Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 5751
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Fyler , John M.
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  • Title: Man, Men, and Women in Chaucer’s Poetry [The author discusses the way Chaucer uses the words “man” (with its dual meaning of “male” and “human”) and “woman” to comment upon the relationship between naming and gender differentiation. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World.  Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector.  State University of New York Press, 1991.  Pages 154 - 176.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet Gender in Literature Literature - Verse Names in Literature Women in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Tufts University
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  • Year of Publication: 1991.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0791404390