Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 9993
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Sherberg , Michael.
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  • Title: The Patriarch's Pleasure and the Frametale Crisis: "Decameron" IV-V [The author argues that the various storytellers react to Filostrato's theme for Day IV which reinstitutes the male order and denies women any choice in love. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Romance Quarterly 38, 2 (May 1991): Pages 227 - 238.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron IV Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron V Courtly Love Filostrato (Literary Figure) Literature- Prose Patriarchy in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 14
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  • Author's Affiliation: Washington University
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  • Year of Publication: 1991.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 08831157