Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 13638
Author(s): Ion, Despina.
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Title : Politique matrimoniale et stratégies narratives dans "Garin le Loheren" [The author explores the marriage exchanges made by the king, Pippin, which sometimes favor the noble men from Lorraine and sometimes instead help their rivals, the nobles from Bordeaux. There is a great deal of maneuvering with the group from Bordeaux declaring matches invalid. Marriage is generally with a higher ranked woman which confers status and resources on the new husband. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: L' Épopée romane au moyen âge et aux temps modernes: Actes du XIVe Congrès International de la Société Rencesvals pour l' étude des épopées romanes: Naples, 24-30 juillet 1997. 2 volumes.   Edited by Salvatore Luongo .   Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, 2001. Viator , 32., ( 2001):  Pages 247 - 265.
Year of Publication: 2001.
2. Record Number: 5605
Author(s): Mann, Jill.
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Title : Wife-Swapping in Medieval Literature [in order to understand better the relationships among Dorigen, Arveragus, and Aurelius, the author considers the exchange of wives between friends in a number of earlier medieval texts, including the Latin poem "Lantfrid and Cobbo," the many versions of "Amis and Amiloun," the thirteenth-century romance "Athis and Prophilias," Boccaccio's story in the "Decameron" concerning Titus and Gisippus, the story of Rollo and Resus in Walter Map's "De Nugis Curialium," and Giovanni Fiorentino's story of Stricca and Galgano in his fourteenth-century collection "Il Pecorone"].
Source: Viator , 32., ( 2001):  Pages 93 - 112.
Year of Publication: 2001.
3. Record Number: 5020
Author(s): Trigg, Stephanie.
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Title : The Traffic in Medieval Women: Alice Perrers, Feminist Criticism, and "Piers Plowman" [The author warns against affirming the gender system of Western patriarchy while analyzing stereotypes of femininity in Lady Meed].
Source: Yearbook of Langland Studies , 12., ( 1998):  Pages 5 - 29.
Year of Publication: 1998.
4. Record Number: 3915
Author(s): Fehrenbacher, Richard W.
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Title : Al That Which Chargeth Nought to Seye: The Theme of Incest in Troilus and Criseyde [The author analyzes patriarchal foundational myths of Troy and the incestuous desire inherent in the exchange of women].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997):  Pages 341 - 369.
Year of Publication: 1997.
5. Record Number: 2443
Author(s): Gilchrist, Roberta.
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Title : Ambivalent Bodies: Gender and Medieval Archaeology [argues that medieval archaeology has been largely gender-neutral and has missed both female and male agency ; includes short case studies of the gift-exchange of women, burial and commemoration for women and men, and gender and housing].
Source: Invisible People and Processes: Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology.   Edited by Jenny Moore and Eleanor Scott .   Leicester University Press, 1997. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 9., 2 (Fall 1997):  Pages 42 - 58.
Year of Publication: 1997.
6. Record Number: 1866
Author(s): Mullally, Evelyn.
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Title : The Portrayal of Women in the "Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal"
Source: Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland , 10., ( 1996):  Pages 351 - 362.
Year of Publication: 1996.
7. Record Number: 1110
Author(s): Fee, Christopher.
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Title : Beag and Beaghroden: Women, Treasure, and the Language of Social Structure in "Beowulf"
Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 97., 3 ( 1996):  Pages 285 - 294.
Year of Publication: 1996.
8. Record Number: 255
Author(s): Farvolden, Pamela.
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Title : Love Can No Frenship: Erotic Triangles in Chaucer's "Knight's Tale" and Lydgate's "Fabula duorum mercatorum"
Source: Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature.   Edited by Muriel Whitaker .   Garland Publishing, 1995. Romance Philology , 48., 3 (Feb. 1995):  Pages 21 - 44.
Year of Publication: 1995.
9. Record Number: 463
Author(s): Moe, Nelson.
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Title : Not a Love Story: Sexual Aggression, Law, and Order in "Decameron X 4" [Carisendi returns Catalina, believed dead, to her husband].
Source: Romanic Review , 86., 4 (Nov. 1995):  Pages 623 - 638.
Year of Publication: 1995.
10. Record Number: 2571
Author(s): De Paor, Aoife.
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Title : The Status of Women in Medieval Ireland
Source: University College Galway Women's Studies Centre Review , 3., ( 1995):  Pages 69 - 79.
Year of Publication: 1995.
11. Record Number: 190
Author(s): Kelly, Douglas.
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Title : Invention of Briseida's Story in Benoît de Sainte-Maure's "Troie"
Source: Romance Philology , 48., 3 (Feb. 1995):  Pages 221 - 241.
Year of Publication: 1995.
12. Record Number: 2277
Author(s): Karras, Ruth Mazo.
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Title : Desire, Descendants, and Dominance: Slavery, the Exchange of Women, and Masculine Power [discusses men's purchase of control over women's sexuality in the cases of female slaves and of wives].
Source: The Work of Work: Servitude, Slavery, and Labor in Medieval England.   Edited by Allen J. Frantzen and Douglas Moffat .   Cruithne Press, 1994. Romance Philology , 48., 3 (Feb. 1995):  Pages 16 - 29.
Year of Publication: 1994.
13. Record Number: 1541
Author(s): Barnett, Pamela E.
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Title : And Shortly For to Seyn They Were Aton: Chaucer's Deflection of Rape in the "Reeve's" and "Franklin's Tales" [examines the intentions of the sexual violators to injure the fathers and husbands in the "Tales" by raping their women; also comments on the silenced female characters].
Source: Women's Studies , 22., 2 ( 1993):  Pages 145 - 162.
Year of Publication: 1993.
14. Record Number: 11221
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Title : Christianity and Endogamy
Source: Continuity and Change , 6., 3 (December 1991):  Pages 295 - 333.
Year of Publication: 1991.