Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 44977
Author(s): Moen, Marianne and Matthew J. Walsh,
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Title : Agents of Death: Reassessing Social Agency and Gendered Narratives of Human Sacrifice in the Viking Age
Source: Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 31., 4 ( 2021):  Pages 597 - 611. Available open access from Cambridge Core: http://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774321000111
Year of Publication: 2021.
2. Record Number: 7271
Author(s): McCracken, Peggy.
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Title : Engendering Sacrifice: Blood, Lineage, and Infanticide in Old French Literature [The author analyzes the theme of infanticide in Chretien de Troyes' "Philomena," "Ami et Amile," accounts of Abraham and Isaac, and "Jourdain de Blaye." The author argues that the child's death takes on a different meaning according to the gender of the sacrificer. When the father kills the child, the blood is paternal blood and represents a sacrifice for loyalty or for God. When the mother kills the child, the blood is maternal, associated with the impurities of childbirth, and is done only as an act of revenge. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 55 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2002.
3. Record Number: 4275
Author(s): Prior, Sandra Pierson.
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Title : Virginity and Sacrifice in Chaucer's "Physician's Tale"
Source: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl .   St. Martin's Press, 1999. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 165 - 180.
Year of Publication: 1999.
4. Record Number: 37478
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Title : Symmachi tablet
Source: Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):
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