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1. Record Number: 44836 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Bishop Narcissus Sees a Horrible Demon Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader.   Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter .   University of Toronto Press, 2022. Year of Publication: 2022.

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2. Record Number: 44839 Author(s): Quodvultdeus, Bishop of Carthage, , Contributor(s): Title : Dispossession by Objects: Quodvultdeus Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader.   Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter .   University of Toronto Press, 2022.  Pages 210 - 211. Year of Publication: 2022.

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3. Record Number: 44843 Author(s): Bartolus of Sassoferrato, , Contributor(s): Title : The Devil Makes His Case Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader.   Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter .   University of Toronto Press, 2022.  Pages 282 - 287. Year of Publication: 2022.

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4. Record Number: 44844 Author(s): Jacques de Vitry Contributor(s): Title : A Preacher's Stories about the Devil: (c.) A King's Son Who Has Been Brought up in a Cave Is Told That Women Are Demons; (e) The Demon, Guinehochet, Publicly Embarrasses a Man Who Thought He Had Two Sons – The Demon Tells Him One is the Priest's Child; (f) A Devil Rides on the Train of a Matron's Dress; (g) The Devil's Nine Daughters and Their Marriages; (h) A Dicer Defeats the Devil with His Refusal to Deny the Blessed Virgin Mary Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader.   Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter .   University of Toronto Press, 2022.  Pages 289 - 293. Year of Publication: 2022.

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5. Record Number: 44845 Author(s): Rutebeuf Contributor(s): Title : The Miracle of Theophilus Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader.   Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter .   University of Toronto Press, 2022.  Pages 303 - 317. Year of Publication: 2022.

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6. Record Number: 44758 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Llanthony Story #19 Confession to devil as monk Source: The Llanthony Stories: A Translation of the Narrationes aliquot fabulosae.   Edited by David R. Winter .   Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021.  Pages 80 - 80. Year of Publication: 2021.

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7. Record Number: 44760 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Llanthony Story #30: Satan complains to his mother that people wrongly accuse him of evil Source: The Llanthony Stories: A Translation of the Narrationes aliquot fabulosae.   Edited by David R. Winter .   Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021.  Pages 85 - 86. Year of Publication: 2021.

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8. Record Number: 44770 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Theophilus Source: Middle High German Legends in English Translation.   Edited by Jef Jacobs, Kenny Louwen, Bart Veldhoen and Barend Verkerk .   Leiden University Press , 2021.  Pages 102 - 119. Year of Publication: 2021.

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9. Record Number: 45274 Author(s): Kelner, Anna, Contributor(s): Title : Trusting Women's Visions: The Discernment of Spirits in Julian of Norwich's Revelation of Love Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 51., 2 ( 2021):  Pages 193 - 214. Available from the Duke University Press website with a subscription: https://read.dukeupress.edu/jmems/issue/51/2 Year of Publication: 2021.

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10. Record Number: 15806 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Gerson's Stance on Women [Anderson argues that scholarly opinion about Jean Gerson has been excessively negative. Gerson was capable of being controlling with his sisters and suspecting the inspiration of mystics like Bridget of Sweden, whom he blamed in part for the Great Schism. He was, however, capable of being supportive of devout women; and his criticisms of male figures who erred must be taken into account. Moreover, Gerson was capable of supporting Joan of Arc and, for a time, Ermine of Reims, despite their not fitting into passive roles. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: A Companion to Jean Gerson.   Edited by Brian Patrick McGuire Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition: A Series of handbooks and reference works on the intellectual and religious life of Europe, 500-1700 .   Brill, 2006. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 51., 2 ( 2021):  Pages 293 - 315. Year of Publication: 2006.

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11. Record Number: 10857 Author(s): Salih, Sarah. Contributor(s): Title : The Medieval Looks Back: A Response to "Troubled Vision" [Salih provides a brief case study of manuscript illuminations of monsters from a copy of "Mandeville's Travels." She argues that the hyper-masculinity of the naked giants defines them as other, bereft of culture and social order. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image.   Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 51., 2 ( 2021):  Pages 223 - 231. Year of Publication: 2004.

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12. Record Number: 7833 Author(s): Sluhovsky, Moshe. Contributor(s): Title : The Devil in the Convent Source: American Historical Review , 107., 5 (December 2002):  Pages 1378 - 1411. Year of Publication: 2002.

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13. Record Number: 7825 Author(s): Elliott, Dyan. Contributor(s): Title : Seeing Double: John Gerson, the Discernment of Spirits, and Joan of Arc Source: American Historical Review , 107., 1 (February 2002):  Pages 26 - 54. Year of Publication: 2002.

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14. Record Number: 8058 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Autobiography or Autohagioglraphy? Decoding the subtext in the "Visions" of Elisabeth of Schonau [The author provides a brief overview of Elisabeth's life and her writings. She discusses the influence that Elisabeth's brother Ekbert may have had on the written accounts of her visions. She also considers the themes of pain and suffering and the devil's temptations that feature prominently in Elisabeth's visions. Excepts follow from the Latin text and English translation of Elizabeth's vision. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. Volume 2: Medieval Women Writing Latin.   Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey .   Routledge, 2002. American Historical Review , 107., 1 (February 2002):  Pages 197 - 229. Year of Publication: 2002.

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15. Record Number: 5446 Author(s): Chavasse, Ruth. Contributor(s): Title : The Virgin Mary: Consoler, Protector, and Social Worker in Quattrocento Miracle Tales [The author examines women's problems and needs as represented in such miracle texts as the late fifteenth century "Miracoli della Vergine Maria" and the poem by Lorenzo de' Oppizi, "Miracoli della Vergine della Carcere," a catalog of the miracles worked Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society.   Edited by Letizia Panizza .   European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Comparative Studies in Society and History , 42., 2 (April 2000):  Pages 138 - 164. Year of Publication: 2000.

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16. Record Number: 5716 Author(s): Maxwell-Stuart, P. G. Contributor(s): Title : The Emergence of the Christian Witch [The author briefly traces the development of ideas about witches from late Antiquity through the fifteenth century; aimed at a popular audience, there are no footnotes]. Source: History Today , 50., 11 (November 2000):  Pages 38 - 43. Year of Publication: 2000.

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17. Record Number: 5557 Author(s): Caciola, Nancy. Contributor(s): Title : Mystics, Demoniacs, and the Physiology of Spirit Possession in Medieval Europe Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History , 42., 2 (April 2000):  Pages 268 - 306. Year of Publication: 2000.

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18. Record Number: 5697 Author(s): Bennett, Adelaide. Contributor(s): Title : A Woman's Power of Prayer Versus the Devil in a Book of Hours, of ca. 1300 [The author argues that the manuscript is highly personalized with an emphasis on the female owner's need to repent, fight sin, and oppose the devil; even in the hours of the Virgin the initials depict worldly pleasures to be avoided]. Source: Image and Belief: Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art.   Edited by Colum Hourihane .   Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1999. History Today , 50., 11 (November 2000):  Pages 89 - 108. Year of Publication: 1999.

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19. Record Number: 5367 Author(s): Enders, Jody Contributor(s): Title : Cutting Off the Memory of Women [The author argues that the "Malleus Maleficarum" demonized women's memory and thereby justified violence against women]. Source: The Changing Tradition: Women in the History of Rhetoric.   Edited by Christine Mason Sutherland and Rebecca Sutcliffe .   Papers at the Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric at the University of Saskatchewan in July, 1997. University of Calgary Press, 1999. History Today , 50., 11 (November 2000):  Pages 47 - 55. Year of Publication: 1999.

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20. Record Number: 3847 Author(s): Dale, Judith. Contributor(s): Title : Sin is Behovely: Art and Theodicy in the Julian Text [The author analyzes two modes of Julian's discourse: the pictorial elements of visual description and the theological argument about the response to evil]. Source: Mystics Quarterly , 25., 4 (December 1999):  Pages 127 - 146. Year of Publication: 1999.

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21. Record Number: 3108 Author(s): Stephens, Walter. Contributor(s): Title : Witches Who Steal Penises: Impotence and Illusion in "Malleus maleficarum" Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 3 (Fall 1998):  Pages 495 - 529. Year of Publication: 1998.

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22. Record Number: 8521 Author(s): Higgins, Sydney. Contributor(s): Title : Playing the Serpent: Devil, Virgin, or Mythical Beast? [The author briefly traces the development of representations of the serpent in the Garden of Eden in the later Middle Ages. First it was a natural-looking snake, then a winged monster, and finally it had a woman's head and chest on top of a snake's body. Higgins goes on to consider the depiction of the serpent in plays, specifically the Cornish "Ordinalia" (midfourteenth century) and "The Creation of the World" (midsixteenth century). Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: European Medieval Drama , 2., ( 1998):  Pages 207 - 214. Year of Publication: 1998.

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23. Record Number: 4353 Author(s): Paxson, James J. Contributor(s): Title : The Nether-Faced Devil and the Allegory of Parturition [The author argues that the representation of the devil with a face in place of its genitals draws on the allegory of childbirth and thereby demonizes the female sexual body]. Source: Studies in Iconography , 19., ( 1998):  Pages 139 - 176. Year of Publication: 1998.

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24. Record Number: 1599 Author(s): Lewis, Flora. Contributor(s): Title : The Wound in Christ's Side and the Instruments of the Passion: Gendered Experience and Response [images of sexual union and childbirth as well as knightly combat were used by both women and men to contemplate the Passion]. Source: Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence.   Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor .   British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1997. Studies in Iconography , 19., ( 1998):  Pages 204 - 229. Year of Publication: 1997.

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25. Record Number: 1586 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : The Medieval Concept of the Witches' Sabbath [analysis of four early texts from the 1430's ; the author argues that the witches' sabbath gained quick acceptance because it explained how common people could take command of a learned form of magic]. Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 2 (Fall 1996):  Pages 419 - 439. Year of Publication: 1996.

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26. Record Number: 2032 Author(s): Spellberg, D.A. Contributor(s): Title : Writing the Unwritten Life of the Islamic Eve: Menstruation and the Demonization of Motherhood Source: International Journal of Middle East Studies (Full Text via JSTOR) 28, 3 (August 1996): 305-324. Link Info Year of Publication: 1996.

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27. Record Number: 6629 Author(s): Tylus, Jane Contributor(s): Title : Mystical Enunciations: Mary, the Devil, and Quattrocento Spirituality [the author argues that Catherine Vigri's text, "Sette armi spirituali," written for the guidance of her Poor Clare sisters, embodies the era's growing doubts about mysticism and the ways to authenticate visions; the Virgin Mary at the Annunciation plays a central role for Catherine Vigri because she prefigures the mystic in the "clausura" of the convent, aware of diabolical dangers and maternal in her protection and love for her sisters]. Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995):  Pages 219 - 242. Women Mystic Writers. Edited by Dino S. Cervigni Year of Publication: 1995.

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28. Record Number: 1554 Author(s): van der Vliet, J. Contributor(s): Title : Une Vierge de Daphné: Notes sur un thème apocalyptique [analysis of an episode in two Greek texts concerning the birth of the Antichrist; the Antichrist ,in the form of a small fish, is touched by an impure virgin, resulting in her pregnancy]. Source: Byzantion , 64., 2 ( 1994):  Pages 377 - 390. Year of Publication: 1994.

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29. Record Number: 2123 Author(s): Goodich, Michael. Contributor(s): Title : Sexuality, Family, and the Supernatural in the Fourteenth Century [the author looks at saints' miracles for evidence of familial problems involving illicit sexuality or violence; the supernatural comes into play both as the cause of the problem (temptaion by the devil, bewitching love potions, or evil magic) and its miraculous solution (the intervention of the saint or holy person following pious vows and prayers by family members)]. Source: Journal of the History of Sexuality , 4., 4 (April 1994):  Pages 493 - 516. Year of Publication: 1994.

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30. Record Number: 1333 Author(s): Richard, Adeline. Contributor(s): Title : Hagiographie antique et démonologie: Notes sur quelques Passions grecques (BHG 962z, 964 et 1165-66) [the "Passiones" of Juliana of Nicomedia, Juliana and Paul, and Marina of Antioch]. Source: Analecta Bollandiana , 112., 40241 ( 1994):  Pages 255 - 303. Year of Publication: 1994.

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31. Record Number: 9065 Author(s): Baldwin, Spurgeon and James W. Marchand Contributor(s): Title : The Virgin Mary as Advocate before the Heavenly Court [The authors examine works of literature (in French, Castilian, and Catalan) that represent the Virgin Mary as the advocate for humankind. In these works, Satan sues for jurisdiction over humanity before the heavenly court, and Mary appears as defense counsel for humanity. The article gives detailed descriptions of the legal procedures that form the literary context of these works. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Medievalia et Humanistica , 18., ( 1992):  Pages 79 - 94. Year of Publication: 1992.

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32. Record Number: 11074 Author(s): Peters, Brad. Contributor(s): Title : Julian of Norwich and Her Conceptual Development of Evil [The author studies Julian’s developing conceptualization of evil, and shows that, according to her theory, evil ultimately damns itself. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Mystics Quarterly , 17., 4 ( 1991):  Pages 181 - 188. Year of Publication: 1991.

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33. Record Number: 10686 Author(s): Terkla, Dan. Contributor(s): Title : A Basochien Proto-Drama and Its Mariological Context: "L'Advocacie Nostre Dame" [This French text about the Last Judgement dramatizes a confrontation between the Virgin Mary (as advocate for mankind) and Satan (in the role of the prosecutor). Scholars disagree about whether the text can be classified as a poem or a drama, and the author argues that it is a precursor to the burlesque lawsuits of the Basochiens. The text illustrates the intersection of two phenomena in medieval France, as the poem parodies both the fictional trials enacted by the Basochiens (lawyers in training) and the worship practices of the cult of the Virgin. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Medieval Perspectives , 6., ( 1991):  Pages 87 - 100. Year of Publication: 1991.

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34. Record Number: 12678 Author(s): Westrem, Scott D. Contributor(s): Title : Medieval Western European Views of Sexuality Reflected in the Narratives of Travelers to the Orient [The author briefly surveys four influential travel accounts written in the span of a century. Westrem cites discussion of fornication, adultery, polygamy, and incest. The authors, even the two churchmen, are surprisingly moderate in their attitudes toward these sexual crimes, although they indicate the increasingly serious nature of the offenses. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life.   Edited by Helen Rodite Lemay Acta .   Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990. Medieval Perspectives , 6., ( 1991):  Pages 141 - 156. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987 Year of Publication: 1990.

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35. Record Number: Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Angry Wife Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Israel_van_Meckenem_-_Das_b%C3%B6se_Weib.jpg/250px-Israel_van_Meckenem_-_Das_b%C3%B6se_Weib.jpg Year of Publication:

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36. Record Number: 31215 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Ladder of Virtue Source: Year of Publication:

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37. Record Number: 33988 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : The Virgin breaks the neck of a devil Source: Year of Publication:

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38. Record Number: 41146 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Temptation of Saint Anthony Source: Year of Publication:

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39. Record Number: 41169 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Temptation of Saint Anthony (Image #1) Source: Year of Publication:

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40. Record Number: 45240 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : The Madonna rescues a child Source: Year of Publication:

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