Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 5960
Author(s): Kienzle, Beverly Mayne and Nancy Nienhuis
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Title : Battered Women and the Construction of Sanctity [the authors explore written accounts of the lives of Monica, the mother of Augustine, Godelieve of Gistel, whose husband had her murdered, Dorothy of Montau, and Catherine of Genoa, all of whom suffered psychological and physical abuse at the hands of their husbands; they demonstrate a "complex theological internplay between holiness, patience, and suffering in the eyes of these women's hagiographers" (p. 59)].
Source: Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 17., 1 (Spring 2001):  Pages 33 - 61.
Year of Publication: 2001.

2. Record Number: 1031
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Title : Possessed by Pure Love: The Spirituality of Catherine of Genoa
Source: Studies in Spirituality , 6., ( 1996):  Pages 131 - 144.
Year of Publication: 1996.