Abelard, Pierre: Historia calamitatum, 193, 226; Theologia Christiana, 192, 193
Abraham (patriarch), 14
Accius (Roman playwright), 215
Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cleitophon, 129, 131
Acts of Paul and Thecla, 16, 130
Acts of the Apostles 10:9-16, 252
Adkin, N., 156
Aeschylus, 29
Afranius (Roman playwright), 42, 50; Divortium, 40; Mariti, 40; Repudiatus, 40
Alban, Saint, 261
Alcman, 31
Alexander the Great, 8
Ambrose, 16, 160, 252; De viduis, 253
Anaxagoras, 7
Anderson, W. S., 5
Andreas Capellanus, De amore, 12, 21, 195, 227–28
Anselm, 237
Antiphon the Sophist, 35
Antony and Cleopatra, 29
Aphrodite, 28
Apuleius, 2; Golden Ass, 3, 10, 121, 130 passim, 224, 235
Aristides, Milesian tales, 134
Aristippus, 165
Aristophanes, 2, 32, 84; Lysistrata, 30, 124
Aristotle, 26, 158, 198, 225; Nicomachean Ethics, 7–8, 31; Politics, 31; Topics, 215
Aristotle, pseudo-, Oeconomica, 29
Arria, 233
Artemesia, 259
Athalia (daughter of Jezebel), 233
Athena, 198
Atta (Roman playwright), Socrus, 40
Augustine, 19, 199, 225, 243–69 passim; City of God, 248, 263, 267; De bono conjugali, 18, 19; De bono viduitatis, 249, 256; De civitate Dei, 248, 263, 267; De Genesi contra Manich., 248; On Holy Virginity, 18; On the Good of Marriage, 18; Operis imperfecti contra Julianum, 252; Sermo, 32, 252
Augustus, 11, 93, 101, 107, 108
Babel, cupbearers of, 22
Baker, Donald, 257
Barwick, K., 33
Baudri of Bourgueil, 229
Bede, Eccesiastical History, 261
Benson, Larry, 267
Bernard of Cluny, De contemptu mundi, 230, 235–37
Bernard Silvester, 220
Besserman, Lawrence, 244
Bettini, Maurizio, 41
Bickel, Eduard, 158
Bilia, who endured husband's bad breath, 194, 260, 266
Boccaccio, Corbacdo, 22
Braund, Susanna Morton, 1, 4, 5, 7, 12, 33
Brown, Peter, 11
Carmina Burana, 228
Cato the Censor, 43, 49, 93, 126–27; De agricultura, 117
Cedasus, daughters of, kill themselves, 264
Chanson de mal manage, 199
Chaucer, 243–69 passim; “Franklin's Tale,” 21–23, 256–67; “Legend of Good Women,” 262, 267; “Wife of Bath's Tale,” 21–23, 201–2, 223
Chretien de Troyes, romances, 227
Cicero, 30, 191, 193, 195; 217; De amicitia, 246; De finibus, 86, 88; De inventione, 245, 253; De oratore, 112, 216; De república, 117; divorces Terentia, 225; Pro Caelio, 127, 224
Clark, Elizabeth, 188
Claudian, 214
Claudius (Roman emperor), 3
Clement, pseudo-, Recogniúones, 130
Clement of Alexandria, 37; Stromata, 29
Cleoboulos, 29
Cleon, 2
Cleopatra, 29
Clytemnestra, 13, 20, 28, 54, 124, 224, 233
Coffey, Michael, 114
Columella, 191
De coniuge non ducenda (anonymous poem), 199–200, 222–42 passim
Corbier, Mireille, 51
Corinthians, First Epistle to, 23; I Cor. 6:12, 248; I Cor. 7, 154–91 passim, 243–69 passim; I Cor. 10:23, 248
Couplets sur le manage, 199
Courtney, E., 33, 34, 156, 158
Creusa (bride of Jason), 102
Cupid, 83
Cynics, skeptical toward marriage, 8, 184
Dalzell, A., 89
Damasus, Bishop, 160
Danaus, daughters of, 233
Dark Ages, migrations of, 190
David, 17, 232, 237; and Bathsheba, 233
Dawson, Christopher, 17
De Decker, Josue, 34
Del Corno, D., 130
Delilah, 20
Dempster, Germaine, 257
Deschamps, Eustache, Miroir de manage, 201
Deuteronomy, Book of, 32:13, 214
Diogenes the Cynic, 184
Douglas, Mary, 10
Duff, J. W, 115
Ecclesiastes, Book of, 21; Eccles. 7:27, 228
Encratite movements, 186
Ephesians, Epistle to: Eph. 5:22-32, 170; Eph. 5:25, 15; Eph. 5:25-27, 170, 248, 254
Epicurus, 71, 86, 89, 113, 165, 245; Epicureans, 8, 26, 83, 88, 115
Erasmus, 23; Annotationes on I Cor., 251
Eriphyle, plotted against her husband Amphiaraus, 20, 30, 233
Euripides, 27; Aeolus, 36; Alcestis, 30, 32, 34, 36, 214; Alcmaeon, 36; Andromache, 29, 31, 36; Antiope, 36; Bellerophon, 36; Cretan Women, 36; Danae, 36; Electra, 36; Hecuba, 36; Helen, 99; Hippolytus, 12; Hippolytus stephanophorus, 132; Ino, 31, 36; Melanippe, 36; Meleager, 36; Oedipus, 36; Orestes, 36; Phaethon, 29; Phoenician Women, 36; Phoenix, 36; Protesilaus, 36; Sthenoboea, 36; Suppliant Women, 31
Eusebius, 37
fabula palliata, 39, 40, 52, 54, 62, 63
fabula togata, 40
Feichtinger, Barbara, 14
Fieschi, Andreas, De dissuasione uxorationis, 198
Foucault, Michel, 8
Frye, Northrop, Anatomy of Criticism, 40
Fulbert (uncle of Heloise), 226
Galatians, Epistle to: Gal. 3:28, 171; Gal. 4:26, 14
Galen, 11
Gardner, Jane, 51
Gellius, Aulus, Noctes Atticae, 42–43, 49, 183, 215
Genesis, Book of: Gen. 1-6, 170; Gen. 1:8, 248; Gen. 1:28, 19, 248; Gen. 2:22, 247; Gen. 20:6, 251; Gen. 35:22, 237; Gen. 39:13, 169
Gerald of Wales, 211, 213, 220
Geruchia (correspondent of Jerome), 172
Gorgias, Enkomion of Helen, 99
Gospel of Thomas, 17
Great Mother, 82
Guillaume du Conches, 4
Hagendahl, H., 159
Hanna, Ralph, III, 158, 212, 214, 259, 260
Hebrews, Epistle to, 13:4, 252
Hector, 28
Helen of Troy, 20, 28, 99, 103
Heliodorus, Aethiopika, 130, 131, 132
Hellenistic age, 28
Hellenistic thinkers, 26
Henry II, as literary patron of Walter Map and others, 195, 197, 203, 210
Hephaestus, 28
Heraclitus, 162
Hesiod, 33, 36, 98, 184; Catalogue of Women, 33; Theogony, 10, 30, 98, 115; Works and Days, 30, 224
Hierocles of Alexandria (Stoic philosopher), 37, 184
Hildebert of Lavardin (antifeminist bishop), 229–33, 234
Hildegard of Bingen, 234
Homer, 27, 31, 266; Iliad, 28; Odyssey, 28, 100, 135, 136, 224
Homeric epic, 28
Horace, 6, 86, 165, 230; Ars Poetica, 216; Epistle 2.1, 219; Epodes, 10; Odes, 83, 89, 116, 127, 218; Sermones (Satires), 2, 84, 88, 93, 111–28 passim, 156
Hugh of Folietto, De nuptiis libri duo, 191, 201
Hugh Primas of Orleans, poems against harlots, 20
Isaiah, Book of: Is. 33.18-19, 212; Is. 50:6, 165
Isocrates, Enkomion of Helen, 99
Jacques de Vitry, 8
Jason, 102
Jean de Meung, Roman de la rose, 17, 200
Jerome, 1, 8, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 30, 116, 196; Adversus Helvidium, 160; Adversus Iovinianum, 31, 154–209 passim, 228, 243–69 passim; On the Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary, 17
Jezebel, 233
John of Salisbury, Policraticus, 194, 195, 197, 203, 226–27, 228
Johnson, W. R., 89
John the Apostle, 200; John 4:17, 247; John 4:27, 13; John 6:9, 253; John 20:1-18, 13
John the Evangelist, 200
Joseph (biblical patriarch), 237
Jupiter, moos after Europa, 213, 216
Justinian, 95
Juvenal, 15, 37, 111–28 passim, 165; Sat. 1, 3, 6, 9, 149–50, 236, 245–46; Sat. 2, 33; Sat. 3, 3; Sat. 4, 106; Sat. 5, 118; Sat. 6, 1, 3, 5, 6, 12–14, 17, 21, 31, 32, 33, 34, 72, 74, 86, 104, 137, 198, 224, 239; Sat. 7, 215; Sat. 8, 119; Sat. 9, 3, 33; Sat. 11, 118
Kelly, J. N. D., 248
Kings, First Book of, 11:3, 249
Lawler, Traugott, 158, 214, 259, 260
Lawrence of Durham (antifeminist poet), 220, 223
Leach, Eleanor, 57
Lee, Anne Thompson, 257
Libanius, 28
Lollianus, Phoenikika, 130
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, 129
Lucan, Pharsalia, 215
Lucian: Dialogues of the Gods, 100; Loves, 34
Lucian, pseudo-, Loukios, or The Ass, 130
Lucilia, delivers aphrodisiac to Lucretius, 8
Lucilius (Roman satirist), 2, 6, 32, 73, 74, 112, 156, 157, 184
Lucretia, raped by Tarquin, 171, 233, 260, 262–63, 267
Lucretius, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 71–91 passim, 98, 101, 104, 108, 113, 116, 118
Luke, Gospel of: Luke 12:51-53, 15; Luke 23:34, 165
Luther, Martin, criticizes Jerome, 23–24
Lydgate, John, Payne and Sorrow, 223
Lysidamus, 45
Macedonicus, 62
Macrobius, Saturnalia, 239
Mani (opponent of Jerome), 162
Manilius, 104
Manitius, 237
Map, Walter, Courtiers' Trifles, 21, 22, 195–97, 203, 226–27, 228
Marbod of Rennes: De matrona, 20; Demeretrice, 20, 232–34; Liber decem capitulorum, 12, 20, 229
Marcella (friend of Jerome), 163
Marcion, 162
Marcus Aurelius, 113
Mark, Gospel of, 213; Mark 16:1-8, 13
Mars and Venus, 76, 99, 100, 101, 216
Martianus Capella, 212
Mary Magdalene, 12
Mary, the Virgin, 1, 13; cult of, 198, 201
Matheolus, Matheoli lamentationes, 200
Matthew, Gospel of, 15, 171; Matt. 19:5, 248; Matt. 20:20-22, 17; Matt. 24:19, 17, 170
Menander, 27, 28, 36; Dyscolos, 29, 41; Epitrepontes, 29; Plokion, 29; Samia, 30
Menelaus, 99
Menippus, 115
Messalina, 33
Metellus, Q. Caecilius Macedonicus, 42, 183
Midas, and ass's ears, 247
Milesian tales, 134, 140, 141, 224
Milton, John, Areopagitica, 218
Minadeo, Richard, 89
Montanist heresy, 246
Morin, G., 252
Moses, 214
Musonius Rufus (Stoic philosopher), 32, 36, 184
Myron (second wife of Socrates), 8
Myrrhina, 45
Naevius, 2
Nausicaa, 28
Neckham, Alexander, 237
Nero, 134
New Comedy, 7, 40, 41, 73, 74, 123
New Testament, 19
Nicanor, desires Theban maiden, 265
Nicerates, wife of, a suicide, 266
Niobe, 34
Novius, Tabellaria, 49
Odo, Bishop, 234
Odysseus, 28
Old Comedy, 2
Old Testament, 19
Olympio, 45
Ovid, 13, 20, 54, 84, 193, 202, 230, 237, 247, 259; Amores, 82, 83, 239; Ars amatoria, 11–12, 75, 86, 92–110 passim, 224, 239; Epistula ex Ponto, 94; Fasti, 262; Metamorphoses, 21–22; Remedia amoris, 12, 72, 84, 92–110 passim, 217, 224; Tristia, 54, 94, 95
The Owl and the Nightingale (anonymous poem), 220
Pacuvius (Roman playwright), 215
Paris of Troy, 99, 232; Judgment of, 216
Parker, H., 103
Paul, Saint, 14, 15, 16, 18, 187, 190, 193, 196, 244, 246
Paula, 163
Pelagian heresy, 156
Pericles, 2
Perictione, gives birth to Plato miraculously, 196
Peripatetics, 26
Persius, 3, 6, 86, 90, 120, 156, 157, 165, 230; Sat. 1.32-35, 167; Sat. 1.4, 4; Sat. 3, 90
Peter, First Epistle of, 3:7, 162, 169
Peter of Blois, 194, 197, 203, 211
Peter of Corbeil, archbishop of Sens, 220, 223
Peter the Venerable, abbot of Cluny, 235
Petitmengin, Pierre, 167
Petronius: poems, 113, 118; Satyrica, 2, 104, 121, 129–53 passim, 224, 226
Petrus Pictor (satirical poet), 234–35
Phaedrus, 95
Phidon, daughters dance in his blood, 259, 261
Phillips, Adam, 39
Phillipus, wife of, 195
Philodemus, 30
Philo of Alexandria, Allegorical Interpretation of Genesis, 16
Pindar, 114
Plato, 84; Laws, 30; Phaedros, 101; Republic, 30; Symposium, 84; Theatetus, 8
Plautus, vii, viii; Amphitryo, 39–70 passim; Asinaria, 46, 50, 112; Aulularia, 48, 117; Bacchides, 52; Casina, 13, 40, 45, 49; Menaechmi, 39–70 passim; Mercator, 49; Miles gloriosus, 7, 42, 47, 63–65; Mostellaria, 40; Pseudolus, 40
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 104, 239
Plutarch, 7, 31, 36, 132, 158; Coniugalia praecepta, 32; Moralia 6, 7
Pollmann, Karla, 11
Poppaea Sabina, denounced by Tacitus, 224
Porphyrio (commentator on Horace), 93
Porphyry (Neoplatonist), 158
Praxiteles, 136
Proverbs, Book of, 162; Prov. 6:23, 169; Prov. 6:26-27, 169; Prov. 6:29, 251; Prov. 21:9, 163; Prov. 25:24, 163; Prov. 30:15, 16, 164
Prudentius, Hamartigenia, 104
Psalm 45:10-11, 166
pseudo-Aristotle, Oeconomica, 29
pseudo-Clement, Recognitiones, 130
pseudo-Lucian, Loukios, or The Ass, 130
Pythagorean school, 32
Quinze joyes de mariage, 201
Rawson, Beryl, 51
Reuben, 237
Revelation 14:4, 16
Rhetorica ad Herrenium, 245
Richlin, Amy, 10
Robertson, D. W., Jr., 252
Roger of Caen, De contemptu mundi, 237
Romans, Epistle to, 1–2; Rom. 5.18-19, 16; Rom. 6:22, 14; Rom. 7:3, 14
Rufinus, Flavius, 214
Rufinus of Aquileia, 157
Sabine women, rape of, 97
Sallust: Catilinae coniuratio, 224–25; Jugurtha, 119
Salome, 20
Secundus (mysterious philosopher), 239
Sedley, D. N., 76
Segal, Erich, 57
Semonides, On Women, 10, 30, 33, 36, 112
Sempronia, denounced by Sallust for vice, 225
Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, 3–4
Seneca the Younger, 3, 8, 27, 54, 78, 79, 92, 95, 139, 158, 193; De ira, 78–79; Letters, 95; Medea, 86; Natural Questions, 239; On Marriage, 32, 158; Phaedra, 86, 235; Troades, 261
Serlo of Bayeux, Ad Muriel sanctimonialem, 234
Sertorius, 34
Servius, 259
Shakespeare, William: All's Well That Ends Well, 40; The Merchant of Venice, 41; The Tempest, 41
Shelton, Jo-Ann, 43
Shuhmann, Elisabeth, 50
Sibylline oracles, 162
Sirens, 20
Sisenna, lost translation of Aristides, 134
Sledd, James, 257
Solomon, 17, 163, 164, 233, 237, 249
Spartan wives, 29
Stesichorus, 99
Stobaeus, 27, 36, 37; Anthologies, 35; Florilegium, 35
Suetonius: De rhetoribus, 28; Life of Nero, 119; Life of Virgil, 9
Susarion of Megara, 111
Tacitus, 17; Annals, 224; Dialogue, 224
Tatian, 162
Terence, 165, 239; Adelphoe, 41; Eunuch, 74; Hecyra, 39–70 passim
Terentia (wife of Cicero), 225
Tertullian, 17, 154–81 passim, 196, 225, 246, 259; Ad uxorem, 249; De cultu feminarum, 18; De monogamia, 18, 168, 247, 250, 251
Testament of the Pig, 157, 158
Thales, falls into a well, 8
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New
Testament, 251
Theobold, archbishop of Canterbury, 194
Theognis, 36
Theophrastus, 27, 31, 158–59, 191, 193, 194, 225, 243–69 passim
Thessalonians, First Epistle to, 5:17, 160, 169
Thirty Tyrants of Athens, 261
Thomas, Gospel of, 17
Thucydides, Peloponnesian War, 88–89
Timothy, First Epistle to, I Tim. 2:15, 163; I Tim. 3:2, 12, 171; I Tim. 14, 16
Timothy, Second Epistle to, II Tim. 2:20, 251, 252
Titinius (Roman playwright), Procilia, 49
Toohey, P., 94
Tyndareus, daughters of, 28
Valerius Maximus, 200
Valerius Messala, husband of Terentia, 225
Varius Geminus, Roman orator, 163
Vincent of Beauvais, Speculum maus, 239
Virgil, 156, 162, 165, 213, 259; Aeneid, 86, 89, 239, 263; Eclogues, 107, 218; trapped in basket, 9
Vulcan, 100
Walter of Chatillon, 228; Missus sum in vineam, 230
Winkler, Martin, 33
Xanthippe (wife of Socrates), 8, 29
Xenophon, 26, 191; Oeconomicus, 30, 31; Symposium, 29
Zeitlin, Froma, 10
Zeus and Hera's marriage, 28