Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 10662
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Frugoni , Chiara.
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  • Title: Female Mystics, Visions, and Iconography [mystics' uses of images and their affective relationship with a more humanized deity].
  • Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy.  Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider.  University of Chicago Press, 1996.  Pages 130 - 164. Originally published as "Le mistiche, le visioni e l'iconografia: rapporti ed influssi'" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 127-155.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Art History- General Iconography Images Lay Piety Mystics Visions Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 13- 14
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  • Illustrations: Eleven figures reproduce Italian paintings and manuscript illuminations, mostly of devotional art. Subjects include madonna with child, deposition from the cross, and Christ with the cross.
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  • Year of Publication: 1996.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0226066371