Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 43569
Author(s): Harris, Carissa M.,
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Title : Teen Moms: Violence, Consent, and Embodied Subjectivity in Middle English Pregnancy Laments
Source: Review of English Studies , 71., 298 ( 2020):  Pages 1 - 18. Available open access from Cambridge Core: https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgz092
Year of Publication: 2020.
2. Record Number: 6402
Author(s): Curtis, Liane.
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Title : Christine de Pizan and "Dueil Angoisseux" [When Christine de Pizan began her literary carrier, writing the "Cent Ballades," she exploited her widow's status, writing in terms of lamentation and long suffering; these were supposed to come naturally to women, especially to widows, removed by misfortune from contamination though sexual activity; "Dueil Angoisseux" was one of these ballades; the poem, an expressions of a widow's grief, was set to music by Binchois (Gilles); both Christine's text and Binchois' music exploit effectively a topic, suffering, in which women were believed to be superior to men; the Appendix presents the French text of "Dueil Angoisseux" along with an English translation].
Source: Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music.   Edited by Todd M. Borgerding .   Routledge, 2002. Review of English Studies , 71., 298 ( 2020):  Pages 265 - 282.
Year of Publication: 2002.
3. Record Number: 2978
Author(s): Jones, Nancy A.
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Title : By Woman's Tears Redeemed: Female Lament in St. Augustine's "Confessions" and the Correspondence of Abelard and Heloise
Source: Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition.   Edited by Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter .   State University of New York Press, 1997. Review of English Studies , 71., 298 ( 2020):  Pages 15 - 39.
Year of Publication: 1997.
4. Record Number: 1169
Author(s): Tasioulas, J.A.
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Title : The Mother's Lament: "Wulf and Eadwacer" Reconsidered [suggests that the poem concerns a mother mourning the fate of her illegitimate infant, left to die in the woods].
Source: Medium Aevum , 65., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 1 - 18.
Year of Publication: 1996.
5. Record Number: 1588
Author(s): Dobrov, Gregory W.
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Title : A Dialogue with Death: Ritual Lament and the "Threnos Theotokou" of Romanos Melodos [a "kontakion," a dramatic and complex chanted dialogue, in this case, between Mary and Christ, exploring paradoxes of gender, body, and voice].
Source: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies , 35., 4 (Winter 1994):  Pages 385 - 405.
Year of Publication: 1994.
6. Record Number: 8721
Author(s): Bennett, Helen.
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Title : The Female Mourner at Beowulf's Funeral: Filling in the Blanks / Hearing the Spaces [The article discusses the incomplete funeral passage in "Beowulf," and critiques normative editing practices around that passage, which tend to "fill it in" with a particular kind of female mourner -- the passive female victim -- rather than to accept its silences and its holes. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 4., 1 (Spring 1992):  Pages 35 - 50.
Year of Publication: 1992.
7. Record Number: 11209
Author(s): McNamer, Sarah
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Authors, Provincial Setting: The Re-versing of Courtly Love in the Findern Manuscript [The article includes an appendix with transcriptions of Middle English poems believed to be written by women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Viator , 22., ( 1991):  Pages 279 - 310.
Year of Publication: 1991.