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Record Number:
5091
Author(s):
Lourie, Elena.
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Title :
Black Women Warriors in the Muslim Army Besieging Valencia and the Cid's Victory: A Problem of Interpretation [the story relates how a group of female archers were attacked by El Cid's second-in-command and as a result stampeded the rest of the Muslim army and caused a rout;the author argues that the story origintated with Arabic writers as an excuse by Muslim males for military failure].
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Traditio , 55., ( 2000): Pages 181 - 209.
Year of Publication:
2000.
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Record Number:
4303
Author(s):
Darrup, Cathy C.
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Title :
Gender, Skin Color, and the Power of Place in the Medieval Dutch "Romance of Moriaen" [The author analyzes the story of Moriaen, a Black Moorish knight in the Dutch "Lancelot;" Blackness is not diluted but its exotic qualities are minimized].
Source:
Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 27., (Spring 1999): Pages 15 - 24.
Year of Publication:
1999.
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Record Number:
3486
Author(s):
Vilatte, Sylvie.
Contributor(s):
Title :
La "déuote Image noire de Nostre-Dame" du Puy-en-Velay: histoire du reliquaire roman et de son noircissement [The author argues that the Virgin from Puy-en-Velay had her face blackened in the fourteenth century in response to pressures from crusades and efforts to convert the Muslims].
Source:
Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Historie , 74., 2 ( 1996): Pages 727 - 760.
Year of Publication:
1996.
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Record Number:
1622
Author(s):
Elbl, Ivana.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Men Without Wives: Sexual Arrangements in the Early Portugese Expansion in West Africa
Source:
Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler . University of Toronto Press, 1996. Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 27., (Spring 1999): Pages 61 - 86.
Year of Publication:
1996.
5.
Record Number:
1701
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Title :
Christine de Pizan's Feminist Strategies : The Defense of the African and Asian Ladies in the "Book of the City of the Ladies"
Source:
Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan. Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont . Paradigme, 1995. Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Historie , 74., 2 ( 1996): Pages 177 - 193.
Year of Publication:
1995.
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Record Number:
3414
Author(s):
De Weever, Jacqueline.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Nicolette's "Blackness"- Lost in Translation [The author argues that recent translators have "lightened" Nicolette's blackness and that the poet's original description should be honored]
Source:
Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994): Pages 317 - 325.
Year of Publication:
1994.
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Isaac and Rebecca
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Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994):
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Balaam, Queen of Sheba, King Solomon
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Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994):
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Queen of Sheba
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Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994):
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33645
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Luxuria
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Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994):
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Record Number:
36961
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Scenes of Host Desecration
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Romance Notes , 34., 3 (Spring 1994):
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