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“Youre Owene Thyng”: The Clerk’s Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction
“A Mooder He Hath, but Fader Hath He Noon”: Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: The Man of Law’s Tale
Forgetting Eleanor: Richard Coer de Lyon and England’s Maternal Aporia
Monstrous Maternity and the Mother-Mark: Melusine as Genealogical Phantom
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