Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45995
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Jacques de Vitry
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  • Title: A Preacher's Stories about the Devil: (c.) A King's Son Who Has Been Brought up in a Cave Is Told That Women Are Demons; (e) The Demon, Guinehochet, Publicly Embarrasses a Man Who Thought He Had Two Sons – The Demon Tells Him One is the Priest's Child; (f) A Devil Rides on the Train of a Matron's Dress; (g) The Devil's Nine Daughters and Their Marriages; (h) A Dicer Defeats the Devil with His Refusal to Deny the Blessed Virgin Mary
  • Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader.  Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter.  University of Toronto Press, 2022.  Pages 289 - 293.
  • Description:
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Demons Devil Exempla, Literary Genre Mary, Virgin, Saint- Cult Sermons Sexuality
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  • Geographic Area: France
  • Century: 13
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  • Related Resources: The text is translated by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter, from Thomas Frederick Crane, The Exempla or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones vulgares of Jacques de Vitry (London: The Folklore Society, 1890), pp. 6, 14, 37-38, 50-52, 67, 72, 97, 101-2, 124-25.
  • Author's Affiliation: Brandon University [Winter]; University of Prince Edward Island [Raiswell]
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  • Year of Publication: 2022.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781442634169 (pbk); 9781442634176 (hbk); 9781442634183 (ePub); 9781442634190 (PDF)