gale R Owen-Crocker .   Boydell Press, 2005.  Pages 41 - 52.
Year of Publication: 2005.
3. Record Number: 10272
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Title : The midwife in the Holkham Bible Picture Book [The article suggests that the illuminations of the Nativity in the Holkham Bible Picture Book confuse the figures of St. Anastasia and Salome, the midwife at Mary's birth. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Notes and Queries , 1 (March 1992):  Pages 22 - 24.
Year of Publication: 1992.
4. Record Number: 43021
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Title : Laodamia writes to Protesilaus
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5. Record Number: 43615
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Title : Jewish blacksmith's wife forging nails for the crucifixion
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6. Record Number: 43625
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Title : Tomb of Katherine Mortimer and Thomas de Beauchamp
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