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1. Record Number: 20788 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Immersed in Things of the Body: Humor and Meaning in the Annunciation by Filippo Lippi [Examines the background figures in Lippi's Annunciation at the Palazzo Barberini and the significance of their gesture and movement as an iconographic foil to the interaction between Mary and the Archangel Gabriel; examines the parallels between the work's composition and the use of humor in contemporary drama in illustrating themes of Christ's incarnation. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004):  Pages 173 - 196. Year of Publication: 2004.

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2. Record Number: 8054 Author(s): Damen, Mark. Contributor(s): Title : Hrotsvit's "Callimachus" and the Art of Comedy [The author provides a brief introduction to his English translation of Hrotsvitha's play, "Callimachus." He concentrates on the classical sources and the comedic elements that were revealed through performance. He also discusses the challenges of translating Hrotsvitha's humor, both verbal and visual. The Latin text and the author's English translation are appended. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. Volume 2: Medieval Women Writing Latin.   Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey .   Routledge, 2002. Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004):  Pages 37 - 91. Year of Publication: 2002.

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3. Record Number: 6743 Author(s): Edgington, Susan B. Contributor(s): Title : Sont çou ore les fems que jo voi la venir? Women in the "Chanson d'Antioche" [The poet adapted already existing verse to create a three-part cycle about the First Crusade. The author argues that the poet introduces women generally as an element of humor. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Gendering the Crusades.   Edited by Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert .   University of Wales Press, 2001. Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004):  Pages 154 - 162. Year of Publication: 2001.

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4. Record Number: 5963 Author(s): Barrett, Jeanelle. Contributor(s): Title : Sticks and Stones: The Conflict Between Language and Sexism in Chaucer's Humor Source: Gender and Conflict in the Middle Ages. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, York, January 5-7 2001. .  2001. Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004): Conference website. Year of Publication: 2001.

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5. Record Number: 4966 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Classifieds [tongue-in-cheek advertisements that medieval women and men might have placed; includes Personals and Friday's Children]. Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 29., (Spring 2000):  Pages 48 - 50. Year of Publication: 2000.

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6. Record Number: 9321 Author(s): Riva, Massimo. Contributor(s): Title : Hereos/Eleos. L'Ambivalente terapia del mal d'amore nel libro "Chiamato Decameron cognominato prencipe Galeotto" [Boccaccio's "Decameron" can be understood as a literary remedy for lovesickness. Medieval medicine located this illness in the brain, not the heart, expecting it to manifest itself more often in women whose nature was moist. Men, however, with their drier humors, suffered more once their passions were aroused. Boccaccio found love's remedy in stories relating its potentially harmful delights. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Italian Quarterly , 37., (Winter-Fall 2000):  Pages 69 - 106. Year of Publication: 2000.

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7. Record Number: 4412 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : A Priest's Worst (K)nightmare: Fabliau Justice in "Le Prestre et le Chevalier" [The author briefly analyzes a fabliau in which a knight seeks revenge against a greedy priest by having sex with both the priest's niece and his mistress; furthermore the knight threatens to sodomize the priest until the priest pays him a large sum]. Source: French Forum , 25., 2 (May 2000):  Pages 137 - 144. Year of Publication: 2000.

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8. Record Number: 7824 Author(s): Fries, Maureen. Contributor(s): Title : The Mythologizing of Charles T. Wood in Stories of Ladies of the Lake from the Middle Ages to Beyond [The author, in an affectionate tribute, gives a humorous account of Charles Wood's imagined roles with the Lady of the Lake in various Arthurian stories ranging from Chretien de Troyes to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Title note supplied by Feminae. Source: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching: SMART , 8., 2 (Fall 2000):  Pages 5 - 14. Year of Publication: 2000.

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9. Record Number: 4319 Author(s): Hopenwasser, Nanda and Signe Wegener Contributor(s): Title : Mother Always Knows Best: A Personal Appropriation of the Fictional St. Birgitta's and Margery Kempe's Ideas about Motherhood [presented as a play set in heaven]. Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 28., (Fall 1999):  Pages 21 - 27. Year of Publication: 1999.

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10. Record Number: 4686 Author(s): Marchand, James W. Contributor(s): Title : Quoniam, Wife of Bath's Prologue D. 608 [The author cites several humorous uses of "quoniam" for vagina in Latin, French, Spanish, and Provençal texts]. Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 100., 1 ( 1999):  Pages 43 - 49. Year of Publication: 1999.

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11. Record Number: 4716 Author(s): Hopenwasser, Nanda. Contributor(s): Title : Margery Kempe as a Comic Performer [The author argues that Kempe represented her younger self as a comic figure in order to capture the attention of her audience and pass on to them her moral messages]. Source: Magistra , 5., 1 (Summer 1999):  Pages 69 - 77. Year of Publication: 1999.

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12. Record Number: 4318 Author(s): Coleman, Joyce. Contributor(s): Title : Carnival I : On the Lighter Side of Medieval Feminist Scholarship. How Our Lady Relieved the Good Sisters of Aunsby [a light-hearted story of nuns and their delivery from a greedy and lewd canon; the article is part of an issue devoted to humor written by feminist scholars]. Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 28., (Fall 1999):  Pages 12 - 21. Year of Publication: 1999.

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13. Record Number: 1591 Author(s): Armstead, Wendy. Contributor(s): Title : Interpreting Images of Women with Books in Misericords [some represent piety, while others mock women's pretensions]. Source: Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence.   Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor .   British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1997. Medieval Feminist Forum , 28., (Fall 1999):  Pages 57 - 74. Year of Publication: 1997.

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14. Record Number: 4628 Author(s): Masse, Marie-Sophie. Contributor(s): Title : Mariage et adultere dans les "Maeren" de Heinrich Kaufringer [The author argues that Kaufringer explores the notion of "trewe," faithfulness, in stories that mix both humor and horrific revenge]. Source: Sex, Love and Marriage in Medieval Literature and Reality: Thematische Beiträge im Rahmen des 31th [sic] International Congress on Medieval Studies an der Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo-USA) 8.-12. Mai 1996.   Edited by Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok WODAN Bd. 69. Serie 3 Tagungsbände und Sammelschriften Actes de Colloques et Ouvrages Collectifs, 40.   Reineke-Verlag, 1996. Romance Philology , 49., 3 (February 1996):  Pages 47 - 52. Year of Publication: 1996.

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15. Record Number: 1115 Author(s): Furrow, Melissa. Contributor(s): Title : A Minor Comic Poem in a Major Romance Manuscript: "Lyarde" [brief tale of impotent old husbands put to shame by friars]. Source: Forum for Modern Language Studies , 32., 4 ( 1996):  Pages 289 - 302. Year of Publication: 1996.

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16. Record Number: 1112 Author(s): Ziolkowski, Jan M. Contributor(s): Title : The Erotic Pater Noster, Redux [see earlier articles in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 88 (1987): 31-34, and 89 (1988): 212-214]. Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 97., 3 ( 1996):  Pages 329 - 332. Year of Publication: 1996.

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17. Record Number: 1585 Author(s): Westphal, Sarah. Contributor(s): Title : Camilla: The Amazon Body in Medieval German Literature [psychoanalytic reading of von Veldeke's version of the "Aeneid"]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 1 (Spring 1996):  Pages 231 - 258. Year of Publication: 1996.

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18. Record Number: 2127 Author(s): Geary, John S. Contributor(s): Title : The "Pitas Payas" Episode of the "Libro de buen amor": Its Structure and Comic Climax [appendix reproduces the text of the "Pitas Payas" episode with the narrative structure marked as Introduction, PreliminarySection, Central Episode, Final Part, and Conclusion]. Source: Romance Philology , 49., 3 (February 1996):  Pages 245 - 261. Year of Publication: 1996.

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19. Record Number: 342 Author(s): Ricke, Joseph M. Contributor(s): Title : Parody, Performance, and the "Ultimate" Meaning of Noah's Shrew Source: Mediaevalia , 18., ( 1995):  Pages 263 - 281. (1995 (for 1992)) Published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton Year of Publication: 1995.

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20. Record Number: 340 Author(s): Vasvari, Louise O Contributor(s): Title : Joseph on the Margin: The Mérode Tryptic and Medieval Spectacle [Joseph as Cuckold in paintings and in mystery plays] Source: Mediaevalia , 18., ( 1995):  Pages 163 - 189. (1995 (for 1992)) Published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton Year of Publication: 1995.

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21. Record Number: 523 Author(s): Cox, Catherine S. Contributor(s): Title : Grope Wel Bihynde: The Subversive Erotics of Chaucer's Summoner Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 1 (Spring 1995):  Pages 145 - 177. Year of Publication: 1995.

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22. Record Number: 1488 Author(s): Vasvari, Louise O. Contributor(s): Title : Festive Phallic Discourse in the "Libro del Arcipreste" [discussion of four episodes in the Libro de Buen Amor which are strongly colored by sexual violence and phallic humor]. Source: Corónica , 22., 2 (Spring 1994):  Pages 89 - 117. Year of Publication: 1994.

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23. Record Number: 1407 Author(s): Leicester, H. Marshall, Jr. Contributor(s): Title : Newer Currents in Psychoanalytic Criticism, and the Difference "It" Makes: Gender and Desire in the "Miller's Tale" [psychoanalytic and post-Lacanian feminist gender theory applied to the figure of Alisoun]. Source: ELH: A Journal of English Literary History (Full Text via JSTOR) 61, 3 (Autumn 1994): 473-499. Link Info Year of Publication: 1994.

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24. Record Number: 1409 Author(s): Dane, Joseph A. Contributor(s): Title : The "Syntaxis Recepta" of Chaucer's "Prologue to the Miller's Tale," Lines 3159-61 Source: English Language Notes , 31., 4 (June 1994):  Pages 10 - 19. Year of Publication: 1994.

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25. Record Number: 10368 Author(s): Fenster, Thelma. Contributor(s): Title : Did Christine Have a Sense of Humor? The Evidence of the "Epistre au dieu d’Amours" [One of the resources of feminine speech that Christine uses in her works is humor, which can be an instrument of moral critique. Christine uses the rhetorical strategies of humor, irony, and satire in her poetry to rebuke the misogyny of male authors, most powerfully in her attack of Jean de Meun’s “Roman de la Rose.” Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno .   University of Georgia Press, 1992. English Language Notes , 31., 4 (June 1994):  Pages 23 - 36. Year of Publication: 1992.

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26. Record Number: 10377 Author(s): Kelly, Allison. Contributor(s): Title : Christine de Pizan and Antoine de la Sale: The Dangers of Love in Theory and Fiction [Christine’s work greatly influenced later medieval French poets like Antoine de la Sale. Although Antoine never directly cites Christine, her influence is pervasive throughout his works about courtly love. Her influence is especially pronounced in the similarities between the fictional characters of Dido (from Christine’s “Livre de la cite des Dames”) and Belles Cousines (from Antoine’s “Jehan de Saintre”). Antoine’s complex irony allows him to both affirm Christine’s feminist viewpoints as well as express misogynist opinions; however, he fails to see any humor in Christine’s own work. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno .   University of Georgia Press, 1992. English Language Notes , 31., 4 (June 1994):  Pages 173 - 186. Year of Publication: 1992.

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27. Record Number: 11822 Author(s): Rudat, Wolfgang E. H. Contributor(s): Title : Reading Chaucer's Earnest Games: Folk-Mode or Literary Sophistication? [There is no strict difference between the categories of "ernest" (serious, moral) and "game" (light, entertaining) in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Merchant's Tale, a bawdy fabliau about an unfaithful wife and impotent husband, is an example of an "ernest game," a humorous form of story telling that has its roots in folklore and the oral tradition. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: English Language Notes , 29., 2 (December 1991):  Pages 16 - 20. Year of Publication: 1991.

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28. Record Number: 13044 Author(s): Easting, Robert. Contributor(s): Title : Double-Meaning in "Atte Ston Castinges" [In this short note the author points to a sexual double meaning in an early Middle English quatrain about a "leman's" disappointing performance. Easting signals an analog in Chaucer's "Parlement of Fowles." Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Notes and Queries , 236., 2 (June 1991):  Pages 160 Year of Publication: 1991.

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29. Record Number: 12694 Author(s): O'Connor, Eugene M. Contributor(s): Title : More on the "Priapeum" of Jacobus Cremonensis [This fifteenth century Latin poem describes an erotic encounter between the Classical fertility god Priapus and the nymph Dione. The author corrects and expands the commentary written on the poem by a previous editor, Ian Thompson. In his commentary, Thompson failed to recognize that many of the Latin terms in the poem are not euphemisms but sexually explicit terms. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Traditio , 45., ( 1990):  Pages 389 - 391. Year of Publication: 1990.

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30. Record Number: 12770 Author(s): Vasvari, Louise O. Contributor(s): Title : “Chica cosa es dos nuezes:” Lost Sexual Humor in the "Libro del Arcipreste" [The author teases out the ways in which the Libro de Buen Amor uses obscenity and bawdy double entendres to approach forbidden subjects in a humorous way. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , 24., 1 ( 1990):  Pages 1 - 22. Year of Publication: 1990.

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31. Record Number: 31498 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Ill-Assorted Couple Source: Traditio , 45., ( 1990): Year of Publication:

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32. Record Number: 31892 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Nun Harvesting Phalluses from a Phallus Tree and a Monk and Nun Embracing Source: Traditio , 45., ( 1990): Year of Publication:

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33. Record Number: 37259 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Joseph, from the Merode Altarpiece Source: Traditio , 45., ( 1990): Year of Publication:

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34. Record Number: 41067 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Religious woman dancing while a friar "plays music" Source: Traditio , 45., ( 1990): Year of Publication:

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