Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 27900
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Contributor(s): Michael J. Curley, trans.
Title : XX. On the Elephant [The text recounts in part the way in which the female and male elephant copulate. While the female elephant gives birth in water, the male elephant stands guard against snakes. The elephants are allegorized as Eve and Adam who do not have “any awareness of the mingling of their flesh” until the female ate of the tree (in the elephant’s story mandrake) and became evil. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Physiologus. .   University of Chicago Press, 2009.  Pages 29 - 32.
Year of Publication: 2009.
2. Record Number: 27901
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Title : XXXVII. On the Beaver [The male beaver’s genitals are used as a medicine. When a hunter pursues the beaver, the animal bites off his genitals and throws them at the hunter to save himself. So too, the author allegorizes, should we throw our sins at the devil and acquire spiritual fruits including continence and chastity in good works. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Physiologus. .   University of Chicago Press, 2009.  Pages 52 - 52.
Year of Publication: 2009.
3. Record Number: 27903
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Title : XXXVIII. On the Hyena or the Brute [The hyena can alternate as both male and female, and is thus unclean. The author allegorizes the hyena as a double-minded man who is courageous at a gathering but womanly afterward. The woman’s nature is further equated with being unfaithful. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Physiologus. .   University of Chicago Press, 2009.  Pages 52 - 53.
Year of Publication: 2009.
4. Record Number: 27904
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Title : XLIII. On the Turtle-Dove [The turtle-dove remains faithful to her mate, even if he is captured or killed. The author notes her chastity and allegorizes her as the Church faithful to her crucified mate. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Physiologus. .   University of Chicago Press, 2009.  Pages 56 - 57.
Year of Publication: 2009.