Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 9902
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Easting , Robert.
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  • 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
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Humor, Bawdy Literature- Verse Sexuality in Literature
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  • Geographic Area: British Isles
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  • Author's Affiliation: Victoria University, Wellington
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  • Year of Publication: 1991.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 00293970