The Distaff Gospels
The Distaff Gospels

Author: Madeleine Jeay

Publisher: Broadview Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9781551115603

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The Distaff Gospels (Les Évangiles des Quenouilles), a fascinating fifteenth-century collection of more than 250 popular beliefs, constitutes a kind of encyclopedia of late medieval women’s wisdom. The women’s beliefs and experiences are recounted within the narrative frame of traditional gatherings where women meet with their spindles and distaffs to spin. They share advice on such important matters as how to control errant husbands, how to predict the gender of future offspring, how to cure common diseases, and ways to deal with evil spirits, providing a rare look into the intimate lives of medieval peasant women. This edition includes a facing-page translation (the first in English since 1510) of the two Old French manuscripts of the text. The critical introduction discusses the literary context, textual history, and cultural significance of The Distaff Gospels, while the rich selection of appendices includes translations of the names of the women storytellers and excerpts from works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Jean de Meun, François Villon, and Christine de Pizan.

The Distaff Side
The Distaff Side

Author: Beth Cohen

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 019508683X

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Female Characters play various roles in the Odyssey: patron goddess (Athena), seductress (Kirke, the Sirens, Nausikaa), carnivorous monster (Skylla), maid servant (Eurykleia), and faithful wife (Penelope). Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this study examines these different female representations and their significance within the context of the poem and Greek culture. A central theme of the book is the visualization of the Odyssey's female characters by ancient artists, and several essays discuss the visual and iconographic implications of Odysseus' female encounters as depicted in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art. The distinguished contributors--from the fields of classical studies, comparative literature, art history, and archaeology--are A.J. Graham, Seth L. Schein, Diana Buitron-Oliver, Beth Cohen, Sheila Murnaghan, Lillian Eileen Doherty, Helene P. Foley, Froma I. Zeitlin, H.A. Shapiro, Richard Brilliant, Jenifer Neils, and Christine Mitchell Havelock. Feminine in orientation, but not narrowly feminist in approach, this first interdisciplinary work on the Odyssey's female characters will have a broad audience amongst scholars and students working in classical studies, iconography and art history, women's studies, mythology, and ancient history.

A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature
A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature

Author: Gordon Williams

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2001-09-13

Total Pages: 1650

ISBN-13: 0485113937

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Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.

The Alden Amos Big Book of Handspinning
The Alden Amos Big Book of Handspinning

Author: Alden Amos

Publisher: Interweave

Published: 2001-05

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13:

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Wheel designer and maintainer of textile traditions, Alden Amos the recipient and evaluator of traditional wisdom lets no point go unexamined. This is truly a BIG book offering decades of experience in making and handling yarn. He'll change your spinning for the better, whether you agree with him or not.

THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN ...AND KING LEMUEL: A Prophetic Interpretation
THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN ...AND KING LEMUEL: A Prophetic Interpretation

Author: TIMIBRA TOIKUMO

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-04-14

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 1365873714

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The book is a prophetic interpretation of proverbs chapter thirty-one. It reveals king Lemuel as the New Testament saints conceived from a spiritual vow of the New Jerusalem Mother which is the True Church of Christ. The Virtuous Woman and all her attributes hold the secret to the qualities Christ seeks to find in His church when He returns. What the church of Christ as endowed with great glory and power lay hidden in the Virtuous Woman and what the saints should become lay hidden in King Lemuel. This book brings out all necessary scriptural interpretation for the Endtime saints to help them prepare for the coming of the Lord. The whole chapter of proverbs thirty-one is explained verse by verse prophetically and a blessing is in it for all who read the book.