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1.
Record Number:
10856
Author(s):
Griffin, Miranda.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Too Many Women: Reading Freud, Derrida, and "Lancelot" [The author analyzes the false Guinivere episode and the passage describing the most beautiful women in the kingdom. Griffin argues that the female characters are at the same time blind spots in terms of interpretation and concentrations of multiple meanings. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image. Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pages 207 - 220.
Year of Publication:
2004.
2.
Record Number:
10849
Author(s):
Gaunt, Simon.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Look of Love: The Gender of the Gaze in Troubadour Lyric
Source:
Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image. Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pages 79 - 95.
Year of Publication:
2004.
3.
Record Number:
12612
Author(s):
Kay, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Flayed Skin as "objet a": Representation and Materiality in Guillaume de Deguileville’s "Pelerinage de vie humaine" [Allusions to flaying and stripping human flesh abound in Guillaume’s didactic allegory, which features female personifications embodying various abstractions. In the case of the Deadly Sins, flaying skin is linked to bodily punishment; in the case of Virtues, flayed skin alludes to Scripture and written documents (manuscripts being written on parchment, or flayed animal skin). Although Guillaume’s flaying theme presents skin as in some ways pointing towards a sublime immortality, the materiality of skin also represents the mortality of the body. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings. Edited by E. Jane Burns . Palgrave, 2004. Pages 193 - 205.
Year of Publication:
2004.
4.
Record Number:
8308
Author(s):
Priest, Ann-Marie.
Contributor(s):
Title :
I am You: Medieval Love Mysticism as a Post-Modern Theology of Relation [The author argues that the mystical writings of Hadewijch, Mechthild von Magdeburg, and Angela of Foligno present a God who is passionately connected to humans. The author sees these ideas echoed in such postmodern theologians as Carter Heyward for whom relationality strengthens people and defines the loving nature of God. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Magistra , 8., 1 (Summer 2002): Pages 85 - 117.
Year of Publication:
2002.
5.
Record Number:
6215
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Too Many Women: Reading Freud, Derrida, and Lancelot
Source:
Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. . 2002. Magistra , 8., 1 (Summer 2002):
Year of Publication:
2002.
6.
Record Number:
11031
Author(s):
Watt, Diane.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Consuming Passions in Book VIII of John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" [The author argues that the various "appetites" condemned by Gower (incest, latent homosexuality, and female desire) are part of a mirror for princes guide to proper manly behavior that emphasizes the control of sexuality. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source:
Consuming Narrative: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters . University of Wales Press, 2002. Magistra , 8., 1 (Summer 2002): Pages 28 - 41.
Year of Publication:
2002.
7.
Record Number:
8548
Author(s):
Koppelman, Kate.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Devotional Ambivalence: The Virgin Mary as "Empresse of Helle" [The author examines the Middle English miracle of the Virgin in which the clerk Theophilus prays for her help in saving his soul from the devil. Rather than the mild mother figure, Mary is here portrayed as the queen of Hell who aggressively and angrily confronts first Theophilus and then the devil. The author, using psychoanalytic theory, argues that the devout would be filled with anxiety in praying to a Mary who is presented as an unpredictable and powerful figure. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Essays in Medieval Studies: Proceeding of the Illinois Medieval Association
(Full Text via Project Muse) 18 (2001): 67-82
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Year of Publication:
2001.
8.
Record Number:
4614
Author(s):
Park, Katharine.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Review Essay: Fallen Bodies: Pollution, Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages by Dyan Elliott
Source:
Church History , 69., 4 (December 2000): Pages 860 - 866.
Year of Publication:
2000.
9.
Record Number:
3610
Author(s):
Dockray-Miller, Mary.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Beowulf's Tears of Fatherhood [the author argues that since Hrothgar's masculine power is fading, he proposes to adopt the powerful and masculine Beowulf, but Beowulf rejects his proposal]
Source:
Edited by Eileen A. Joy and Mary K. Ramsey with the assistance of Bruce D. Gilchrist Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 10., 1 (Spring 1998): Pages 1 - 28. Reprinted in The Postmodern "Beowulf": A Critical Casebook. Edited by Eileen A. Joy and Mary K. Ramsey with the assistance of Bruce D. Gilchrist. West Virginia University Press, 2006. Pages 439-466.
Year of Publication:
1998.
10.
Record Number:
3473
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
St. Catherine, Lacan, and the Problem of Psycho-History
Source:
Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 3., ( 1998): Pages 91 - 103. Translation, Transformation, and Transubstantiation in the Late Middle Ages
Year of Publication:
1998.
11.
Record Number:
2423
Author(s):
Wickham-Crowley, Kelley M.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Gowther Among the Dogs: Becoming Inhuman c. 1400
Source:
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1997. Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 3., ( 1998): Pages 219 - 244.
Year of Publication:
1997.
12.
Record Number:
3912
Author(s):
Ward, Jennifer C.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Birth of Venus in the Roman de la Rose [the Appendix reproduces texts dealing with the birth of Venus from Isidore of Seville, Fulgentius, Vatican Mythographers, John the Scot, Remigius of Auxerre, Bernardus Silvestris, and Ovide Moralisé; the texts are in both the original language (mostly Latin) and English translation].
Source:
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 1 (Spring 1997): Pages 7 - 37.
Year of Publication:
1997.
13.
Record Number:
2086
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Petrarchan Love and the Pleasures of Frustration [influences of Petrarch and courtly love on literary representations of unfulfilled love including "La Princesse de Clèves" and Wharton's "Age of Innocence"].
Source:
Journal of the History of Ideas
(Full Text via Project Muse) 58, 4 (October 1997): 557-572.
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Year of Publication:
1997.
14.
Record Number:
2425
Author(s):
Sturges, Robert S.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Pardoner, Veiled and Unveiled
Source:
Becoming Male in the Middle Ages. Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1997. Pages 261 - 277.
Year of Publication:
1997.
15.
Record Number:
1577
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Aers, David, Issue Editor.
Title :
Preface [argues that psychoanalytic criticism and gender theories are valid for historical inquiry in the Middle Ages].
Source:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 26., 2 (Spring 1996): Pages 199 - 208. Special Issue: Historical Inquiries/ Psychoanalytic Criticism/ Gender Studies
Year of Publication:
1996.
16.
Record Number:
3582
Author(s):
Sheingorn, Pamela.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Maternal Behavior of God: Divine Father as Fantasy Husband
Source:
Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Pages 77 - 99.
Year of Publication:
1996.
17.
Record Number:
788
Author(s):
Petersen, Zina.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Every Manner of Things Shall Be Well: Mirroring Serenity in the "Shewings" of Julian of Norwich [Lacan's stages of human development are compared to Julian's steps in mystical growth, with the biggest difference being Julian's resolution of alienation through religious ritual].
Source:
Mystics Quarterly , 22., 3 (Sept. 1996): Pages 91 - 101.
Year of Publication:
1996.
18.
Record Number:
3587
Author(s):
Sprung, Andrew.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Inverted Metaphor: Earthly Mothering as "Figura" of Divine Love in Julian of Norwich's "Book of Showings"
Source:
Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Mystics Quarterly , 22., 3 (Sept. 1996): Pages 183 - 199.
Year of Publication:
1996.
19.
Record Number:
1107
Author(s):
Dutton, Marsha L.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Invented Sexual History of Aelred of Rievaulx: A Review Article [critique of Brian Patrick McGuire's article "Sexual Awareness and Identity in Aelred of Rievaulx (1110-1167)" published in American Benedictine Review 45, 2 (June 1994): 184-226].
Source:
American Benedictine Review , 47., 4 (December 1996): Pages 414 - 432.
Year of Publication:
1996.
20.
Record Number:
1585
Author(s):
Westphal, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Camilla: The Amazon Body in Medieval German Literature [psychoanalytic reading of von Veldeke's version of the "Aeneid"].
Source:
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 1 (Spring 1996): Pages 231 - 258.
Year of Publication:
1996.
21.
Record Number:
1627
Author(s):
Partner, Nancy F.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Did Mystics Have Sex? [argues that medievalists need to use psychoanalytic theory and cross-cultural anthropology to come to grips with the full mental structure of medieval people, thereby restoring the "depth, complexity, and fellowship with ourselves they deserve"].
Source:
Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler . University of Toronto Press, 1996. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 1 (Spring 1996): Pages 296 - 311.
Year of Publication:
1996.
22.
Record Number:
3595
Author(s):
Partner, Nancy F.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Family Romance of Guibert of Nogent: His Story/ Her Story
Source:
Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 1 (Spring 1996): Pages 359 - 379.
Year of Publication:
1996.
23.
Record Number:
1662
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Le symbolisme du déplacement dans les "Lais" de Marie de France [Fifteenth Annual Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures. May 11-13, 1995].
Source:
Le Cygne: Bulletin of the International Marie de France Society: Abstracts, Notes, and Queries , 2., (April 1996): Pages 5
Year of Publication:
1996.
24.
Record Number:
1582
Author(s):
Marvin, Corey J.
Contributor(s):
Title :
I Will Thee Not Forsake: The Kristevan Maternal Space in Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale" and John of Garland's "Stella maris"
Source:
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 1 (Spring 1996): Pages 35 - 58.
Year of Publication:
1996.
25.
Record Number:
1578
Author(s):
Kay, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Contradictions of Courtly Love and the Origins of Courtly Poetry: The Evidence of the "Lauzengiers" [psychoanalytic and historicist methods discussed; appendices show contradictions in the poems of various troubadours from the period of Guillaume IX through Bernart de Ventadorn on a variety of topics as well as excerpts from their works dealing with "lauzenguers," (jealous courtiers) the crusade, adultery, and religion].
Source:
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 26., 2 (Spring 1996): Pages 209 - 253. Special Issue: Historical Inquiries/ Psychoanalytic Criticism/ Gender Studies
Year of Publication:
1996.
26.
Record Number:
3645
Author(s):
Mazzoni, Cristina.
Contributor(s):
Title :
On the (Un) Representability of Woman's Pleasure: Angela of Foligno and Jacques Lacan
Source:
Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Jane Chance . University Press of Florida, 1996. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 26., 2 (Spring 1996): Pages 239 - 262.
Year of Publication:
1996.
27.
Record Number:
1861
Author(s):
Palmer, Craig.
Contributor(s):
Title :
A Question of Manhood: Overcoming the Paternal Homoerotic in Gottfried's "Tristan"
Source:
Monatshefte , 88., 1 (Spring 1996): Pages 17 - 30.
Year of Publication:
1996.
28.
Record Number:
2821
Author(s):
Maître, Jacques.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Sainte Catherine de Sienne: patronne des anorexiques?
Source:
CLIO, Histoire, Femmes et Sociétés , 2., ( 1995): Pages 109 - 132.
Year of Publication:
1995.
29.
Record Number:
634
Author(s):
Townshend, David.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Omissions, Emissions, Missionaries, and Master Signifiers in Norman Canterbury [gender in Goscelin's life of St. Augustine of Canterbury].
Source:
Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 2 (Fall 1995): Pages 291 - 315.
Year of Publication:
1995.
30.
Record Number:
1527
Author(s):
Calvo González, José.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Femme et monstre dans l'imaginaire médiéval et de la Renaissance (Analyses narratives et idéographiques d'une allégorie)
Source:
La Femme dans l' histoire et la société méridionales (IXe-XIXe S.): Actes du 66e congrés. . Fédération historique du Languedoc méditerranéen et du Roussillon, 1995. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 2 (Fall 1995): Pages 231 - 241.
Year of Publication:
1995.
31.
Record Number:
8616
Author(s):
Ragland, Ellie.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Psychoanalysis and Courtly Love
Source:
Arthuriana , 5., 1 (Spring 1995): Pages 1 - 20.
Year of Publication:
1995.
32.
Record Number:
329
Author(s):
Cardenas, Anthony J.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Desert Experience as Other World in the Poem "Vida de Santa Maria Egipciaca"
Source:
Romance Languages Annual , 7., ( 1995): Pages 413 - 418.
Year of Publication:
1995.
33.
Record Number:
8618
Author(s):
Rossignol, Rosalyn.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Holiest Vessel: Maternal Aspects of the Grail
Source:
Arthuriana , 5., 1 (Spring 1995): Pages 52 - 61.
Year of Publication:
1995.
34.
Record Number:
1765
Author(s):
Semple, Benjamin.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Male Psyche and the Female Sacred Body in Marie de France and Christine de Pizan
Source:
Yale French Studies
(Full Text via JSTOR) 86 (1994): 164-186 Corps Mystique, Corps Sacré: Textual Transfigurations of the Body from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century.
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Year of Publication:
1994.
35.
Record Number:
1407
Author(s):
Leicester, H. Marshall, Jr.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Newer Currents in Psychoanalytic Criticism, and the Difference "It" Makes: Gender and Desire in the "Miller's Tale" [psychoanalytic and post-Lacanian feminist gender theory applied to the figure of Alisoun].
Source:
ELH: A Journal of English Literary History
(Full Text via JSTOR) 61, 3 (Autumn 1994): 473-499.
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Year of Publication:
1994.
36.
Record Number:
1557
Author(s):
Gaudet, Minnette.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Rhetoric of Desire in the "Cansos" of Bernart de Ventadorn [psychoanalytic and feminist readings of Bernart's verses as a means to restore his masculinity and counter his lady's power and frightening sexuality].
Source:
Romance Languages Annual , 6., ( 1994): Pages 67 - 74.
Year of Publication:
1994.
37.
Record Number:
10244
Author(s):
Szell, Timea K.
Contributor(s):
Title :
From Woe to Weal and Weal to Woe: Notes on the Structure of "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The complicated narrative structure of Margery’s “Book” reflects the author’s attempt to reconcile two contradictory psychological impulses: one is the need to gain social acceptance and legitimacy; the other is the desire to be publicly shunned and perceived as outside of societal norms. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Pages 73 - 91.
Year of Publication:
1992.
38.
Record Number:
10246
Author(s):
Bremner, Eluned.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Margery Kempe and the Critics: Disempowerment and Deconstruction [The author compares selected twentieth-century analyses of Kempe’s “Book” (written by literary critics) to episodes in the “Book” itself, in which Margery faces criticism from various figures of authority. Both the modern critics outside the text and the clerical figures within the “Book” reinforce patriarchal structures in response to Kempe, who challenges female suppression and speaks to establish her autonomy and power. Despite critics’ attempts to disempower her, Kempe refuses to accept the marginalization of female sexuality, crosses traditional gender role boundaries, and determines her own voice and social role through speech and writing. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Pages 117 - 135.
Year of Publication:
1992.
39.
Record Number:
12688
Author(s):
Uhl, Patrice.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Un Chat peut en cacher un autre: autour d'une interpretation "sans difficulté" de Henri Rey-Flaud et de Jean-Charles Huchet [The author briefly reflects on psychoanalytic interpretations from Rey-Flaud and Huchet concerning courtly love and more particularly Guillaume IX's "Chanson V: Farai un vers, pos mi sonelh." Rey-Flaud and Huchet see the large menacing cat in the poem as a symbol of the female sex and the cause of the poet's fear of castration. Uhl urges caution with this psychoanalytic approach and suggests other influences and ways of thinking that can be taken into account. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Neophilologus , 75., ( 1991): Pages 178 - 184.
Year of Publication:
1991.
40.
Record Number:
11819
Author(s):
Cestaro, Gary P.
Contributor(s):
Title :
...quanquam Sarnum biberimus ante dentes...: The Primal Scene of Suckling in Dante's De vulgari eloquentia [In his treatise on language, Dante foregrounds suckling imagery and the importance of the maternal body. This maternal imagery stems from a long tradition of representing the allegorical figure of Grammatica (grammar) as a nurse. According to psychoanalytic theory, the assumed natural primacy of the vernacular as a mother tongue (a native language acquired before Latin) evokes a primal scene of union with the mother (a state that precedes linguistic communication in human development). Nonetheless, the rationalistic male grammarian perpetually struggles to obscure the feminine origins of speech in order to maintain strict gender boundaries. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Dante Studies , 109., ( 1991): Pages 119 - 147.
Year of Publication:
1991.
41.
Record Number:
11220
Author(s):
Stanbury, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Voyeur and the Private Life in "Troilus and Criseyde."
Source:
Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 13., ( 1991): Pages 141 - 158.
Year of Publication:
1991.
42.
Record Number:
12749
Author(s):
Ford-Grabowsky, Mary.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Angels and Archetypes: A Jungian Approach to Saint Hildegard [Jung’s psychological work on archetypes helps explain the elusive essence and role of angels in Christian theology. Hildegard’s vision of angels in her writings depict them as resembling archetypes in their dual nature, their affinity to divine energies, and their role in the individuation and salvation of the self. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
American Benedictine Review , 41., 1 ( 1990): Pages 1 - 19.
Year of Publication:
1990.
43.
Record Number:
12796
Author(s):
Reineke, Martha J.
Contributor(s):
Title :
This Is My Body: Reflections on Abjection, Anorexia, and Medieval Women Mystics [Drawing on the feminist theoretical work of thinkers like Julia Kristeva and Rene Girard, the author argues that women mystics' self-imposed starvation mirrors threats against the social body of late medieval Christendom, and reveals the fractures at the base of phallocentric European culture. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Journal of the American Academy of Religion , 58., 2 (Summer 1990): Pages 245 - 265.
Year of Publication:
1990.