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Record Number: 12475 Author(s)/Creator(s): Fanger , Claire. Contributor(s): Title: The Formative Feminine and the Immobility of God: Gender and Cosmogony in Bernard Silvestris's "Cosmographia" [The author focuses on the divine femininity of Noys and her relationship to the masculine First Being]. 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.  Pages 80 - 101. Description: Article Type: Essay Subject (See Also): Allegory Bernard Silvestris, Author- Cosmographia Creation Femininity in Literature Latin Literature Noys (Literary Figure) Philosophy Award Note: Geographic Area: France Century: 12 Primary Evidence: Illustrations: Table: Abstract: Related Resources: Claire Fanger's The Formative Feminine and the Immobility of God: Gender and Cosmogony in Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia" is a brilliant, theoretically informed close reading of Bernard's strange and suggestive philosophical allegory, tracing "Bernard' Author's Affiliation: Conference Info: - , - Year of Publication: 1998. Language: English ISSN/ISBN: 0812234405

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