Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 12505
Author(s): Ziegler, Joseph.
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Title : Sexuality and the Sexual Organs in Latin Physiognomy 1200-1500 [The author looks at the sections concerning sexuality in medieval texts on physiognomy (the practice of understanding a person's character by interpreting the physical parts of the body). Authors address in particular the ways to determine the size and character of male and female genitalia as well as ways to establish virginity. Appendix One provides a Latin text excerpted from "Reductorium phisonomie" by Rolandus Scriptoris. Appendix Two gives a Latin text of De natura virge from "Bartholomei Coclitis Chiromantie anastasis cum approbatione magistri Alexandri de Achillinis" (Bologna, 1504). Theme issue: Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Edited by Philip M. Soergel. The volume is numbered as Third Series 2 (Old Series 27, New Series 17) (2005). Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Edited by Philip M. Soergel Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History Third Series , ( 2005): Pages 83 - 107. Sexuality and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe. Edited by Philip M. Soergel
Year of Publication: 2005.

2. Record Number: 9056
Author(s): Williamson, Beth.
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Title : Liturgical Image or Devotional Image? The London "Madonna of the Firescreen" [The author examines this midfifteenth century panel of Virgin and Child and argues that it was intended for devotional use. The viewer would be drawn to contemplate the mystery of the Incarnation through subtle reminders like the breast milk of the Virgin and the Christ child's genitals. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Objects, Imafges, and the Word: Art in the Service of the Liturgy. Edited by Colum Hourihane . Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 2003. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History Third Series , ( 2005): Pages 298 - 318.
Year of Publication: 2003.

3. Record Number: 11649
Author(s): Dor, Juliette.
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Title : The Sheela-na-Gig: An Incongruous Sign of Sexual Purity? [The author argues for a complex reading of the sheela na gig statues, naked women displaying their vulvas. Dor contextualizes them with references to Celtic goddesses as well as the sovereignty myth in which the old hag turns into a beautiful maiden. In concluding the author suggests that medieval audiences might have had different reactions and that the sculptures lend themselves to multiple readings. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Medieval Virginities. Edited by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, and Sarah Salih . Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages series. University of Wales Press; University of Toronto Press, 2003. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History Third Series , ( 2005): Pages 33 - 55.
Year of Publication: 2003.

4. Record Number: 11034
Author(s): Rees, Emma L.
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Title : Sheela's Voracity and Victorian Veracity [The author examines the reactions of G.R. Lewis, Victorian artist and church architect, to a sheela-na-gig (a sqatting female figure who pulls open her vulva) carved on a Romanesque church in Kilpeck. Lewis sanitized the figure but Rees argues that the sculpture had meaning for the church's builders most likely as a warning against lust. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Consuming Narrative: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters . University of Wales Press, 2002. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History Third Series , ( 2005): Pages 116 - 127.
Year of Publication: 2002.

5. Record Number: 9338
Author(s): Westphal, Sarah.
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Title : Bad Girls in the Middle Ages: Gender, Law, and German Literature [The author examines two cases in German literature, that of Calefurnia in the "Sachsenspiegel" and Brunhilt in "Die Mörin," in which women act as advocates in court. While Calefurnia is presented as outrageous and Brunhilt as angry and animal-like, it still suggests that women and women's issues, in particular their seduction and abandonment by men, may merit a public hearing, both in a law court and with an audience listening to poetry. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Essays in Medieval Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 19 (2002): 103-119. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2002.

6. Record Number: 5042
Author(s): Innes- Parker, Catherine.
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Title : Sheela-na-gigs and Other Unruly Women: Images of Land and Gender in Medieval Ireland

Source: From Ireland Coming: Irish Art from the Early Christian to the Late Gothic Period and Its European Context. Edited by Colum Hourihane . Index of Christian Art, Deparment of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 2001. Pages 313 - 331.
Year of Publication: 2001.

7. Record Number: 4603
Author(s): Hairston, Julia L.
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Title : Skirting the Issue: Machiavelli's Caterina Sforza

Source: Renaissance Quarterly (Full Text via JSTOR) 53, 3 (Autumn 2000): 687-712. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2000.

8. Record Number: 486
Author(s): Kelly, Eamonn.
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Title : Sheela-na-gigs: Symbol and Meaning in Transition [Thirtieth International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 4-7, 1995. Thirtieth Symposium on the Sources of Anglo- Saxon Culture, co- sponsered by the Institute and CEMERS, Binghamton University. Session 92].

Source: Old English Newsletter , 28., 3 (Spring 1995):
Year of Publication: 1995.

9. Record Number: 12728
Author(s): Hull, Vida J.
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Title : The Sex of the Savior in Renaissance Art: The Revelations of Saint Bridget and the Nude Christ Child in Renaissance Art [Bridget's description of the nude Christ child at the Nativity, written during the fourteenth century, had a strong influence on fifteenth century visual representations of the Christ child, who was often depicted as naked infant with genitals in open view. The exposure of the Christ child's penis is a moment of revelation that displays His gender and also exemplifies His humanity. This was a common motif in the Brigittine scenes of the Nativity and the Adoration of the Shepherds, but was later transferred into other contexts, such as the Adoration of the Magi and devotional images of the Virgin and Child. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studies in Iconography , 15., ( 1993): Pages 77 - 112.
Year of Publication: 1993.

10. Record Number: 12729
Author(s): Baskins, Cristelle L.
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Title : Donatello's Bronze 'David': Grillanda, Goliath, Groom? [Art historians have explored many perspectives on Donatello's youthful and androgynous representation of the nude David including psychoanalytic and homoerotic perspectives, but these male centered approaches overlook the possibility of a female audience for the statue. Paintings on contemporary Florentine cassoni (wedding chests), including scenes from the life of David (like his battle with Goliath or his subsequent wedding to a royal bride) or seemingly unrelated depictions of scantily clad males (often painted underneath the lids), establish the possibility of a wedding context for Donatello's sensuous nude. In the context of nuptial imagery, this representation of David might appeal to a prospective bride as well as the narcissistic or homoerotic desire of an imagined male audience. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studies in Iconography , 15., ( 1993): Pages 113 - 134.
Year of Publication: 1993.

11. Record Number: 11196
Author(s): Ahern, John.
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Title : Nudi Grammantes: The Grammar and Rhetoric of Deviation in Inferno XV [Male genitalia have a complex range of metaphorical meanings. Certain writers in the medieval rhetorical tradition align sexuality and rhetoric, comparing forms unorthodox sexuality (like sodomy) with perversions of language. Most notably, Brunetto Latini, a grammarian and sodomite who appears in the Inferno, uses a series of puns involving the word “fico” (fig or tree), confusing the word’s natural (biological) and grammatical gender. In Latin and Italian, this word (meaning both tree and fruit) could metaphorically stand for either the male or the female sexual organs. Brunetto’s learned yet ambiguous use of language thus suggests his own sexual deviancy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Romanic Review , 81., 4 ( 1990): Pages 466 - 486.
Year of Publication: 1990.

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Title : Feast in the Garden of Love

Source: Romanic Review , 81., 4 ( 1990):
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13. Record Number: 32405
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Title : The Kilpeck Sheela-na-Gig

Source: Romanic Review , 81., 4 ( 1990):
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14. Record Number: 45019
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Title : Two women discuss gynecological problems

Source: Romanic Review , 81., 4 ( 1990):
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