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1.
Record Number:
2467
Author(s):
Raybin, David.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Chaucer's Creation and Recreation of the "Lyf of Seynt Cecile" [concerns how Chaucer fit the translated saint's life into the profane context of the Cantrbury tales; compares the austere otherworldliness of Saint Cecilia with the more complex, spiritual views of the "Canon's Yeoman's Prologue" and "Tale" and other tales].
Source:
Chaucer Review , 32., 2 ( 1997): Pages 196 - 212.
Year of Publication:
1997.
2.
Record Number:
1341
Author(s):
Jankowski, Eileen S.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Reception of Chaucer's "Second Nun's Tale": Osbern Bokenham's "Lyf of S. Cycyle" [the appendix reproduces lines from the "Second Nun's Tale" and the "Lyf of S. Cycyle" that are similar].
Source:
Chaucer Review , 30., 3 ( 1996): Pages 306 - 318.
Year of Publication:
1996.
3.
Record Number:
311
Author(s):
Cowgill, Bruce Kent.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Sweetness and Sweat: The Extraordinary Emanations in Fragment Eight of the "Canterbury Tales"
Source:
Philological Quarterly , 74., 4 (Fall 1995): Pages 343 - 357.
Year of Publication:
1995.
4.
Record Number:
260
Author(s):
Filax, Elaine.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Female Ideal: Chaucer's Second Nun
Source:
Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature. Edited by Muriel Whitaker . Garland Publishing, 1995. Philological Quarterly , 74., 4 (Fall 1995): Pages 133 - 156.
Year of Publication:
1995.
5.
Record Number:
10364
Author(s):
Shell, Janice and Grazioso Sironi
Contributor(s):
Title :
Cecilia Gallerani: Leonardo’s Lady with an Ermine [The authors identify the sitter for Leonardo’s portrait as Cecilia Gallerani, the mistress of Duke Ludovico Sforza. It is not the lady’s resemblance to other women in other contemporary portraits but the iconography of the painting that identifies her. She holds an ermine (weasel) because Sforza's emblem was the ermine, or because the Greek word for ermine is “gale” (a pun on the lady’s surname). Cecilia may also have been the model for the pointing angel in Leonardo’s “Virgin of the Rocks.” The Appendix transcribes six Latin documents concerning Cecilia. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Artibus et Historiae , 13., 25 ( 1992): Pages 47 - 66.
Year of Publication:
1992.
6.
Record Number:
9485
Author(s):
Johnson, Lynn Staley.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Chaucer's Tale of the Second Nun and the Strategies of Dissent [The article considers the way Chaucer uses the Saint Cecilia legend to comment upon the status of the Church’s moral authority in the late fourteenth century. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source:
Studies in Philology , 89., 3 (Summer 1992): Pages 314 - 333.
Year of Publication:
1992.
7.
Record Number:
7344
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Privileged Knowledge: St. Cecilia and the Alchemist in the "Canterbury Tales" [The author reads the "Second Nun's Tale" against the Alchemist's Tale in order to explore Chaucer's interest in the "epistemology of artistic transformation." Title note supplied by Feminae].
Source:
Chaucer Review , 27., 1 ( 1992): Pages 87 - 96.
Year of Publication:
1992.
8.
Record Number:
10773
Author(s):
Kooper, Erik.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Extremities of the Faith: Section VIII of the "Canterbury Tales" [The author contrasts the nun's Faith in God through her story of Saint Cecilia with the "Canon Yeoman's Tale" concerning the alchemist's false faith in the philosopher's stone. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck. Edited by Juliette Dor . English Department, University of Liège, 1992. Chaucer Review , 27., 1 ( 1992): Pages 209 - 218.
Year of Publication:
1992.
9.
Record Number:
11203
Author(s):
Tobin, Lee Ann.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Give the Saint Her Due: Hagiographical Values for Chaucer’s Second Nun’s Tale and Graham Greene’s "The End of the Affair" [When approaching Saint Celia (protagonist of the Second Nun’s Tale) and Sarah Miles (adulterous protagonist of Greene’s twentieth-century novel), modern critics perceive both of these heroines in a negative manner (deeming them disrespectful or unbelievable as female exemplars). However, such critics abide by rational and objective perspectives which are inappropriate for analyzing hagiographical literature. When viewed from a mystical and spiritual perspective, both heroines radically overturn male power structures and exhibit female strength and virginal power. While Greene revises the hagiographical tradition in his modern-day saint’s life, the essential features of the medieval genre remain unchanged. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Studia Mystica , 14., 40212 (Summer/Fall 1991): Pages 48 - 60.
Year of Publication:
1991.
10.
Record Number:
30922
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Paradiesgärtlein [Little Garden of Paradise]
Source:
Studia Mystica , 14., 40212 (Summer/Fall 1991):
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11.
Record Number:
37357
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Contributor(s):
Title :
Christ with Saints Peter, Paul, Agatha, Cecilia, Valerian, and Pope Paschal I
Source:
Studia Mystica , 14., 40212 (Summer/Fall 1991):
Year of Publication: