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Messages, Sages and Ages, 2016 The article explores how Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales discusses human sexuality as a major thematic concern in both its normative and its performative dimension, and sex, an (in)tractable issue throughout the Middle Ages, as a core motif that ...
Popescu Dan Nicolae
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Perfumes and perfume-making in the Celestina [PDF]
, 2009 Celestina’s house, as Dorothy Sherman Severin notes, is at the same time ‘a bawdy house, a factory for perfumes and cosmetics, and a symbol of the misrule of a woman empowered by her illegal professions of sorceress, witch and bawd’ (Severin 1995: 45 ...
Twomey, Lesley
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Literature and its modality of love: a psychoanalytic approach
Signo, 2015 Psychoanalysis has always needed art, in special literature, but also, visual and scenic art to reveal what theory cannot see, by representing structures and procedures of psychical and social functioning.
Ernesto Söhnle
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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An evolutionary case for polygyny to counter demographic collapse. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Larsen M.
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Amor e interioridade no Ocidente Medieval: as cansos de Guilherme IX
Ler História, 2009 This article explores the emergence of the inner-self in the Middle’ Ages, through the study of the songs written by the first troubadour, William, Duke of Aquitaine. The work proposes to raise questions about the relevancy of the concept of self applied
Nilton Mullet Pereira
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La expresión del dolor en la lírica medieval alemana: Kreuzlied, Frauenlied, Tagelied [PDF]
, 2008 El presente trabajo aborda la expresión del duelo en la lírica alemana de la Edad Media, tomando como modelos tres subgéneros líricos, todos ellos pertenecientes al denominado Minnesang, o poemas-canciones que expresan el amor cortés.
Balbuena Torezano, M. del Carmen
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