{"id":5627,"date":"2022-07-12T15:21:49","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T12:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/?page_id=5627"},"modified":"2026-05-31T17:18:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T14:18:58","slug":"2021-2-gomez","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/en\/volumina\/2021-2\/2021-2-gomez\/","title":{"rendered":"2021-2-Gomez"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"block-96511f63-2c06-42f1-bdc0-145734056f38\"><em>Gomez R.<\/em>&nbsp;Bride swap: The medieval afterlife of Anna Perenna\u2019s bed trick in the pseudo-Ovidian \u2018De vetula\u2019 and Boccaccio\u2019s <em>novella VIII.4<\/em> [Digital Resource] \/\/ Vox medii aevi. 2021 Vol. 2(9). \u0421. 92\u2013116. URL: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/?page_id=5627\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/2021-2-gomez\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-0904c095-dc4a-4383-8b27-937a8d0f5f5a\">DOI: 10.24412\/2587-6619-2021-2-92-116<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/voxmediiaevi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/vma_2021_2_gomez.pdf\">> Download the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"roberto-suazo-gomez\">Roberto Suazo G\u00f3mez<\/h3>\n\n\n<p>PhD in Literature at Universidad de Chile<br>PhD candidate University of Otago, New Zealand<br><a href=\"mailto:suaro026@student.otago.ac.nz\">suaro026@student.otago.ac.nz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bride-swap-the-medieval-afterlife-of-anna-perennas-bed-trick-in-the-pseudoovidian-de-vetula-and-boccaccios-novella-viii4\"><strong>Bride swap: The medieval afterlife of Anna Perenna\u2019s bed trick in the pseudo-Ovidian \u2018De vetula\u2019 and Boccaccio\u2019s <\/strong><strong><em>novella VIII.4<\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Ovid\u2019s account of Anna Perenna\u2019s festival in \u2018Fasti\u2019 includes a comic vignette in which the aged goddess plays the role of a go-between, who is asked by Mars to help him woo Minerva. However, Anna manages to substitute herself for the virgin goddess in the wedding bed and then laughs (<em>ridet<\/em>) at Mars for having been tricked. The article tracks the influence of Anna\u2019s bed trick in \u2018De vetula\u2019, a thirteenth century pseudo-Ovidian Latin narrative poem, in which an old procuress exchanges places with a virgin who is the object of the narrator\u2019s passion. Anna\u2019s bed trick later reappears in Boccaccio\u2019s \u2018Decameron\u2019, namely in the <em>novella<\/em> VIII.4 about the lustful provost of Fiesole and Monna Piccarda, a widow who tricks him into bed with her unsightly servant Ciutazza.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In these medieval works female characters take on many of the characteristics of Ovid\u2019s aged Anna. At the same time, these medieval narratives rework the traditional motif of the bed trick by harnessing the peculiar social situation of the medieval widow, as a type of woman endowed with a degree of independence. These medieval versions of Anna\u2019s bed trick conserve the memory of Ovid\u2019s early picture of the goddess and her festival in which other rules of social interaction were allowed, while offering alternative perspectives upon power structures of medieval patriarchal society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Keywords:<\/em> Anna Perenna; Boccaccio; \u2018De vetula\u2019; female laughter; go-between; Ovid; widow.<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-540fc762-b8ff-4d2f-99c5-43de9a7eeb3e\">FOR CITATION<br><em>G\u00f3mez R. <\/em>Bride swap: The medieval afterlife of Anna Perenna\u2019s bed trick in the pseudo-Ovidian \u2018De vetula\u2019 and Boccaccio\u2019s <em>novella VIII.4<\/em> [Digital Resource] \/\/ Vox medii aevi. 2021 Vol. 2(9). P. 92\u2013116. 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