Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 7271
Author(s): McCracken, Peggy.
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Title : Engendering Sacrifice: Blood, Lineage, and Infanticide in Old French Literature [The author analyzes the theme of infanticide in Chretien de Troyes' "Philomena," "Ami et Amile," accounts of Abraham and Isaac, and "Jourdain de Blaye." The author argues that the child's death takes on a different meaning according to the gender of the sacrificer. When the father kills the child, the blood is paternal blood and represents a sacrifice for loyalty or for God. When the mother kills the child, the blood is maternal, associated with the impurities of childbirth, and is done only as an act of revenge. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 55 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2002.
2. Record Number: 8079
Author(s): Straus, Barrie Ruth.
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Title : Reframing the Violence of the Father: Reverse Oedipal Fantasies in Chaucer's Clerk's, Man of Law's, and Prioress's Tales [The author argues that the family relations both in the tales of Griselda and of Custance manifest a profound anxiety about paternity and a need for concealed violence, both physical and psychic. The happy endings do not mask the father's violence and the conflict between the generations. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts.   Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price .   University Press of Florida, 2002. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 122 - 138.
Year of Publication: 2002.
3. Record Number: 7909
Author(s): Bott, Robin L.
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Title : O, Keep Me from Their Worse Than Killing Lust: Ideologies of Rape and Mutilation in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale" and Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus"
Source: Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature.   Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose .   The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 189 - 211.
Year of Publication: 2001.
4. Record Number: 6926
Author(s): Rasmussen, Ann Marie.
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Title : Fathers to Think Back Through: The Middle High German Mother-Daughter and Father-Son Advice Poems known as "Die Winsbeckin" and "Der Winsbecke" ["In particular, the essay examines the 'enabling' notions of authenticity, authorship, and paternal authority that shaped scholarship on the poems from 1845 to 1985. The trope of a father instructing his son furnished a productive framework for the overwhelmingly male professional caste of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholars to 'think back through,' I will argue, as they constructed notions of conduct literature that privileged a version of paternal, secular authority and that rested at times on a nostalgic belief that didactic literature was imbued with an authentic connection to lived medieval experience." p. 109].
Source: Medieval Conduct.   Edited by Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark .   Medieval Cultures, Volume 29. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 106 - 134.
Year of Publication: 2001.
5. Record Number: 10161
Author(s): Sobczyk, Agata
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Title : Encore un inceste occulté: l'épisode de la fille de l'empereur dans "Le Roman de Robert le Diable"
Source: Études Médiévales , 1., ( 1999):  Pages 221 - 234.
Year of Publication: 1999.
6. Record Number: 2504
Author(s): Hovland, Deborah.
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Title : Mothers and Fathers in the Early French Farce
Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 24., (Fall 1997):  Pages 20 - 23.
Year of Publication: 1997.
7. Record Number: 2509
Author(s): White, Catherine L.
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Title : Women and Their Fathers in Three French Medieval Literary Works ["Le Roman de Silence," "Erec et Enide," and "Le Livre de la Cite des Dames"].
Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 24., (Fall 1997):  Pages 42 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1997.
8. Record Number: 2332
Author(s): Szarmach, Paul E.
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Title : St. Euphrosyne: Holy Transvestite
Source: Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Live and Their Contexts.   Edited by Paul E. Szarmach .   State University of New York Press, 1996. Monatshefte , 88., 1 (Spring 1996):  Pages 353 - 365.
Year of Publication: 1996.
9. Record Number: 2994
Author(s): Itnyre, Cathy Jorgensen.
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Title : The Emotional Universe of Medieval Icelandic Fathers and Sons [discusses the qualities that fathers want to find in their sons including courage, obedience, concern for family honor, and a physical ressemblance to the father; also breifly discusses the qualities that dissapoint including cowardice, disobedience, and associating with bad company].
Source: Medieval Family Roles: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre .   Garland Publishing, 1996. Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 24., (Fall 1997):  Pages 173 - 196.
Year of Publication: 1996.
10. Record Number: 2995
Author(s): Cuesta, María Luzdivina.
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Title : Notes on Family Relationships in Medieval Castilian Narrative
Source: Medieval Family Roles: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre .   Garland Publishing, 1996. Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 24., (Fall 1997):  Pages 197 - 224.
Year of Publication: 1996.
11. Record Number: 1861
Author(s): Palmer, Craig.
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Title : A Question of Manhood: Overcoming the Paternal Homoerotic in Gottfried's "Tristan"
Source: Monatshefte , 88., 1 (Spring 1996):  Pages 17 - 30.
Year of Publication: 1996.
12. Record Number: 6778
Author(s): Cowgill, Jane.
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Title : Chaucer's Missing Children ["In the lyrics, the drama, and in Chaucer's religious tales, then, the sufferings of mothers and children are made analogous to those of Mary and Christ. Children are appropriate, even essential, to this genre because, in their relationships to their mothers, they embody one of the central mysteries of the faith. Conversely, the relationships between fathers and suffering children, while presented as significant in the tales of tragedy and morality, hint at but cannot carry the same spiritual valence. Further, to recapitulate my introductory remarks, children are largely absent from the romances and fabliaux because they would be a hindrance to the internal necessities of those forms. Children are depicted in 'The Canterbury Tales' not according to any principles of realism, but according to their appropriateness to particular literary genres." p. 5 of the electronic version available through Project Muse].
Source: Essays in Medieval Studies , 12., ( 1995):  Pages 1 - 5. and 1-2 (notes) [in the electronic version available through Project Muse]. Issue title: Children and the Family in the Middle Ages.
Year of Publication: 1995.
13. Record Number: 6779
Author(s): Kiefer, Lauren.
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Title : My Family First: Draft-dodging Parents in the "Confessio Amantis" [The author examines the theme of men's bonds to their children and wives in Books Three, Four, and Five of the "Confessio Amantis," concentrating on the stories of Ulysses and Namplus who were devoted to their sons].
Source: Essays in Medieval Studies , 12., ( 1995):  Pages 1 - 5. and 1-2 (notes) [in the electronic version available through Project Muse]. Issue title: Children and the Family in the Middle Ages.
Year of Publication: 1995.
14. Record Number: 2525
Author(s): Gravdal, Kathryn.
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Title : Confessing Incests: Legal Erasures and Literary Celebrations in Medieval France [a study of the narrative structures related to gender in six old French incest stories: "Dit de la bourgeoise de Rome," "Dit du boeuf," "Vie de Saint Grégoire," "La Manekine," "Roman du Comte d'Anjou," and "Belle Hélène de Constantinople"].
Source: Comparative Literature Studies , 32., 2 ( 1995):  Pages 280 - 295.
Year of Publication: 1995.