Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 7281
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Hanna , Ralph, III
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  • Title: Brewing Trouble: On Literature and History -- and Alewives [The author critically examines Judith Bennett's analysis of alewives in Middle English literature, in particular in Langland's "Piers Plowman." Hanna argues that misogyny is just one factor animating the portrayals and points to a distrust of people in the food trade, a concern with profit over and above a proper return, and the need to restrain pleasure. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England.  Edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace.  Medieval Cultures series, 9. University of Minnesota Press, 1996.  Pages 1 - 17.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Bennett, Judith M., Historian Brewing and Distillation Historiography Langland, William, Poet- Piers Plowman Literature- Study and Teaching Literature- Verse Misogyny Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: University of California, Riverside
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0816627142