Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 4593
Author(s): Harding, Carol E.
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Title : True Lovers: Love and Irony in Murasaki Shikibu and Christine de Pizan [the author examines the love affairs in "Livre du Duc" and the "Tale of Genji," arguing that the authors question the values of courtly life where men have far more choices in love affairs].
Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers.   Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho .   Palgrave, 2000.  Pages 153 - 173.
Year of Publication: 2000.
2. Record Number: 4595
Author(s): Miller, Mara.
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Title : The Lady in the Garden: Subjects and Objects in an Ideal World [The author contrasts Japanse pictures of women in gardens (women authors, women writing, and women characters from women's writings) with those of medieval Europe in which women do not write in gardens].
Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers.   Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho .   Palgrave, 2000.  Pages 189 - 211.
Year of Publication: 2000.
3. Record Number: 4581
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Title : Romantic Entreaty in "The Kagero Diary" and "The Letters of Abelard and Heloise" [The author compares the requests of two women to renew contact with their lovers; they are both constrained by social expectations but use rhetoric to be both loving and wronged].
Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers.   Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho .   Palgrave, 2000.  Pages 117 - 132.
Year of Publication: 2000.
4. Record Number: 4594
Author(s): Roman, Marco D.
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Title : Reclaiming the Self Through Silence: "The Riverside Counselor's Stories" and the "Lais" of Marie de France [The author compares two stories in which the wronged women use silence to express their disapproval].
Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers.   Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho .   Palgrave, 2000.  Pages 175 - 188.
Year of Publication: 2000.
5. Record Number: 4582
Author(s): Ho, Cynthia.
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Title : Words Alone Cannot Express: Epistles in Marie de France and Murasaki Shikibu
Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers.   Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho .   Palgrave, 2000.  Pages 133 - 152.
Year of Publication: 2000.
6. Record Number: 4580
Author(s): Millay, S. Lea.
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Title : The Voice of the Court Woman Poet [The author compares the poetry of Izumi Shikibu with that of the countess de Dia, finding in both the voice of the passionate woman].
Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers.   Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho .   Palgrave, 2000.  Pages 91 - 116.
Year of Publication: 2000.