Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 23872
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): ibn Murshid , Usâmah
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  • Title: A Complaisant Cuckold (ca. 1140) [From Learning by Example, ca. 1182]
  • Source: The Broadview Book of Medieval Anecdotes.  Edited by Richard Kay, compiler.  Broadview Press, 1988.  Pages 191 - 191.
  • Description: A Muslim writer remarks on the absence of jealousy and anger Frankish men display toward other men who speak to their wives or even sleep with them.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Adultery Husbands Wives Sexuality
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean
  • Century: 12
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  • Year of Publication: 1988.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0921149255