Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 10855
Author(s): Huot, Sylvia
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Title : Visualizing the Feminine in the "Roman de Perceforest": The Episode of the "Conte de la rose" [The author argues that in this episode the wife's love and loyalty are celebrated, while the knights who want to shame her husband are emasculated by her cleverness. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image. Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Pages 193 - 206.
Year of Publication: 2004.

2. Record Number: 11408
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Title : A Question of Honor: Eufeme's Transgressions in "Le Roman De Silence" [The author argues that the lustful queen Eufeme does not understand the way honor operates for her husband, King Ebain, and for other male characters in the romance. Her plots to destroy Silence by appealing to her husband's threatened honor are too simplistic. Instead she brings her husband shame and must be executed by being torn apart by horses, the traditional death of traitors. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 38., (Winter 2004): Pages 28 - 37.
Year of Publication: 2004.

3. Record Number: 4320
Author(s): Rasmussen, Ann Marie.
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Title : Little-known Medieval Texts. Good Counsel for a Young Lady: A Low German Mother-Daughter Conduct Poem [the mother advises her daughter to be modest, obedient to her husband, and kind to her servants; it presupposes an urban setting among the middle class in a household workshop].

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 28., (Fall 1999): Pages 28 - 31.
Year of Publication: 1999.

4. Record Number: 5238
Author(s): Englade, Emilio.
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Title : Straw for Youre Gentillesse: Masculine Identity, Honor, and Dorigen

Source: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest , 5., ( 1998): Pages 34 - 57.
Year of Publication: 1998.

5. Record Number: 1340
Author(s): Parry, Joseph D.
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Title : Dorigen, Narration, and Coming Home in the "Franklin's Tale"

Source: Chaucer Review , 30., 3 ( 1996): Pages 262 - 293.
Year of Publication: 1996.

6. Record Number: 9459
Author(s): Grimbert, Joan Tasker.
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Title : Love, Honor, and Alienation in Thomas’s "Roman de Tristan" [In his poem, Thomas portrays the two doomed lovers Tristan and Iseult as figures who suffer deep social alienation when separated from family and homeland. Through these figures, the poet illustrates the eternal conflict between an impulse toward social collectivity and the desire for individuality. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Arthurian Yearbook , 2., ( 1992): Pages 77 - 98.
Year of Publication: 1992.

7. Record Number: 13054
Author(s): Germain, Ellen.
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Title : Lunete, Women, and Power in Chrétien's "Yvain" [One of the Curtain Talk given before performances of "The Lark." Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Romance Quarterly , 38., 1 (February 1991): Pages 15 - 25.
Year of Publication: 1991.