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From A Non-Consensual Incestuous Relationship To A Promotion To Priestess: The Way That A Father Controls Their Daughter Determines The Status Level That A Woman Can Hold In Apollonius Of Tyre, Sarah Haggerty
Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Showcase
Is a woman only considered a woman when she is owned by a man? How does the relationship between father and daughter shape the way a woman is seen or treated in medieval society? This project examines the Old English version of Apollonius of Tyre, a rare example of secular 11th century prose, as translated by Benjamin Thorpe. Apollonius of Tyre deals with three different familial relationships and the various ways that the fathers as both leaders of the house, and royal officials treat their daughters as property that they own. From one daughter having basic freedoms such as being …
How The ‘Abortion Miracle’ Motif In Medieval Irish Hagiographies Structured Gender Roles In Relation To Female Reproductivity And Sexual Sin, Lora Lynn Horner
How The ‘Abortion Miracle’ Motif In Medieval Irish Hagiographies Structured Gender Roles In Relation To Female Reproductivity And Sexual Sin, Lora Lynn Horner
Essential Studies UNDergraduate Showcase
Four Irish Saints are accredited to performing abortions, otherwise known as the ‘Abortion Miracle’ motif. These four Saints are St. Brigid of Kildare, Ciarán of Saigir, Áed mac Bricc, and Cainnech of Aghoboe. In each of these four Saints lives they share a similar motif in which they bless a mother’s womb resulting in the mother no longer being pregnant. These ‘abortion miracles’ created structured gender roles in which a masculine figure would partake in the intervention of a female and a female’s reproductivity. The intervention of the Saints would come when the women would start to become visually pregnant …
English: 1883-1983, J. F. S. Smeall
English: 1883-1983, J. F. S. Smeall
UND Departmental Histories
This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.
Journalism, Tom Deats
Journalism, Tom Deats
UND Departmental Histories
This departmental history was written on the occasion of the UND Centennial in 1983.
Varsity Verse: A Selection Of Undergraduate Poetry Written At The University Of North Dakota, Charles Watson Boise, Paul Bartlett Griffith
Varsity Verse: A Selection Of Undergraduate Poetry Written At The University Of North Dakota, Charles Watson Boise, Paul Bartlett Griffith
UND Publications
This booklet was published by the University of North Dakota in May 1908 and featured poetry composed by UND students. Included among the selections are three poems by future Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson: "Philosophy at Twenty" (page 9), "Boarding School Epic" (page 11), and "Whitman" (page 12).