Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 9462
Author(s): Galloway, Andrew.
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Title : Marriage Sermons, Polemical Sermons, and “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”: A Generic Excursus [Instead of reading “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” against an antifeminist literary tradition, the author reads the work against medieval sermons on marriage. In the fourteenth century, these sermons were both for and against women, and in this poem the Wife of Bath assumes the authoritative stance of a preacher on marriage. The author sees parallels between the “Prologue” and the marriage sermons of Jacob of Voragine. Moreover, the poem’s focus on women’s speech and power refers to fourteenth century struggles over who had the authority to preach. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 14., ( 1992): Pages 3 - 30.
Year of Publication: 1992.

2. Record Number: 7414
Author(s): Scherb, Victor I.
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Title : Worldly and Sacred Messengers in the Digby "Mary Magdalene" [The author claims that, in the Digby "Mary Magdalene" play, Mary herself becomes an active Christian messenger or preacher. Title note supplied by Feminae].

Source: English Studies , 73., 1 ( 1992): Pages 1 - 9.
Year of Publication: 1992.