| Description |
300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Women language |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The function and activities of women in Layamon's Brut / Marie-Francoise Alamichel -- Blaunche on top and Alisoun on bottom / Valerie Allen -- Chaucer's Venuses / Derek Brewer -- A wife there was for Alexander the Great / Gerrit H. V. Bunt -- "No womman of no clerk is preysed": attitudes to women in medieval English religious literature / Leo Carruthers -- "Where was Sarah?" / Gloria Cigman -- Human and divine love in Chaucer and Gower / André Crépin -- The sexual conversion of the Anglo-Saxons / Anthony Davies -- Difference and the difference it makes : sex and gender in Chaucer's poetry / Sheila Delany -- Quarrels, rivals and rape : Gower and Chaucer / Carolyn Dinshaw -- Langland's women / Terry Dolan -- From the crusading Virago to the polysemous virgin : Chaucer's Constance / Juliette Dor -- Feminist re-enactments : gender and the Towneley Vxor Noe / Ruth Ewans -- The names of women in the Canterbury Tales : Chaucer's hidden art of involucral nomenclature / Dorlores Warwick Frese -- Women in love, or three courtly heroines in Chaucer and Malory : Elaine, Criseyde and Guinevere / Maria K. Greenwood -- Lionesses painting lionessess? Chaucer's women as seen by early women scholars and academic critics / Renate Haas -- Chaucerian women, ideal gardens, and the wild woods / Ann Haskell -- Mélusines de France et d'outre manche : portraits of women in Jean d'Arras, Coudrette, and their Middle English translators / Brenda M. Hosington -- The extremeties of the faith : section VIII of the Canterbury Tales / Erik Kooper -- Beguinages and female forms of spiritual life in the Low Countries : an introdutory lecture to a visit of the Leuven Beguinage / Guido Latre -- Chaucer and feminism : a magpie view / Priscilla Martin -- A forgotton heroine in ME literature / Thérèse Saint Paul -- Glimpses of some Anglo-Saxon women / Robin Smith -- Hoccleve's attitude towards women : "I shoop me do my peyne and diligence/To wynne hir loue by obedience" / Anna Torti -- The Wife of Bath, the Franklin, and the Rhetoric of St. Jerome / James I. Wimsatt -- Three Chaucerian widows : tales of innocence and experience / Chauncey Wood. |
| Subject |
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400 -- Characters -- Women.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400. |
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Women -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 500-1500.
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Women and literature -- England -- History.
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Women and literature. |
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England. |
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History. |
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Women in literature.
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Women in literature. |
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Women. |
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Womyn. |
| Added Author |
Mertens-Fonck, Paule.
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Dor, Juliette.
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| Added Title |
Wife there was |
| ISBN |
2872330046 |
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