Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 10848
Author(s): Nicholson, Francesca.
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Title : Seeing Women Troubadours without the "-itz" and "isms" [The author analyzes two poems attributed to women, Na Bieris de Roman and Azalais. Nicholson argues that they sometimes identify with a male lover and sometimes speak as women. 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.  Pages 63 - 76.
Year of Publication: 2004.
2. Record Number: 9650
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Title : Dangerous Embodiments: Froissart's Harton and Jean d'Arras's Melusine [The romance by Jean d'Arras concerns a fairy named Melusine who tries to hide her periodic assumption of a half-serpent and half-human form. Huot focuses on the sight of both Melusine and the supernatural Harton, which calls into question the identity of the self. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 78., 2 (April 2003):  Pages 400 - 420.
Year of Publication: 2003.
3. Record Number: 8501
Author(s): Lansing, Carol.
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Title : Concubines, Lovers, Prostitutes: Infamy and Female Identity in Medieval Bologna [The author analyzes secular law court records both for the attitudes of poor men and women toward the informal living arrangements which some couples maintained and for the attitudes of the elite and of judges. The author argues that it was the intention of those with power to reinforce behavior norms for "honest" women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy.   Edited by Paula Findlen, Michelle M. Fontaine, and Duane J. Osheim .   Stanford University Press, 2003. Speculum , 78., 2 (April 2003):  Pages 85
Year of Publication: 2003.
4. Record Number: 7832
Author(s): Nirenberg, David.
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Title : Conversion, Sex, and Segregation: Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain
Source: American Historical Review , 107., 4 (October 2002):  Pages 1065 - 1093.
Year of Publication: 2002.
5. Record Number: 10218
Author(s): Bolton, Brenda and Constance M. Rousseau
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Title : Palmerius of Picciati: Innocent III meets his "Martin Guerre" [In the early thirteenth century, Pope Innocent III drafted a decretal covering a case of disputed identity. A man claiming to be the missing Palmerius of Picciati sued for return of his wife, who had remarried in his absence, and of his property. Faced with conflicting testimony, the pope ruled that the wife, Gilla, should remain with her second husband. Innocent preferred leaving Gilla with her second husband rather than forcing her to return to "Palmerius," with whom she might have been unhappy, despite existing law favoring a first husband over a second if a man presumed dead reappeared. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, Syracuse, New York, 13-18 August 1996.   Edited by Kenneth Pennington, Stanley Chodorow, and Keith H. Kendall .   Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 2001. American Historical Review , 107., 4 (October 2002):  Pages 361 - 385.
Year of Publication: 2001.
6. Record Number: 19504
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth
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Title : Medieval Women, Letter Writing and Performance [The author uses Heloise's letters as a case study of medieval women's epistolary affirmations of identity. Using the conventions of the "ars dictaminis," medieval women writers defined their identities. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Lilith , 10., ( 2001):  Pages 58 - 74.
Year of Publication: 2001.
7. Record Number: 7823
Author(s): Halloran, Susan.
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Title : Gender and Identity: Teaching the Middle Ages in a College Survey Class [The author argues that the "otherness" of medieval literature can be overcome for students by concentrating on the themes of gender and identity. She speaks about experiences in her world literature survey class. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching: SMART , 8., 1 (Spring 2000):  Pages 53 - 59.
Year of Publication: 2000.
8. Record Number: 5557
Author(s): Caciola, Nancy.
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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.
9. Record Number: 3936
Author(s): Karras, Ruth Mazo.
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Title : Response: Identity, Sexuality, and History [The author responds to the criticisms of Theo Van Der Meer ("Medieval Prostitution and the Case of a Mistaken Sexual Identity") and Carla Freccero ("Acts, Identities, and Sexuality's (Pre) Modern Regimes)].
Source: Journal of Women's History (Full Text via Project Muse) 11, 2 (Summer 1999): 193-198. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1999.
10. Record Number: 3808
Author(s): Kittell, Ellen E.
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Title : The Construction of Women's Social Identity in Medieval Douai: Evidence from Identifying Epithets [many women acted for themselves in doing public business].
Source: Journal of Medieval History , 25., 3 (September 1999):  Pages 215 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1999.
11. Record Number: 10244
Author(s): Szell, Timea K.
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Title : From Woe to Weal and Weal to Woe: Notes on the Structure of "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The complicated narrative structure of Margery’s “Book” reflects the author’s attempt to reconcile two contradictory psychological impulses: one is the need to gain social acceptance and legitimacy; the other is the desire to be publicly shunned and perceived as outside of societal norms. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Sandra J. McEntire .   Garland Publishing, 1992. Journal of Medieval History , 25., 3 (September 1999):  Pages 73 - 91.
Year of Publication: 1992.
12. Record Number: 10243
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Title : The Journey into Selfhood: Margery Kempe and Feminine Spirituality [The author reads Margery’s narrative of spiritual progression alongside feminist, psychological and theological accounts of how women achieve selfhood. This process involves self-negation, spiritual awakening, and self-naming. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Sandra J. McEntire .   Garland Publishing, 1992. Journal of Medieval History , 25., 3 (September 1999):  Pages 51 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1992.
13. Record Number: 10247
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Title : Margery Kempe and King’s Lynn [King’s Lynn, Kempe’s hometown in East Anglia, played a central role in shaping her self-image. Home, family, social networks, and domestic space are key concerns for Kempe, whose “Book” expresses a tension between the desire for inclusion (acceptance by the townspeople) and the simultaneous desire to be excluded by society (in order to have her special social status acknowledged). Kempe’s double perspective resolves the perceived opposition between her guarded, private married life and her highly active public life. The article includes two appendices (a list of the citizens of King’s Lynn and a list of Kempe’s neighbors) and a map of medieval King’s Lynn. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Sandra J. McEntire .   Garland Publishing, 1992. Journal of Medieval History , 25., 3 (September 1999):  Pages 139 - 163.
Year of Publication: 1992.
14. Record Number: 10240
Author(s): Provost, William.
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Title : Margery Kempe and Her Calling [The author examines the relationship between one’s identity and vocation (job or personal calling) in Margery Kempe’s book. Compared to the medieval woman writer Julian of Norwich (who clearly presents herself as an anchoress) and Chaucer’s fictional Wife of Bath (whose very occupation is being a “wife”), Margery’s social role is indeterminate. She is neither a conventional wife nor a religious woman, and she confuses both her contemporaries and modern readers because she does not fit into any stable occupational category. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Sandra J. McEntire .   Garland Publishing, 1992. Journal of Medieval History , 25., 3 (September 1999):  Pages 3 - 15.
Year of Publication: 1992.
15. Record Number: 10246
Author(s): Bremner, Eluned.
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Title : Margery Kempe and the Critics: Disempowerment and Deconstruction [The author compares selected twentieth-century analyses of Kempe’s “Book” (written by literary critics) to episodes in the “Book” itself, in which Margery faces criticism from various figures of authority. Both the modern critics outside the text and the clerical figures within the “Book” reinforce patriarchal structures in response to Kempe, who challenges female suppression and speaks to establish her autonomy and power. Despite critics’ attempts to disempower her, Kempe refuses to accept the marginalization of female sexuality, crosses traditional gender role boundaries, and determines her own voice and social role through speech and writing. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Sandra J. McEntire .   Garland Publishing, 1992. Journal of Medieval History , 25., 3 (September 1999):  Pages 117 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1992.
16. Record Number: 12787
Author(s): Krueger, Roberta.
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Title : Constructing Sexual Identities in the High Middle Ages: The Didactic Poetry of Robert de Blois [The author examines the courtesy manuals of Robert de Blois in order to examine the ways they contributed to medieval definitions of masculinity and femininity, as well as to reveal the ways those same traditional gender categories were destabilized and even transgressed in his writing. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Paragraph , 13., 2 (July 1990):  Pages 105 - 131.
Year of Publication: 1990.