Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 4411
Author(s): Heywood, Melinda Marsh.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Withered Rose: Seduction and the Poetics of Old Age in the "Roman de la Rose" of Guillaume de Lorris [The author argues that the poet uses the two old women characters to remind his beloved that she too will one day be old, ugly, and alone; she has no choice but to grant him her favors quickly].
Source: French Forum , 25., 1 (January 2000):  Pages 5 - 22.
Year of Publication: 2000.

2. Record Number: 2036
Author(s): Cooke, Jessica.
Contributor(s):
Title : Januarie and May in Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale"
Source: English Studies , 78., 5 (September 1997):  Pages 407 - 416.
Year of Publication: 1997.

3. Record Number: 1348
Author(s): Everest, Carol A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sex and Old Age in Chaucer's "Reeve's Prologue" [metaphors for old age and loss of sexual vigor examined in the context of medieval medical theory].
Source: Chaucer Review , 31., 2 ( 1996):  Pages 99 - 114.
Year of Publication: 1996.