Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 10785
Author(s): Hodgson, Miranda.
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Title : Impossible Women: Aelfric's "Sponsa Christi" and "La Mysterique" [The author analyzes Aelfric's account of the life of the virgin martyr, Saint Agnes. She focuses on the speeches that Agnes makes with an emphasis on the Bride of Christ imagery and on "la mysterique," a concept borrowed from Luce Irigaray which describes the only public space in which women can speak about their relationship with Christ. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 33., (Spring 2002): Pages 12 - 21.
Year of Publication: 2002.

2. Record Number: 11157
Author(s): Anderson, Rachel.
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Title : The Power of Speech: Gender and Direct Discourse in AElfric's "Lives of Saints"

Source: Old English Newsletter , 34., 3 (Spring 2001): Appendix A: Abstracts of Papers in Anglo-Saxon Studies. Conference paper presented at the Thirty-Sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 3-6, 2001, Nineteenth Symposium on the Sources of A
Year of Publication: 2001.

3. Record Number: 3734
Author(s): Storm, Mel.
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Title : Speech, Circumspection, and Orthodontics in the "Manciple's Prologue" and "Tale" and the Wife of Bath's Portrait

Source: Studies in Philology , 96., 2 (Spring 1999): Pages 109 - 126.
Year of Publication: 1999.

4. Record Number: 3801
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Title : Silent Women [The author explores the issue of women's silence, as stipulated by scripture, in the writings of Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes, Christine de Pizan, and Madeleine and Catherine des Roches].

Source: Romance Notes , 40., 1 (Fall 1999): Pages 13 - 24.
Year of Publication: 1999.

5. Record Number: 2212
Author(s): Brown, Catherine.
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Title : The Archpriest's Magic Word: Representational Desire and Discursive Ascesis in the "Arçipreste de Talavera"

Source: Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , 31., 3 (Octubre 1997): Pages 377 - 401.
Year of Publication: 1997.

6. Record Number: 10367
Author(s): Dulac, Liliane.
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Title : The Representation and Functions of Feminine Speech in Christine de Pizan’s "Livre des Trois Vertus" [In this didactic text directed to female readers, Christine examines the problematic role of feminine speech in relation to male discourse. Through an analysis of Christine’s allegorical female personifications of Virtues, the author explores the social importance and resources of feminine speech in literary texts. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno . University of Georgia Press, 1992. Revista de Estudios Hispánicos , 31., 3 (Octubre 1997): Pages 13 - 22.
Year of Publication: 1992.

7. Record Number: 10368
Author(s): Fenster, Thelma.
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Title : Did Christine Have a Sense of Humor? The Evidence of the "Epistre au dieu d’Amours" [One of the resources of feminine speech that Christine uses in her works is humor, which can be an instrument of moral critique. Christine uses the rhetorical strategies of humor, irony, and satire in her poetry to rebuke the misogyny of male authors, most powerfully in her attack of Jean de Meun’s “Roman de la Rose.” Title note supplied by Feminae.].

8. Record Number: 10375
Author(s): Altmann, Barbara K.
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Title : Reopening the Case: Machaut’s “Jugement” Poems as a Source in Christine de Pizan [The author addresses the relationship between Christine’s debate poems and Guillaume Machaut’s “Judgment” poems (also called “dits”). Christine was highly indebted to a French lyric tradition which includes Machaut, but was skeptical of the misogynist content in his writings; thus, her poems transform this literary tradition through female speakers or viewpoints. For instance, Christine’s depiction of male beauty in the “Dit de Poissy” ironically reworks courtly conventions of female beauty. Title note supplied by Feminae.].