Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 3957
Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn.
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Title : Encrypted Messages: Men, Women, and Figurative Language in "Decameron" 5.4 [The author argues that the deeper message of the story concerns the consolidation of male power and the upholding of patriarchal values.]
Source: Philological Quarterly , 77., 1 (Winter 1998):  Pages 1 - 13.
Year of Publication: 1998.
2. Record Number: 3782
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Title : The "Povre Widwe" in the "Nun's Priest's Tale" and Boccaccio's "Decameron" [the poor widow's spare, modest, and healthy way of life is contrasted with the corrupt clergy].
Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 99., 3 ( 1998):  Pages 269 - 273.
Year of Publication: 1998.
3. Record Number: 11790
Author(s): Sinicropi, Giovanni.
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Title : Chastity and Love in the Decameron [The author studies the differences between the Decameron story of Nastagio degli Onesti and its sources, showing that Boccaccio’s version’s affirms social harmony and marriage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: The Olde Daunce: Love, Friendship, Sex, and Marriage in the Medieval World.   Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Stephen Spector .   State University of New York Press, 1991. Philological Quarterly , 77., 1 (Winter 1998):  Pages 104 - 120.
Year of Publication: 1991.
4. Record Number: 13055
Author(s): Sherberg, Michael.
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Title : The Patriarch's Pleasure and the Frametale Crisis: "Decameron" IV-V [The author argues that the various storytellers react to Filostrato's theme for Day IV which reinstitutes the male order and denies women any choice in love. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Romance Quarterly , 38., 2 (May 1991):  Pages 227 - 238.
Year of Publication: 1991.