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1. Record Number: 14141 Author(s): Poe, Elizabeth W. Contributor(s): Title : The Old and the Feckless: Fabliau Husbands Source: The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy.   Edited by Sherry Roush and Cristelle L. Baskins .   Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.  Pages 115 - 134. Year of Publication: 2005.

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2. Record Number: 11954 Author(s): McCracken, Peggy. Contributor(s): Title : Scandalizing Desire: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Chroniclers Source: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady.   Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons The New Middle Ages .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.  Pages 247 - 263. Year of Publication: 2003.

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3. Record Number: 13635 Author(s): Campbell, Kimberlee A. Contributor(s): Title : Sexual Behavior and Social Consequences in the Old French "Chanson de geste" [The author argues that sexuality in French epics is generally subordinated to concerns of lineage and social order. Young women sometimes express sexual desire and even take the initiative, but it is up to the male characters to determine what will happen. Frequently the hero demonstrates sexual restraint and is rewarded later with marriage to the young girl who turns out to be a king's daughter. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: L' Épopée romane au moyen âge et aux temps modernes: Actes du XIVe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l' étude des épopées romanes: Naples, 24-30 juillet 1997. 2 volumes.   Edited by Salvatore Luongo .   Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, 2001.  Pages 199 - 211. Year of Publication: 2001.

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4. Record Number: 20896 Author(s): Morosini, Roberta Contributor(s): Title : Bone eloquence e mondo alla rovescia nel discorso "semblable a la reisun" nella novella di Madonna Filippa" ("Decameron" VI.7) [The tale of Madonna Filippa resembles Marie de France's fable about the peasant who demanded a higher price for his horse because the buyer had only seen the old half of the horse. The judge seeks to save Madonna Filippa's life when her husband brings a charge of adultery by employing a similar exercise in facile logic. He accepts Madonna Filippa's defense without objection, being moved by her beauty. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Italica , 77., 1 ( 2000):  Pages 1 - 13. Year of Publication: 2000.

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5. Record Number: 5380 Author(s): Burch, Sally L. Contributor(s): Title : Amadas et Ydoine, "Cliges" and the Impediment of Crime [the author uses the attitude of the "Amadas" poet toward adultery to argue that Chrétien may not have intended the marriage of Cliges and Fenice to have been a happy conclusion; instead the marriage of the adulterers may have been an indication of how decadent their society had become]. Source: Forum for Modern Language Studies , 36., 2 (April 2000):  Pages 185 - 195. Year of Publication: 2000.

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6. Record Number: 4844 Author(s): Khan, Ruqayya Yasmine. Contributor(s): Title : On the Significance of Secrecy in the Medieval Arabic Romances [the author argues that secrecy has both positive and negative connotations in medieval Arabic romances; secrecy between husband and wife can promote love and intimacy, while secrecy between lovers may involve adultery or shame when intimacies are revealed]. Source: Journal of Arabic Literature , 31., 3 ( 2000):  Pages 238 - 253. Year of Publication: 2000.

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7. Record Number: 3928 Author(s): Paden, William D. Contributor(s): Title : The Troubadour's Lady as Seen Through Thick History [The author examines ideas about troubadours and their ladies in the works of literary critics from the nineteenth and early twentieth century; he notes in particular the emphasis on sexual guilt which he believes should be discarded]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 11., 2 (Spring 1999):  Pages 221 - 244. Year of Publication: 1999.

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8. Record Number: 4210 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : The Wife of Bath's "Prologue," LL. 328-336, and Boccaccio's "Decameron" Source: Neophilologus , 83., 2 (April 1999):  Pages 313 - 316. Year of Publication: 1999.

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9. Record Number: 5297 Author(s): Jacobs, Kathryn. Contributor(s): Title : Extra-Marital Contracts in the "Canterbury Tales" [The author argues that Chaucer's lovers delay consummation and pledge a contractual, legalistic promise to one another in imitation of marriage and courtship practices]. Source: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest , 6., ( 1999):  Pages 25 - 33. Year of Publication: 1999.

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10. Record Number: 4304 Author(s): Åström, Berit. Contributor(s): Title : Murdering the Narrator of the "Wife's Lament" [The author questions the analysis of the "Wife's Lament" in which the narrator is a ghost, killed because she was an adulterer]. Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 27., (Spring 1999):  Pages 24 - 27. Year of Publication: 1999.

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11. Record Number: 3183 Author(s): Martines, Lauro. Contributor(s): Title : Séduction, espace familial et autorité dans la renaissance Italienne Source: Annales : Histoire, Sciences Sociales , 53., 2 (mars-avril 1998):  Pages 255 - 290. Year of Publication: 1998.

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12. Record Number: 5347 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Sir Gowther: The Marriage of Romance and Hagiography [The author argues that "Sir Gowther" was a didactic work adapted from the Old French "Robert le Diable;" it was intended to highlight the sacramental nature of marriage and the crucial role the Church plays in redemption]. Source: Mediaevalia , 22., 1 ( 1998):  Pages 175 - 198. Published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton Year of Publication: 1998.

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13. Record Number: 4628 Author(s): Masse, Marie-Sophie. Contributor(s): Title : Mariage et adultere dans les "Maeren" de Heinrich Kaufringer [The author argues that Kaufringer explores the notion of "trewe," faithfulness, in stories that mix both humor and horrific revenge]. Source: Sex, Love and Marriage in Medieval Literature and Reality: Thematische Beiträge im Rahmen des 31th [sic] International Congress on Medieval Studies an der Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo-USA) 8.-12. Mai 1996.   Edited by Danielle Buschinger and Wolfgang Spiewok WODAN Bd. 69. Serie 3 Tagungsbände und Sammelschriften Actes de Colloques et Ouvrages Collectifs, 40.   Reineke-Verlag, 1996. Moyen Age , 102., 40241 ( 1996):  Pages 47 - 52. Year of Publication: 1996.

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14. Record Number: 668 Author(s): Williams, Bernadette. Contributor(s): Title : Cursed Be My Parents: A View of Marriage From the "Lais" of Marie de France Source: The Fragility of Her Sex?: Medieval Irishwomen in Their European Context.   Edited by Christine Meek and Katherine Simms .   Four Courts Press, 1996. Mediaevalia , 22., 1 ( 1998):  Pages 73 - 86. Year of Publication: 1996.

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15. Record Number: 1769 Author(s): Brumlik, Joan. Contributor(s): Title : The Lyric "Malmariée" : Marie's Subtext in "Guigemar" ["chansons de malmariée," "chansons de toile," and pastourelles, in which unhappily married women long for lovers, serve as models for the heroine in "Guigemar"]. Source: Romance Quarterly , 43., 2 (Spring 1996):  Pages 67 - 80. Year of Publication: 1996.

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16. Record Number: 2775 Author(s): Schulze, Joachim. Contributor(s): Title : Der Tod im Zuber: Zu Vorgeschichte und Kontext des Lai "Equitan" Source: Romanische Forschungen , 108., 40241 ( 1996):  Pages 122 - 134. Year of Publication: 1996.

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17. Record Number: 2542 Author(s): Farmer, Sharon. Contributor(s): Title : Feminine Folly, Burgher Calculation, and Anti-Communal Rhetoric in Thirteenth-Century Tours Source: Studies in Iconography , 17., ( 1996):  Pages 143 - 176. Year of Publication: 1996.

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18. Record Number: 2127 Author(s): Geary, John S. Contributor(s): Title : The "Pitas Payas" Episode of the "Libro de buen amor": Its Structure and Comic Climax [appendix reproduces the text of the "Pitas Payas" episode with the narrative structure marked as Introduction, PreliminarySection, Central Episode, Final Part, and Conclusion]. Source: Romance Philology , 49., 3 (February 1996):  Pages 245 - 261. Year of Publication: 1996.

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19. Record Number: 1562 Author(s): Hanawalt, Barbara A. Contributor(s): Title : Separation Anxieties in Late Medieval London: Gender in "The Wright's Chaste Wife" [includes a discussion of historical instances in which wives coped with their husbands' long absences]. Source: Medieval Perspectives , 11., ( 1996):  Pages 23 - 41. Also reprinted in "Of Good and Ill Repute": Gender and Social Control in Medieval England. Barbara A. Hanawalt. Oxford University Press, 1998. 88-103 Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association Year of Publication: 1996.

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20. Record Number: 962 Author(s): Picherit, Jean-Louis. Contributor(s): Title : Le Châtiment des amants dans le lai d' "Equitan" de Marie de France Source: Moyen Age , 102., 40241 ( 1996):  Pages 419 - 424. Year of Publication: 1996.

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21. Record Number: 5135 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : The Power of Feminine Anger in Marie de France's "Yonec" and "Guigemar" [The author deals with anger only briefly, considering instead Marie's approval of adultery for the malmariées, those women married to cruel husbands]. Source: Florilegium , 14., ( 1995- 1996):  Pages 123 - 135. Year of Publication: 1995- 1996.

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22. Record Number: 1737 Author(s): Burns, E. Jane. Contributor(s): Title : How Lovers Lie Together: Infidelity and Fictive Discourse in the "Roman de Tristan" Source: Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook.   Edited by Joan Tasker Grimbert .   Garland Publishing, 1995. Tenso , 11., 1 (Fall 1995):  Pages 75 - 93. Reprinted from Tristania 8, 2 (Spring 1983): 15-30. Year of Publication: 1995.

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23. Record Number: 437 Author(s): McCracken, Peggy. Contributor(s): Title : The Queen's Secret: Adultery and Political Structure in the Feudal Courts of Old French Romance Source: Romanic Review , 86., 2 (March 1995):  Pages 289 - 306. Special issue: The Production of Knowledge: Institutionalizing Sex, Gender, and Sexualiity in Medieval Discourse. Ed. by Kathryn Gravdal. Year of Publication: 1995.

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24. Record Number: 633 Author(s): Harris, E. Kay. Contributor(s): Title : Evidence Against Lancelot and Guinevere in Malory's "Morte Darthur": Treason by Imagination [the fifteenth- century legal and political dimensions of the lovers' treason]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 1 (Spring 1995):  Pages 179 - 208. Year of Publication: 1995.

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25. Record Number: 1485 Author(s): Dickey, Constance L. Contributor(s): Title : Deceit, Desire, Distance, and Polysemy in "Flamenca" Source: Tenso , 11., 1 (Fall 1995):  Pages 10 - 37. Year of Publication: 1995.

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26. Record Number: 1747 Author(s): Olsen, Karin. Contributor(s): Title : The Cuckold's Revenge : Reconstructing Six Irish "Roscada" in "Táin Bó Cúailnge" [dialogue among the cuckolded king Ailill, his queen Medb, and her lover, the warror-hero Fergus]. Source: Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies , 28., (Winter 1994):  Pages 51 - 69. Year of Publication: 1994.

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27. Record Number: 11778 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : A Smorgasbord of Sexual Practices [The essay surveys a variety of sexual practices, from adultery to bestiality, described in varying detail in Icelandic sagas and other sources. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Sex in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Joyce E. Salisbury .   Garland Publishing, 1991. Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies , 28., (Winter 1994):  Pages 145 - 156. Year of Publication: 1991.

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28. Record Number: 11203 Author(s): Tobin, Lee Ann. Contributor(s): Title : Give the Saint Her Due: Hagiographical Values for Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale and Graham Greene’s "The End of the Affair" [When approaching Saint Celia (protagonist of the Second Nun’s Tale) and Sarah Miles (adulterous protagonist of Greene’s twentieth-century novel), modern critics perceive both of these heroines in a negative manner (deeming them disrespectful or unbelievable as female exemplars). However, such critics abide by rational and objective perspectives which are inappropriate for analyzing hagiographical literature. When viewed from a mystical and spiritual perspective, both heroines radically overturn male power structures and exhibit female strength and virginal power. While Greene revises the hagiographical tradition in his modern-day saint’s life, the essential features of the medieval genre remain unchanged. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Studia Mystica , 14., 40212 (Summer/Fall 1991):  Pages 48 - 60. Year of Publication: 1991.

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29. Record Number: 11822 Author(s): Rudat, Wolfgang E. H. Contributor(s): Title : Reading Chaucer's Earnest Games: Folk-Mode or Literary Sophistication? [There is no strict difference between the categories of "ernest" (serious, moral) and "game" (light, entertaining) in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Merchant's Tale, a bawdy fabliau about an unfaithful wife and impotent husband, is an example of an "ernest game," a humorous form of story telling that has its roots in folklore and the oral tradition. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: English Language Notes , 29., 2 (December 1991):  Pages 16 - 20. Year of Publication: 1991.

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30. Record Number: 12869 Author(s): Tougher, Shaun Contributor(s): Title : Marginal Men, Marcabru and Orthodoxy: The Early Troubadours and Adultery [The author explores references to adultery in early troubadour verse in order to determine what models for marriage are represented there. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Medium Ævum , 59., 1 ( 1990):  Pages 55 - 72. Year of Publication: 1990.

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