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1.
Record Number:
4638
Author(s):
Bornholdt, Claudia.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Tricked into the Tower: The "Crescentia" Tower Episode of the "Kaiserchronik" as Proto-"Märe" [The author examines the story of Crescentia who fends off her brother-in-law's sexual advances by cleverly outwitting him].
Source:
JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 99., 3 (July 2000): Pages 395 - 411.
Year of Publication:
2000.
2.
Record Number:
5342
Author(s):
Walker, Ashley Manjarrez and Michael A. Sells
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Wiles of Women and Performative Intertextuality: A'isha, the Hadith of the Slander, and the Sura of Yusuf [the authors argue that A'isha (at least the figure and narrator in the hadith, if not the historical figure) shows a rare political sense as well as a fine theological understanding when she praises Allah alone, not her husband the prophet, for her deliverance from the accusations of slanderers].
Source:
Journal of Arabic Literature , 30., ( 1999): Pages 55 - 77.
Year of Publication:
1999.
3.
Record Number:
5337
Author(s):
Burch, Sally L.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Lady, the Lords, and the Priests: The Making and Unmaking of Marriage in "Amadas et Ydoine" [The author emphasizes the authority of the lords in the text to arrange marriages; clergy are clearly subordinates, but Ydoine uses deceit to manage the lords and arrive at her desired end].
Source:
Reading Medieval Studies , 25., ( 1999): Pages 17 - 31.
Year of Publication:
1999.
4.
Record Number:
409
Author(s):
Merguerian, Gayane Karen and Afsaneh Najmabadi
Contributor(s):
Title :
Zulaykha and Yusuf: Whose "Best Story"? [drawing on the Qur'an, early commentaries, and medieval popular stories, the authors analyze the character and motives of Zulaykha (Potiphan's Wife); the theme of women's guile and deceit becomes more pronounced in each succeeding version of the story].
Source:
International Journal of Middle East Studies
(Full Text via JSTOR) 29, 4 (November 1997): 485-508.
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Year of Publication:
1997.
5.
Record Number:
3647
Author(s):
Nouvet, Claire.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Writing (In) Fear [The author analyzes Christine's authorial personae, Cupid and Creintis(Fear); in writing her defense of women Christine must speak as a man].
Source:
Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Jane Chance . University Press of Florida, 1996. Pages 279 - 305.
Year of Publication:
1996.
6.
Record Number:
1737
Author(s):
Burns, E. Jane.
Contributor(s):
Title :
How Lovers Lie Together: Infidelity and Fictive Discourse in the "Roman de Tristan"
Source:
Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook. Edited by Joan Tasker Grimbert . Garland Publishing, 1995. Tenso , 11., 1 (Fall 1995): Pages 75 - 93. Reprinted from Tristania 8, 2 (Spring 1983): 15-30.
Year of Publication:
1995.
7.
Record Number:
1485
Author(s):
Dickey, Constance L.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Deceit, Desire, Distance, and Polysemy in "Flamenca"
Source:
Tenso , 11., 1 (Fall 1995): Pages 10 - 37.
Year of Publication:
1995.
8.
Record Number:
1513
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title :
Women Writers and Women Rulers: Rhetorical and Political Empowerment in the Fifteenth Century
Source:
Women in German Yearbook , 9., ( 1993): Pages 25 - 48.
Year of Publication:
1993.