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Record Number:
8082
Author(s):
Nugent, Christopher G.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Reading Riannon: The Problematics of Motherhood in "Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet" [The author focuses on the episode in which Riannon, the queen, is wrongly accused by her serving women of killing her newborn son. Riannon must accept a strange ritual humiliation as her punishment until the baby is brought back to the royal court. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts. Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price . University Press of Florida, 2002. Pages 180 - 202.
Year of Publication:
2002.
2.
Record Number:
5336
Author(s):
Brook, Leslie C.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Rewards and Punishments in the "De Amore" and Kindred Texts [the author analyzes an allegory in which noble women, and to a lesser extent men, were punished or rewarded according to their service to love; the author argues that the original intention may have been to frighten or cajole women into surrendering themselves to suitors].
Source:
Reading Medieval Studies , 25., ( 1999): Pages 3 - 16.
Year of Publication:
1999.
3.
Record Number:
3997
Author(s):
Hemming, Jessica.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Sellam gestare: Saddle-Bearing Punishments and the Case of Rhiannon
Source:
Viator , 28., ( 1997): Pages 45 - 64.
Year of Publication:
1997.
4.
Record Number:
10890
Author(s):
Nichols, Ann Eljenholm.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Hierosphthitic Topos, or the Fate of Fergus: Notes on the N-Town Assumption [The "N-Town Assumption of Mary Play" contains a reference to the apocryphal story of Fergus, a Jew who interrupts the Virgin Mary’s funeral by attacking her bier as it is carried by the Apostles. In some versions of the story, Fergus is punished for his
Source:
Comparative Drama , 25., 1 ( 1991): Pages 29 - 41.
Year of Publication:
1991.