Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 3635
Author(s): Rouhi, Leyla.
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Title : Y Otros Treynta Officios: The Definition of a Medieval Women's Work in "Celestina" [the author argues that Celestina is described by others as having several occupations or as having an occupation too difficult to describe; the author suggests that this condition characterizes women's work in general in which many of them had multi-professional activities].
Source: Celestinesca , 22., 2 (Otoño 1998):  Pages 21 - 31.
Year of Publication: 1998.
2. Record Number: 1377
Author(s): Nenno, Nancy P.
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Title : Between Magic and Medicine: Medieval Images of the Woman Healer [the figures of Queen Îsôt and Feimurgan demonstrate worries that women healers provoked: unregulated practices, superstition, use of magic, even dependence on demonic aid].
Source: Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill.   Edited by Lilian R. Furst .   University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Celestinesca , 22., 2 (Otoño 1998):  Pages 43 - 63.
Year of Publication: 1997.
3. Record Number: 1378
Author(s): Zago, Esther.
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Title : Women, Medicine, and the Law in Boccaccio's "Decameron" [differences in the therapy available to women and men who are victims of lovesickness].
Source: Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill.   Edited by Lilian R. Furst .   University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Celestinesca , 22., 2 (Otoño 1998):  Pages 64 - 78.
Year of Publication: 1997.
4. Record Number: 1584
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Title : Don't Ask, Don't Tell: The Wife of Bath and Vernacular Translations [the Wife of Bath's "Prologue" amd "Tale" promote the status of the vernacular and acknowledge the role female audiences play in the translations of "authoritative" texts like Trotula].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 1 (Spring 1996):  Pages 97 - 123.
Year of Publication: 1996.
5. Record Number: 1705
Author(s): Picherit, Jean- Louis G.
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Title : Les références pathologiques et thérapeutiques dans l'oeuvre de Christine de Pizan [discusses metaphors in Christine's works including sickness as a symbol for love, the King as a physician who heals the body politic, and war as a contagious disease].
Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont .   Paradigme, 1995. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 1 (Spring 1996):  Pages 233 - 244.
Year of Publication: 1995.