Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 6778
Author(s): Cowgill, Jane.
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Title : Chaucer's Missing Children ["In the lyrics, the drama, and in Chaucer's religious tales, then, the sufferings of mothers and children are made analogous to those of Mary and Christ. Children are appropriate, even essential, to this genre because, in their relationships to their mothers, they embody one of the central mysteries of the faith. Conversely, the relationships between fathers and suffering children, while presented as significant in the tales of tragedy and morality, hint at but cannot carry the same spiritual valence. Further, to recapitulate my introductory remarks, children are largely absent from the romances and fabliaux because they would be a hindrance to the internal necessities of those forms. Children are depicted in 'The Canterbury Tales' not according to any principles of realism, but according to their appropriateness to particular literary genres." p. 5 of the electronic version available through Project Muse].
Source: Essays in Medieval Studies , 12., ( 1995):  Pages 1 - 5. and 1-2 (notes) [in the electronic version available through Project Muse]. Issue title: Children and the Family in the Middle Ages.
Year of Publication: 1995.
2. Record Number: 11797
Author(s): Borroff, Marie.
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Title : “Loves Hete” in the Prioress’s Prologue and Tale [The author questions whether or not the Prioress is truly capable of “love celestial.” 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. English Language Notes , 28., 4 (June 1991):  Pages 229 - 235.
Year of Publication: 1991.
3. Record Number: 11794
Author(s): Gaylord, Alan T.
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Title : From Dorigen to the Vavasour: Reading Backwards [The author discusses the differences between reading the Franklin’s Tale “forwards” and “backwards.” 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. English Studies , 72., 6 ( 1991):  Pages 177 - 200.
Year of Publication: 1991.
4. Record Number: 11796
Author(s): Spector, Stephen.
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Title : Empathy and Enmity in the Prioress’s Tale [The author examines the intersection of love and hate in the Prioress’s Tale, focusing on the Prioress’s anti-Semitism. 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. English Studies , 72., 6 ( 1991):  Pages 211 - 228.
Year of Publication: 1991.
5. Record Number: 11761
Author(s): Jonassen, Frederick B.
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Title : Cathedral, Inn, and Pardoner in the "Prologue to the Tale of Beryn" [The anonymous author of a fifteenth-century continuation of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales adopts Chaucerian style, irony, and bawdy subject matter in his story of the Pardoner's adventures in a tavern. The narrative develops the rivalries between Chaucer's pilgrims and introduces a new female character Kitt the Tapster, who is partially modeled after the Wife of Bath. The comic and sinful world of the Inn is a carnivalesque parody of courtly love and other elements of high culture embodied by the Cathedral. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Fifteenth Century Studies , 18., ( 1991):  Pages 109 - 132.
Year of Publication: 1991.
6. Record Number: 11822
Author(s): Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
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Title : Reading Chaucer's Earnest Games: Folk-Mode or Literary Sophistication? [There is no strict difference between the categories of "ernest" (serious, moral) and "game" (light, entertaining) in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Merchant's Tale, a bawdy fabliau about an unfaithful wife and impotent husband, is an example of an "ernest game," a humorous form of story telling that has its roots in folklore and the oral tradition. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: English Language Notes , 29., 2 (December 1991):  Pages 16 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1991.
7. Record Number: 11823
Author(s): Lucas, Angela M. and Peter J. Lucas
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Title : The Presentation of Marriage and Love in Chaucer's "Franklin's Tale" [Chaucer's depiction of the husband and wife this poem conveys the intimacy of a marital relationship in which the spouses are mutually bound to one another through love (rather than obedience). Nonetheless, the public wedding ceremony between the spouses in the poem demonstrates the importance of outwardly displaying the husband's "maistrie" or dominance in the marriage relationship. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: English Studies , 72., 6 ( 1991):  Pages 501 - 512.
Year of Publication: 1991.
8. Record Number: 11795
Author(s): Wimsatt, James I.
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Title : Reason, Machaut, and the Franklin [The article argues that Machaut’s Remede de Fortune influences the view of marriage and friendship expressed in Chaucer’s Franklin’s Tale. 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. English Language Notes , 29., 2 (December 1991):  Pages 201 - 210.
Year of Publication: 1991.
9. Record Number: 11821
Author(s): Green, Richard Firth.
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Title : An Analogue to the "Marital Dilemma" in the Wife of Bath's Tale [The problem facing the husband at the end of this poem (the choice between an old and faithful wife or a beautiful and potentially fickle one) has an analogue in a later French poem, "Les deux maris et leurs deux femmes." The French poem derives the marital problem from the tradition of Latin rhetoric and debate. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: English Language Notes , 28., 4 (June 1991):  Pages 9 - 12.
Year of Publication: 1991.