Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 6095
Author(s): Straubhaar, Sandra Ballif
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Title : Nasty, Brutish, and Large: Cultural Difference and Otherness in the Figuration of the Trollwomen of the "Fornaldar sögur" [The author analyzes the encounters that heroes have with trollwomen in various legendary sagas (written down in the 13th and 14th centuries but circulating orally well before those centuries); the author argues that the mythic events can also be interpreted as sociological realities in which the trolls are Sámi women, threatening in their odd customs and strange appearance].
Source: Scandinavian Studies , 73., 2 (Summer 2001):  Pages 105 - 123.
Year of Publication: 2001.

2. Record Number: 6086
Author(s): Niebrzydowski, Sue.
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Title : The Sultana and Her Sisters: Black Women in the British Isles Before 1530
Source: Women's History Review , 10., 2 ( 2001):  Pages 187 - 210.
Year of Publication: 2001.

3. Record Number: 10121
Author(s): Trilling, Renée R.
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Title : The Monster's Mother: Maternity, Femininity and Alterity in "Beowulf"
Source: Old English Newsletter , 33., 3 (Spring 2000): Paper presented at the Thirty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 4-7, 2000, Session 347: "Beowulf I."
Year of Publication: 2000.

4. Record Number: 4884
Author(s): Ambrosio, Francis J.
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Title : Feminist Self-Fashioning: Christine de Pizan and "The Treasure of the City of Ladies"
Source: European Journal of Women's Studies , 6., 1 (February 1999):  Pages 9 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1999.

5. Record Number: 11121
Author(s): Brabant, Margaret and Michael Brint
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Title : Identity and Difference in Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames" [The author explores tensions within the "Cité des dames." Christine frequently calls on universal Christian values, but she also gives voice to others, in particular women who have been marginalized. By demonstrating a mutual respect for these differences, Christine skillfully navigates between universalism and a politics of the other. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Politics, Gender, and Genre: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Margaret Brabant .   Westview Press, 1992. European Journal of Women's Studies , 6., 1 (February 1999):  Pages 207 - 222.
Year of Publication: 1992.

6. Record Number: 11820
Author(s): Pulsiano, Phillip and Kirsten Wolf
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Title : The "Hwelp" in "Wulf and Eadwacer" [The symbolic meaning of the "hwelp" (whelp, young dog or wolf) in is much debated in this Old English poem. Some critics interpret the "hwelp" as representing a child who is born as a result of an illicit love affair, but the authors argue that many references to wolves in Old Norse literature and law suggest that the "hwelp" in this poem is the child of an outlaw father. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: English Language Notes , 28., 3 (March 1991):  Pages 1 - 9.
Year of Publication: 1991.

7. Record Number: 11210
Author(s): Matlock, Wendy A.
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Title : Marginality as Woman’s Freedom: The Case of Floripe [In Jean Bagnyon’s 1478 prose rendition of “Fierabras” (a twelfth-century poem), Floripe (the sister of Fierabras) is a rare example of a woman who lives an active life. Floripe’s magical, near-divine otherness as a Saracen princess allows her extraordinary scope of action in both the public and domestic spheres. As an outsider to Christian society, she is able to act freely, and even after her marriage to a Christian nobleman she remains in a powerful space between two societies. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association , 12., ( 1991):  Pages 41 - 59.
Year of Publication: 1991.

8. Record Number: 12862
Author(s): Raybin, David.
Contributor(s):
Title : Custance and History: Woman as Outsider in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale [The author studies the ways in which Chaucer artistically transforms traditional medieval concepts of time in the Man of Law's Tale. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 12., ( 1990):  Pages 65 - 84.
Year of Publication: 1990.