Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 6238
Author(s): Crum, Roger J.
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Title : Controlling Women or Women Controlled? Suggestions for Gender Roles and Visual Culture in the Italian Renaissance Palace ["I suggest that Renaissance husbands may have involved women in the patronage process, the stewardship of material goods, and the education of children through works of art to involve them directly in the family's material wealth and to engender lineage-sustaining loyalty to the marital family. This message would have been reinforced by the themes of humility, chastity, obedience, and dutiful motherhood that characterize the greater part of Renaissance 'cassoni,' 'spalliere,' and domestic devotional works that these women beheld on a daily basis. And, of course, all of these goods were introduced into and helped to shape a palace environment that was itself highly gendered in terms of space, function, and communication." (Page 45)].

Source: Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy. Edited by Sheryl E. Reiss and David G. Wilkins . Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Volume 54. Truman State University Press, 2001. Pages 37 - 50.
Year of Publication: 2001.

2. Record Number: 5440
Author(s): Knox, Dilwyn.
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Title : Civility, Courtesy, and Women in the Italian Renaissance [The author traces the origins of the idea of "modestia," decorum and gravity, which was the standard for both women and men; "cortesia" developed in order to give men and women a way to relate to each other].

Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Edited by Letizia Panizza . European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Pages 2 - 17.
Year of Publication: 2000.

3. Record Number: 5453
Author(s): Rawson, Judy.
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Title : Marrying for Love: Society in the Quattrocento Novella [The author suggests that Alberti wrote the "Istorietta" of two feuding families brought together by love and the determination of the women in both families].

Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Edited by Letizia Panizza . European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Pages 421 - 437.
Year of Publication: 2000.

4. Record Number: 3665
Author(s): Kolsky, Stephen.
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Title : Bending the Rules: Marriage in Renaissance Collections of Biographies of Famous Women [The author argues that court biographies represent an effort to rethink women's roles].

Source: Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650. Edited by Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe . Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pages 227 - 248.
Year of Publication: 1998.

5. Record Number: 2068
Author(s): Sydie, R.A.
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Title : The Phallocentric Gaze: Leon Battista Alberti and Visual Art

Source: Journal of Historical Sociology , 10., 3 (September 1997): Pages 310 - 341.
Year of Publication: 1997.

6. Record Number: 6016
Author(s): Furlan, Francesco.
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Title : L'idea della donna nella cultura della prima metà del Quattrocento toscano [for the Middle Ages we have vastly more material written by men than by women, and the evidence is skewed in favor of the upper classes; much of early and high medieval writing on women was influenced by the misogyny of Jerome and favored celibacy; late medieval theologians came to speak more highly of marriage and the family, but they still favored discipline as the ideal for women; the humanists placed even greater emphasis on marriage; Italian merchants placed a great emphasis on procreation, but their memoirs can speak of wives in loving terms].

Source: Ilaria del Carretto e il suo monumento: la donna nell'arte, la cultura, e la società del '400. Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi, 15-16-17 Settembre, 1994, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca. Edited by Stéphane Toussaint. Translated by Clotilde Soave Bowe. . Edizioni S. Marco Litotipo, 1995. Journal of Historical Sociology , 10., 3 (September 1997): Pages 251 - 270.
Year of Publication: 1995.

7. Record Number: 6017
Author(s): Magnavacca, Silvia.
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Title : La moglie nel discorso individualistico di Leon Battista Alberti [for the later Middle Ages, we have better records of women's lives, not just normative sources; the prescriptive writings of clerics contain different emphases--on complementarity and on obedience; Leon Battista Alberti stresses individuality, but the only individual in his ideal household is the husband; the wife is expected to be fertile; otherwise, her role differs little from that of servants in the household].

8. Record Number: 11802
Author(s): Freccero, Carla.
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Title : Economy, Woman, and Renaissance Discourse [Using Marxist theory, the author argues that patriarchal ideology is particularly visible in Renaissance writings on education and family. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance. Edited by Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari . Cornell University Press, 1991. Journal of Historical Sociology , 10., 3 (September 1997): Pages 192 - 210.
Year of Publication: 1991.