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1. Record Number: 12607
Author(s): Krueger, Roberta L.
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Title : Uncovering Griselda: Christine de Pizan, “un seule chemise,” and the Clerical Tradition: Boccaccio, Petrarch, Philippe de Mézières and the Ménagier de Paris [Christine’s sparse and forceful retelling of the story of patient Griselda in “La Cité des Dames” corrects the clerical tradition that informed previous versions of the story. While male writers like Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer frame the Griselda story with interpretive commentary, Christine strips the story of embellishment in order to focus attention on Griselda’s eloquence and her suffering at the will of her cruel husband. Just as Griselda is clothed and unclothed as she shifts in status within the story, so is the Griselda narrative itself rhetorically unclothed as Christine retells it. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings.   Edited by E. Jane Burns .   Palgrave, 2004.  Pages 71 - 88.
Year of Publication: 2004.
2. Record Number: 8658
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Title : Clerkly Allusiveness: Griselda, Xanthippe, and the Woman of Samaria [The author traces many sacred and secular allusions in Chaucer’s "Clerk’s Tale," a narrative about the virtuous peasant Griselda. Some of the allusions in the tale connect Griselda to Biblical exemplars of feminine obedience and submission (such as the Virgin Mary, Rebecca, and the Samaritan woman), but other allusions connect her to secular figures of female disobedience like Xanthippe (the wife of Socrates) and the Wife of Bath. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Allegorica , 12., ( 1991):  Pages 17 - 27.
Year of Publication: 1991.