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1. Record Number: 44384 Author(s): Peter Damian and David Rollo Contributor(s): Title : The Book of Gomorrah (Liber Gomorrhianus) Source: Medieval Writings on Sex between Men: Peter Damian's The Book of Gomorrah and Alain de Lille's The Plaint of Nature. David Rollo, translator .   Brill, 2022.  Pages 30 - 71. Available with a subscription from Brill: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004507326_003 Year of Publication: 2022.

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2. Record Number: 44842 Author(s): Peter Damian Contributor(s): Title : Clerical Sodomy Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader.   Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter .   University of Toronto Press, 2022.  Pages 243 - 247. Year of Publication: 2022.

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3. Record Number: 41831 Author(s): Contributor(s): Abbouchi, Mounawar, ed. and trans. Title : Yde and Olive Source: Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality , 53., 4 ( 2018):  Pages 1 - 131. Available open access from Medieval Institute Publications on Western Michigan University's ScholarWorks websitehttps://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mff/vol53/iss4/1/ Year of Publication: 2018.

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4. Record Number: 29712 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Queen Gunnhild has her way with Hrut Source: The Viking Age: A Reader.   Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald. Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, 14.   University of Toronto Press, 2010. Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality , 53., 4 ( 2018):  Pages 130 - 133. Published also in the third edition of The Viking Age: A Reader (University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 125-129. Year of Publication: 2010.

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5. Record Number: 11452 Author(s): Hyer, Maren Clegg. Contributor(s): Title : Textiles and Textile Imagery in the "Exeter Book" [The author briefly explores three kinds of textile imagery in the tenth century "Exeter Book" manuscript: textile and textile production metaphors for fate, peacemaking, and illicit sexual activity. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Medieval clothing and textiles. Vol. 1.   Edited by Robin Netherton and Gale R Owen-Crocker .   Boydell Press, 2005. Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality , 53., 4 ( 2018):  Pages 29 - 39. Year of Publication: 2005.

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6. 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. Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality , 53., 4 ( 2018):  Pages 115 - 134. Year of Publication: 2005.

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7. Record Number: 11753 Author(s): Evans, Ruth. Contributor(s): Title : Signs of the Body: Gender, Sexuality, and Space in York and the York Cycle [The author explores the Corpus Christi play cycle in York for the identities of women and space in plays concerning Eve and Procula, Pilate's wife. Also in the essay Evans considers social and political evidence of women's involvements with the plays as patrons and possibly as actresses in addition to the more usual cross-dressing males in female parts. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church.   Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury .   State University of New York Press, 2005. Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality , 53., 4 ( 2018):  Pages 23 - 45. Year of Publication: 2005.

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8. Record Number: 10847 Author(s): Burgwinkle, William. Contributor(s): Title : Visible and Invisible Bodies and Subjects in Peter Damian Source: Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image.   Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality , 53., 4 ( 2018):  Pages 47 - 62. Year of Publication: 2004.

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9. Record Number: 14092 Author(s): Phillips, Kim M. Contributor(s): Title : Desiring Virgins: Maidens, Martyrs, and Femininity in Late Medieval England [The author explores the attractions of virgin martyr stories for young women in the audience. Phillips suggests that the treatment of sexual themes in these stories should be described as "parasexual" (borrowed from studies of Victorian bar maids), cases in which sexuality is acknowledged but is controlled. At the same time the young virgin martyrs are presented as beautiful, glamorous, and dressed in fashionable clothing; all of this was of prime interest to the young women in the audience. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Youth in the Middle Ages.   Edited by P. J. P. Goldberg and Felicity Riddy .   York Medieval Press in association with the Boydell Press, 2004. Medieval Feminist Forum: A Journal of Gender and Sexuality , 53., 4 ( 2018):  Pages 45 - 59. Year of Publication: 2004.

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10. Record Number: 10933 Author(s): Osborn, Marijane Contributor(s): Title : Authorship and Sexual/Allegorical Violence in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" [The author argues that while Jean de Meun's "Rose" calls attention to authorship and authority, it supports the privileges of patriarchy and the subordination of women. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004):  Pages 628 - 659. Year of Publication: 2004.

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11. Record Number: 10853 Author(s): Keen, Catherine M. Contributor(s): Title : Sex and the Medieval City: Viewing the Body Politic from Exile in Early Italian Verse [Keen examines poems by four authors in exile (Dante, Cino da Pistoia, Pietro dei Faitinelli, and Niccolò del Rosso) in which the natal city is depicted as a beautiful woman; sometimes she is to be pitied, but other times she is hateful. 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. Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004):  Pages 155 - 171. Year of Publication: 2004.

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12. Record Number: 10703 Author(s): Phelpstead, Carl, Contributor(s): Title : The Sexual Ideology of Hrólfs saga kraka [The author argues that "Hrólfs saga" embodies patriachal values influenced by Christian concerns. This homosocial world of men generally views women in a misogynist light. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Scandinavian Studies , 75., 1 (Spring 2003):  Pages 1 - 24. Year of Publication: 2003.

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13. Record Number: 10450 Author(s): Besamusca, Bart. Contributor(s): Title : In Quest of What's on a Woman's Mind. Gauvain as Dwarf in the Middle Dutch "Wrake van Ragisel" Source: Neophilologus , 87., 4 (October 2003):  Pages 589 - 596. Year of Publication: 2003.

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14. Record Number: 9179 Author(s): Holsinger, Bruce and David Townsend Contributor(s): Title : Ovidian Homoerotics in Twelfth-century Paris: The Letters of Leoninus, Poet and Polyphone [The authors analyze two Latin poems by Leoninus, a cathedral canon in Paris. Leoninus uses echoes from Ovid not only to establish a playful, loving exchange with his male addressees but, according to Holsinger and Townsend, to celebrate male-male sexual consummation as "a noble and ennobling pursuit." The Appendix presents the Latin texts of the two poems from Bibliothèque nationale MS Latin 14759 ("On a Ring Given by Cardinal Henry" and "To a Friend Who Will Come for the Festival of the Staff") along with English translations. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 8, 3 (2002): 389-423. Link Info Year of Publication: 2002.

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15. Record Number: 6228 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : When is a Bosom not a Bosom? Interpreting Medieval Eroticism Source: Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. .  2002. Year of Publication: 2002.

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16. Record Number: 6223 Author(s): Lindgren, Amy K., Contributor(s): Title : Violent Erections and Suffocating Wombs: Gendered Sexual Dysfunctions in Medieval Spain Source: Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. .  2002. Year of Publication: 2002.

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17. Record Number: 7133 Author(s): Salih, Sarah. Contributor(s): Title : Queering "Sponsalia Christi": Virginity, Gender, and Desire in the Early Middle English Anchoritic Texts [The author examines virginity, in particular the image of the bride of Christ, in the Katherine Group and "Wohunge of Ure Lauerd." She argues that the sexualization in the text does not imply heterosexualization but an eroticism that emphasizes likeness, sometimes both masculine with images of power and sometimes both feminine with images of beauty. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: New Medieval Literatures , 5., ( 2002):  Pages 155 - 175. Year of Publication: 2002.

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18. Record Number: 6231 Author(s): Sturges, Robert S. Contributor(s): Title : Sodomy and Sense: Bodily (In)Visibility in the Gast of Gy Source: Seeing Gender: Perspectives on Medieval Gender and Sexuality. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, King's College, London, January 4-6, 2002. .  2002. New Medieval Literatures , 5., ( 2002): Year of Publication: 2002.

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19. Record Number: 9335 Author(s): Hafner, Susanne. Contributor(s): Title : Coward, Traitor, Landless Trojan: Æneas and the Politics of Sodomy [The author argues that the complaints against Æneas, as presented by the queen to her daughter Lavinia, center on the political rather than the sexual aspects of his preferences for men. Furthermore since Æneas abandoned Dido and refused to even leave her pregnant with his baby, the queen worries that her daughter will not have a child and the kingdom no future ruler. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Essays in Medieval Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 19 (2002): 61-69. Link Info Year of Publication: 2002.

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20. 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.  Pages 28 - 41. Year of Publication: 2002.

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21. Record Number: 11036 Author(s): Evans, Ruth. Contributor(s): Title : The Devil in Disguise: Perverse Female Origins of the Nation [The author examines the connections among women's sexuality, demons and the supernatural, and the myths of the origins of nations. The Latin translation of the story of Albina and her sisters, the discoverers of Britain who had sex with giants, is the text that Evans first analyzes. However, she also briefly considers "Sir Orfeo," "Wife of Bath's Tale," and the York Play, "Joseph's Trouble about Mary." 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.  Pages 182 - 195. Year of Publication: 2002.

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22. 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. Romance Notes , 41., 3 (Spring 2001):  Pages 199 - 211. Year of Publication: 2001.

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23. Record Number: 6022 Author(s): Wailes, Stephen L. Contributor(s): Title : Beyond Virginity: Flesh and Spirit in the Plays of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim [The author argues that the theme of Hrotsvit's plays is the flesh versus the spirit not virginity as many earlier critics have maintained. The author uses the heroines' names for the titles of four of the plays ("Agape, Chiona, and Hurena" in place of "Dulcitius"; "Drusiana" in place of "Calimachus"; "Maria" in place of "Abraham"; and "Thais" in place of "Pafnutius") while the author retains the traditional titles for "Gallicanus" and "Sapientia".] Source: Speculum , 76., 1 ( 2001):  Pages 1 - 27. Full-text of Dulcitus and Gallicanus in English (from the Medieval Sourcebook). Year of Publication: 2001.

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24. Record Number: 6282 Author(s): Pearcy, Roy J. Contributor(s): Title : Fabliau and Romance: Three Notes [The author argues that fabliaux and romances were intended for the same aristocratic audience; the author cites examples from three fabliaux that suggest a courtly cultural milieu]. Source: Romance Notes , 41., 3 (Spring 2001):  Pages 267 - 272. Year of Publication: 2001.

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25. Record Number: 5978 Author(s): Price, Paul. Contributor(s): Title : A Case of Gender Conflict Avoided? The Magnanimous Cuckold in the "Tale of Sir Corneus" Source: Gender and Conflict in the Middle Ages. Gender and Medieval Studies Conference, York, January 5-7 2001. .  2001. Romance Notes , 41., 3 (Spring 2001): Year of Publication: 2001.

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26. Record Number: 5056 Author(s): Scheil, Andrew P. Contributor(s): Title : Bodies and Boundaries in the Old English "Life of St. Mary of Egypt" Source: Neophilologus , 84., 1 (January 2000):  Pages 137 - 156. Year of Publication: 2000.

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27. Record Number: 5300 Author(s): Myers, Jeffrey Rayner. Contributor(s): Title : Chaucer's Pardoner as Female Eunuch [The author argues that the Pardoner is not a homosexual or a eunuch but a cross dressing woman who supports the Wife of Bath's defense of women and may have a heterosexual relationship with the Summoner]. Source: Studia Neophilologica , 72., ( 2000):  Pages 54 - 62. Year of Publication: 2000.

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28. Record Number: 10117 Author(s): Anderson, Rachel. Contributor(s): Title : Sinful Contracts in AElfric's "Life of St. Basil" 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 110: "Ælfric's Saints." Year of Publication: 2000.

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29. Record Number: 10125 Author(s): Emblom, Katherine. Contributor(s): Title : Forbuga&00F0; unrihtwisnesse: Sin and Sexuality in the Transmission of Aelfric's "De initio creaturae" 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 Year of Publication: 2000.

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30. Record Number: 4764 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Bodily Peril: Sexuality and the Subversion of Order in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose" Source: Modern Language Review , 95., 1 (January 2000):  Pages 41 - 61. Year of Publication: 2000.

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31. Record Number: 4412 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : A Priest's Worst (K)nightmare: Fabliau Justice in "Le Prestre et le Chevalier" [The author briefly analyzes a fabliau in which a knight seeks revenge against a greedy priest by having sex with both the priest's niece and his mistress; furthermore the knight threatens to sodomize the priest until the priest pays him a large sum]. Source: French Forum , 25., 2 (May 2000):  Pages 137 - 144. Year of Publication: 2000.

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32. Record Number: 10129 Author(s): Åström, Berit. Contributor(s): Title : The Wages of Sex: Repression of Female Sexuality in Old English Texts Source: Old English Newsletter , 33., 3 (Spring 2000): Paper presented at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, July 10-13, 2000, Session 701: "Sexual Politics and the Representation of Women." Year of Publication: 2000.

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33. Record Number: 4779 Author(s): Jestice, Phyllis G. Contributor(s): Title : Eternal Flame: State Formation, Deviant Architecture, and the Monumentality of Same-Sex Eroticism in the "Roman d'Eneas" ["My argument in this essay has been that in the heteronormative sexual and political economy of early Old French romance we can reclaim the disrputive effects of dialogism and desire, as well as the potentially subversive trace of the silencing of the other (a rhetorical strategy that is itself far from silent) in the historical process of state formation and in the ongoing processes of constructing national political identities." Page 310]. Source: GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 6, 2 (2000): 287-319. Link Info Year of Publication: 2000.

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34. Record Number: 5308 Author(s): Pugh, Tison. Contributor(s): Title : Personae, Same-Sex Desire, and Salvation in the Poetry of Marbod of Rennes, Baudri of Bourgueil, and Hildebert of Lavardin [the author analyzes the poetry of the three clerical authors which presents paradoxical viewpoints on same-sex activity; the author argues that their writings were an attempt "to establish a pathway to God's forgiveness and salvation when interpreted in the light of biblical teachings of reversal and inversion" (Page 74).] Source: Comitatus , 31., ( 2000):  Pages 57 - 84. Year of Publication: 2000.

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35. 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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36. Record Number: 10109 Author(s): Nugent, Christopher G. Contributor(s): Title : Violence and Vernacularity: The Sodom Story in Anglo-Saxon England [Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Medieval Association, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 14-16, 1999, Session 30: "Queer Theory and Medieval Studies: Past, Present, Future."] Source: Old English Newsletter , 33., 3 (Spring 2000): Year of Publication: 2000.

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37. Record Number: 10127 Author(s): Lindley, Carrie. Contributor(s): Title : Wundenlocc and "Hupseax": Gender Expression and Transgression in the Old English "Judith" 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 537: "Old English Poetry III." Year of Publication: 2000.

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38. Record Number: 3712 Author(s): Lauxtermann, Marc. Contributor(s): Title : Ninth-Century Classicism and the Erotic Muse [The author argues that the pederastic poetry read and imitated by Leo the Philosopher and his group of students quickly went out of style when Patriarch Photios branded it as corrupt]. Source: Desire and Denial in Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-First Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1997.   Edited by Liz James. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Publications 6 .   Variorum (Ashgate Publishing), 1999. Philological Quarterly , 78., 4 (Fall 1999):  Pages 161 - 170. Year of Publication: 1999.

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39. Record Number: 4279 Author(s): Callahan, Leslie Abend. Contributor(s): Title : The Widow's Tears: The Pedagogy of Grief in Medieval France and the Image of the Grieving Widow Source: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl .   St. Martin's Press, 1999. Philological Quarterly , 78., 4 (Fall 1999):  Pages 245 - 263. Year of Publication: 1999.

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40. Record Number: 5363 Author(s): van Houts, Elisabeth. Contributor(s): Title : Countess Gunnor of Normandy (c. 950-1031) Source: Collegium Medievale , 12., ( 1999):  Pages 7 - 24. Year of Publication: 1999.

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41. Record Number: 3962 Author(s): Clark, Robert. L. A. Contributor(s): Title : Queering "Orientalism": The East as Closet in Said, Ackerley, and the Medieval Christian West [The author briefly analyzes a play, "Miracle la fille d'un Roy," based on "Yde et Olive," in which the main character Ysabel assumes a masculine identity and ends up married to the princess of Byzantium before her gender is revealed]. Source: Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 336 - 349. Year of Publication: 1999.

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42. 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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43. Record Number: 3652 Author(s): Bullough, Vern L. and Gwen Whitehead Brewer Contributor(s): Title : Medieval Masculinities and Modern Interpretations: The Problem of the Pardoner Source: Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray .   Garland Medieval Casebooks, volume 25. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 2078. Garland Publishing, 1999. Neophilologus , 84., 1 (January 2000):  Pages 93 - 110. Year of Publication: 1999.

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44. 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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45. Record Number: 5299 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Not Tonight Dear, I Have a Vow of Chastity: Sexual Abstinence and Marital Vocation in "The Book of Margery Kempe" Source: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest , 6., ( 1999):  Pages 133 - 147. Year of Publication: 1999.

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46. Record Number: 4504 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : A Women is Like… [the author examines three heroines in Chrétien de Troyes and Marie de France; she argues that they are compared to horses and birds in order to indicate their unreliable sexuality] Source: Romance Quarterly , 46., 2 (Spring 1999):  Pages 67 - 73. Year of Publication: 1999.

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47. Record Number: 4211 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Rolan, de ceu ke m'avez/ Parti dirai mon samblant: The Feminine Voice in the Old French "Jeu-Parti" Source: Neophilologus , 83., 4 (October 1999):  Pages 497 - 516. Year of Publication: 1999.

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48. 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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49. Record Number: 3653 Author(s): Jochens, Jenny. Contributor(s): Title : Triangularity in the Pagan North: The Case Of Bjorn Arngeirsson and Thórthr Kolbeinsson [The author argues that Bjorn and Thórthr care less for the woman Oddny than for their rivalry beginning with Thórthr's homoerotic attraction to the young Bjorn]. Source: Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray .   Garland Medieval Casebooks, volume 25. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 2078. Garland Publishing, 1999. Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest , 6., ( 1999):  Pages 111 - 134. Year of Publication: 1999.

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50. Record Number: 3930 Author(s): Scheil, Andrew P. Contributor(s): Title : Somatic Ambiguity and Masculine Desire in the Old English Life of Euphrosyne [Euphrosyne lives as a eunuch in a monastery ; the text brings out the erotic aspects of homosociality among the monks]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 11., 2 (Spring 1999):  Pages 345 - 361. Year of Publication: 1999.

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51. Record Number: 4313 Author(s): Coletti, Theresa. Contributor(s): Title : Genealogy, Sexuality, and Sacred Power: The Saint Anne Dedication of the Digby "Candlemas Day and the Killing of the Children of Israel" Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 29., 1 (Winter 1999):  Pages 25 - 59. Year of Publication: 1999.

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52. Record Number: 3799 Author(s): Fein, David A. Contributor(s): Title : The Dangerous Sex: Representations of the Female Body in the "Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles" [the author surveys four stories from the "Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles" in which the women with their dangerous sexuality take the upperhand and leave the men thwarted and frequently injured]. Source: Romance Notes , 39., 2 (Winter 1999):  Pages 195 - 202. Year of Publication: 1999.

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53. Record Number: 4209 Author(s): Hyatte, Reginald. Contributor(s): Title : Reading Affective Companionship in the Prose "Lancelot" Source: Neophilologus , 83., 1 (January 1999):  Pages 19 - 32. Year of Publication: 1999.

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54. Record Number: 4754 Author(s): Watt, Diane. Contributor(s): Title : Literary Geneaology, Virile Rhetoric, and John Gower's "Confessio Amantis" ["In this article, my primary concern will be with the way in which Gower's construction of rhetoric can be seen to be both gendered and sexualized, especially when read alongside other classical and medieval discussions of the subject." page 392]. Source: Philological Quarterly , 78., 4 (Fall 1999):  Pages 389 - 415. Year of Publication: 1999.

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55. Record Number: 3608 Author(s): Cartlidge, Neil. Contributor(s): Title : Alas, I Go with Chylde : Representations of Extra-Marital Pregnancy in the Middle English Lyric Source: English Studies , 79., 2 ( 1998):  Pages 395 - 414. Year of Publication: 1998.

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56. Record Number: 3616 Author(s): Erb, James R. Contributor(s): Title : Uncomfortable Metaphors: Philology, Obscenity, and the Nuremberg Fastnachtspiele Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 10., 2 (Fall 1998):  Pages 371 - 403. Year of Publication: 1998.

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57. Record Number: 3957 Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn. Contributor(s): Title : Encrypted Messages: Men, Women, and Figurative Language in "Decameron" 5.4 [The author argues that the deeper message of the story concerns the consolidation of male power and the upholding of patriarchal values.] Source: Philological Quarterly , 77., 1 (Winter 1998):  Pages 1 - 13. Year of Publication: 1998.

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58. Record Number: 5307 Author(s): Russell, Kenneth C. Contributor(s): Title : Peter Damian's "Liber gomorrhianus": The Text vs. the Scholarly Tradition Source: American Benedictine Review , 49., 3 (September 1998):  Pages 299 - 315. Year of Publication: 1998.

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59. Record Number: 5588 Author(s): Weston, L. M. C. Contributor(s): Title : Gender Without Sexuality: Hrotsvitha's Imagining of a Chaste Female Community Source: The community, the family, and the saint: patterns of power in early medieval Europe: selected proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 4-7 July 1994, 10-13 July 1995.   Edited by Joyce Hill and Mary Swan International Medieval Research .   Brepols, 1998. American Benedictine Review , 49., 3 (September 1998):  Pages 127 - 142. Year of Publication: 1998.

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60. 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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61. Record Number: 3614 Author(s): Perfetti, Lisa R. Contributor(s): Title : Men's Theories, Women's Laughter: The Thousand and One Nights and Women's Comic Pleasures in Medieval Literature [The author analyzes the episode in which the three sisters joke with a porter about their sexual organs; the author suggests that this gave women in the audience the opportunity to laugh with, rather than at, the women in the text]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 10., 2 (Fall 1998):  Pages 207 - 241. Year of Publication: 1998.

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62. Record Number: 3175 Author(s): Winkelman, Johann H. Contributor(s): Title : Laatmiddeleeuwse erotica in woord en beeld. Over de literaire achtergronden van enkele profane insignes Source: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik , 50., ( 1998):  Pages 167 - 84. Year of Publication: 1998.

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63. Record Number: 3079 Author(s): Léglu, Catherine. Contributor(s): Title : Identifying the "Toza" in Medieval Occitan "Pastorela" and Old French "Pastourelle" [the"toza" or girl sometimes has an ambiguous social status; she also often serves as the mouthpiece for the poet]. Source: French Studies , 52., 2 (April 1998):  Pages 129 - 141. Year of Publication: 1998.

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64. Record Number: 5434 Author(s): Paxson, James J. Contributor(s): Title : Gender Personified, Personification Gendered, and the Body Figuralized in "Piers Plowman" [The author first considers the tradition of personifications embodied as females and then argues that the gender of Meed and Anima are key feature in Langland's allegory]. Source: Yearbook of Langland Studies , 12., ( 1998):  Pages 65 - 96. Year of Publication: 1998.

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65. Record Number: 3109 Author(s): Warren, Nancy Bradley. Contributor(s): Title : Pregnancy and Productivity: The Imagery of Female Monasticism Within and Beyond the Cloister Walls [drawing on the exemplum of the Pregnant Abbess and the didactic work, "Book to a Mother, " the author argues that they strive to control women's productivity and regulate women's use of property; the Brigittine Order provides a counter example which encourages women's productivity, values women's work, and legitimates women's rights to control material resources] Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 3 (Fall 1998):  Pages 531 - 552. Year of Publication: 1998.

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66. Record Number: 5344 Author(s): Porter, David. Contributor(s): Title : Rhetorical Phallacies: The Poetics of Misogyny in Jean de Meun's Discourse of Nature Source: Mediaevalia , 22., 1 ( 1998):  Pages 59 - 77. 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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67. Record Number: 3615 Author(s): Sturges, Robert S. Contributor(s): Title : The Construction of Heterosexual Desire in Gottfried von Strassburg's "Tristan" [The author argues for a reading of same-sex erotics in King Mark's feelings for Tristan and a heterosexual hegemony in Mark's lukewarm marriage to Isolde]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 10., 2 (Fall 1998):  Pages 243 - 269. Year of Publication: 1998.

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68. Record Number: 3526 Author(s): Townsend, David. Contributor(s): Title : Sex and the Single Amazon in Twelfth-Century Latin Epic Source: The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin.   Edited by David Townsend and Andrew Taylor .   University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 10., 2 (Fall 1998):  Pages 136 - 155. Year of Publication: 1998.

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69. Record Number: 5066 Author(s): Contributor(s): Frantzen, Allen J., eds and Matthews, David, interviewer. Title : Straightforward [Matthews questions Frantzen about the future of Medieval Studies, Queer theory, and his approach to same-sex desire in medieval texts]. Source: Parergon: Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, New Series , 16., 1 (July 1998):  Pages 93 - 104. Year of Publication: 1998.

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70. Record Number: 1914 Author(s): O'Connor, Eugene. Contributor(s): Title : Panormita's Reply to His Critics: The "Hermaphroditus" and the Literary Defense Source: Renaissance Quarterly (Full Text via JSTOR) 50, 4 (Winter 1997): 985-1010. Link Info Year of Publication: 1997.

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71. Record Number: 3291 Author(s): Spicker, Johannes Contributor(s): Title : Oswald von Wolkenstein und die romanische Chanson de la malmariée Source: Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie , 116., ( 1997):  Pages 413 - 416. Year of Publication: 1997.

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72. Record Number: 2137 Author(s): El-Cheikh, Nadia M. Contributor(s): Title : Describing the Other to Get at the Self: Byzantine Women in Arabic Sources (8th-11th Centuries) Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 40., 2 (May 1997):  Pages 239 - 250. Year of Publication: 1997.

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73. Record Number: 1776 Author(s): Raby, Michel J. Contributor(s): Title : Le péché "contre nature" dans la littérature médiévale: deux cas [masturbation and homosexuality as represented in penitential books and in a variety of literary examples drawn from fabliaux, lyric poetry, romances, and travel literature]. Source: Romance Quarterly , 44., 4 (Fall 1997):  Pages 215 - 223. Year of Publication: 1997.

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74. Record Number: 2786 Author(s): Dockray-Miller, Mary. Contributor(s): Title : The Feminized Cross of "The Dream of the Rood" [interprets Christ as an aggressively heterosexual male figure whose heroism, masculinity, and majesty dominate the cross as the feminized other]. Source: Philological Quarterly , 76., 1 (Winter 1997):  Pages 1 - 18. Year of Publication: 1997.

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75. Record Number: 2271 Author(s): Kraman, Cynthia. Contributor(s): Title : Communities of Otherness in Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" [suggests that the female body, the Jewish text of the "Song of Songs," and the enclosed garden are all marginal elements that take on central importance at January's expense]. Source: Medieval Women in Their Communities.   Edited by Diane Watt .   University of Toronto Press, 1997. Philological Quarterly , 76., 1 (Winter 1997):  Pages 138 - 154. Year of Publication: 1997.

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76. Record Number: 2787 Author(s): Rulon-Miller, Nina. Contributor(s): Title : Cynewulf and Cyneheard: A Woman Screams [when the king Cynewulf was visiting a woman's bower in Merton for sex he was ambushed by Cyneheard; the author analyzes the story of the incident as reported in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle with an emphasis on the woman of Merton]. Source: Philological Quarterly , 76., 2 (Spring 1997):  Pages 113 - 132. Year of Publication: 1997.

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77. 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.

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78. Record Number: 2211 Author(s): da Costa Fontes, Manuel. Contributor(s): Title : On Alfonso X's "Interrupted" Encounter with a "Soldadeira" [Alfonso's poem describes an encounter with a prostitute and uses religious parody to make a joke; in the poem the prostitute equates her pleasurable sexual torment with Christ's suffering on the cross]. Source: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , 31., 1 (Enero 1997):  Pages 93 - 101. Year of Publication: 1997.

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79. Record Number: 2492 Author(s): McGrady, Deborah Contributor(s): Title : Women in the Vernacular and the Periodization of Medieval German Literature [also discusses women's roles in the production and dissemination of Old High German literature]. Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 23., (Spring 1997):  Pages 37 - 47. Year of Publication: 1997.

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80. Record Number: 3913 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Boys Will Be... What? Gender, Sexuality, and Childhood in "Floire et Blancheflor" and "Floris et Lyriope" [The author argues that in both texts boyish sexuality leads to inappropriate choices, Floris transgresses social hierarchy and Floire calls into question the categories of gender and kinship]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 1 (Spring 1997):  Pages 39 - 61. Year of Publication: 1997.

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81. 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. Link Info[This link will work only if your institution has a paid subscription through Project Muse]. Year of Publication: 1997.

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82. Record Number: 2477 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Rereading Rape in Medieval Literature: Literary, Historical, and Theoretical Reflections [critique of recent feminist readings arguing that they are based on modern sensibilities rather than medieval literary and cultural values; the author suggests that some medieval women enjoyed the fantasy of forced sex]. Source: Romanic Review , 88., 1 (January 1997):  Pages 1 - 26. Year of Publication: 1997.

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83. Record Number: 2707 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Woman's "Pryvete," May, and the Privy: Fissures in the Narrative Voice in the "Merchant's Tale," 1944-86 [examines the disjunction in May's character between the raped young bride and the duplicitous shrew who cuckolds the old knight in the misogynous fabliau ending]. Source: Chaucer Yearbook , 4., ( 1997):  Pages 61 - 77. Year of Publication: 1997.

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84. Record Number: 2643 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Late Medieval Care and Control of Women: Jean Gerson and His Sisters [Gerson wrote a series of letters and treatises for his six sisters in which he outlined a life devoted to virginity and to prayer in the family home; he specifically told them not to join a religious house for women; texts by Gerson discussed in the article are: "Sept enseignements et autres extraits du Traité sur l'excellence de la virginité" (after 1395), "Neuf considerations" (late 1390s), "Montaigne de contemplation" (1399 or 1400), "Onze ordonnances" (after June 1401), and "Dialogue spirituel" (1407 or 1408)]. Source: Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique , 92., 1 (janvier-mars 1997):  Pages 5 - 37. Year of Publication: 1997.

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85. Record Number: 2427 Author(s): Epp, Garrett P.J. Contributor(s): Title : The Vicious Guise: Effeminacy, Sodomy, and "Mankind" Source: Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler .   Garland Publishing, 1997. Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique , 92., 1 (janvier-mars 1997):  Pages 303 - 320. Year of Publication: 1997.

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86. Record Number: 3293 Author(s): Dzon, Mary. Contributor(s): Title : Grenzüberschreitungen: Begegnungen mit der wilden Frau in dem mittelhochdeutschen Epos "Wolfdietrich B" Source: Monatshefte , 89., 1 ( 1997):  Pages 18 - 30. Year of Publication: 1997.

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87. Record Number: 1378 Author(s): Zago, Esther. Contributor(s): Title : Women, Medicine, and the Law in Boccaccio's "Decameron" [differences in the therapy available to women and men who are victims of lovesickness]. Source: Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill.   Edited by Lilian R. Furst .   University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Monatshefte , 89., 1 ( 1997):  Pages 64 - 78. Year of Publication: 1997.

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88. Record Number: 2716 Author(s): Thomas, Neil. Contributor(s): Title : Gauvain's Guilt in "L'Âtre Périlleux": The Subtext of Sexual Abuse [suggests that hints of Gauvain's sexual weakness oblige him to vindicate himself while conquering sexual predators]. Source: Reading Medieval Studies , 23., ( 1997):  Pages 107 - 119. Year of Publication: 1997.

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89. Record Number: 3915 Author(s): Fehrenbacher, Richard W. Contributor(s): Title : Al That Which Chargeth Nought to Seye: The Theme of Incest in Troilus and Criseyde [The author analyzes patriarchal foundational myths of Troy and the incestuous desire inherent in the exchange of women]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997):  Pages 341 - 369. Year of Publication: 1997.

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90. Record Number: 2212 Author(s): Brown, Catherine. Contributor(s): Title : The Archpriest's Magic Word: Representational Desire and Discursive Ascesis in the "Arçipreste de Talavera" Source: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , 31., 3 (Octubre 1997):  Pages 377 - 401. Year of Publication: 1997.

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91. Record Number: 1833 Author(s): Lees, Clare A. Contributor(s): Title : Engendering Religious Desire: Sex, Knowledge, and Christian Identity in Anglo- Saxon England [representations of the body, sexuality, and eroticism in vernacular literary culture]. Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 27, 1 (Winter 1997): 17-45. Link Info Year of Publication: 1997.

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92. Record Number: 2464 Author(s): Warner, Lawrence. Contributor(s): Title : Woman is Man's Babylon: Chaucer's "Nembrot" and the Tyranny of Enclosure in the "Nun's Priest's Tale" [gendered analysis of "wandering" (sexual, narrative, and linguistic) discusses several themes including woman as tyrant, transgressive sexuality, and the dangerous influence of Biblical translations on women]. Source: Chaucer Review , 32., 1 ( 1997):  Pages 82 - 107. Year of Publication: 1997.

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93. Record Number: 1811 Author(s): Archibald, Elizabeth. Contributor(s): Title : Gold in the Dungheap: Incest Stories and Family Values in the Middle Ages Source: Journal of Family History , 22., 2 (April 1997):  Pages 133 - 149. Year of Publication: 1997.

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94. Record Number: 3287 Author(s): Spicker, Johannes Contributor(s): Title : Oswalds "Ehelieder": Überlegungen zu einem forschungsgeschichtlichen Paradigma Source: Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein Gesellschaft , 9., ( 1996- 1997):  Pages 139 - 156. Year of Publication: 1996- 1997.

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95. Record Number: 2332 Author(s): Szarmach, Paul E. Contributor(s): Title : St. Euphrosyne: Holy Transvestite Source: Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Live and Their Contexts.   Edited by Paul E. Szarmach .   State University of New York Press, 1996. Monatshefte , 88., 1 (Spring 1996):  Pages 353 - 365. Year of Publication: 1996.

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96. Record Number: 1348 Author(s): Everest, Carol A. Contributor(s): Title : Sex and Old Age in Chaucer's "Reeve's Prologue" [metaphors for old age and loss of sexual vigor examined in the context of medieval medical theory]. Source: Chaucer Review , 31., 2 ( 1996):  Pages 99 - 114. Year of Publication: 1996.

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97. 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. Chaucer Review , 31., 2 ( 1996):  Pages 47 - 52. Year of Publication: 1996.

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98. Record Number: 9507 Author(s): Klein, Stacy S. Contributor(s): Title : Aelfric's Sources and His Gendered Audiences [Aelfric's "Life" of Judith was intended for two different audiences: nuns who needed encouragement toward chastity and the noble man Sigeweard and his warriors who were fighting the Vikings. Aelfric's message about chastity could profit warriors because uncontrolled sexual desire would lead men to dishonor. Klein argues that Aelfric's narrative reflects his anxieties both about female sexuality and men's sexual desires. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Essays in Medieval Studies , 13., ( 1996):  Pages 111 - 119. Year of Publication: 1996.

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99. Record Number: 5377 Author(s): Shoshan, Boaz. Contributor(s): Title : Comedy, Pornography, and Social Critique in the Romance of Ahmad Danif [Shoshan argues that the author of the "Romance of Ahmad Danif" portrays the tradesmen who lust afer the young boy Hasan as corrupt and foolish]. Source: Journal of Arabic Literature , 27., 3 (October 1996):  Pages 216 - 226. Year of Publication: 1996.

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100. Record Number: 20793 Author(s): Hendershot, Cyndy Contributor(s): Title : Male Subjectivity, "Fin Amor," and Melancholia in "The Book of the Duchess" Source: Mediaevalia , 21., ( 1996):  Pages 1 - 26. Year of Publication: 1996.

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101. Record Number: 1115 Author(s): Furrow, Melissa. Contributor(s): Title : A Minor Comic Poem in a Major Romance Manuscript: "Lyarde" [brief tale of impotent old husbands put to shame by friars]. Source: Forum for Modern Language Studies , 32., 4 ( 1996):  Pages 289 - 302. Year of Publication: 1996.

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102. Record Number: 1981 Author(s): Plattig, Michael. Contributor(s): Title : Heinrich Seuse als "christliche Erosgestalt"!? Source: Studies in Spirituality , 6., ( 1996):  Pages 49 - 72. Year of Publication: 1996.

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103. Record Number: 1112 Author(s): Ziolkowski, Jan M. Contributor(s): Title : The Erotic Pater Noster, Redux [see earlier articles in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 88 (1987): 31-34, and 89 (1988): 212-214]. Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 97., 3 ( 1996):  Pages 329 - 332. Year of Publication: 1996.

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104. Record Number: 1623 Author(s): Elliott, Dyan. Contributor(s): Title : Bernardino of Siena Versus the Marriage Debt [argues that Bernardino questioned the assumption of equality in the marriage debt and recognized female spirituality as a legitimate reason for women to refuse sex with their husbands]. Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler .   University of Toronto Press, 1996. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 97., 3 ( 1996):  Pages 168 - 200. Year of Publication: 1996.

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105. Record Number: 3585 Author(s): Fein, Susanna Greer. Contributor(s): Title : Maternity in Aelred of Rievaulx's Letter to His Sister Source: Medieval Mothering.   Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler .   Garland Publishing, 1996. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 97., 3 ( 1996):  Pages 139 - 156. Year of Publication: 1996.

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106. Record Number: 1429 Author(s): Finke, Laurie A. Contributor(s): Title : Sexuality in Medieval French Literature: "Séparés, on est ensemble" [overview of recent critical approaches to courtly literature and the fabliau]. Source: Handbook of Medieval Sexuality.   Edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage .   Garland Reference Library of the Humanities vol. 1696. Garland Publishing, 1996. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 97., 3 ( 1996):  Pages 345 - 368. Year of Publication: 1996.

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107. Record Number: 1346 Author(s): Beidler, Peter G. Contributor(s): Title : The Price of Sex in Chaucer's "Shipman's Tale" [value of the 100 francs that the wife of the merchant of St. Denis charged the monk for one night of sex]. Source: Chaucer Review , 31., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 5 - 17. Year of Publication: 1996.

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108. Record Number: 1113 Author(s): Frantzen, Allen J. Contributor(s): Title : The Disclosure of Sodomy in "Cleanness" Source: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (Full Text via JSTOR) 111, 3 (May 1996): 451-464. Link Info Year of Publication: 1996.

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109. Record Number: 1343 Author(s): Kennedy, Beverly Contributor(s): Title : Cambridge MS. DD.4.24: A Misogynous Scribal Revision of the "Wife of Bath's Prologue"? Source: Chaucer Review , 30., 4 ( 1996):  Pages 343 - 358. Year of Publication: 1996.

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110. 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.

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111. Record Number: 1633 Author(s): Karkov, Catherine E. Contributor(s): Title : Protected Sex: A New Look at the "Cantigas de Santa María" [analysis of the various kinds of sexual activities and the Virgin Mary's actions of punishment, forgivness, and protection]. Source: Romance Languages Annual , 8., ( 1996):  Pages 561 - 572. Year of Publication: 1996.

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112. Record Number: 1626 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Reading the Dirty Bits [discusses the kinds of evidence available for the practice of finding sexual pleasure in a literary text ; also considers the ways in which modern literary criticism has addressed this habit of erotic reading]. Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler .   University of Toronto Press, 1996. Romance Languages Annual , 8., ( 1996):  Pages 280 - 295. Year of Publication: 1996.

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113. Record Number: 1725 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Crossing Borders: Gender, Geography, and Class Relations in Three "Serranillas" of the Marqués de Santillana [in each poem the male aristocrat narrator dominates the peasant woman with the implication of sexual conquest]. Source: Corónica , 25., 1 (Fall 1996):  Pages 69 - 84. Year of Publication: 1996.

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114. Record Number: 1431 Author(s): Lampe, David. Contributor(s): Title : Sex Roles and the Role of Sex in Medieval English Literature [overview of Old and Middle English literature with many illustrative quotations]. Source: Handbook of Medieval Sexuality.   Edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage .   Garland Reference Library of the Humanities vol. 1696. Garland Publishing, 1996. Corónica , 25., 1 (Fall 1996):  Pages 401 - 426. Year of Publication: 1996.

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115. Record Number: 1628 Author(s): Karras, Ruth Mazo. Contributor(s): Title : Sex, Money, and Prostitution in Medieval English Culture [both secular and religious literature provide examples of female lust connected with greed, particularly in the case of prostitutes]. Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler .   University of Toronto Press, 1996. Corónica , 25., 1 (Fall 1996):  Pages 201 - 216. Year of Publication: 1996.

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116. Record Number: 1430 Author(s): Jochens, Jenny. Contributor(s): Title : Old Norse Sexuality: Men, Women, and Beasts Source: Handbook of Medieval Sexuality.   Edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage .   Garland Reference Library of the Humanities vol. 1696. Garland Publishing, 1996. Corónica , 25., 1 (Fall 1996):  Pages 369 - 400. Year of Publication: 1996.

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117. Record Number: 1625 Author(s): Epp, Garrett P.J. Contributor(s): Title : Learning to Write with Venus's Pen: Sexual Regulation in Matthew of Vend™me's "Ars versificatoria" Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler .   University of Toronto Press, 1996. Corónica , 25., 1 (Fall 1996):  Pages 265 - 279. Year of Publication: 1996.

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118. Record Number: 1724 Author(s): Kinkade, Richard P. Contributor(s): Title : A Thirteenth- Century Precursor of the "Libro de Buen Amor" : The "Art d' Amors" [both works combine elements of the fabliau, courtly romance, and sermon literature for a learned, clerical audience]. Source: Corónica , 24., 2 (Spring 1996):  Pages 123 - 139. Year of Publication: 1996.

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119. Record Number: 2431 Author(s): Sinclair, Finn. Contributor(s): Title : Defending the Castle: Didactic Literature and the Containment of Female Sexuality [three didactic texts, written by and for men, advise that women need to be restrained morally and physically because of their immoderate sexual appetites]. Source: Reading Medieval Studies , 22., ( 1996):  Pages 5 - 19. Year of Publication: 1996.

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120. Record Number: 5376 Author(s): Montgomery, James E. Contributor(s): Title : For the Love of a Christian Boy: A Song by Abu Nuwas Source: Journal of Arabic Literature , 27., 2 (June 1996):  Pages 115 - 124. Year of Publication: 1996.

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121. Record Number: 2336 Author(s): Horner, Shari. Contributor(s): Title : Da nacodon word: Corporeal Hermeneutics in Aelfric's "Lives of Saints" [Saints Agatha, Agnes, and Lucy]. Source: Old English Newsletter , 29., 3 (Spring 1996): Year of Publication: 1996.

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122. Record Number: 853 Author(s): Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate Contributor(s): Title : The Scandal of Pasiphae: Narration and Interpretation in the "Ovide Moralisé" Source: Modern Philology (Full Text via JSTOR) 93, 3 (February 1996): 307-326. Link Info Year of Publication: 1996.

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123. Record Number: 1624 Author(s): Straus, Barrie Ruth. Contributor(s): Title : Freedom Through Renunciation? Women's Voices, Women's Bodies, and the Phallic Order [female literary characters who want to abstain from sex]. Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler .   University of Toronto Press, 1996.  Pages 245 - 264. Year of Publication: 1996.

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124. Record Number: 1079 Author(s): Nye, Andrea. Contributor(s): Title : A Woman's Thought or a Man's Discipline? The Letters of Abelard and Heloise [contrasts the views of Heloise and Abelard on love, sexuality, ethics, logic, and universals]. Source: Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers.   Edited by Linda Lopez McAlister .   Indiana University Press, 1996.  Pages 25 - 47. [originally published in Hypatia 7, 3 (Summer 1992): 1-22 Year of Publication: 1996.

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125. 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.

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126. Record Number: 4627 Author(s): Lacy, Norris J. Contributor(s): Title : Sex and Love in the Fabliaux [The author discusses four fabliaux: "Aloul," "Le chevalier qui recovra l'amor de sa dame," "Guillaume au Faucon," and "Auberee;" three of the fabliaux incorporate courtly love into their stories, which the author argues should be taken seriously]. 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. Monatshefte , 88., 1 (Spring 1996):  Pages 41 - 46. Year of Publication: 1996.

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127. Record Number: 6 Author(s): Kleinhenz, Christopher. Contributor(s): Title : Pulzelle e maritate: Coming of Age, Rites of Passage, and the Question of Marriage in Some Early Italian Poems Source: Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society.   Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Vickie Ziegler .   Boydell Press, 1995. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 1 (Spring 1995):  Pages 89 - 110. Year of Publication: 1995.

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128. Record Number: 1544 Author(s): Ivanov, Sergey A. Contributor(s): Title : A Saint in a Whore-house [stories of monks who visit prostitutes in order to convert them; the monks pretend to be customers and this provocative behavior relates them to the holy fools whose obscene or insane behavior was intended to shock the complacent]. Source: Byzantinoslavica , 56., 2 ( 1995):  Pages 439 - 445. Year of Publication: 1995.

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129. Record Number: 1354 Author(s): Johnston, Elva. Contributor(s): Title : Transforming Women in Irish Hagiography Source: Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland , 9., ( 1995):  Pages 197 - 220. Year of Publication: 1995.

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130. Record Number: 584 Author(s): Irvine, Martin. Contributor(s): Title : Complicitous Laughter: Hilarity and Seduction in "Celestina" Source: Hispanic Review (Full Text via JSTOR) 63, 1 (Winter 1995): 19-38. Link Info Year of Publication: 1995.

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131. Record Number: 676 Author(s): Jacobs, Nicolas. Contributor(s): Title : Une allusion impudique chez Hue de Rotelande: "Se li seaus li pent as nages" Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 96., ( 1995):  Pages 223 - 224. Year of Publication: 1995.

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132. Record Number: 617 Author(s): Biscoglio, Frances M. Contributor(s): Title : Fragmentation and Reconstruction: Images of the Female Body in "Ancrene Wisse" and the Katherine Group [images of the erotic, the maternal, the ascetic, and of fertility represent the union of the anchoress with Christ]. Source: Comitatus , 26., ( 1995):  Pages 27 - 52. [Contributions are accepted from graduate students and those who have received their doctorates within the last three years] Year of Publication: 1995.

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133. Record Number: 1192 Author(s): Feimer, Joel. Contributor(s): Title : Sexual Violence and the Female Reader: Symbolic "Rape" in the Saints' Lives of the Katherine Group [the martyred virgins Juliana, Margaret, and Katherine]. Source: Women's Studies , 24., 3 ( 1995):  Pages 205 - 217. Special Issue: Issues in Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship Year of Publication: 1995.

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134. Record Number: 4829 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : The Trouble with Sodom: Literary Responses to Biblical Sexuality [the author analyzes English reactions to the story of Lot including the threatened homosexual rape of the angels, Lot's offering of his daughters in the angels' place, and the daughters' incest with Lot; texts and authors analyzed are Alcuin, Aelfric, "Genesis A," Gower, and "Cleanness"]. Source: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester , 77., 3 (Autumn 1995):  Pages 97 - 119. Year of Publication: 1995.

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135. Record Number: 461 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : No Sex Please, We're Anglo- Saxons? Attitudes to Sexuality in Old English Prose and Poetry Source: Leeds Studies in English , ( 1995):  Pages 1 - 27. Year of Publication: 1995.

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136. Record Number: 1118 Author(s): Peters, Brad. Contributor(s): Title : Rolle's Eroticized Language in "The Fire of Love" [in writing for a male audience, Rolle feminizes both the writer and the reader]. Source: Mystics Quarterly , 21., 2 (June 1995):  Pages 51 - 58. Year of Publication: 1995.

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137. Record Number: 448 Author(s): Calabrese, Michael and Eric Eliason Contributor(s): Title : Rhetorics of Sexual Pleasure and Intolerance in the Middle English "Cleanness" Source: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly , 56., 3 (Sept. 1995):  Pages 247 - 275. Year of Publication: 1995.

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138. Record Number: 1871 Author(s): Dallapiazza, Michael. Contributor(s): Title : Männlich-Weiblich: Bilder des Scheiterns in Gottfrieds "Tristan" und Wolframs "Titurel" Source: Arthurian Romance and Gender. Selected Proceedings of the XVIIth International Arthurian Congress.   Edited by Friedrich Wolfzettel Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft .   Rodopi, 1995. Mystics Quarterly , 21., 2 (June 1995):  Pages 176 - 182. Year of Publication: 1995.

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139. Record Number: 1880 Author(s): Ihring, Peter. Contributor(s): Title : Die überlistete Laudine. Korrektur eines antihöfischen Weiblichkeitskonzepts in Chrétiens "Yvain" Source: Arthurian Romance and Gender. Selected Proceedings of the XVIIth International Arthurian Congress.   Edited by Friedrich Wolfzettel Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft .   Rodopi, 1995. Mystics Quarterly , 21., 2 (June 1995):  Pages 147 - 159. Year of Publication: 1995.

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140. Record Number: 74 Author(s): Schaffer, Martha E. Contributor(s): Title : Order of the Poems in Encina's 1496 Cancionero Source: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies , 72., 2 (Apr. 1995):  Pages 147 - 163. Year of Publication: 1995.

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141. Record Number: 469 Author(s): Dishaw, Carolyn. Contributor(s): Title : Chaucer's Queer Touches/ A Queer Touches Chaucer [the Pardoner makes the norm of heterosexuality visible]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 1 (Spring 1995):  Pages 75 - 92. Year of Publication: 1995.

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142. Record Number: 374 Author(s): Arden, Heather. Contributor(s): Title : Women as Readers, Women as Text in the "Roman de la Rose" Source: Women, the Book and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 2. [Volume 1: Women, the Book, and the Godly].   Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor .   D.S.Brewer, 1995. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 1 (Spring 1995):  Pages 111 - 117. Year of Publication: 1995.

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143. Record Number: 8617 Author(s): Mieszkowski, Gretchen. Contributor(s): Title : The Prose of "Lancelot"'s Galehot, Malory's Lavain, and the Queering of Late Medieval Literature Source: Arthuriana , 5., 1 (Spring 1995):  Pages 21 - 51. Year of Publication: 1995.

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144. Record Number: 1644 Author(s): Breeze, Andrew. Contributor(s): Title : Chaucer's "Malkin" and Dafydd Ap Gwilym's "Mald Y Cwd" [this female name had disparaging associations from the thirteenth century onward ; in literature Malkin and Mald were ugly, sluttish hags]. Source: Notes and Queries , 2 (June 1995):  Pages 159 - 160. Year of Publication: 1995.

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145. Record Number: 390 Author(s): Luongo, Thomas. Contributor(s): Title : Catherine of Siena: Rewriting Female Holy Authority [use of erotic imagery and transformations of gender]. Source: Women, the Book and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 1 [Volume 2: Women, the Book and the Worldly].   Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor .   D.S. Brewer, 1995. Notes and Queries , 2 (June 1995):  Pages 89 - 103. Year of Publication: 1995.

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146. Record Number: 462 Author(s): Dillon, Janette. Contributor(s): Title : The Making of Desire in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [relations between laywomen and male clergy that defined sexuality]. Source: Leeds Studies in English , ( 1995):  Pages 113 - 144. Year of Publication: 1995.

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147. Record Number: 439 Author(s): Brownlee, Kevin. Contributor(s): Title : Widowhood, Sexuality, and Gender in Christine de Pizan Source: Romanic Review , 86., 2 (March 1995):  Pages 339 - 353. 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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148. Record Number: 523 Author(s): Cox, Catherine S. Contributor(s): Title : Grope Wel Bihynde: The Subversive Erotics of Chaucer's Summoner Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 7., 1 (Spring 1995):  Pages 145 - 177. Year of Publication: 1995.

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149. Record Number: 3223 Author(s): Rocher, Daniel Contributor(s): Title : Frauenverständnis, Frauengestalten und Frauenrollen in Wittenwilers "Ring" Source: Jahrbuch der Oswald von Wolkenstein Gesellschaft , 8., ( 1994- 1995):  Pages 27 - 37. Year of Publication: 1994- 1995.

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150. 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.Link Info Year of Publication: 1994.

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151. Record Number: 1411 Author(s): Koubena, Elizabeth. Contributor(s): Title : The Lover's Cure in Ovid's "Remedia Amoris" and Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" [it requires that the lover experience the foulness of the naked female body]. Source: English Language Notes , 32., 1 (September 1994):  Pages 13 - 18. Year of Publication: 1994.

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152. Record Number: 1748 Author(s): Hathaway, Robert L. Contributor(s): Title : Fernando de Rojas' Pessimism: The Four Stages of Life for Women at the Margin [Lucrecia, Areúsa, Elicia, and Celestina]. Source: Celestinesca , 18., 2 (Otoño 1994):  Pages 53 - 73. Year of Publication: 1994.

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153. Record Number: 3350 Author(s): Bullón-Fernández, María. Contributor(s): Title : Byyonde the water: Courtly and Religious Desire in "Pearl" [The author argues that religious and sexual impulses both motivate the dreamer; they are intertwined and are even reflected in a blending of genres, the courtly vision and the religious vision]. Source: Studies in Philology , 91., 1 (Winter 1994):  Pages 35 - 49. Year of Publication: 1994.

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154. Record Number: 3464 Author(s): Valbuena, Olga Lucia. Contributor(s): Title : Sorceresses, Love Magic, and the Inquisition of Linguistic Sorcery in "Celestina" Source: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (Full Text via JSTOR) 109, 2 (March 1994): 207-224. Link Info Year of Publication: 1994.

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155. Record Number: 1490 Author(s): Knickerbocker, Dale F. Contributor(s): Title : The Legend of the "Siete Infantes de Lara" and the Problem of "Antifeminismo" [the figures of Lambra and Sancha oppose evil with good; Lambra transgresses the social order with her sexual aggressiveness and usurpation of authority while Sancha supports the patriarchal order as a faithful wife and self-sacrificing mother who only assumes control in the absence of men]. Source: Corónica , 23., 1 (Fall 1994):  Pages 12 - 22. Year of Publication: 1994.

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156. Record Number: 3409 Author(s): de Looze, Laurence. Contributor(s): Title : Sex, Lies, and Fabliaux: Gender, Scribal Practice, and Old/New Philology in "Du Chevalier qui Fist les cons parler" Source: Romanic Review , 85., 4 (November 1994):  Pages 495 - 516. Year of Publication: 1994.

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157. Record Number: 1488 Author(s): Vasvari, Louise O. Contributor(s): Title : Festive Phallic Discourse in the "Libro del Arcipreste" [discussion of four episodes in the Libro de Buen Amor which are strongly colored by sexual violence and phallic humor]. Source: Corónica , 22., 2 (Spring 1994):  Pages 89 - 117. Year of Publication: 1994.

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158. Record Number: 2552 Author(s): Bohler, Danielle. Contributor(s): Title : L'Invective sexuelle dans les fabliaux Source: Atalaya: Revue française d'études médiévales hispaniques , 5., (automne-hiver 1994):  Pages 221 - 230. Year of Publication: 1994.

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159. Record Number: 8481 Author(s): Chinca, Mark. Contributor(s): Title : The Body in Some Middle High German "Mären": Taming and Maiming [The author examines a number of German "mären," falbiau-like stories, in which wives exert mastery over their husbands, sometimes injuring them in a humiliating fashion. The author argues that the stories are addressed to a male audience who consider women peripheral but are bothered by female involvement in what they consider to be male-only activities. The treatment of the body in the "mären" is a code to express men's centrality and women's place at the social margin. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Framing Medieval Bodies.   Edited by Sarah Kay and Miri Rubin .   Manchester University Press, 1994. Atalaya: Revue française d'études médiévales hispaniques , 5., (automne-hiver 1994):  Pages 187 - 210. Year of Publication: 1994.

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160. Record Number: 1409 Author(s): Dane, Joseph A. Contributor(s): Title : The "Syntaxis Recepta" of Chaucer's "Prologue to the Miller's Tale," Lines 3159-61 Source: English Language Notes , 31., 4 (June 1994):  Pages 10 - 19. Year of Publication: 1994.

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161. 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.

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162. Record Number: 1541 Author(s): Barnett, Pamela E. Contributor(s): Title : And Shortly For to Seyn They Were Aton: Chaucer's Deflection of Rape in the "Reeve's" and "Franklin's Tales" [examines the intentions of the sexual violators to injure the fathers and husbands in the "Tales" by raping their women; also comments on the silenced female characters]. Source: Women's Studies , 22., 2 ( 1993):  Pages 145 - 162. Year of Publication: 1993.

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163. Record Number: 6404 Author(s): Predelli, Maria Bendinelli. Contributor(s): Title : La situazione iniziale nel "Cantare di Madonna Elena" [the test of a woman's chastity after her husband has boasted of it, is a motif shared by the "Cantare di Madonna Elena" with several other medieval literary works]. Source: Medioevo Romanzo , 18., ( 1993):  Pages 91 - 103. Year of Publication: 1993.

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164. Record Number: 10283 Author(s): Sayers, William. Contributor(s): Title : Sexual Identity, Cultural Integrity, Verbal and Other Magic in Episodes from "Laxdoela saga" and "Kormáks saga" [The article examines several episodes from two sagas in order to show how threats of verbal magic, questionable sexual identity, and cultural permeability were conceptualized and tolerated in Icelandic society. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Arkiv för nordisk filologi , 107., ( 1992):  Pages 131 - 155. Year of Publication: 1992.

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165. Record Number: 10763 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Difference and the Difference it Makes: Sex and Gender in Chaucer's Poetry [The author briefly considers three passages from Chaucer in answering whether Chaucher was "woman's friend." Delany argues for ambiguity citing both the creative power of some of his female characters and the profound exclusion of women from many parts of English society. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck.   Edited by Juliette Dor .   English Department, University of Liège, 1992. Medioevo Romanzo , 18., ( 1993):  Pages 103 - 111. Year of Publication: 1992.

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166. Record Number: 8720 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Anatomy of the Resisting Reader: Some Implications of Resistance to Sexual Wordplay in Medieval Literature [The author discusses the standard, unarticulated sexual politics in modern scholars' avoidance of and resistance to bawdy puns in medieval literature. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 4., 1 (Spring 1992):  Pages 7 - 34. Year of Publication: 1992.

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167. Record Number: 8701 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : From Epic to Romance: Gender and Sexuality in the "Roman d’Enéas" [The author argues that the "Roman d’Enéas" represents a major ideological shift from epic to romance. Here the male hero is foregrounded at the expense of the group, and his bonds with other males are now mediated by women compliant to patriarchal values. The homophobic sentiments expressed by some of the characters spring from the underlying homosocial desire present throughout the romance. Feminist and queer theory form the framework for the author's reading. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Romanic Review , 83., 1 ( 1992):  Pages 1 - 27. Year of Publication: 1992.

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168. Record Number: 8583 Author(s): Vasvari, Louise O. Contributor(s): Title : Why is Doña Endrina a widow? Traditional culture and textuality in the "Libro de Buen Amor" [The author considers the implications of literary representations of widows as sexually excessive on the one hand, and sexually pleasing on the other. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Upon My Husband's Death: Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe.   Edited by Louise Mirrer Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization .   University of Michigan Press, 1992. Romanic Review , 83., 1 ( 1992):  Pages 259 - 287. Year of Publication: 1992.

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169. Record Number: 8867 Author(s): Pastré, Jean-Marc. Contributor(s): Title : Typologie et topologie de la séduction dans les "Fastnachtspiele" du quinzième siècle [The author examines the spaces in which men and women meet in the "Fastnachtspiel." Frequently the seduction of the young peasant woman takes place in a meadow or garden. Also agricultural work, including threshing grain and plowing, are used as double entendres for sexual encounters. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Fifteenth Century Studies , 19., ( 1992):  Pages 165 - 176. Year of Publication: 1992.

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170. Record Number: 8585 Author(s): Arden, Heather M. Contributor(s): Title : Grief, Widowhood, and Women's Sexuality in Medieval French Literature [The author observes that widows in medieval French literature are often represented as the most lecherous of women, and argues that the texts in effect cautioned men to keep their wives under close watch. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Upon My Husband's Death: Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe.   Edited by Louise Mirrer Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization .   University of Michigan Press, 1992. Fifteenth Century Studies , 19., ( 1992):  Pages 305 - 319. Year of Publication: 1992.

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171. Record Number: 9460 Author(s): Kjaer, Jonna. Contributor(s): Title : Franco-Scandinavian Literary Transmission in the Middle Ages: Two Old Norse Translations of Chretien de Troyes -- "Ivens Saga" and "Erex Saga" [In the thirteenth century, some of Chretien’s Old French romances were translated into Old Norse sagas. The author compares two Norse translations of Chretien’s “Yvain” and “Erec et Enide” and finds that the saga-authors censor Chretien’s sexual references and emphasize the role of the Church over that of Arthur. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Arthurian Yearbook , 2., ( 1992):  Pages 113 - 134. Year of Publication: 1992.

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172. Record Number: 7243 Author(s): Bitel, Lisa M. Contributor(s): Title : Conceived in Sins, Born in Delights: Stories of Procreation from Early Ireland [The author argues that the surviving narratives of sex, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth from eight and ninth-century Ireland represent an exclusively male ideology, and reveal masculine attempts to co-opt the procreative process more generally. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Journal of the History of Sexuality , 3., 2 ( 1992):  Pages 181 - 202. Year of Publication: 1992.

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173. Record Number: 7247 Author(s): Sadlek, Gregory M. Contributor(s): Title : Love, Labor, and Sloth in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde" [The author argues that Troilus' tendencies towards both the erotic and Christian sin of "acedia" (sloth) are the most important aspects of his character] Source: Chaucer Review , 26., 4 ( 1992):  Pages 350 - 367. Year of Publication: 1992.

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174. Record Number: 8722 Author(s): Burns, E. Jane. Contributor(s): Title : Knowing Women: Female Orifices in Old French Farce and Fabliau [The author discusses the "lack" of men's knowledge about women in the French fabliau, and looks at the female voices in that tradition which link women's knowledge to pleasure, and suggests that female pleasure can be known, though it remains purposely concealed. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 4., 1 (Spring 1992):  Pages 81 - 104. Year of Publication: 1992.

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175. Record Number: 10174 Author(s): Barber, Charles. Contributor(s): Title : Reading the Garden in Byzantium: Nature and Sexuality [The author examines a series of texts, particularly Greek romances, in which gardens and women figure. Barber suggests that the male construction of the Byzantine woman is linked to an understanding of the garden. He argues that the dynamic can be read in radically different ways. The male gardener may be seen as being in complete control and dictating what is beautiful to his eye. On the other hand, the garden can be seen as an inbetween spot where male discourse falters and the woman may escape his control. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , 16., ( 1992):  Pages 1 - 19. Year of Publication: 1992.

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176. Record Number: 11781 Author(s): Heusler, Andreas Contributor(s): Peter, Nelson, trans. Title : The Story of the Völsi, an Old Norse Anecdote of Conversion [The author discusses a poem included in a Norse compilation, in which a woman worships the disembodied penis of a horse and eventually converts to Christianity. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Sex in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Joyce E. Salisbury .   Garland Publishing, 1991. Arab Studies Quarterly , 13., 40241 (Summer/Fall 1991):  Pages 187 - 200. Year of Publication: 1991.

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177. Record Number: 11502 Author(s): Quetglas, Pere J. Contributor(s): Title : The Muses of the "Cançoner Eròtic" of Ripoll [The author proposes that two figures in the Latin poem "Cançoner Eròtic de Ripoll" be identified with abbesses, one at Remiremont and the other at Ripoll in Spain. In both cases the women were identified with sexual scandals at their monasteries. However, the poet does not censure the women but praises them for their beauty. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch , 26., ( 1991):  Pages 133 - 139. Year of Publication: 1991.

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178. 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.

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179. Record Number: 11076 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Feminine Knots and the Other "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" [The author attempts to reveal a “feminine” text within "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight." Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (Full Text via JSTOR) 106, 3 (May 1991): 500-514. Link Info Year of Publication: 1991.

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180. Record Number: 11671 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Sexual Discourse through the Image of the Unicorn in Richard de Fournival's "Bestiaire d' amour" and "Response" [The author contrasts Richard de Fournival's use of the unicorn with that of the woman who wrote the "Response." For Richard the unicorn symbolizes men who are victims of unloving women, while the woman sees the unicorn as the man who deceives with "soft words." Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Romance Languages Annual , 3., ( 1991):  Pages 108 - 110. Year of Publication: 1991.

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181. 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. Romance Languages Annual , 3., ( 1991):  Pages 145 - 156. Year of Publication: 1991.

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182. Record Number: 11047 Author(s): Pequigney, Joseph. Contributor(s): Title : Sodomy in Dante's "Inferno" and "Purgatorio" [The author analyzes the "Inferno" and "Purgatorio" to show that Dante's treatment of homosexuality was remarkably tolerant for its time, and that it may even have allowed a salvific function for homoerotic love. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Representations (Full Text via JSTOR) 36 (Autumn 1991): 22-42. Link Info Year of Publication: 1991.

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183. Record Number: 11674 Author(s): Attar, Samar and Gerhard Fischer Contributor(s): Title : Promiscuity, Emancipation, Submission: The Civilizing Process and the Establishment of a Female Role Model in the Frame-Story of "1001 Nights" Source: Arab Studies Quarterly , 13., 40241 (Summer/Fall 1991):  Pages 1 - 18. Year of Publication: 1991.

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184. Record Number: 10976 Author(s): Clover, Carol J. Contributor(s): Title : Gahmuret's Erection: Rising to Adventure [The author analyzes Wolfram's bawdy characterization of Gahmuret in "Parzifal". Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Monatshefte , 83., 4 (Winter 1991):  Pages 403 - 413. Year of Publication: 1991.

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185. 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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186. Record Number: 11788 Author(s): Spearing, A.C. Contributor(s): Title : The Medieval Poet as Voyeur [The author discusses the voyeuristic role into which medieval love poets and their audiences are necessarily drawn. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World.   Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector .   State University of New York Press, 1991. English Language Notes , 29., 2 (December 1991):  Pages 57 - 86. Year of Publication: 1991.

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187. Record Number: 11779 Author(s): Roth, Norman. Contributor(s): Title : Fawn of My Delights: Boy-Love in Hebrew and Arabic Verse [The author argues that, in the medieval period, it was “normal” in both Muslim and Jewish literature for men to express homoerotic desire for adolescent boys. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Sex in the Middle Ages: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Joyce E. Salisbury .   Garland Publishing, 1991. English Language Notes , 29., 2 (December 1991):  Pages 157 - 172. Year of Publication: 1991.

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188. Record Number: 13044 Author(s): Easting, Robert. Contributor(s): Title : Double-Meaning in "Atte Ston Castinges" [In this short note the author points to a sexual double meaning in an early Middle English quatrain about a "leman's" disappointing performance. Easting signals an analog in Chaucer's "Parlement of Fowles." Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Notes and Queries , 236., 2 (June 1991):  Pages 160 Year of Publication: 1991.

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189. Record Number: 12798 Author(s): Cramer, Patricia. Contributor(s): Title : Lordship, Bondage, and the Erotic: The Psychological Bases of Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" [The author offers a psychoanalytic interpretation of "The Clerk's Tale," questioning readings of the story which see Walter and Griselda as an "ideal" Oedipal couple. She further attempts to invalidate Oedipal resolutions by revealing their negative psyc Source: JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 89., 4 (October 1990):  Pages 491 - 511. Year of Publication: 1990.

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190. Record Number: 12676 Author(s): Haahr, Joan G. Contributor(s): Title : Chaucer's "Marriage Group" Revisited: The Wife of Bath and Merchant in Debate [The author compares the attitudes of the Wife of Bath and the Merchant toward marriage. Both emphasize the carnal aspects and presume self-indulgence rather than respect as the ruling factor. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life.   Edited by Helen Rodite Lemay Acta .   Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990. JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 89., 4 (October 1990):  Pages 105 - 120. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987 Year of Publication: 1990.

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191. Record Number: 12809 Author(s): Agapitos, Panagiotis A. Contributor(s): Title : The Erotic Bath in the Byzantine Vernacular Romance "Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe" [The author interprets the erotic bath sequence from Kallimachos, a Byzantine vernacular romance, demonstrating that the bath is therapeutic as well as erotic. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Classica et Mediaevalia , 41., ( 1990):  Pages 257 - 273. Year of Publication: 1990.

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192. Record Number: 12865 Author(s): Furrow, Melissa M. Contributor(s): Title : The Man of Law's St. Custance: Sex and the Saeculum [The author argues that the Man of Law's Tale must be read against the backdrop of other lives of holy women in order to show how Chaucer uses familiar material. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Chaucer Review , 24., 3 ( 1990):  Pages 223 - 235. Year of Publication: 1990.

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193. Record Number: 12787 Author(s): Krueger, Roberta. Contributor(s): Title : Constructing Sexual Identities in the High Middle Ages: The Didactic Poetry of Robert de Blois [The author examines the courtesy manuals of Robert de Blois in order to examine the ways they contributed to medieval definitions of masculinity and femininity, as well as to reveal the ways those same traditional gender categories were destabilized and even transgressed in his writing. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Paragraph , 13., 2 (July 1990):  Pages 105 - 131. Year of Publication: 1990.

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194. Record Number: 12678 Author(s): Westrem, Scott D. Contributor(s): Title : Medieval Western European Views of Sexuality Reflected in the Narratives of Travelers to the Orient [The author briefly surveys four influential travel accounts written in the span of a century. Westrem cites discussion of fornication, adultery, polygamy, and incest. The authors, even the two churchmen, are surprisingly moderate in their attitudes toward these sexual crimes, although they indicate the increasingly serious nature of the offenses. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life.   Edited by Helen Rodite Lemay Acta .   Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990. Paragraph , 13., 2 (July 1990):  Pages 141 - 156. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987 Year of Publication: 1990.

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195. Record Number: 12679 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Science and Discipline: The Ethos of Sex Education in a Fourteenth-Century Classroom [The author briefly surveys a commentary by William of Wheteley on a grammar school text. In lecturing on Aristotelian natural philosophy to his male students, aged seven to fourteen, William went into some detail on the male and female reproductive systems. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life.   Edited by Helen Rodite Lemay Acta .   Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990. Paragraph , 13., 2 (July 1990):  Pages 157 - 172. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987 Year of Publication: 1990.

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196. Record Number: 12770 Author(s): Vasvari, Louise O. Contributor(s): Title : “Chica cosa es dos nuezes:” Lost Sexual Humor in the "Libro del Arcipreste" [The author teases out the ways in which the Libro de Buen Amor uses obscenity and bawdy double entendres to approach forbidden subjects in a humorous way. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , 24., 1 ( 1990):  Pages 1 - 22. Year of Publication: 1990.

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197. Record Number: 12769 Author(s): Beck, Jonathan. Contributor(s): Title : Genesis, Sexual Antagonism, and the Defective Couple of the Twelfth-Century "Jeu d'Adam" [The author discusses the Jeu d’Adam, a medieval French play which, in retelling the story of Genesis, dramatizes the discord between Adam and Eve (portrayed in the play as a defective couple). Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Representations , 29., ( 1990):  Pages 124 - 144. Year of Publication: 1990.

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198. Record Number: 12783 Author(s): Classen, Albrecht. Contributor(s): Title : Love and Marriage in Late Medieval Verse: Oswald von Wolkenstein, Thomas Hoccleve and Michel Beheim [The author investigates three late medieval poets in order to study their different views on marriage and love; he argues that we can see modern views towards marriage developing as early as the fifteenth century. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Studia Neophilologica , 62., 2 ( 1990):  Pages 163 - 188. Year of Publication: 1990.

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199. Record Number: 10987 Author(s): Karras, Ruth Mazo. Contributor(s): Title : Holy Harlots: Prostitute Saints in Medieval Legend [The author examines stories and representations in art of five prostiture saints (Mary of Egypt, Thaïs, Pelagia, Mary (the niece of Abraham), and Afra of Augsburg) and Mary Magdalene. Karras argues that although Mary Magdalene does not make money from her indiscriminate sexuality, she is condemned for lust along with the prostitute saints. Since the essence of femininity is sexuality, it is women's greatest weakness and the prime cause for their repentance. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Journal of the History of Sexuality , 1., 1 (July 1990):  Pages 3 - 32. Year of Publication: 1990.

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200. Record Number: 12875 Author(s): Edwards, Anthony S.G. Contributor(s): Title : The Merchant's Tale and Moral Chaucer [The author argues that the Merchant's Tale produces a style and structure that render the tale morally neutral. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly , 51., ( 1990):  Pages 409 - 426. Year of Publication: 1990.

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201. Record Number: 11196 Author(s): Ahern, John. Contributor(s): Title : Nudi Grammantes: The Grammar and Rhetoric of Deviation in Inferno XV [Male genitalia have a complex range of metaphorical meanings. Certain writers in the medieval rhetorical tradition align sexuality and rhetoric, comparing forms unorthodox sexuality (like sodomy) with perversions of language. Most notably, Brunetto Latini, a grammarian and sodomite who appears in the Inferno, uses a series of puns involving the word “fico” (fig or tree), confusing the word’s natural (biological) and grammatical gender. In Latin and Italian, this word (meaning both tree and fruit) could metaphorically stand for either the male or the female sexual organs. Brunetto’s learned yet ambiguous use of language thus suggests his own sexual deviancy. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Romanic Review , 81., 4 ( 1990):  Pages 466 - 486. Year of Publication: 1990.

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