Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 11060
Author(s): Cantarella, Glauco Maria.
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Title : La verginita e Cluny [Cluniac monks valued not just chastity but virginity. The Virgin Mary was the model of this quality. The "Vita" of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny emphasized his virginity. Some lives of Cluniac abbots combined an emphasis on virginity with one on masculinity; others combined it with a focus on angelic asexuality. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Figure poetiche e figure teologiche nella mariologia dei secoli XI e XII: Atti del II Convegno Mariologico della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini con la collaborazione della Biblioteca Palatina di Parma, Parma, 19-20 maggio 2000.   Edited by Clelia Maria Piastra and Francesco Santi .   SISMEL, 2004.  Pages 45 - 60.
Year of Publication: 2004.
2. Record Number: 11015
Author(s): Hayes, Dawn Marie.
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Title : Christian Sanctuary and Repository of France's Political Culture: The Construction of Holiness and Masculinity at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis, 987-1328 [The author argues that holiness and masculinity were associated both with the Capetian monarchy and the monastery of Saint-Denis. Kings and monks supported each other, reinforcing the sacred character of their power through royal regalia, relics, and burials within an impressive edifice. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages.   Edited by P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis .   Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series. University of Wales Press, 2004.  Pages 127 - 142.
Year of Publication: 2004.
3. Record Number: 10517
Author(s): Hotchin, Julie.
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Title : Abbot as Guardian and Cultivator of Virtues: Two Perspectives on the "cura monialium" in Practice [The author explores two twelfth century letters from the abbey of Reinhandsbrunn concerning the pastoral care of nuns. The first is from a papal legate to the abbey's abbot answering his concerns about providing spiritual direction for the women at his monastery. The second letter is from the abbess of a nearby female house asking Reinhandsbrunn for one of its monks as a spiritual director. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of John Tillotson for His 60th Birthday.   Edited by Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear, and Dianne Tillotson .   Merton Priory Press, 2002.  Pages 50 - 64.
Year of Publication: 2002.
4. Record Number: 7866
Author(s): Berkhofer, Robert F., III
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Title : Marriage, Lordship, and the "Greater Unfree" in Twelfth-Century France [The author uses records from northern French monasteries and information about two well-documented unfree mayoral families to explore the supervision that lords (in these cases abbots) could exert on the marriages of the more important and wealthy unfree. The author also looks at the changes in canon law in regard to marriage and the comparative case of "merchet" (a marriage payment owed to the lord by the unfree) in England. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Past and Present , 173., (November 2001):  Pages 3 - 27.
Year of Publication: 2001.
5. Record Number: 4865
Author(s): Koopmans, Rachel M.
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Title : The Conclusion of Christina of Markyate's "Vita" [the author argues that Christina's "Vita" was left unfinished due to the death of Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Alban's, and supporter of and believer in Christina's sanctity]; evidently some of the monks were dismayed at Geoffrey's spending on alms (including twice rebuilding Markyate for Christina) as welll as the rumors about sexual improprieties between the abbot and the holy woman].
Source: Journal of Ecclesiastical History , 51., 4 (October 2000):  Pages 663 - 698.
Year of Publication: 2000.
6. Record Number: 937
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Title : The "Life of Alice" and the Silver Age at Villers [suggests that the "Life" of Alice the Leper was written by Arnulf II, Abbot of Villers, to inspire his monks to Eucharistic devotion and to an acceptance of greater austerity and a more cloistered life.]
Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 31., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 51 - 74.
Year of Publication: 1996.
7. Record Number: 952
Author(s): Gradowicz- Pancer, Nira.
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Title : Papa, mama, l' abbé et moi. "Conversion morum" et pathologie familiale d' après les sources hagiographiques du haut Moyen Age [suggests that young men joined monasteries in search of an ideal father figure, the abbot, because their own fathers were absent or harsh; mothers in the sources were, for the most part, nurturing and encouraged their sons' religious vocations].
Source: Moyen Age , 102., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 7 - 25.
Year of Publication: 1996.
8. Record Number: 2289
Author(s): Degler-Spengler, Brigitte.
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Title : The Incorporation of Cistercian Nuns Into the Order in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century
Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three.   Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series .   Cistercian Publications, 1995. Moyen Age , 102., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 85 - 134.
Year of Publication: 1995.
9. Record Number: 5154
Author(s): Chauvin, Benoît.
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Title : Hildegarde de Bingen et les Cisterciens. Note sur les "Epistolae LXX" et "LXXR" [the author analyzes a letter sent to Hildegard by five Cistercian abbots who ask that she help a noble woman who has been unable to have children ; the author examines the tenures of each of the abbots, arriving at a new date for the letter, between the summer of 1159 and January 1162].
Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 46., 40180 ( 1995):  Pages 159 - 165.
Year of Publication: 1995.
10. Record Number: 2309
Author(s): O'Dell, Colman, O.C.S.O.
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Title : On Eagles' Wings: Symbols of Spiritual Motherhood in the Writings of the Early Cistercian Fathers
Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book Two. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three.   Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series .   Cistercian Publications, 1995. Moyen Age , 102., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 787 - 806.
Year of Publication: 1995.
11. Record Number: 2290
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Title : Cistercian Nuns in Germany in the Thirteenth Century: Upper-Swabian Cistercian Abbeys Under the Paternity of Salem [role of Abbot Eberhard and the monastery of Salem in the founding and development of six Cistercian women's monasteries ; the author suggests that one of the motivations was to strengthen Hohenstaufen control over upper Swabia].
Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three.   Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series .   Cistercian Publications, 1995. Moyen Age , 102., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 135 - 158.
Year of Publication: 1995.