Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 6837
Author(s): Higgins, Paula.
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Title : Musical "Parents" and Their "Progeny": The Discourse of Creative Patriarchy in Early Modern Europe [The author argues that between 1450 and 1600 musicians developed metaphors of fatherhood and male procreation to describe musical creativity and the relation between master and student. The author advocates a feminist analysis of this elaborate male patrilineage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts: Studies in Honor of Lewis Lockwood.   Edited by Jessie Ann Owens and Anthony M. Cummings .   Harmonie Park Press, 1997.  Pages 169 - 186.
Year of Publication: 1997.
2. Record Number: 10371
Author(s): Walters, Lori.
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Title : Fathers and Daughters: Christine de Pizan as Reader of the Male Tradition of "Clergie" in the "Dit de la Rose" [The author investigates the literary relationship between Christine and the male poet Eustache Deschamps. Christine refers to the poet as her master, and her subsequent career is an attempt to beat Deschamps in a contest for poetic legitimacy. Christine may have modeled this literary relationship on the one between Dante and Virgil, but Christine ultimately overcomes the anxiety of influence that characterizes Deschamps’ relationship to his own poetic predecessor Guillaume Machaut. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno .   University of Georgia Press, 1992.  Pages 63 - 76.
Year of Publication: 1992.