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1. Record Number: 11021
Author(s): Holderness, Julia Simms.
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Title : Compilation, Commentary, and Conversation in Christine de Pizan [The author breifly examines the conversation that Christine establishes at the beginning of "Lavision-Christine" among her sources, Dante, Boethius, and Alain de Lille, in which a fictionalized Christine's vision of Dame Nature and Chaos sheds light on human knowledge. The appendix presents excerpts from the original French text that describe Chaos. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Essays in Medieval Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 20 (2003): 47-55. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2003.
2. Record Number: 2479
Author(s): Cowell, Andrew.
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Title : Deadly Letters: "Deux Amanz," Marie's "Prologue" to the "Lais" and the dangerous Nature of the Gloss [argues that though Marie appropriates exegesis to lend her poems a greater authority, she is aware of her vulnerability as a female writer].
Source: Romanic Review , 88., 3 (May 1997):  Pages 337 - 356.
Year of Publication: 1997.
3. Record Number: 10004
Author(s): Minnis, Alastair J.
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Title : Authors in Love: The Exegesis of Late-Medieval Love-Poets [Vernacular poets who wrote about secular love sometimes appropriated techniques of literary criticism from a long scholastic tradition, which involved the interpretation of the Bible or Latin authors like Ovid. By appropriating exegetical (interpretive) practices like learned prologues and glosses within their own manuscripts, vernacular authors gained an authority that was previously reserved only for Latin writers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: The Uses of manuscripts in literary studies: essays in memory of Judson Boyce Allen.   Edited by Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods Studies in medieval culture .   Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992. Romanic Review , 88., 3 (May 1997):  Pages 161 - 189.
Year of Publication: 1992.