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1. Record Number: 44998
Author(s): Baume, Perrine de, , Pierre de Vaux and Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
Contributor(s):
Title : Two Lives of Saint Colette: With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette

Source: Two Lives of Saint Colette: With a Selection of Letters by, to, and about Colette. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, translator. Edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, 94. Iter Press, 2022. Pages 41 - 266.
Year of Publication: 2022.

2. Record Number: 43447
Author(s): Powell, Austin,
Contributor(s):
Title : Manuscript Miscellanies, Jerome's Letters to Women, and the Dominican Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Source: Renaissance Quarterly , 74., 3 ( 2021): Pages 722 - 762. Available with a subscription: https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2021.99
Year of Publication: 2021.

3. Record Number: 43540
Author(s): Lawless, Catherine
Contributor(s):
Title : ‘Make your house like a temple’: Gender, Space and Domestic Devotion in Medieval Florence

Source: Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020): Pages [1] - [21]. Available open access on the MDPI website: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11030120
Year of Publication: 2020.

4. Record Number: 44375
Author(s): Kirakosian, Racha
Contributor(s):
Title : The Life of Christina of Hane

Source: The Life of Christina of Hane Racha Kirakosian, translator . Yale University Press, 2020. Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020): Pages 1 - 124. The book is available with a subscription from JSTOR and from Yale University Press: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv18sqz5n
Year of Publication: 2020.

5. Record Number: 44901
Author(s): Bernardino da Siena
Contributor(s):
Title : Bernardino of Siena Preaches on Marriage

Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader. Edited by Eugene Smelyansky . University of Toronto Press, 2020. Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020): Pages 237 - 241.
Year of Publication: 2020.

6. Record Number: 45008
Author(s): James of Vitry, Alicia Protze, and Kisha G. Tracy,
Contributor(s):
Title : Life of Mary of Oegines (Oignies) (ca. 15th c.)

Source: Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe. Edited by Cameron Hunt McNabb . punctum books, 2020. Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020): Pages 220 - 230. Available open access from the JSTOR website: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11hptcd.22
Year of Publication: 2020.

7. Record Number: 43188
Author(s): Dusil, Stephan,
Contributor(s):
Title : The Emerging Jurisprudence, the Second Lateran Council of 1139 and the Development of Canonical Impediments

Source: The Use of Canon Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000 – 1234. Edited by Melodie H. Eichbauer and Danica Summerlin . Brill, 2019. Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020): Pages 140 - 158.
Year of Publication: 2019.

8. Record Number: 42441
Author(s): Erler, Mary C.
Contributor(s):
Title : Transmission of Images Between Flemish and English Birgittine Houses

Source: Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Antwerp Dialogue. Edited by Virginia Blanton, V. M. O'Mara, and Patricia Stoop . Brepols, 2017. Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020): Pages 367 - 382. Available with a subscription: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC-EB.5.112682
Year of Publication: 2017.

9. Record Number: 38263
Author(s): Troup, Cynthia
Contributor(s):
Title : 'With Open Doors' in the Tor de' Specchi: The Chiesa Vecchia Frescoes and the Monks of Santa Maria Nova

Source: Studies on Florence and the Italian Renaissance in Honour of F. W. Kent. Edited by Peter Howard and Cecilia Hewlett . Brepols , 2016. Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020): Pages 405 - 427.
Year of Publication: 2016.

10. Record Number: 38746
Author(s): McHam, Sarah Blake,
Contributor(s):
Title : Visualizing the Immaculate Conception: Donatello, Francesco della Rovere, and the High Altar and Choir Screen at the Church of the Santo in Padua

Source: Renaissance Quarterly , 69., 3 ( 2016): Pages 831 - 864.
Year of Publication: 2016.

11. Record Number: 32413
Author(s): Izbicki, Thomas M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Antoninus of Florence and the Dominican Witch Theorists

Source: Memorie Domenicane , 42., ( 2012): Pages 347 - 361.
Year of Publication: 2012.

12. Record Number: 42497
Author(s): Catherine of Siena and Suzanne Noffke, O. P.
Contributor(s):
Title : Catherine of Siena: An Anthology

Source: Catherine of Siena: An Anthology. Catherine of Siena. Edited by Suzanne Noffke, O.P . Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. Memorie Domenicane , 42., ( 2012): Pages 3 - 1143.
Year of Publication: 2012.

13. Record Number: 28800
Author(s): Mews, Constant J.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Speculum dominarum" ("Miroir des dames") and Transformations of the Literature of Instruction for Women in the Early Fourteenth Century [The author analyzes the "Speculum dominarum," a treatise written by Durand de Champagne for Joanne de Navarre, wife of Philip IV and queen of France 1285-1305. The text was later translated into French and remained widely read into the sixteenth century. Mews argues that the text "marks a significant shift in the character of religious writing for women, in moving away from a purely interior focus to one that combines spiritual advice with ethical discussion, of a sort traditionally conducted in a scholastic milieu and addressed only to men." (p. 14).

Source: Virtue Ethics for Women 1250-1500. Edited by Karen Green and Constant J. Mews . Springer, 2011. Memorie Domenicane , 42., ( 2012): Pages 13 - 30.
Year of Publication: 2011.

14. Record Number: 29128
Author(s): Welch, Anna,
Contributor(s):
Title : Presence and Absence : Reading Clare of Assisi in Franciscan Liturgy and Community

Source: Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality: Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900. Edited by Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen M. Mangion . Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Memorie Domenicane , 42., ( 2012): Pages 19 - 37.
Year of Publication: 2011.

15. Record Number: 29257
Author(s): Neff, Amy,
Contributor(s):
Title : The Humble Man's Wedding: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Images of the "Miracle at Cana" : [The author analyzes two Franciscan-inspired paintings of the Miracle at Cana, a fresco in the Upper Church of San Francesco in Assisi and a full-page illustration in the “Supplicationes variae,” a devotional manual. Neff traces iconography and theolog

Source: Gothic Art and Thought in the Later Medieval Period: Essays in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer. Edited by Colum Hourihane . Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Penn State University Press, 2011. Memorie Domenicane , 42., ( 2012): Pages 292 - 323.
Year of Publication: 2011.

16. Record Number: 30981
Author(s): Warr, Cordelia
Contributor(s):
Title : Visualizing Stigmata: Stigmatic Saints and Crises of Representation in Late medieval and Early Modern Italy

Source: Studies in Church History , 47., ( 2011): Pages 228 - 247. Special issue: Saints and Sanctity
Year of Publication: 2011.

17. Record Number: 27902
Author(s): Clare of Assisi
Contributor(s):
Title : Clare's "Forma vitae" [See also Joan Mueller's commentary on the "Forma vitae" in Chapter Seven, pages 209-257.]

Source: A Companion to Clare of Assisi: Life, Writings, and Spirituality. Joan Mueller. Brill's Companions to the Christian Tradition, , 21. . Brill, 2010. Studies in Church History , 47., ( 2011): Pages 275 - 285.
Year of Publication: 2010.

18. Record Number: 29622
Author(s): Cignoni, Arianna Pecorini
Contributor(s):
Title : Fondazioni francescane femminili nella Provincia Tusciae del XIII secolo [The Franciscan province of Tuscany was founded in 1217, and its first list of nuns' houses dates to 1228. This article gives information about twenty Franciscan women's monasteries in the province, few of which survive today. Most of these monasteries we

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 80., 1-2 ( 2010): Pages 181 - 206.
Year of Publication: 2010.

19. Record Number: 29907
Author(s): Berman, Constance Hoffman
Contributor(s):
Title : Two Medieval Women’s Property and Religious Benefactions in France: Eleanor of Vermandois and Blanche of Castile

Source: Viator , 41., 2 ( 2010): Pages 151 - 182.
Year of Publication: 2010.

20. Record Number: 29909
Author(s): Ehrenschwendtner, Marie-Luise
Contributor(s):
Title : Creating the Sacred Space Within: Enclosure as a Defining Feature in the Convent Life of Medieval Dominican Sisters (13th–15th c.)

Source: Viator , 41., 2 ( 2010): Pages 301 - 316.
Year of Publication: 2010.

21. Record Number: 24045
Author(s): Schuchman, Anne M.
Contributor(s):
Title : "Within the Walls of Paradise": Space and Community in the "Vita" of Umiliana de' Cerchi [Umiliata dei Cerchi was a 13th century Florentine laywoman who, as a widow, lived a religious life in her family’s tower house. Franciscan friar Vito da Cortona wrote her “vita” shortly after her death in 1246. Schuchman focuses on the text's description of Umiliata’s life in the tower as a substitute for joining a monastery. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom. Edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells Studies in the History of Christian Traditions . Brill, 2009. Viator , 41., 2 ( 2010): Pages 49 - 64.
Year of Publication: 2009.

22. Record Number: 24048
Author(s): Berman, Constance Hoffman
Contributor(s):
Title : Noble Women's Power as Reflected in the Foundations of Cistercian Houses for Nuns in Thirteenth-Century Northern France: Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey, Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres [The author examines five Cistercian female houses supported by Matilda of Brunswick, the Countess of the Perche; Matilda of Garlande, Lady of Marly; and Isabelle, Countess of Chartres with the help of her daughter, Matilda of Amboise. Berman argues that these actions reveal the power and authority women exercised and need to be incorporated into the historical narrative. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

23. Record Number: 24109
Author(s): Lisciotto, Donatella
Contributor(s):
Title : L'origine del monasterio di Montevergine in Messina [Eustochia Calafetto left a monastery of Poor Clares to found one that followed the strictest version of the order’s life. Many of her nuns came from important families, and their increasing numbers required expansion of the original monastery. The monastery benefited from Eustochia’s reputation for sanctity, but eventually it became less rigorous in the observances that she had promoted. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 78., 1-2 ( 2008): Pages 685 - 700.
Year of Publication: 2008.

24. Record Number: 20601
Author(s): Stuard, Susan Mosher
Contributor(s):
Title : Satisfying the Laws: The "Legenda" of Maria of Venice [Susan Mosher Stuard analyzes the "Vita" of Maria Sturion written by her confessor, Thomas Caffarini. Thomas had been given the task of writing a rule for Dominican penitents, lay people who lived a religious life without vows (and also known as tertiaries or third orders). Maria Sturion (or Maria of Venice) had been abandoned by her young husband and led a religious life at the home of her parents; Caffarini developed a close relationship with her as confessor and teacher. He saw Maria's "vita" as a model that other wealthy, young Venetian women could follow. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe. Edited by Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, and E. Ann Matter . University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Viator , 41., 2 ( 2010): Pages 197 - 210.
Year of Publication: 2008.

25. Record Number: 23299
Author(s): Dunlop, Anne
Contributor(s):
Title : The Dominicans and Cloistered Women: The Convent of Sant'Aurea in Rome

Source: Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal , 2., ( 2007): Pages 43 - 71.
Year of Publication: 2007.

26. Record Number: 20335
Author(s): Zaggia, Masimo
Contributor(s):
Title : Varia fortuna editoriale delle lettere di Caterina da Siena [In the 16th century, the diffusion of the letters of Catherine of Siena in print derived from Venice. The texts were secured from Venetian Dominican houses. Only in the 18th century did the printing of Catherine's works pass to Tuscany and Rome. Older pr

Source: Dire l'ineffabile: Caterina da Siena e il linguaggio della mistica. Edited by Lino Leonardi and Pietro Trifone . Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 1., ( 2006): Pages 127 - 187.
Year of Publication: 2006.

27. Record Number: 20607
Author(s): Herzig, Tamar
Contributor(s):
Title : Women's Participation in the Savonarolan Reform in Ferrara [The author explores women's activities in late 15th and early 16th century Ferrara. The holy woman, Lucia Brocadelli, was brought to the city by Duke Ercole d'Este to confer her prestige as a living saint on Ferrara. Lucia founded a house for female tertiaries dedicated to Saint Catherine of Siena. Savonarola's niece and other impoverished girls were encouraged to join (with their dowry paid by the duke) and perpetuate Savonarola's reformist ideals. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: French Historical Studies , 29., 4 (Fall 2006): Pages 543 - 564.
Year of Publication: 2006.

28. Record Number: 15565
Author(s): Herzig, Tamar
Contributor(s):
Title : Witches, Saints, and Heretics: Heinrich Kramer's Ties with Italian Women Mystics [Heinrich Kramer is best known for the "Malleus malleficarum," which denounced women as prone to becoming witches. While disputing with heretics in Bohemia, Kramer argued that the holiness of four Dominican tertiaries in Ferrara proved the authenticity of the Church. Kramer's holy women all were given to bodily manifestations of piety, such as stigmata; but they were carefully regulated by friars. They were the mirror opposites of witches, saintly despite bodily appetites that might have led them into error. The heretics were unmoved by their example, but Kramer spread their fame even while the "Malleus" spread negative stereotypes of other women. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 1., ( 2006): Pages 24 - 55.
Year of Publication: 2006.

29. Record Number: 14604
Author(s): Carbonetti Vendittelli, Cristina.
Contributor(s):
Title : In registro di entrate e uscite del convento domenicano di San Sisto negli anni 1369-1381 [Dominican friars kept administrative records for the nuns of San Sisto Vecchio, as well as for their convent at the same church. These records occasionally reflect records kept by the nuns themselves. The accounting of income reflects the economic base of the two houses, including from land held for the nuns and gifts given by their friends and kin. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Economia e societa a Roma tra Medioevo e Rinascimento: Studi dedicati ad Arnold Esch. Edited by Anna Esposito and Luciano Palermo . Viella, 2005. French Historical Studies , 29., 4 (Fall 2006): Pages 83 - 121.
Year of Publication: 2005.

30. Record Number: 14649
Author(s): Rando, Daniela.
Contributor(s):
Title : Libri e letture per la vita eremetica: un esempio al femminile dal Veneto [Pious women from Venice occasionally became hermits near Treviso. We can trace some of their reading through the will of Caterina Centania, who founded the Hieronymites of Santa Maria della Rocca and left books to the prior of a monastery near Treviso. Included among these vernacular works of piety are texts in Italian, including in the regional dialect. Some are translations of well-known devotional texts, including pious poetry and Marian texts. The article appendix presents the will of Caterina Centania (1467). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Chiesa, vita religiosa, societa nel Medioevo italiano: Studi offerti a Giuseppina De Sandre Gasparini. Edited by Mariaclara Rossi and Gian Maria Varanini . Herder, 2005. French Historical Studies , 29., 4 (Fall 2006): Pages 539 - 553.
Year of Publication: 2005.

31. Record Number: 11758
Author(s): Heller, Ena Giurescu.
Contributor(s):
Title : Access to Salvation: The Place (and Space) of Women Patrons in Fourteenth-century Florence [The author provides a case study of Monna Andrea Acciaiuoli's patronage of her husband's family chapel in Santa Maria Novella. She commissioned the glass windows and the altarpiece. Heller raises the question of whether Monna Andrea and other female patrons had access to these family chapels beyond the rood screen. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church. Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury . State University of New York Press, 2005. French Historical Studies , 29., 4 (Fall 2006): Pages 161 - 183.
Year of Publication: 2005.

32. Record Number: 14630
Author(s): Elliott, Janis and Cordelia Warr
Contributor(s):
Title : Introduction [The authors briefly survey Angevin patronage, the nuns' practices, the pictorial program, and the architectural scheme of the church of Santa Maria Donna Regina in Naples. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples. Edited by Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr . Ashgate, 2004. French Historical Studies , 29., 4 (Fall 2006): Pages 1 - 12.
Year of Publication: 2004.

33. Record Number: 10572
Author(s): Alberzoni, Maria Pia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Da Pauperes Domine a Sorores Pauperes: la negazione di un modello di santita itinerante femminile? [In 1263 Pope Urban IV attempted to bring unity to the Poor Clares, imposing norms of monastic enclosure that limited the ideal of Franciscan poverty. Clare's own letters reveal her past struggles with Cardinal Ugolino (Gregory IX) for preservation of the ideal of strict poverty and mendicancy. Urban's bull also required that the Franciscan friars limit their care of women religious to the Clares. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Pellegrinaggi e culto dei Santi: Santita minoritica del primo e secundo ordine. Edited by Benedetto Vetere . Mario Congedo editore, 2004. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 39 - 59.
Year of Publication: 2004.

34. Record Number: 10828
Author(s): Desplenter, Youri.
Contributor(s):
Title : Songs of Praise for the "Illiterate": Latin Hymns in Middle Dutch Prose Translation [The author focuses on a group of manuscripts which provide vernacular translations of breviary hymns. Desplenter argues that the manuscripts' intended users were mostly women, both Franciscan tertiaries and canonesses of the Windesheim Chapter. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Voice of Silence: Women's Literacy in a Men's Church. Edited by Thérèse de Hemptinne and María Eugenia Góngora Medieval Church Studies . Brepols, 2004. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 127 - 142.
Year of Publication: 2004.

35. Record Number: 11060
Author(s): Cantarella, Glauco Maria.
Contributor(s):
Title : La verginita e Cluny [Cluniac monks valued not just chastity but virginity. The Virgin Mary was the model of this quality. The "Vita" of Abbot Maiolus of Cluny emphasized his virginity. Some lives of Cluniac abbots combined an emphasis on virginity with one on masculinity; others combined it with a focus on angelic asexuality. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Figure poetiche e figure teologiche nella mariologia dei secoli XI e XII: Atti del II Convegno Mariologico della Fondazione Ezio Franceschini con la collaborazione della Biblioteca Palatina di Parma, Parma, 19-20 maggio 2000. Edited by Clelia Maria Piastra and Francesco Santi . SISMEL, 2004. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 45 - 60.
Year of Publication: 2004.

36. Record Number: 11529
Author(s): Barclay-Lloyd, Joan E.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Church and Monastery of S. Pancrazio, Rome [In 1204 Innocent III crowned Peter II of Aragon at San Pancrazio outside Rome. San Pancrazio had been a Benedictine monastery since the late 6th century, but the monks were replaced by a group of penitent women in 1255. These women became Cistercians shortly thereafter, remaining until Ambrosian Friars replaced them in 1438. The 13th-century reduction of the church to a single nave without side aisles and divided by a screen wall may represent adaptation to the need of these nuns for more privacy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Pope, Church and City: Essays in Honour of Brenda M. Bolton. Edited by Frances Andrews, Christoph Egger and Constance M. Rousseau Medieval Mediterranean . Brill, 2004. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 245 - 266.
Year of Publication: 2004.

37. Record Number: 11530
Author(s): Bourdua, Louise.
Contributor(s):
Title : Guariento's Crucifix for Maria Bovolini in San Francesco, Bassano: Women and Franciscan Art in Italy During the Later

38. Record Number: 11750
Author(s): Fassler, Margot.
Contributor(s):
Title : Music and the Miraculous: Mary in the Mid-Thirteenth-Century Dominican Sequence Repertory [The early Dominicans felt a special closeness to the Virgin Mary. This was expressed in hymns like the "Salve regina," and in special liturgical sequences for Saturday devotions to Mary. The order, guided by Humbert of Romans, created a unified liturgy that drew upon Parisian models. These were adapted to Dominican needs, including by editing existing compositions, and new compositions were prepared after Humbert's time. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Aux origines de la liturgie dominicaine: Le manuscrit Santa Sabina XIV L 1. Edited by Leonard Boyle and Pierre-Marie Gy . École française de Rome, 2004. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 229 - 278.
Year of Publication: 2004.

39. Record Number: 14095
Author(s): Reimann, Heike.
Contributor(s):
Title : Cistercian Nuns in the High Middle Ages: The Cistercians of Bergen in the Principality of Rügen (North Germany)

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 231 - 244.
Year of Publication: 2004.

40. Record Number: 15871
Author(s): Piatti, Pierantonio.
Contributor(s):
Title : Augustinianae mulieres: "Un problema storiografico: il "moveimento femminile agostiniano" nel Medioevo tra carisma ed istituzione [The Augustinian hermits, like the other mendicant orders, were mostly based in cities and towns. One of their roles was spiritual direction of pious women, both nuns and tertiaries. The hermits promoted the cult of Saint Monica, the mother of Augustine of Hippo. They also adapted the Rule of Augustine for use by women connected to the order. The hermits, however, issued few regulations for the care of these women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 58., (dicembre 2004): Pages 43 - 61.
Year of Publication: 2004.

41. Record Number: 17743
Author(s): Rossi Vairo, Giulia
Contributor(s):
Title : Le Origini del processo di canonizzazione di Isabella d'Aragona, "Rainha Santa de Portugal," in un atto notarile del 27 luglio 1336 [Isabella of Aragon (d. 1336) earned a reputation for piety and benevolence as queen and dowager queen of Portugal. When the cause for Isabella's canonization was advanced in Rome in the early 17th century, documents from the 14th century were gathered. An additional document is a notarized record of Isabella's miracles dated July 27, 1336. The original cause for canonization may have failed because Isabella, like her paternal kin, favored the Spiritual Franciscans who were opposed to the pope. The appendix presents a notarized document, dated July 27, 1336, about Queen Isabella's sanctity. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 74., ( 2004): Pages 147 - 193.
Year of Publication: 2004.

42. Record Number: 17744
Author(s): Tovalieri, Sabrina
Contributor(s):
Title : Damianite e Clarisse in Trentino e in Alto Adige nel XIII e XIV secolo [The Poor Clares had settled in Trent by 1228, where they received support from Pope Gregory IX. The monastery existed until 1809. The Clares' monastery in Bressanone was founded by 1235. It survives to the present day. The monastery in Merano was founded ca. 1309 and lasted until 1787. The houses in Merano and Bressanone were the object of reform efforts by Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 74., ( 2004): Pages 557 - 580.
Year of Publication: 2004.

43. Record Number: 20787
Author(s): Fleck, Cathleen A
Contributor(s):
Title : Blessed the eyes that see those things you see: The Trecento Choir Frescoes at Santa Maria Donnaregina in Naples [Describes the events depicted in the fresco cycles of the monastery, and makes connections between the relationship of the nun's agency as viewer of the frescoes to her relationship with the male mendicant orders of the monastery. Also examines how the content of the frescoes alludes to increases in women's literacy in Naples during this period. Title note supplied by Femiane.].

Source: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte , 67., ( 2004): Pages 201 - 224.
Year of Publication: 2004.

44. Record Number: 18224
Author(s): Herzig, Tamar
Contributor(s):
Title : The Rise and Fall of a Savonarolan Visionary: Lucia Brocadelli's Contribution to the Piagnone Movement [The author explores Lucia Brocadelli's activities in the reform movement inspired by Girolamo Savonarola. The duke, Ercole d'Este, brought her to Ferrara because of her reputation for saintliness and her support of the Piagnoni, followers of Savonarola. Lucia promoted Savonarola's cult in the monastery she directed. Despite historians' interests in the Piagnoni movement, Lucia's role has been ignored. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte / Archive for Reformation History , 95., ( 2004): Pages 34 - 59.
Year of Publication: 2004.

45. Record Number: 14636
Author(s): Yakou, Hisashi.
Contributor(s):
Title : Contemplating Angels and the "Madonna of the Apocalypse" [The author briefly discusses antecedents for the nuns' elevated choir and then turns to the church's frescoes. Yakou in particular focuses on the "Angelic Choirs" and the "Madonna of the Apocalypse" in terms both of iconography and meditative use by the Clarissan nuns. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples. Edited by Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr . Ashgate, 2004. Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte / Archive for Reformation History , 95., ( 2004): Pages 93 - 107.
Year of Publication: 2004.

46. Record Number: 14638
Author(s): Hoch, Adrian S.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Passion Cycle": Images to Contemplate and Imitate amid Clarissan "clausura" [The author argues that the passion cycle in the church of Santa Maria Donna Regina emphasized an "imitatio Mariae," a devotion to the Eucharist, and Franciscan concerns for female viewers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

47. Record Number: 11426
Author(s): Kennedy, Ruth,
Contributor(s):
Title : Spalding's "Alliterative Katherine Hymn": A Guild Connection from the South-East Midlands?

Source: Viator , 35., ( 2004): Pages 455 - 482.
Year of Publication: 2004.

48. Record Number: 14632
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Religious Patronage and Royal Propaganda in Angevin Naples: Santa Maria Donna Regina in Context [The author explores the Angevin rulers' connections with Franciscanism, their religious patronage generally, and their efforts to strengthen and lend prestige to their dynasty. Kelly maintains that Angevin support of Franciscan Spirituals and religious p

Source: The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples. Edited by Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr . Ashgate, 2004. Viator , 35., ( 2004): Pages 27 - 43.
Year of Publication: 2004.

49. Record Number: 14094
Author(s): Faesen, Rob S.J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Was Hadewijch a Beguine or a Cistercian? An Annotated Hypothesis

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40180 ( 2004): Pages 47 - 63.
Year of Publication: 2004.

50. Record Number: 10934
Author(s): Lehmijoki-Gardner, Maiju.
Contributor(s):
Title : Writing Religious Rules as an Interactive Process: Dominican Penitent Women and the Making of Their "Regula" [In the fifteenth century, when the Dominican Order adopted their affiliated groups of penitent women officially, Thomas Caffarini rewrote the history of that association to make it appear more coherent. In fact, the relationship was informal; and these women and their patrons needed to lobby the friars for attention. Thus the original rule granted by Munio of Zamora was informal, given in response to these women. Once the order adopted the penitents more formally, they lost much of their initiative to the friars, whose histories of the movement buried traces of women's activities. Appendicies present the Latin text of Munio's "Ordinationes" written in 1286 for penitent women in Orvieto and a listing that compares the chapter headings in the "Ordinationes" with those in the "Tractatus," the Dominican penitent rule circa 1402-1405. Title note supplied by Feminae]

Source: Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004): Pages 660 - 687.
Year of Publication: 2004.

51. Record Number: 14096
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Houses of a Peculiar Order: Cistercian Nunneries in Medieval England, with Special Attention to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries [Only two English women's monasteries, Marham and Tarrant, were officially incorporated as Cistercian houses. However, visitation records, mortuary rolls, and other evidence document unofficial houses for women that claimed Cistercian privileges. Freeman

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004): Pages 245 - 287.
Year of Publication: 2004.

52. Record Number: 10217
Author(s): Bartoli, Marco.
Contributor(s):
Title : La minorita in Chiara d'Assisi [The Poor Clares occasionally were called "minorite" sisters in early thirteenth-century texts. Gregory IX, however, restricted the term to Franciscan males, and he denied the Clares use of a version of the Franciscan habit. Clare herself seems to have preferred to call her community the "poor sisters." Many later Francscian women, including some of the order's saints, did not have the foundress' sense of being lowly and subordinate to all. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Minores et subditi omnibus: tratti caratterizzanti dell'identità francescana: atti del Convegno, Roma 26-27 novembre 2002. Edited by Luigi Padovese . Edizioni Collegio S. Lorenzo da Brindisi- Laurentianum, 2003. Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003): Pages 205 - 216.
Year of Publication: 2003.

53. Record Number: 10782
Author(s): Field, Richard S.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Fifteenth-Century Woodcut of the "Death of the Virgin" in a Manuscript of "Der Stachel der Liebe" [The author examines the development and meaning of an iconographic theme, the figure of the kneeling Virgin in woodcut scenes of the Dormition. This devotional image presented Mary as humankind's stongest intercessor with both her son and God. It also served as a model for the good death with Mary kneeling in pious prayer as her earthly life ends. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003): Pages 71 - 137.
Year of Publication: 2003.

54. Record Number: 16347
Author(s): Subrenat, Jean.
Contributor(s):
Title : Fabliau et satire cléricale: "La spécificité de "Frére Denise" par Rutebeuf

Source: Risus Mediaevalis: Laughter in Medieval Literature and Art. Edited by Herman Braet, Guido Latré, and Werner Verbeke Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series 1, Studia 30. . Leuven University Press, 2003. Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003): Pages 143 - 153.
Year of Publication: 2003.

55. Record Number: 18423
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth
Contributor(s):
Title : Cistercian Women in Medieval England, Twelfth to Sixteenth Centuries [The author briefly outlines her current research on female Cistercian houses (official and unofficial) in England. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Monastic Research Bulletin , 9., ( 2003): Pages 25 - 26.
Year of Publication: 2003.

56. Record Number: 10896
Author(s): Mueller, Joan.
Contributor(s):
Title : Agnes of Prague and the Rule of St. Clare

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 13., ( 2003): Pages 155 - 167.
Year of Publication: 2003.

57. Record Number: 10748
Author(s): Carroll, Jane L.
Contributor(s):
Title : Woven Devotions: Reform and Piety in Tapestries by Dominican Nuns [The author examines two tapestries that were produced by Dominican nuns in Germany. Both have small depictions of nuns working at looms in the margins. Carroll suggests that these images are part self-portraits, part devotional images, while also serving as exemplars of the Dominican reform for a "vita activa" that avoided luxury and sloth. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Saints, Sinners, and Sisters: Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Jane L. Carroll and Alison G. Stewart . Ashgate, 2003. Studies in Spirituality , 13., ( 2003): Pages 182 - 201.
Year of Publication: 2003.

58. Record Number: 9712
Author(s): Wolbrink, Shelley Amiste.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women in the Premonstratensian Order of Northwestern Germany, 1120-1250 [The established historiography of the Premonstratensians shows women being marginalized from the early years onward. The documentary record is more complex. The German records show men's houses serving as "mother" houses to women's monasteries. This relationship was not free of conflict, but it shows a more vital presence of women in the order than the historiography has claimed. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Catholic Historical Review (Full Text via Project Muse) 89, 3 (July 2003): 387-408. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2003.

59. Record Number: 11950
Author(s): Shadis, Miriam and Constance Hoffman Berman
Contributor(s):
Title : A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine's Female Descendants [The authors profile Eleanor's female descendants, especially her daughters and their daughters. In the lives of figures including Blanche of Castile and Leonor, queen of Aragon, Shadis and Berman analyze their uses of power in the areas of politics, patronage, and family. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons The New Middle Ages . Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte , 67., ( 2004): Pages 177 - 211.
Year of Publication: 2003.

60. Record Number: 10570
Author(s): Pol, Frank van der.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Book of Hours from the Sisters of Saint Agnes in Kampen: A Spiritual Guide for a Community of Worship [The author focuses on the community of the sisters of Saint Agnes, a female house of tertiaries, who were influenced by the Devotio Moderna. From their book of hours, he concentrates on two offices, the "Office of All Saints" and the "Office of Saint Agnes." The various experiences associated with death and dying are emphasized. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Spirituality renewed: studies on significant representatives of the Modern Devotion. Edited by Hein Blommestijn, Charles Caspers, and Rijcklof Hofman Studies in spirituality. Supplement . 10 2003. Pages 169 - 192.
Year of Publication: 2003.

61. Record Number: 10781
Author(s): Schmidt, Peter.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Use of Prints in German Convents of the Fifteenth Century: The Example of Nuremberg [The author focuses on the uses made by nuns in the Dominican house, the Katharinenkloster. Schmidt argues that the woodcuts were a medium of communication among nuns as well as between confessors and their female penitents. Title note supplied by Feminae

Source: Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003): Pages 43 - 69.
Year of Publication: 2003.

62. Record Number: 9676
Author(s): Newman, Martha G.
Contributor(s):
Title : Real Men and Imaginary Women: Engelhard of Langheim Considers a Woman in Disguise [The author examines an exemplum written by the Cistercian monk Engelhard of Langheim concerning a monk at Schönau who at death was discovered to be a woman. Engelhard attempted to make her a model for male Cistercians but, unlike later narrators, he ignored the tradition of holy women and the new ideas connecting female weakness to divine strength. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Speculum , 78., 4 (October 2003): Pages 1184 - 1213.
Year of Publication: 2003.

63. Record Number: 10558
Author(s): Field, Sean.
Contributor(s):
Title : Gilbert of Tournai's Letter to Isabelle of France: An Edition of the Complete Text [The author works from a recently discovered manuscript of the letter that the Franciscan preacher wrote to the daughter of King Louis VIII. Writing on his own initiative, Gilbert offered much of the standard spiritual advice to the religiously inclined princess. However, he also included a sophisticated section on spiritual ascent based on Pseudo-Dionysius. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003): Pages 57 - 97.
Year of Publication: 2003.

64. Record Number: 8314
Author(s): Matter, E. Ann.
Contributor(s):
Title : Bible and Rule in the Clarissan Tradition [Clare and her sisters lobbied for papal approval of their rule. It can be understood as representing her own voice. The Rule quotes the gospels, while Clare's letters refer to the "Song of Songs" and other bridal images. Later Clares are found to be using both patterns of Biblical references. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Magistra , 8., 2 (Winter 2002): Pages 77 - 83.
Year of Publication: 2002.

65. Record Number: 10516
Author(s): Rasmussen, Linda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Order, Order! Determining Order in Medieval English Nunneries [The author examines Stamford Priory, a house for women founded around 1160, as a case study for the importance of monastic affiliation. At various points the prioress petitioned for tax relief based on poverty and the priory's affiliation as a Cistercian house. At the same time the male Benedictine monastery at Peterborough, Stamford's patron, successfully resisted Stamford's efforts to stop paying fees to the large Benedictine house. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of John Tillotson for His 60th Birthday. Edited by Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear, and Dianne Tillotson . Merton Priory Press, 2002. Magistra , 8., 2 (Winter 2002): Pages 30 - 49.
Year of Publication: 2002.

66. Record Number: 11418
Author(s): Klaniczay, Gábor
Contributor(s):
Title : Le stigmate di santa Margherita d'Ungheria: immagini e testi [The earliest sources for Margaret of Hungary, a princess who became a Dominican nun, do not mention her stigmata. Reports of her reciept of the Stigmata were rejected by Tommaso Caffarini, but defenders of the story can be found as late as the sixteenth century. The earliest depictions of Margaret usually lack the stigmata, but a royal crown often is shown at her feet or on her head. Dominican claims to stigmatics threatened Franciscan ideas of their founder as "another Christ" ("alter Christus"), and questions about Margaret became intertwined with disputes over the stigmata of Catherine of Siena. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Iconographica , 1., ( 2002): Pages 16 - 31.
Year of Publication: 2002.

67. Record Number: 10834
Author(s): Peterson, Ingrid, O.S.F.
Contributor(s):
Title : Thirteenth-Century Penitential Women: Franciscan Life in the Secular World

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 12., ( 2002): Pages 43 - 60.
Year of Publication: 2002.

68. Record Number: 7134
Author(s): Warren, Nancy Bradley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Monastic Politics: St. Colette of Corbie, Franciscan Reform, and the House of Burgundy

Source: New Medieval Literatures , 5., ( 2002): Pages 203 - 228.
Year of Publication: 2002.

69. Record Number: 9512
Author(s): Wiethaus, Ulrike.
Contributor(s):
Title : Thieves and Carnivals: Gender in German Dominican Literature of the Fourteenth Century [The author examines two autobiographical vernacular texts from Margarete Ebner and Heinrich Seuse. She argues that Seuse was concerned in part with disciplining nuns under his care and showing that female spirituality was inferior to his more intellectual approach. Ebner, on the other hand, wrote a spiritual manual for the nuns in her house in order to enhance their daily practices. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature. Edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Bradley Warren . The New Middle Ages series. Palgrave, 2002. New Medieval Literatures , 5., ( 2002): Pages 209 - 238.
Year of Publication: 2002.

70. Record Number: 8189
Author(s): Sorrentino, Janet.
Contributor(s):
Title : In Houses of Nuns, in Houses of Canons: A Liturgical Dimension to Double Monasteries

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 28., ( 2002): Pages 361 - 372.
Year of Publication: 2002.

71. Record Number: 5906
Author(s): Maginnis, Hayden B. J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Images, Devotion, and the Beata Umiliana de' Cerchi [images are found speaking to medieval Italian saints, especially Franciscans, in the hagiographic sources; two pictures play this role in the life of the pious widow Umiliata de' Cerchi; these images function in her contact with the divine like Byzantine

Source: Visions of Holiness: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Italy. Edited by Andrew Ladis and Shelley E. Zuraw . Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2001. Mediaeval Studies , 63., ( 2001): Pages 13 - 20.
Year of Publication: 2001.

72. Record Number: 5908
Author(s): Smith, Janet G.
Contributor(s):
Title : Santa Umiltà of Faenza: Her Florentine Convent and Its Art [in the early 16th century the Florentines destroyed the monastery of San Giovanni Evangelista, outside the walls, to improve the city's defenses; this house had been founded by the Vallombrosan nun Umiltà of Faenza; much of its surviving art depicts Umiltà with a weasel, the enemy of the serpent, symbol of evil; this animal was displaced in later art by a book, and that too vanished in Counter-Reformation depictions of Umiltà, in which she becomes a generic saint without distinguishing symbols].

73. Record Number: 7207
Author(s): Simonetti, Adele.
Contributor(s):
Title : Le Vite e gli agiografi della bedta Stefana Quinzani [Stefana Quinzani was of humble birth and became a Dominican tertiary in 1500. She enjoyed good relations with the nobility and was able to found a religious house at Soncino. Much of the documentation available was connected with her cult which culiminated in her beatification in the eighteenth century. Only in Bartolomeo da Mantová's account do we hear of Stefana's voice, including her account of visions which she received concerning her choice between the Dominican and Franciscan third orders. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Hagiographica: Rivista di agiografia e biografia della società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino/ Journal of Hagiography and Biography of Società Internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino , 8., ( 2001): Pages 191 - 231.
Year of Publication: 2001.

74. Record Number: 7816
Author(s): Johns, Susan M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Poetry and Prayer: Women and Politics of Spiritual Relationships in the Early Twelfth Century

Source: European Review of History , 8., 1 ( 2001): Pages 7 - 22.
Year of Publication: 2001.

75. Record Number: 6740
Author(s): Warren, Ann K
Contributor(s):
Title : The Head of St. Euphemia: Templar Devotion to Female Saints

Source: Gendering the Crusades. Edited by Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert . University of Wales Press, 2001. Iconographica , 1., ( 2002): Pages 108 - 120.
Year of Publication: 2001.

76. Record Number: 21266
Author(s): Rossi Vairo, Giulia
Contributor(s):
Title : Isabella d'Aragona, "Rainha santa de Portugal," e il monastero di Santa Clara e Santa Isabel di Coimbra (1286-1336) [The monastery of Santa Clara e Santa Isabel was founded by Donna Mor Dias in 1286. Isabel, queen of Portugal, took over patronage of the monastery, refounded it, and completed the buildings. Isabel played a key role in the building project and secured favors for the monastery from the pope. The Queen played an active role in the community's life down to her death, when she was buried in the monastery. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 71., 40180 ( 2001): Pages 139 - 170.
Year of Publication: 2001.

77. Record Number: 6085
Author(s): Lichtmann, Maria R.
Contributor(s):
Title : Three Models of Self-Governance: Medieval English Translations of Latin Rules for Nuns [The author looks at the rules for the Benedictines, Brigittines, and Poor Clares in regard to issues of governance and discipline].

Source: Magistra , 7., 2 (Winter 2001): Pages 100 - 125.
Year of Publication: 2001.

78. Record Number: 6495
Author(s): Graff, Eric.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Neglected Episode in the Prehistory of Syon Abbey: The Letter of Katillus Thornberni in Uppsala University Library Pappersbrev 1410-1420 [Katillus, a Brigittine brother from Sweden, was brought over to England to help establish the order in the British Isles by converting the hospital of St. Nicholas outside of York into a Brigittine abbey with female and male houses].

Source: Mediaeval Studies , 63., ( 2001): Pages 323 - 336.
Year of Publication: 2001.

79. Record Number: 4672
Author(s): Pasztor, Edith.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sant'Elisabetta d'Ungheia nella religiosità femminile del secolo XIII [Elizabeth of Hungary is known for both her charitable actions and her visions. The latter aspect of her life can be studied from the reports of her maid, Isentrude, to Conrad of Marburg. Both Elizabeth's charitable work and her emphasis on the humanity of Christ place her within the Franciscan tradition. Once widowed, Elizabeth embraced continence, but Conrad refused to permit her to become a mendicant].

Source: Donne e sante: Studi sulla religiosità femminile nel Medio Evo. Edith Pasztor . Edizioni Studium, 2000. Gender and History , 12., 1 (April 2000): Pages 153 - 171. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication: 2000.

80. Record Number: 4673
Author(s): Pasztor, Edith.
Contributor(s):
Title : Filippa Mareri e Chiara d'Assisi [Filippa Mareri, a noblewoman, tried being a bride of Christ in her parents' castle, and then she became an anchoress. Eventually she and her followers became Poor Clares. Unlike Clare, Filippa did not know Francis, and she acted more as a dominant lady and less as a sister to her nuns, as Clare had done].

Source: Donne e sante: Studi sulla religiosità femminile nel Medio Evo. Edith Pasztor . Edizioni Studium, 2000. Gender and History , 12., 1 (April 2000): Pages 173 - 196. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication: 2000.

81. Record Number: 4869
Author(s): Natvig, Mary.
Contributor(s):
Title : Rich Clares, Poor Clares: Celebrating the Divine Office ["The goal of this study is to trace the role of music in the Clarissan liturgy throughout the development of the order, from its origins in the early thirteenth century through its reform more than two hundred years later. Most of the extant evidence comes from the interpretation of numerous rules that governed the sisters." (Page. 60). Appendices include two extracts from the "Acta sanctorum" that describe how the Poor Clares celebrate the Divine Office, an extract from "Historiae seu vitae sanctorum" by Surius again describing the performance of the Office, and a list of polyphonic manuscripts with possible connections to the convents of St. Clare].

Source: Women and Music , 4., ( 2000): Pages 59 - 70.
Year of Publication: 2000.

82. Record Number: 6186
Author(s): Niero, Antonio.
Contributor(s):
Title : La Madonna dei Miracoli nella Storia della Pietà Veneziana: Breve Profilo [in 1409 Francesco Amadi paid for a painting of the Madonna and child with Saints James and Anthony, both protective figures; miraculous powers were soon ascribed to this image; by 1480 enough miracles had been reported to motivate moving the image from its street corner shrine into a church; S. Maria dei Miracoli was built especially to house the image; Sixtus IV and the Patriarch of Venice authorized the foundation of a convent of Poor Clares in conjunction with the image in the 1480s; the first half of the article deals with the origins of the cult in the fifteenth century while the rest of the article considers its later history through the twentieth century].

Source: Studi Veneziani , 40., ( 2000): Pages 179 - 206.
Year of Publication: 2000.

83. Record Number: 10643
Author(s): Dunlop, Anne.
Contributor(s):
Title : Once More on the Patronage of Ambrogio Lorenzetti's Frescoes at S. Galgano Montesiepi [In suggesting a new patron for the frescoes (a lay-brother associated with the monastery), Dunlop explores the Virgin Mary's role in the paintings done by Lorenzetti. The theme of calling and acceptance is represented both in the Annunciation and in the one scene from Galgano's life. Mary is also presented as the Queen of Heaven to her Cistercian knightly followers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte , 63., ( 2000): Pages 387 - 403.
Year of Publication: 2000.

84. Record Number: 4607
Author(s): Kay, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title : Audacious Nuns: Institutionalizing the Franciscan Order of Saint Clare [The author analyzes the legal and political struggles between the Poor Clares and the male Franciscan order, with the women finally successful in ensuring that the Franciscans would provide them with spiritual care].

Source: Church History , 69., 1 (March 2000): Pages 41 - 62.
Year of Publication: 2000.

85. Record Number: 21265
Author(s): Milisenda, Floriana
Contributor(s):
Title : l monasteri delle Clarisse in Sicilia nel XIII e nel XIV secolo [The first monastery of the Poor Clares in Sicily was founded at Catania after 1228. Most of the houses were founded in the 14th century. This slow growth can be attributed to political turmoil in the 13th century. The growth in the following century owed much to royal patronage. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 70., 40241 ( 2000): Pages 485 - 519.
Year of Publication: 2000.

86. Record Number: 5229
Author(s): Mueller, Joan.
Contributor(s):
Title : Agnes of Prague and the Juridical Implications of the Privilege of Poverty [Agnes, daughter of the King of Bohemia, was inspired by Clare of Assisi to enter the order of Poor Clares ; Agnes resisted papal efforts to force her acceptance of property and other endowments for her monastery].

Source: Franciscan Studies , 58., ( 2000): Pages 261 - 287.
Year of Publication: 2000.

87. Record Number: 4833
Author(s): Scott, Karen.
Contributor(s):
Title : Catherine of Siena and Lay Sanctity in Fourteenth-Century Italy [The author argues that Catherine's status as a Dominican tertiary without monastic vows or enclosure made her a lay person; in her preaching, letters, writings, and active involvement in Church and secular politics, she emphasized the roles of the laity]

Source: Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: A Search for Models. Edited by Ann W. Astell . University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Franciscan Studies , 58., ( 2000): Pages 77 - 90.
Year of Publication: 2000.

88. Record Number: 5384
Author(s): Peterson, Ingrid, O.S.F.
Contributor(s):
Title : Angela of Foligno: The Active Life and the Following of Christ

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 10., ( 2000): Pages 125 - 142.
Year of Publication: 2000.

89. Record Number: 4841
Author(s): Crean, John E., Jr.
Contributor(s):
Title : Liturgia Horarum Feminina: The Office in German for Women [The author compares three German translations of the "Rule" (the "Oxford Rule," the "Berlin Rule," and the "Altenburg Rule") intended for women's houses].

Source: Magistra , 6., 2 (Winter 2000): Pages 87 - 96.
Year of Publication: 2000.

90. Record Number: 4243
Author(s): Beach, Alison I.
Contributor(s):
Title : Claustration and Collaboration Between the Sexes in the Twelfth-Century Scriptorium [the author compares the book production practices of two German double houses; Admont valued women's learning and the abbot worked with nuns to write down his Biblical commentaries; Schäftlarn did not train women in writing nor allow them access to books, but women who could already write were put to work in the scriptorium].

Source: Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society. Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little. Edited by Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein . Cornell University Press, 2000. Magistra , 6., 2 (Winter 2000): Pages 57 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2000.

91. Record Number: 5444
Author(s): Primhak, Victoria.
Contributor(s):
Title : Benedictine Communities in Venetian Society: The Convent of S. Zaccaria [S. Zaccaria was a conventual convent where the nuns did not observe "clausura" and had use of their private incomes; the nuns were able to resist reform because the convent was one of the oldest and most prestigious in the city and welcomed the daughters

Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Edited by Letizia Panizza . European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Magistra , 6., 2 (Winter 2000): Pages 92 - 104.
Year of Publication: 2000.

92. Record Number: 4872
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : An Abbess and a Painter: Emilia Pannocchieschi d'Elci and a Fresco From the Circle of Simone Martini

Source: Renaissance studies : journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies , 14., 3 (September 2000): Pages 273 - 300.
Year of Publication: 2000.

93. Record Number: 4764
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Bodily Peril: Sexuality and the Subversion of Order in Jean de Meun's "Roman de la Rose"

Source: Modern Language Review , 95., 1 (January 2000): Pages 41 - 61.
Year of Publication: 2000.

94. Record Number: 4832
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Angela of Foligno: A Eucharistic Model of Lay Sanctity

Source: Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: A Search for Models. Edited by Ann W. Astell . University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Modern Language Review , 95., 1 (January 2000): Pages 61 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2000.

95. Record Number: 4244
Author(s): Pellegrini, Luigi.
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Religious Experience and Society in Thirteenth-Century Italy [the author examines the Church's reaction to the waves of religious enthusiasm experienced by Italian women; despite the new order of Poor Clares, many women in the second half of the thirteenth century could not or perhaps would not be accommodated there].

Source: Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society. Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little. Edited by Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein . Cornell University Press, 2000. Modern Language Review , 95., 1 (January 2000): Pages 97 - 122.
Year of Publication: 2000.

96. Record Number: 5458
Author(s): Cré, Marleen.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women in the Charterhouse? Julian of Norwich's "Revelations of Divine Love" and Marguerite Porete's "Mirror of Simple Souls" in British Library, MS Additional 37790 [the author considers the presence of texts by Julian of Norwich and Marguerite Porete in an anthology of contemplative writings probably compiled by a Carthusian; the compiler had no interest in feminine spirituality but perhaps was attracted to their intense experiences of God].

Source: Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England. Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead . University of Toronto Press, 2000. Modern Language Review , 95., 1 (January 2000): Pages 43 - 62.
Year of Publication: 2000.

97. Record Number: 4642
Author(s): Polinska, Wioleta.
Contributor(s):
Title : Bodies Under Siege: Eating Disorders and Self-Mutilation Among Women [The author compares and contrasts present-day eating disorders with medieval holy women's behaviors and suggests that in both cases women are seeking self-determination and autonomy].

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Religion , 68., 3 (September 2000): Pages 569 - 589.
Year of Publication: 2000.

98. Record Number: 4635
Author(s): Berman, Constance H.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Labours of Hercules," the Cartulary, Church, and Abbey for Nuns of la Cour- Notre- Dame- de- Michery

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 26., 1 (March 2000): Pages 33 - 70.
Year of Publication: 2000.

99. Record Number: 4836
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Medieval Nuns at Watton: Reading Female Agency from Male-Authored Didatic Texts [The author argues that not only did Aelred imbue the nuns at Watton with the Cistercian values of friendship, charity, and chastity, but he also did not object to their acts of revenge against the canon and his pregnant nun lover].

Source: Magistra , 6., 1 (Summer 2000): Pages 3 - 36.
Year of Publication: 2000.

100. Record Number: 6094
Author(s): Nyberg, Tore.
Contributor(s):
Title : On Female Monasticism and Scandinavia [The author provides a brief overview of the development of women's monastic houses in Scandinavia, concentrating in particular on the Cistercian, mendicant, and Brigittine orders].

Source: Mediaeval Scandinavia , 13., ( 2000): Pages 181 - 197.
Year of Publication: 2000.

101. Record Number: 15185
Author(s): Cubitt, Catherine.
Contributor(s):
Title : Virginity and Misogyny in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England

Source: Gender and History , 12., 1 (April 2000): Pages 1 - 32.
Year of Publication: 2000.

102. Record Number: 3739
Author(s): Barone, Giulia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Society and Women's Religiosity, 750-1450 [The author surveys women's religious activities in this historical period, briefly discussing topics including the Gregorian reform, heresy, the Virgin Mary, the mendicant orders, saints, mystics, family life, and sanctity and politics].

Source: Women and Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present. Edited by Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri . Harvard University Press, 1999. Comitatus , 30., ( 1999): Pages 42 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1999.

103. Record Number: 3904
Author(s): Cohen, Adam S.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Art of Reform in a Bavarian Nunnery around 1000 [the author explores the efforts to reform Niedermünster, a noble foundation of canonesses, and turn it into a more strict Benedictine nunnery; the author uses surviving art and architecture, concentrating in particular on two manuscripts, the rule book and the Uta Codex, both of which feature illuminations of Niedermünster's reforming abbess, Uta.]

Source: Speculum , 74., 4 (October 1999): Pages 992 - 1020.
Year of Publication: 1999.

104. Record Number: 4236
Author(s): Nicholson, H. J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margaret de Lacy and the Hospital of St. John at Aconbury, Herefordshire [The author examines Magaret de Lacy's successful effort to oust the Hospitallers from the priory that she had founded for women].

Source: Edited by Anthony Luttrell and Helen J. Nicholson Journal of Ecclesiastical History , 50., 4 (October 1999): Pages 629 - 651. Later version published in Hospitaller Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Anthony Luttrell and Helen J. Nicholson. Ashgate, 2006. Pages 153-178
Year of Publication: 1999.

105. Record Number: 4714
Author(s): Lynn, Beth.
Contributor(s):
Title : What Difference Does a Rule Make? Clare's "Poor Sisters" and Gregory IX's Nuns [The author examines the various rules used by communities of Poor Clares, seeking to determine the degree of faithfulness to the values of Clare and Francis of Assisi].

Source: Magistra , 5., 1 (Summer 1999): Pages 25 - 42.
Year of Publication: 1999.

106. Record Number: 4713
Author(s): Sutera, Judith, O.S.B.
Contributor(s):
Title : Benedictine Spirituality in the Life and Works of Hildegard of Bingen

Source: Magistra , 5., 1 (Summer 1999): Pages 3 - 23.
Year of Publication: 1999.

107. Record Number: 4307
Author(s): Edden, Valerie.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Mantle of Elijah: Carmelite Spirituality in England in the Fourteenth Century [The author examines two essential elements in male carmelite spiritualty: the heritage of Elijah and the devotion to the Virgin Mary as a model for the religious life and as a patron and mediator for the order].

Source: The Medieval Mystical Tradition England, Ireland, and Wales. Exeter Symposium VI. Papers read at Charney Manor, July 1999. Edited by Marion Glasscoe . D. S. Brewer, 1999. Magistra , 5., 1 (Summer 1999): Pages 67 - 83.
Year of Publication: 1999.

108. Record Number: 4379
Author(s): Morris, Bridget.
Contributor(s):
Title : Birgittines and Beguines in Medieval Sweden

Source: New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and Their Impact. Edited by Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 2. Brepols, 1999. Magistra , 5., 1 (Summer 1999): Pages 159 - 175.
Year of Publication: 1999.

109. Record Number: 3827
Author(s): Berman, Constance H.
Contributor(s):
Title : Were There Twelfth-Century Cistercian Nuns?

Source: Church History (Full Text via JSTOR) 68, 4 (Dec. 1999): 824-864. Link Info Later published in Medieval Religion: New Approaches. Edited by Constance Hoffman Berman. Routledge, 2005. Pages 217-248.
Year of Publication: 1999.

110. Record Number: 5391
Author(s): Noell, Brian.
Contributor(s):
Title : Marian Lyric in the Cistercian Monastery During the High Middle Ages ["This paper will place lyric poetry dedicated to the Virgin within the Cistercian context. I shall attempt to show that Marian verse, the sequence in particular, was well suited to the devotional needs of the monks of the twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Cistercian houses. Furthermore, I will demonstrate that it conformed well to a monastic environment which focused on the religious value of interactions of the monks with written texts. Finally, I shall illustrate how poetry provided an expanded vocabulary for the expression of the ever growing devotion in the order to Our Lady. The paper will conclude with an analysis of a collection of verse from the early thirteenth century composed by an anonymouse monk of Saint Mary of Noah (La Noë), a Cistercian house in northern France." (Pages 39-40)].

Source: Comitatus , 30., ( 1999): Pages 37 - 61.
Year of Publication: 1999.

111. Record Number: 4311
Author(s): Hogg, James.
Contributor(s):
Title : Adam Easton's "Defensorium Sanctae Birgittae"

Source: The Medieval Mystical Tradition England, Ireland, and Wales. Exeter Symposium VI. Papers read at Charney Manor, July 1999. Edited by Marion Glasscoe . D. S. Brewer, 1999. Comitatus , 30., ( 1999): Pages 20 - 26.
Year of Publication: 1999.

112. Record Number: 4310
Author(s): Grise, C. Annette.
Contributor(s):
Title : In the Blessid Vyneyerd of Oure Holy Saueour : Female Religious Readers and Textual Reception in the "Myroure of Oure Ladye" and the "Orcherd of Syon" [The author argues that the two devotional works that come from Syon emphasized the ideal reader, whether lay or religious, as someone who was as meek, obedient, submissive, and devout as a nun from Syon].

Source: The Medieval Mystical Tradition England, Ireland, and Wales. Exeter Symposium VI. Papers read at Charney Manor, July 1999. Edited by Marion Glasscoe . D. S. Brewer, 1999. Comitatus , 30., ( 1999): Pages 380 - 381.
Year of Publication: 1999.

113. Record Number: 3548
Author(s): Mooney, Catherine M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Imitatio Christi or "Imitatio Mariae"? Clare of Assisi and Her Interpreters [The author argues that Clare represents herself as a follower and imitator of Christ throughout her writings; it is only subsequent hagiography and iconography that portray Clare as a follower not of Christ but of Mary].

Source: Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters. Edited by Catherine M. Mooney . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Comitatus , 30., ( 1999): Pages 52 - 77.
Year of Publication: 1999.

114. Record Number: 5260
Author(s): Taglietti, Nadia
Contributor(s):
Title : Dicte priora et sorores non sint moniales nec earum domus monasterium appellatur. La Domus Milanese delle umiliate di Cambiago tra XII e XIV Secolo

Source: Archivio Storico Lombardo. Twelfth Series , 124- 125., ( 1998- 1999): Pages 11 - 111.
Year of Publication: 1998- 1999.

115. Record Number: 4448
Author(s): Hoch, Adrian S.
Contributor(s):
Title : Pictures of Penitence From a Trecento Neapolitan Nunnery

Source: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte , 61., ( 1998): Pages 206 - 226.
Year of Publication: 1998.

116. Record Number: 3202
Author(s): Blacker, Jean.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women, Power, and Violence in Orderic Vitalis's "Historia Ecclesiastica"

Source: Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts. Edited by Anna Roberts . University Press of Florida, 1998. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte , 61., ( 1998): Pages 44 - 55.
Year of Publication: 1998.

117. Record Number: 5264
Author(s): Mazeika, Rasa.
Contributor(s):
Title : Nowhere Was the Fragility of Their Sex Apparent: Women Warriors in the Baltic Crusade Chronicles [The author argues that the chroniclers, members of military monastic orders, expected women to defend themselves in a war zone where there were constant raiding parties].

Source: From Clermont to Jerusalem: the Crusades and Crusader societies, 1095-1500: selected proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 10-13 July 1995. Edited by Alan V. Murray International Medieval Research . Brepols, 1998. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte , 61., ( 1998): Pages 229 - 248.
Year of Publication: 1998.

118. Record Number: 4295
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Rhenish Confluences: Hildegard and the Fourteenth-Century Dominicans [The author explores Hildegard's influence on John Tauler in particular, as well as briefly considering Meister Eckhart, Margaret Ebner, and Christina Ebner].

Source: Hildegard of Bingen: A book of Essays. Edited by Maud Burnett McInerney . Garland Publishing, 1998. Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte , 61., ( 1998): Pages 177 - 190.
Year of Publication: 1998.

119. Record Number: 4222
Author(s): Naughton, Joan.
Contributor(s):
Title : Friars and Their Books at Saint-Louis de Poissy, a Dominican Foundation for Nuns [in an appendix the author lists and describes manuscripts that were owned by the friars at Poissy].

Source: Scriptorium , 52., 1 ( 1998): Pages 83 - 102.
Year of Publication: 1998.

120. Record Number: 5563
Author(s): Naughton, Joan.
Contributor(s):
Title : Books for a Dominican Nuns' Choir: Illustrated Liturgical Manuscripts at Saint-Louis de Poissy, c. 1330- 1350 [The author examines a group of six manuscripts made for the Dominican women's house at Poissy; the author argues that the group "reflect an established tradition for liturgical book production and illustration as supervised by the Dominicans in Paris at

Source: The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship. Edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir . University of Exeter Press, 1998. Scriptorium , 52., 1 ( 1998): Pages 67 - 100.
Year of Publication: 1998.

121. Record Number: 3109
Author(s): Warren, Nancy Bradley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Pregnancy and Productivity: The Imagery of Female Monasticism Within and Beyond the Cloister Walls [drawing on the exemplum of the Pregnant Abbess and the didactic work, "Book to a Mother, " the author argues that they strive to control women's productivity and regulate women's use of property; the Brigittine Order provides a counter example which encourages women's productivity, values women's work, and legitimates women's rights to control material resources]

Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 3 (Fall 1998): Pages 531 - 552.
Year of Publication: 1998.

122. Record Number: 3465
Author(s): Warren, Nancy B.
Contributor(s):
Title : Saving the Market: Textual Strategies and Cultural Transformations in Fifteenth Century Translations of the Benedictine Rule for Women [The author argues that the translations/adaptations work to set up a hierarchical sex/gender system in which the female is constrained and Latin is privileged over the vernacular].

Source: Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 3., ( 1998): Pages 34 - 50. Translation, Transformation, and Transubstantiation in the Late Middle Ages
Year of Publication: 1998.

123. Record Number: 3176
Author(s): Schlager, Bernard.
Contributor(s):
Title : Foundresses of the Franciscan Life: Umiliana Cerchi and Margaret of Cortona [models of sanctity for lay women from the order of penitents which became the Franciscan Third Order].

Source: Viator , 29., ( 1998): Pages 141 - 166.
Year of Publication: 1998.

124. Record Number: 3275
Author(s): Ready, Kathryn J.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Marian Lyrics of Jacopone da Todi and Friar William Herebert: The Life and the Letter

Source: Franciscan Studies , 55., ( 1998): Pages 221 - 238.
Year of Publication: 1998.

125. Record Number: 3077
Author(s): Sullivan, Joseph M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Brother Hermann's "Iolande": A Tale of Ideal Female Spirituality

Source: Monatshefte , 90., 2 (Summer 1998): Pages 161 - 175.
Year of Publication: 1998.

126. Record Number: 1595
Author(s): Ehrenschwendtner, Marie-Luise.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Library Collected by and for the Use of Nuns: St. Catherine's Convent, Nuremberg [by the end of the fifteenth century the library had between 500 and 600 books, mostly in German, consisting of spritual literature and texts supporting the reformed Dominican life].

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. Notes and Queries , 3 (September 1997): Pages 123 - 132.
Year of Publication: 1997.

127. Record Number: 2267
Author(s): Ehrenschwendtner, Marie Luise.
Contributor(s):
Title : Puellae litteratae: The Use of the Vernacular in the Dominican Convents of Southern Germany

Source: Medieval Women in Their Communities. Edited by Diane Watt . University of Toronto Press, 1997. Notes and Queries , 3 (September 1997): Pages 49 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1997.

128. Record Number: 3512
Author(s): Ellis, Roger.
Contributor(s):
Title : Further Thoughts on the Spirituality of Syon Abbey

Source: Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England. Edited by William F. Pollard and Robert Boenig . D.S. Brewer, 1997. Notes and Queries , 3 (September 1997): Pages 219 - 243.
Year of Publication: 1997.

129. Record Number: 5002
Author(s): Filannino, Clotilde.
Contributor(s):
Title : Uno sguardo alla storia passata [The Foligno congregation of Third Order Franciscans resisted having strict enclosure imposed upon them by the Franciscan provincial chapter of 1430. Santa Anna in Foligno would not accept this decision until 1617].

130. Record Number: 5003
Author(s): Mariani, Roberta.
Contributor(s):
Title : Monasteri benedettini femminili a Milano prima della riforma [Reform of women's monasteries in Milan, especially when the nuns resisted, required support from ecclesiastical and lay authorities. These authorities occasionally failed to act in concert. Strict enclosure, one of the hardest reforms to impose, served to ameliorate one problem, nuns acting out the hostilities among their kindred. Even nuns desirous of living strict lives had difficulties finding acceptable confessors and visitors to meet their spiritual needs].

131. Record Number: 5005
Author(s): Facchiano, Annamaria.
Contributor(s):
Title : Monachesimo femminile nel Mezzogiorno medievale e moderno [The monastic history of southern Italy is complex. Several orders were present, some of Greek background; and regions display differences between them. Lay patrons often reserved to themselves the right to name the abbess, and nuns even built themselves private houses within the enclosure. Reform of these houses might require importing a new abbess from elsewhere, as well as strict enforcement of monastic enclosure and proper care for the monastery's patrimony].

132. Record Number: 5006
Author(s): Sensi, Mario.
Contributor(s):
Title : Monachesimo femminile nell' Italia centrale (sec. xv) [New women's orders were limited by thirteenth-century conciliar decrees requiring that all monastics accept existing rules. Nevertheless, communities of penitent women grew up under episcopal supervision. Some adopted the Augustinian or the Benedictine rule and claustration. Only in the fifteenth century would the papacy give final approval to the Franciscan Third Order. More traditional women's houses tended to follow the Augustinian rule].

Source: Il monachesimo femminile in Italia dall' Alto Medioevo al secolo XVII a confronto con l' oggi. Edited by Gabriella Zarri . San Pietro in Cariano: Il Segno dei Gabrielli editori, 1997. Notes and Queries , 3 (September 1997): Pages 135 - 168. Reprinted in "Mulieres in ecclesia": Storie di monache e bizzoche. Volume One. Mario Sensi. Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 2010. Pages 71-104.
Year of Publication: 1997.

133. Record Number: 5602
Author(s): Dallaj, Arnalda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Orazione e pittura tra "propaganda" e devozione al tempo di Sisto IV: il caso della Madonna della Misericordia di Ganna [once Sixtus IV issued a decree favoring the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, texts and images favoring that doctrine proliferated; some texts, genuine or spurious, promised indulgences to the devout; and they featured excerpts from Leonardo Nogarolo's office for the feast of Mary Immaculate; the image of the Madonna della Misericordia at Varese is such an image; the church also features the monogram of the Name of Jesus popularized by the Franciscan Observants; the entire complex benefited from patronage by the Sforza family].

Source: Revue Mabillon: Nouvelle Série , 8., 69 ( 1997): Pages 237 - 262.
Year of Publication: 1997.

134. Record Number: 14678
Author(s): Marano, Maria Cristina.
Contributor(s):
Title : Le Clarisse nelle Marche gli insediamenti del XIII secolo [Houses of Poor Clares began appearing in the March of Ancona by the middle of the thirteenth century. Their early histories can be documented from privileges granted by popes, cardinals, and bishops. Among the most frequent grants were those for indulgences and immunity from episcopal juristiction. Houses of Clares spred in the March early on, often developing in larger towns that also had nearby convents of friars to provide for their spiritual care. Title note provided by Feminae.].

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 67., 40180 ( 1997): Pages 105 - 166.
Year of Publication: 1997.

135. Record Number: 14679
Author(s): Alberzoni, Maria Pia.
Contributor(s):
Title : San Damiano nel 1228 Contributo alla "Questione Clariana" [The privilege of poverty supposedly granted to Clare of Assisi by Pope Innocent III has been doubted by recent scholars. Gregory IX pressed Clare and her sisters to become like traditional nuns, which Clare resisted as far as she could. We can discern this resistance behind papal documents and Franciscan hagiography, both of which emphasize the creation of an order of San Damiano under the aegis of Saint Francis. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 67., 40241 ( 1997): Pages 459 - 476.
Year of Publication: 1997.

136. Record Number: 14680
Author(s): Burr, David.
Contributor(s):
Title : Na Prous Boneta and Olivi [When she was first questioned in 1325, Na Prous Boneta was open about her beliefs. She believed she had become the herald of the advent of the Holy Spirit. Prous, who harbored refugee Spiritual Franciscans, also described Pope John XXII, their enemy, as the Antichrist. Prous identified with the condemned Franciscan theologian, Peter Olivi, who believed a papal Antichrist would come. She parted with Olivi in claiming a unique charism and a direct role in ushering in a new age of the Spirit. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 67., 40241 ( 1997): Pages 477 - 500.
Year of Publication: 1997.

137. Record Number: 3667
Author(s): Randolph, Adrian.
Contributor(s):
Title : Regarding Women in Sacred Space [the author discusses the separation of women from men at public sermons and in church; religious writers warned women to keep their minds on God and their gaze lowered because their sexuality was a danger for all men especially the celibate; poets considered Church the place for romantic meetings because a shared gaze signaled sexual choice].

Source: Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. Edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Mathews Grieco . Cambridge University Press, 1997. Monatshefte , 90., 2 (Summer 1998): Pages 17 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1997.

138. Record Number: 2799
Author(s): Passerat, G.
Contributor(s):
Title : Douceline, Delphine, et les autres ou la sainteté féminine en occitanie à la fin du moyen âge [considers the impact of Franciscan spirituality on women in Occitania; the author provides short sketches of Douceline de Digne, a Beguine, Delphine de Puymichel who lived in a chaste marriage, and Constance de Rabastens who had visions and made public prophecies].

Source: Bulletin de Littérature Ecclésiastique , 98., 3 (juillet-septembre 1997): Pages 235 - 250.
Year of Publication: 1997.

139. Record Number: 1899
Author(s): Sinclair, Keith V.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Translations of the "Vitas patrum," " Thaïs," "Antichrist," and "Vision de saint Paul" Made for Anglo-Norman Templars: Some Neglected Literary Considerations

Source: Speculum (Full Text via JSTOR) 72, 3 (July 1997): 741-762. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

140. Record Number: 2916
Author(s): Lynn, Beth, O.S.C.
Contributor(s):
Title : Clare of Assisi and Isabelle of Longchamp: Further Light on the Early Development of the Franciscan Charism

Source: Magistra , 3., 2 (Winter 1997): Pages 71 - 98.
Year of Publication: 1997.

141. Record Number: 1955
Author(s): Linehan, Peter.
Contributor(s):
Title : Zamora's Nuns in the Oven [Dominican Friars were accused of scandalous affairs with the nuns of Zamora; the Pope's efforts to curb the mendicant orders and force strict enclosure on nuns may have been in reaction to the well-known case at Zamora].

Source: History Today , 47., 3 (March 1997): Pages 46 - 51.
Year of Publication: 1997.

142. Record Number: 2070
Author(s): Barratt, Alexandra.
Contributor(s):
Title : Books for Nuns: Cambridge University Library MS Additional 3042 [the manuscript contains twenty texts including liturgical pieces, private prayers, mystical treatises, and didactic works ; the article concludes with editions of the two texts: "Form of Confession for a Female Augustinian" and "English Version of De Triplici Via"].

Source: Notes and Queries , 3 (September 1997): Pages 310 - 319.
Year of Publication: 1997.

143. Record Number: 749
Author(s): Rigon, Antonio.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Community of Female Penitents in Thirteenth- Century Padua [group of female penitents evolved into a Benedictine monastery].

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider . University of Chicago Press, 1996. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 28 - 38. Originally published as "Una comunità femminile di penitenti a Padova agli inizi del secolo XIII" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 25-35.
Year of Publication: 1996.

144. Record Number: 750
Author(s): Gennaro, Clara.
Contributor(s):
Title : Clare, Agnes, and Their Earliest Followers: From the Poor Ladies of San Damiano to the Poor Clares [Clare's efforts to follow Franciscan ideals of poverty and service versus Cardinal Ugolino's (later Pope Gregory IX) constitutions for the women that emphasized a cloistered life].

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider . University of Chicago Press, 1996. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 39 - 55. Originally published as "Chiara d'Assisi, Agnese e le prime consorelle: dalle 'Pauperes Dominae' di S. Damiano alle Clarisse'" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 3
Year of Publication: 1996.

145. Record Number: 751
Author(s): Sensi, Mario.
Contributor(s):
Title : Anchoresses and Penitents in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth Century Umbria

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider . University of Chicago Press, 1996. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 56 - 83. Originally published as "Incarcerate e recluse in Umbria nei secoli XIII e XIV: un bizzocaggio centro-italiano" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 57-84.
Year of Publication: 1996.

146. Record Number: 752
Author(s): Benvenuti Papi, Anna.
Contributor(s):
Title : Mendicant Friars and Female "Pinzochere" in Tuscany: From Social Marginality to Models of Sancity

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider . University of Chicago Press, 1996. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 85 - 106. Originally published as "Frati mendicanti e pinzochere in Toscana: dalla marginalità sociale a modello di santità" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 85-106.
Year of Publication: 1996.

147. Record Number: 2396
Author(s): Holloway, Julia Bolton, Sister
Contributor(s):
Title : Saint Birgitta of Sweden and Brigittine Music

Source: Women Composers: Music Through the Ages. Edited by Martha Furman Schleifer and Sylvia Glickman . Volume 1 Composers Born Before 1599. G.K. Hall ; Prentice Hall International, 1996. Collectanea Franciscana , 67., 40241 ( 1997): Pages 78 - 83.
Year of Publication: 1996.

148. Record Number: 1108
Author(s): Mellinger, Laura.
Contributor(s):
Title : Prayer and Politics in Medieval Brittany: The Making of Saint- Georges [the abbey was founded by Duke Alain III for his sister Adèle; it continued its close association with the ducal family, making Saint- Georges a prestigious Breton institution].

Source: American Benedictine Review , 47., 4 (December 1996): Pages 433 - 444.
Year of Publication: 1996.

149. Record Number: 7811
Author(s): Vseteckova, Zuzana.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Cistercian Origin of the Osek Lectionary and the Mural Paintings in the Royal Chapel of the Cistercian Monastery of Plasy

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 47., ( 1996): Pages 285 - 300.
Year of Publication: 1996.

150. Record Number: 3585
Author(s): Fein, Susanna Greer.
Contributor(s):
Title : Maternity in Aelred of Rievaulx's Letter to His Sister

Source: Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 47., ( 1996): Pages 139 - 156.
Year of Publication: 1996.

151. Record Number: 937
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Life of Alice" and the Silver Age at Villers [suggests that the "Life" of Alice the Leper was written by Arnulf II, Abbot of Villers, to inspire his monks to Eucharistic devotion and to an acceptance of greater austerity and a more cloistered life.]

Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 31., 1 ( 1996): Pages 51 - 74.
Year of Publication: 1996.

152. Record Number: 2771
Author(s): Borries, Ekkehard.
Contributor(s):
Title : Die besessene Schwester Agnes: Ein Schwesternspiegel des 15. Jahrhunderts aus dem Haus Ten Orten in Herzogenbusch. Edition der Berliner Handschrift mit Kommentaren und Untersuchungen

Source: Ons geesttlijk erf , 70., 1 ( 1996): Pages 10 - 61.
Year of Publication: 1996.

153. Record Number: 705
Author(s): Gilmour- Bryson, Anne.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sodomy and the Knights Templar [examines the testimony of Templars recorded during Inquisition trials].

Source: Journal of the History of Sexuality , 7., 2 (Oct. 1996): Pages 151 - 183.
Year of Publication: 1996.

154. Record Number: 1081
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Nuns in the Public Sphere: Aelred of Rievaulx's "De Sanctimoniali De Wattun" and the Gendering of Authority [how the Gilbertine nuns of Watton punished a sister who had sexual relations with a man belonging to the double house].

Source: Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 55 - 80. [contributions are accepted from graduate students and those who have received their doctorates within the last three years]
Year of Publication: 1996.

155. Record Number: 3679
Author(s): Shadis, Miriam.
Contributor(s):
Title : Piety, Politics, and Power: The Patronage of Leonor of England and Her Daughters Berenguela of Léon and Blanche of Castile [The author argues that Leonor and her daughters used patronage as a means to power, authority, and piety; they did this to ensure the power of their families and lineage, hence their active efforts to memorialize their dead].

Source: The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. Edited by June Hall McCash . University of Georgia Press, 1996. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 202 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1996.

156. Record Number: 521
Author(s): Richards, Marie.
Contributor(s):
Title : Community and Poverty in the Reformed Order of St. Clare in the Fifteenth Century

Source: Journal of Religious History , 19., 1 (June 1995): Pages 10 - 25.
Year of Publication: 1995.

157. Record Number: 2285
Author(s): Bouton, Jean de la Croix, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Life of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Nuns of Cîteaux

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Journal of Religious History , 19., 1 (June 1995): Pages 11 - 27.
Year of Publication: 1995.

158. Record Number: 2288
Author(s): Carville, Geraldine.
Contributor(s):
Title : Cistercian Nuns in Medieval Ireland: Plary Abbey, Ballymore, County Westmeath

159. Record Number: 2289
Author(s): Degler-Spengler, Brigitte.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Incorporation of Cistercian Nuns Into the Order in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Century

160. Record Number: 2302
Author(s): Mikkers, Edmund, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : Meditations on the "Life" of Alice of Schaerbeek

161. Record Number: 2308
Author(s): Mikkers, Edmund, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Spirituality of Cistercian Nuns: A Methodological Approach [overview of sources available including the "Usages," official records, biographies, spiritual writings by nuns, works by monks for women, and material remains].

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book Two. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Journal of Religious History , 19., 1 (June 1995): Pages 525 - 539.
Year of Publication: 1995.

162. Record Number: 2296
Author(s): Tartara, Lucia, O.C.S.O. and Manuela Strola, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : Saint Franca of Italy

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 283 - 303.
Year of Publication: 1995.

163. Record Number: 4908
Author(s): Solvi, Daniele.
Contributor(s):
Title : Riscritture agiografiche: le due "legendae" latine di Margherita da Città di Castello [the legends of saints frequently were reworked; that of the Dominican tertiary Margaret of Citta di Castello went through two Latin versions before being redone in Italian by Tommaso Caffarini; one Latin legend emphasizes parallels between Margaret's life and the life of Christ in the Franciscan tradition of Francis as "Alter Christus;" this made her a more universal figure, and Caffarini built his Italian legend on this vision of Margaret's life; the shorter Latin legend emphasizes Margaret's ties with the Dominican order and her local context].

Source: Hagiographica: Rivista di agiografia e biografia della società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino/ Journal of Hagiography and Biography of Società Internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino , 2., ( 1995): Pages 251 - 276.
Year of Publication: 1995.

164. Record Number: 5154
Author(s): Chauvin, Benoît.
Contributor(s):
Title : Hildegarde de Bingen et les Cisterciens. Note sur les "Epistolae LXX" et "LXXR" [the author analyzes a letter sent to Hildegard by five Cistercian abbots who ask that she help a noble woman who has been unable to have children ; the author examines the tenures of each of the abbots, arriving at a new date for the letter, between the summer of 1159 and January 1162].

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 46., 40180 ( 1995): Pages 159 - 165.
Year of Publication: 1995.

165. Record Number: 2286
Author(s): Connor, Elizabeth, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Abbeys of Las Huelgas and Tart and Their Filiations

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 29 - 48.
Year of Publication: 1995.

166. Record Number: 9519
Author(s): Bruzelius, Caroline.
Contributor(s):
Title : Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples [The author argues that the convent church building significantly departs from previous models of architectural planning in the Poor Clare tradition. In part she attributes this to Queen Sancia's deep devotion to the original ideals of Francis which prompted her to found a double house and redesign the church layout so that the nuns could see the host while remaining unseen by the laity and the Friars. The queen also was reacting to ecclesiastical controversies in which her own relatives took leading roles as proponents of the Franciscan Spirituals against Pope John XXII. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome , 40., ( 1995): Pages 69 - 100.
Year of Publication: 1995.

167. Record Number: 2305
Author(s): Schmitt, Miriam, O.S.B.
Contributor(s):
Title : Gertrud of Helfta: Her Monastic Milieu and Her Spirituality

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book Two. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 471 - 496.
Year of Publication: 1995.

168. Record Number: 172
Author(s): Harline, Craig.
Contributor(s):
Title : Actives and Contemplatives: The Female Religious of the Low Countries Before and After Trent

Source: Catholic Historical Review , 81., 4 (Oct. 1995): Pages 541 - 567.
Year of Publication: 1995.

169. Record Number: 8475
Author(s): de Courcelles, Dominique.
Contributor(s):
Title : Le Dialogue de Catherine de Sienne ou l'accès du sujet intelligent créé à la perfection ultime du langage Thomiste au langage de l'âme

Source: Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age , 62., ( 1995): Pages 71 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1995.

170. Record Number: 2292
Author(s): McGuire, Brian Patrick.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Cistercians and Friendship: An Opening to Women [descriptions of spiritual friendships between male Cistercians and women; the author then suggests reasons for this change in attitude from the earlier Cistercian practice of avoiding any involvement with women].

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age , 62., ( 1995): Pages 171 - 200.
Year of Publication: 1995.

171. Record Number: 572
Author(s): Tuten, Belle Stoddard.
Contributor(s):
Title : Disputing Corpses: Le Ronceray d'Angers Versus Saint-Nicolas d'Angers, Ca. 1080-1140 [nuns and monks contest parish boundaries and the rights to burials and offerings].

Source: Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995): Pages 178 - 188. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
Year of Publication: 1995.

172. Record Number: 2304
Author(s): Blamires, Alcuin.
Contributor(s):
Title : Ida of Léau, or, The Inconveniences of Ecstasy

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book Two. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995): Pages 445 - 470.
Year of Publication: 1995.

173. Record Number: 355
Author(s): Lewis, Gertrud Jaron.
Contributor(s):
Title : Music and Dancing in the Fourteenth- Century Sister- Books

Source: Vox Mystica: Essays on Medieval Mysticism in Honor of Professor Valerie M Lagorio. Edited by Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul, Janet Goebel, and William F. Pollard . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995): Pages 159 - 169.
Year of Publication: 1995.

174. Record Number: 2301
Author(s): Scholl, Edith, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Golden Cross: Aleydis of Schaerbeek

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995): Pages 377 - 393.
Year of Publication: 1995.

175. Record Number: 2303
Author(s): O'Dell, Colman, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : Ida of Léau: Woman of Desire

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995): Pages 415 - 443.
Year of Publication: 1995.

176. Record Number: 2309
Author(s): O'Dell, Colman, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : On Eagles' Wings: Symbols of Spiritual Motherhood in the Writings of the Early Cistercian Fathers

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book Two. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995): Pages 787 - 806.
Year of Publication: 1995.

177. Record Number: 2297
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Ida of Nivelles: Cistercian Nun

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995): Pages 305 - 321.
Year of Publication: 1995.

178. Record Number: 2298
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : With Desire Have I Desired: Ida of Nivelles' Love for the Eucharist

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995): Pages 323 - 344.
Year of Publication: 1995.

179. Record Number: 2299
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : An Introduction to the "Vita Beatricis"

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995): Pages 345 - 359.
Year of Publication: 1995.

180. Record Number: 24
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : What the Nuns Read: Literary Evidence from the English Bridgettine House, Syon Abbey

Source: Mediaeval Studies , 57., ( 1995): Pages 205 - 222.
Year of Publication: 1995.

181. Record Number: 264
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Mary Magdalen and the Mendicants: The Preaching of Penance in the Late Middle Ages

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 21., 1 (March 1995): Pages 1 - 25.
Year of Publication: 1995.

182. Record Number: 2291
Author(s): Lackner, Bede and O. Cist
Contributor(s):
Title : Cistercian Nuns in Medieval Hungary [histories of the five Cistercian monasteries for women in Hungary].

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996): Pages 159 - 170.
Year of Publication: 1995.

183. Record Number: 1132
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Anglo-Saxon Monastic Women: A Work in Progress [the late author compiled a biographical dictionary of Benedictine women; the editors of Magistra are revising the manuscript and adding bibliographical sources in preparation for final publication].

Source: Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995): Pages 139 - 171.
Year of Publication: 1995.

184. Record Number: 2287
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Cistercian Nuns in Twelfth and Thirteenth Century England [essay concludes with a list of English Cistercian nunneries, their locations, founding dates, rank as priory or abbey, and dates of dissolution].

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995): Pages 49 - 61.
Year of Publication: 1995.

185. Record Number: 351
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Beatrice of Nazareth (c. 1200-1268): A Search for Her True Spirituality

Source: Vox Mystica: Essays on Medieval Mysticism in Honor of Professor Valerie M Lagorio. Edited by Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul, Janet Goebel, and William F. Pollard . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995): Pages 57 - 74.
Year of Publication: 1995.

186. Record Number: 2290
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Cistercian Nuns in Germany in the Thirteenth Century: Upper-Swabian Cistercian Abbeys Under the Paternity of Salem [role of Abbot Eberhard and the monastery of Salem in the founding and development of six Cistercian women's monasteries ; the author suggests that one of the motivations was to strengthen Hohenstaufen control over upper Swabia].

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book One. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995): Pages 135 - 158.
Year of Publication: 1995.

187. Record Number: 6620
Author(s): Storini, Monica Cristina.
Contributor(s):
Title : Umiliana e il suo biografo. Construzione di un' agiografia femminile fra XIII e XIV secolo [Umiliata dei Cerchi no longer is believed to have founded the Franciscan third order, but she was among its first members; her biography, Vito da Cortona, had to adapt hagiographic models since she had been married and widowed; Umiliata is described as preaching but by example rather than by words].

Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995): Pages 19 - 39. Women Mystic Writers. Edited by Dino S. Cervigni
Year of Publication: 1995.

188. Record Number: 95
Author(s): Wood, Jeryldene M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Breaking the Silence: The Poor Clares and the Visual Arts in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Source: Renaissance Quarterly (Full Text via JSTOR) 48, 2 (Summer 1995): 262-286. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.

189. Record Number: 1122
Author(s): Tinsley, David F.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Spirituality of Suffering in the Revelations of Elsbeth von Oye

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 21., 4 (December 1995): Pages 121 - 147.
Year of Publication: 1995.

190. Record Number: 6305
Author(s): Ruh, Kurt
Contributor(s):
Title : Marguerite d'Oingt: Eine frankoprovenzalische Schriftstellerin im kartäusischen Ordensstand

Source: Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur , 116., ( 1994): Pages 324 - 333.
Year of Publication: 1994.

191. Record Number: 1309
Author(s): Rublack, Ulinka.
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Spirituality and the Infant Jesus in Late Medieval Dominican Convents [Margaretha Ebner's experiences with an infant Jesus doll need to be understood within the contexts of her spiritual desire and her social condition as a nun].

Source: Gender and History , 6., 1 (April 1994): Pages 37 - 57.
Year of Publication: 1994.

192. Record Number: 2780
Author(s): Hirschmann, Frank G.
Contributor(s):
Title : Wo die Nonnen plieben, welche von Steinfeld ausgewichen sein. Auf den Spuren der Frauen vor dem Hintergrund der religiösen Bewegung des 12. Jahrhunderts

Source: Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte , 20., ( 1994): Pages 37 - 54.
Year of Publication: 1994.

193. Record Number: 5100
Author(s): Barrière, Bernadette.
Contributor(s):
Title : Coyroux, Doublet féminin de l'Abbaye d'Obazine (Limousin, XIIe-XIIIe siècles) [The author, using textual and archaeological evidence, considers the dependence of the female house at Coyroux on the nearby male house ; Coyroux needed financial support, spiritual care, and even contact with the outside world through Obazine.]

Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. . Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte , 20., ( 1994): Pages 131 - 138.
Year of Publication: 1994.

194. Record Number: 5660
Author(s): Sensi, Mario.
Contributor(s):
Title : Chiara d'Assisi nell'Umbria del Quattrocento [use of the original rule of Saint Clare, long eclipsed by other versions, revived in the fifteenth century in Umbria; many houses of reformed Clares were affiliated with the Franciscan Observants, but it is difficult to correlate this with revived use of the primitive rule; veneration of Clare in Umbria included invocations against the plague].

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 64., ( 1994): Pages 215 - 239.
Year of Publication: 1994.

195. Record Number: 5103
Author(s): Bouton, Jean de la Croix.
Contributor(s):
Title : Les Abbesses cisterciennes

Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. . Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome , 40., ( 1995): Pages 187 - 196.
Year of Publication: 1994.

196. Record Number: 9775
Author(s): Miligi, Giuseppe.
Contributor(s):
Title : Francescanesimo al femminile: Chiara d’Assisi ed Eustochia da Messina [Franciscan hagiography described Francis as "another Christ" and Clare as "another Mary." These hagiographers saw Mary’s role as active, not passive. An early copy of Clare’s Rule ties her to Eustochia of Messina, an outstanding 15th century follower of that Rule. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Francescanesimo al femminile: Chiara d'Assisi ed Eustochia da Messina. Edited by Giuseppe Miligi et al . EDAS, 1994. Collectanea Franciscana , 64., ( 1994): Pages 11 - 40.
Year of Publication: 1994.

197. Record Number: 9776
Author(s): Calderone, Salvatore.
Contributor(s):
Title : Perche Eustochio [The name of Saint Jerome’s female disciple Eustochium was adapted from the Greek. In Italian it was rendered as Eustochio or Eustochia. The Franciscan Observants were interested in Jerome, and so his disciple’s name was used to tie a saintly nun from Messina to this cult. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Francescanesimo al femminile: Chiara d'Assisi ed Eustochia da Messina. Edited by Giuseppe Miligi et al . EDAS, 1994. Collectanea Franciscana , 64., ( 1994): Pages 43 - 58.
Year of Publication: 1994.

198. Record Number: 9777
Author(s): Miligi, Giuseppe.
Contributor(s):
Title : Il pittore e la clarissa [Eustocha of Messina had ties to the Observant wing of the Franciscan Order. The painter Antonello da Messina lived in Messina at the same time and also had Franciscan ties. Pictures of Eustochia have their own iconography, but some also believe Antonello used her as a model for his Madonnas. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Francescanesimo al femminile: Chiara d'Assisi ed Eustochia da Messina. Edited by Giuseppe Miligi et al . EDAS, 1994. Collectanea Franciscana , 64., ( 1994): Pages 59 - 114.
Year of Publication: 1994.

199. Record Number: 9779
Author(s): Pugliatti, Teresa.
Contributor(s):
Title : Santa Chiara, storie della sua vita e l'Annunciazione [The picture of St. Clare with scenes from her life and from the Annunciation, now in the Civic Museum of Messina, once was at the convent of Santa Maria di Basico. It may have been painted by a pupil of Antonello da Messina. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Francescanesimo al femminile: Chiara d'Assisi ed Eustochia da Messina. Edited by Giuseppe Miligi et al . EDAS, 1994. Collectanea Franciscana , 64., ( 1994): Pages 146 - 149.
Year of Publication: 1994.

200. Record Number: 1636
Author(s): Lachance, Paul.
Contributor(s):
Title : Battista da Varona (1458-1524): A Survey of Her Life and Writing as a Poor Clare Visionary

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 20., 1 (March 1994): Pages 19 - 25.
Year of Publication: 1994.

201. Record Number: 5432
Author(s): Klueting, Edeltraud.
Contributor(s):
Title : Les Pouvoirs des abbesses dans les couvents de femmes de la congrégation de Bursfeld [the reformers from Bursfeld decided that Benedictine abbots and abbesses needed to have their powers restricted].

Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. . Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. Mystics Quarterly , 20., 1 (March 1994): Pages 219 - 238.
Year of Publication: 1994.

202. Record Number: 4391
Author(s): Feiss, Hugh, O.S.B.
Contributor(s):
Title : Consecrated to Christ, Nuns of This Church Community: The Benedictines of Notre-Dame de Saintes, 1047-1792 [the author maintains that the documents and other evidence present "the picture of a large, independent, and self-consciously feminine community, which played an important part in the economic and cultural life of its region and possesed the vitality to survive long periods of war and other hardships during the 750 years of its existence" (Page 270)].

Source: American Benedictine Review , 45., 3 (September 1994): Pages 269 - 302.
Year of Publication: 1994.

203. Record Number: 3559
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Friars, Sanctity, and Gender: Mendicant Encounters with Saints, 1250-1325 [comparison and contrast of female and male saints supported by the mendicants; topics explored include renunciation of the world, religious confidants or confessors, the amount of interaction the saint had with her/his mendicant venerators, and the saints' inner life and interaction with God].

Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages. Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7. University of Minnesota Press, 1994. American Benedictine Review , 45., 3 (September 1994): Pages 91 - 110.
Year of Publication: 1994.

204. Record Number: 5104
Author(s): Racinet, Philippe.
Contributor(s):
Title : Les Moniales dans l'ordre de Cluny d`après les exemples de Marcigny, Huy, Nossage, et Le Rosay

Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. . Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. American Benedictine Review , 45., 3 (September 1994): Pages 197 - 218.
Year of Publication: 1994.

205. Record Number: 1235
Author(s): Clayton, Mary.
Contributor(s):
Title : Centralism and Uniformity Versus Localism and Diversity: The Virgin and Native Saints in the Monastic Reform

Source: Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland , 8., ( 1994): Pages 95 - 106.
Year of Publication: 1994.

206. Record Number: 1956
Author(s): Lermack, Annette.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Historiated Initial of the St. Albans Psalter: Christina of Markyate's Textbook for the Monastic Life

Source: Manuscripta , 38., 3 (November 1994): Pages 197 - 198.
Year of Publication: 1994.

207. Record Number: 3516
Author(s): Roberts, Ann M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa as Patroness of the Arts [the author argues that Prioress Chiara Gambacorta had an important role in commissioning and in choosing the subject, style, and imagery of the paintings produced for the convent of San Domenico, many of which represented female saints including Catherine of Siena and Bridget of Sweden].

Source: Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance. Edited by E. Ann Matter and John Coakley . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Manuscripta , 38., 3 (November 1994): Pages 120 - 154.
Year of Publication: 1994.

208. Record Number: 5022
Author(s): Klaniczay, Gábor
Contributor(s):
Title : The Cinderella Effect: Late Medieval Female Sainthood in Central Europe and in Italy [The author examines the ideal of sainthood represented by pious princesses in Central Europe and how this aristocratic and mendicant movement fared in Italy where urban female sainthood embraced all social classes].

Source: East Central Europe , 20., 1 ( 1993- 1996): Pages 51 - 68. Special issue title: Women and Power in East Central Europe - Medieval and Modern. Edited by Marianne Sághy.
Year of Publication: 1993- 1996.

209. Record Number: 6710
Author(s): Montesano, Marina.
Contributor(s):
Title : Chiara di Assisi: Assisi, 15-17 ottobre 1992 [Clare's vocation was closely tied to the mission of Francis; her order of nuns started with a Franciscan emphasis on poverty, but it was assimilated to traditional models of female monasticism; recent studies recover something of the personalities of Clare and Agnes of Prague from the stereotypes of hagiography].

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 35., (giugno 1993): Pages 179 - 184.
Year of Publication: 1993.

210. Record Number: 6709
Author(s): Manetti, Cecilia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Angela da Foligno terziaria francescana: Foligno, 17-19 novembre 1991 [the Franciscans were hospitable to new movements in lay piety; the third order had grown up in Foligno by the time Angela joined it, and she found an advisor who gave her experience serious attention; Angela's widely known "Liber" expressed her experience in a clear style; her "Liber" mentions new images, like the Pieta, alongside established ones].

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 33., (giugno 1992): Pages 209 - 215.
Year of Publication: 1992.

211. Record Number: 8302
Author(s): Marino, Maria Teresa.
Contributor(s):
Title : 20º Convegno internazionae di studi su "Chiara d'Assisi." Assisi, 15- 17 ottobre 1992

Source: Schede Medievali , (Gennaio-Dicembre 1992): Pages 279 - 286.
Year of Publication: 1992.

212. Record Number: 8638
Author(s): Chauvin, Benoît.
Contributor(s):
Title : À propos des débuts de l'abbaye de Rieunette [The author writes a brief note about the founding of Rieunette, a women's Cistercian monastery in Ladern-sur-Lauquet in the département of Aude. He argues that the Reine mentioned in records is probably Reine de Castillon, the widow of Bernard de Castillon, whose family did a great deal for the religious houses in the area. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 43., 40182 ( 1992): Pages 450 - 454.
Year of Publication: 1992.

213. Record Number: 8777
Author(s): O'Gorman, Richard.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Stabat mater" in Middle French Verse: An Edition of Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, fr 24865 [The author discusses the relationship between this manuscript, which includes a Middle French version of the "Stabat mater," and five other manuscript versions. The Appendix presents editions of the text from BN fr 24865 and from the much different version in Poitiers, Bibliothèque Municipale 95. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Franciscan Studies , 52., ( 1992): Pages 191 - 201.
Year of Publication: 1992.

214. Record Number: 10002
Author(s): Rusconi, Roberto.
Contributor(s):
Title : Pietà, povertà e potere. Donne e religione nell'Umbria tardomedievale [Beginning in the thirteenth century, new religious movements flourished in Umbria. Women found spiritual opportunities as penitents or in the mendicant orders. The penitent life was open to women who were not from the ruling classes. Some of these women became prophets or were involved in politics. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi . Liguori Editore, 1992. Franciscan Studies , 52., ( 1992): Pages 11 - 24.
Year of Publication: 1992.

215. Record Number: 10003
Author(s): Sorelli, Fernanda.
Contributor(s):
Title : La produzione agiografica del domenicano Tommaso d'Antonio da Siena: esempi di santità ed intenti di propaganda [Many late-medieval saints' lives were composed by persons who knew their subjects, and chose to individualize them. Tommaso Caffarini's works personalize Catherine of Siena, presenting a spritual profile, not just recounting miracles. His work on Vanna of Orvieto and Margaret of Citta di Castello, however, is less rich in personal detail. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi . Liguori Editore, 1992. Franciscan Studies , 52., ( 1992): Pages 157 - 169.
Year of Publication: 1992.

216. Record Number: 10305
Author(s): Moor, Geertruida de.
Contributor(s):
Title : Laybrothers and Laysisters in Frisia and Holland: Circa 1300 - Circa 1600 [The article considers the various roles of lay brothers and sisters of the Cistercian order in Holland and Frisia. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 27., 4 ( 1992): Pages 329 - 339.
Year of Publication: 1992.

217. Record Number: 10677
Author(s): Olsen, Ulla Sander.
Contributor(s):
Title : Work and Work Ethics in the Nunnery of Syon Abbey in the Fifteenth Century [The author examines the Brigittine Rule and additional legislation for the nuns of Syon for sections dealing with manual labor. Saint Bridget originally declared that all sisters must work and there would be no "conversae" or servant sisters. However, the first nun at Syon refused to honor this provision. At the dissolution of Syon there were four lay sisters to do the heavy work. The nuns spent their work time doing embroidery and copying manuscripts. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium , 5., ( 1992): Pages 129 - 143.
Year of Publication: 1992.

218. Record Number: 15210
Author(s): Montulet- Henneau, Marie-Élisabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Itinéraire spirituel de moniales Cisterciennes: de Bernard à Ignace [The author provides a brief overview of the religious life of the Cistercian nuns in the diocese of Liège from the thirteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Revue Mabillon: Nouvelle Série , 3., 64 ( 1992): Pages 179 - 188.
Year of Publication: 1992.

219. Record Number: 10296
Author(s): Rigaux, Dominique.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Franciscan tertiaries at the convent of Sant'Anna at Foligno [The author considers a series of late-fourteenth-century and fifteenth-century "meal scene" frescoes as documents of Franciscan spirituality. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Gesta 31, 2 (1992): 92-98. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1992.

220. Record Number: 29956
Author(s): Michaud, Francine
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Title : Liaisons Particulières? Franciscains et Testatrices a Marseille (1248 - 1320)

Source: Annales du Midi , 104., (janvier - mars) 197 ( 1992): Pages 7 - 18.
Year of Publication: 1992.

221. Record Number: 10250
Author(s): Holloway, Julia Bolton.
Contributor(s):
Title : Bride, Margery, Julian, and Alice: Bridget of Sweden’s Textual Community in Medieval England [Kempe models her devotional practices on Saint Bridget of Sweden, replicating the saint’s writings, life, and pilgrimages through her own book and travels. In her pilgrimages, Kempe visited the same sites Bridget did in her lifetime. Pilgrimage was available to both men and women, and writing a text enabled women to gain some access to power by narrating their travels. The author traces the lives, texts, and travels of historical figures like Saint Bridget of Sweden and Julian of Norwich, as well as Dame Alison (Chaucer’s fictional Wife of Bath). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Pages 203 - 222.
Year of Publication: 1992.

222. Record Number: 9068
Author(s): Dickson, Gary.
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Title : Clare's Dream [The author examines the canonization documents of Saint Clare of Assisi. The records depict her as a strong and determined woman who forsook her rich family and embraced a spiritual life, following the example set by Francis of Assisi. They also indicate that after Francis' death, Clare had a dream in which she sucked milk from his breast. After describing various scholars' interpretations of the dream, the author suggests that the dream demonstrates Clare's intimacy with and dependency upon Francis. It presents a more human side to the heroic woman described in later hagiographical texts. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mediaevistik , 5., ( 1992): Pages 39 - 55.
Year of Publication: 1992.

223. Record Number: 10294
Author(s): Barriere, Bernadette.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Cistercian Convent of Coyroux in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries [The article considers the implications of the harsh living conditions at the Coyroux Cistercian convent. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Gesta 31, 2 (1992): 76-82. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1992.

224. Record Number: 10017
Author(s): Millett, Bella.
Contributor(s):
Title : The origins of Ancrene Wisse: new answers, new questions [The author reconsiders the West Midlands and Augustinian origins of the Ancrene Wisse. The Appendix presents the Lay Brothers‚ Hours from the Dominican constitutions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medium Aevum , 61., 2 ( 1992): Pages 206 - 228.
Year of Publication: 1992.

225. Record Number: 8485
Author(s): Simonetti, Adele.
Contributor(s):
Title : I sermoni di Umiltà da Faenza: storia della tradizione [The original manuscript sources for the sermons of Umiltà of Faenza have long been lost. We are forced to depend on copies made much later by her Vallombrosan hagiographers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studi Medievali , 32., 1 (Giugno 1991): Pages 303 - 308.
Year of Publication: 1991.

226. Record Number: 8662
Author(s): Waddell, Chrysogonus, O.C.S.O.
Contributor(s):
Title : One Day in the Life of the Savigniac Nun: Jehanne de Deniscourt [The author describes the daily life of a nun at the priory of Les Blanches (one of a group of Cistercian abbeys founded near Savigny, France, in the twelfth century). The exact date the author imaginatively reconstructs is the Feast Day of Saint Cecilia (November 22) in the year 1232. The article offers detailed descriptions of all twenty articles of the rule of the nuns of Les Blanches, which establishes guidelines regarding such things as the age of novices, proper clothing and attire, kitchen duties, female servants, food provisions, and community income. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 26., 2 ( 1991): Pages 134 - 151.
Year of Publication: 1991.

227. Record Number: 9530
Author(s): France, James.
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Title : From Bernard to Bridget: Cistercian Contribution to a Unique Scandinavian Monastic Body

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 42., ( 1991): Pages 479 - 495.
Year of Publication: 1991.

228. Record Number: 10887
Author(s): Coakley, John
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Title : Gender and the Authority of Friars: The Significance of Holy Women for Thirteenth-Century Franciscans and Dominicans [In their letters and other writings, friars often reflected on their relationships with devout women. As preachers, friars exerted pastoral authority over devout women, but they also saw these particular women as having a privileged relationship with God. Although the friars admired the close relationship these women had with the divine, they also asserted their own distance and superiority over the women along the lines of gender difference. At the same time, the friars used gender difference as a means of expressing doubts about themselves and the limits of their own powers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Church History , 60., 4 ( 1991): Pages 445 - 460.
Year of Publication: 1991.

229. Record Number: 11204
Author(s): Baumer-Despeigne, Odette.
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Title : Hadewijch of Antwerp and Hadewijch II; Mysticism of Being in the Thirteenth Century in Brabant [The poems of the female mystic Hadewijch of Antwerp, composed between 1220 and 1240, were revised and augmented by another beguine (member of a sisterhood of laywomen) a decade later. This collaboration reflects the contemporary social trend among laywomen in the Low Countries to voluntary take up a simple life of chastity and poverty without joining a religious order. Although the poems composed by the Hadewijchs are written in the language of the trouveres and courtly love, they express a deep spirituality and love for God (not men). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studia Mystica , 14., 4 (Winter 1991): Pages 16 - 37.
Year of Publication: 1991.

230. Record Number: 11806
Author(s): Hotchkiss, Valerie R.
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Title : Disguise and Despair: The Life of Hildegund von Schonau [The author discusses the clashes between the biography and hagiography of a transvestite Cistercian nun. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women as Protagonists and Poets in the German Middle Ages: An Anthology of Feminist Approaches to Middle High German Literature. Edited by Albrecht Classen . Kümmerle Verlag, 1991. Studia Mystica , 14., 4 (Winter 1991): Pages 29 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1991.

231. Record Number: 15866
Author(s): D'Alatri, Mariano.
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Title : Chiara e le Clarisse nella Cronaca di Fra Salimbene [Salimbene mentioned Clare of Assisi only once, but he wrote about her canonization four times to praise Pope Alexander IV. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 61., 40241 ( 1991): Pages 481 - 489.
Year of Publication: 1991.

232. Record Number: 28191
Author(s): Morini, Carla
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Title : Una redazione sconosciuta della passio S. Agathæ Ms. Auxerre, Bibl. Mun., 127 (s. XII in.), f. 17r-19r [The legend of St. Agatha arrived in France from Spain during the Carolingian era. The “Passio S. Agathae” in the Auxerre manuscript has ties to the Old English version that circulated in England during the time of Aelfric. Both texts are found in Cisterican contexts. The article includes an edited text of the “Passio S. Agathae.” Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Analecta Bollandiana , 109., 3- 4 ( 1991): Pages 305 - 330.
Year of Publication: 1991.

233. Record Number: 10603
Author(s): Mayberry, Nancy.
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Title : The Controversy over the Immaculate Conception in Medieval and Renaissance Art, Literature, and Society [The belief that Mary was freed from original sin had taken root by the late twelfth century. Dominicans placed this cleansing after Mary's conception; Franciscans placed it before, a "pre-redemption." The Franciscan position gradually triumphed, not just in theology but also in populat devotion as witnessed by art and literature. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 21., 2 (Fall 1991): Pages 207 - 224.
Year of Publication: 1991.

234. Record Number: 11214
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Title : Why Found a Medieval Cistercian Nunnery? [Isabel de Aubigny, Countess of Arundel, was a noble-born English woman who established a Cistercian monastery in the thirteenth century. Isabel’s husband and many close relatives died when she was young, and she chose to remain a widow. After a series of additional family deaths, Isabel used the dowry she had been given by her father upon her marriage in order to establish a Cistercian nunnery. She had many motivations for founding the monastery: religious convictions (doing charity to benefit her soul in the afterlife), economic and political goals (disposing of estates), and social aspirations and responsibilities (maintaining family honor and increasing her social prestige). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Prosopography , 12., 1 (Spring 1991): Pages 1 - 28.
Year of Publication: 1991.

235. Record Number: 16585
Author(s): Wood, Jeryldene.
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Title : Perceptions of Holiness in Thirteenth-Century Italian Painting: Claire of Assisi [The author describes the thirteenth-century historiated dossals (Italian panel paintings that were hung in front of or behind an altar) of Saint Francis and Saint Clare in the church of Santa Chiara in Assisi, Italy. The author argues that the papal codification of sainthood through canonization during the thirteenth century and the hagiographical writings of Thomas of Celano influenced the visual representations of Francis and Clare. The Santa Chiara Dossal at Assisi was the first thirteenth-century painting dedicated to a female monastic; its depiction of Clare as an active and determined woman stands in marked contrast to images of humble and submissive brides of Christ. Title note supplied by Feminae].

Source: Art History , 14., 3 (September 1991): Pages 301 - 322.
Year of Publication: 1991.

236. Record Number: 10680
Author(s): Stoudt, Debra L.
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Title : The Production and Preservation of Letters by Fourteenth-Century Dominican Nuns [Dominican priests often advised members of female religious houses on both practical and spiritual matters, and at times they aided women writers like Margaretha Ebner and Elsbeth Stagel as scribes or editors of their work. Letters by priests to nuns are more likely to be preserved than correspondence written by nuns themselves. The author gives two major reasons for the discrepancy: the letters were pereived to have historical and instructional values for the convent community, and priests held higher rank in the church hierarchy than nuns. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mediaeval Studies , 53., ( 1991): Pages 309 - 326.
Year of Publication: 1991.

237. Record Number: 8649
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Cellane e recluse [The documentation is scarce for Italian recluses until the 13th century. The earliest of these penitent women adopted the life styles of male hermits, including the Vallombrosans and Camaldolese. These women usually were situated in towns or cities, and they might have cells attached to churches. Some were affiliated with established orders, but others wore the habits of the newly-created orders of friars. Originally printed as "Velut in sepulchro: cellane e recluse nella tradizione agiografica italiana," in Culto dei santi e classi sociali in età preindustriale, edited by S. Boesch-Gajano and L. Sebastiani (L.U. Japadre Editore,1984). Pages 367-455. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Collegium Medievale , 3., 2 ( 1990): Pages 305 - 402. Originally printed as "Velut in sepulchro: cellane e recluse nella tradizione agiografica italiana," in Culto dei santi e classi sociali in età preindustriale, edited by S. Boesch-Gajano and L. Sebastiani (L.U. Japadre Editore,1984). Pages 367-455.
Year of Publication: 1990.

238. Record Number: 8651
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Forme comunitarie [The Franciscan third order originated as a para-monastic status for penitent women. It became, in the fifteenth century, assimilated to a monastic model. The popes permitted common dwellings and conceded privileges, but they expected strict monastic enclosure. Some of the Tuscan houses of tertiaries were tied to convents of the Franciscan observant movement. Appendix: pp. 589-592 Rule of the Third Order, from MS Palatino 118 in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence. Originally printed as "Le forme comunitarie della penitenza femminile francescana: Schede per un censimento toscano," in Prime manifestazioni di vita comunitaria maschile e femminile nel movimento francescano della penitenza: Atti del convegno di studi francescani, Assisi 30 giugno-2 luglio 1981, edited by R. Pazzelli and L. Temperini (Commissione Storica Internazionale T.O.R., 1982). Pages 389-449. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Collegium Medievale , 3., 2 ( 1990): Pages 531 - 592. Originally printed as "Le forme comunitarie della penitenza femminile francescana: Schede per un censimento toscano," in Prime manifestazioni di vita comunitaria maschile e femminile nel movimento francescano della penitenza: Atti del convegno di studi fr
Year of Publication: 1990.

239. Record Number: 8652
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Donne religiose nella Firenze del Due-Trecento [The calling of Florentine recluses was grounded in the hermit tradition, but their lives came to be regulated according to monastic norms. The hermit ideal was rural, but these women were urban. Communities of recluses could come into conflict with local ecclesiastical authorities, but they often had important lay patrons. Marginal women, including widows and ex-prostitutes, often found homes in communities of penitents. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Collegium Medievale , 3., 2 ( 1990): Pages 593 - 634. Originally printed as "Donne religiose nella Firenze del Due-Trecento: Appunti per una ricerca in corso," in Le mouvement confraternel au Moyen Âge: France, Suisse, Italie: Actes de la table ronde, Lausanne 9-11 mai 1985 (Droz, 1987). Pages 41-82.
Year of Publication: 1990.

240. Record Number: 8654
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Secolo e chiostro [The penitent movement extended the monastic ideal to women living in the world. It was accessible not just to virgins, like Catherine of Siena, but to wives and widows. Originally published as "Penitenza e santità femminile in ambiente cateriniano e bernardiniano," in Atti del simposio internazionale cateriniano-bernardiniano, Siena 17-20 aprile 1980, edited by Domenico Maffei and Paolo Nardi (Accademia Senese degli Intronati, 1982). Pages 865-875. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Collegium Medievale , 3., 2 ( 1990): Pages 247 - 259. Originally published as "Penitenza e santità femminile in ambiente cateriniano e bernardiniano," in Atti del simposio internazionale cateriniano-bernardiniano, Siena 17-20 aprile 1980, edited by Domenico Maffei and Paolo Nardi (Accademia Senese degli Intr
Year of Publication: 1990.

241. Record Number: 8655
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Cristomimesi al femminile [The crusade ideal could be lived out externally in action or internalized. Devout women, including tertiaries, supported the crusades and saw themselves as combating the enemies of Christ. Margaret of Cortona thought all these foes, except the Jews, could be converted. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Collegium Medievale , 3., 2 ( 1990): Pages 141 - 168. Originally printed as "Margarita filia Jerusalem: Santa Margherita da Cortona e il superamento mistica della crociata," in Toscana e Terrasanta nel medioevo,
Year of Publication: 1990.

242. Record Number: 12682
Author(s): Corrie, Rebecca W.
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Title : The Political Meaning of Coppo di Marcovaldo's Madonna and Child in Siena

Source: Gesta (Full Text via JSTOR) 29, 1 (1990): 61-75. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1990.

243. Record Number: 12696
Author(s): Schmitt, Miriam.
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Title : Freed to Run with Expanded Heart: The Writings of Gertrud of Helfta and the Rule of Benedict [In her writings, Helfta interprets liberty of heart as a personal passage from inner bondage to spiritual freedom. She also exemplifies the qualities of a liberated heart which Benedict outlines in his regula. The author equates Gertrude's "libertas cordis" (liberated heart in mystical love) is equated with Benedict's "cor dilatatus" (heart expanded by ineffable love). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cistercian Studies , 25., 2 ( 1990): Pages 220 - 232.
Year of Publication: 1990.

244. Record Number: 12751
Author(s): Leyser, Karl.
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Title : The Anglo-Norman Succession 1120-1125 [When the son and heir of Henry I died in a shipwreck, Henry made his barons pledge allegiance to his daughter Matilda (wife of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor) as his new heir, but Matilda faced great opposition from others who claimed the throne. Although they were ultimately unsuccessful, both Matilda and her husband actively waged numerous military and diplomatic campaigns attempting to secure Matilda’s succession to the throne. It is clear from the accounts of medieval historians like Orderic Vitalis that Henry V hoped to present Matilda as not only his claim to the Anglo-Norman territories but also as the future mother of a new emperor. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Anglo-Norman Studies , 8., ( 1990): Pages 225 - 241.
Year of Publication: 1990.

245. Record Number: 12801
Author(s): Edbury, Peter
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Title : Women in Orderic Vitalis [The author argues that, in his writing, Orderic treated women as part of the social order, not as a class apart; Orderic also showed women acting, albeit in limited roles, in his society. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Haskins Society Journal , 2., ( 1990): Pages 105 - 121. Reprinted in Piety, Power, and History in Medieval England and Normandy. By Marjorie Chibnall. Ashgate Variorum, 2000. Article 6
Year of Publication: 1990.

246. Record Number: 12762
Author(s): Hale, Rosemary Drage.
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Title : Imitatio Mariae: Motherhood Motifs in Devotional Memoirs [The author discusses what she calls “spiritual motherhood” or “mother mysticism” (visionary appearances of Jesus as an infant, used to express the same desire for mystical union with God as is often expressed by the imagery of spiritual marriage) in South German fourteenth-century Dominican devotional writing. She discusses in particular the mystics Christine Ebner, Adelheide Langmann and Margarete Ebner. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 16., 4 ( 1990): Pages 193 - 203.
Year of Publication: 1990.

247. Record Number: 12738
Author(s): Gunnes, Erik.
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Title : The Foundation of the Brigittine Monastery of Munkeliv, and its Struggle for Existence [Saint Michael’s monastery at Nordnes was one of Norway’s richest and exclusive monasteries before the Black Death. Although the monastery was founded by a Swedish nobleman named Sten Stenarsson, its location near the commercial town of Bergen, populated by many Germans, led to an increasing amount of German monks housed there. By the late fifteenth century the monastery was in decline and functioned as retirement residence for wealthy townspeople, and its last inhabitants were likely women from prominent Norwegian families. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Collegium Medievale , 3., 2 ( 1990): Pages 111 - 122.
Year of Publication: 1990.

248. Record Number: 28827
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Title : Execution of the Innocent Count

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249. Record Number: 30910
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Title : St. Catherine of Siena before Pope Gregory XI at Avignon

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250. Record Number: 30917
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Title : Death of St. Clare

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251. Record Number: 30923
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Title : Luttrell Family at Table

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252. Record Number: 30942
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Title : Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard

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253. Record Number: 31175
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Title : Central Panel from the Humility Polyptych - Umilta and a lay patron

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254. Record Number: 31218
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Title : Gonfalone of Corciano / Madonna della misericordia [Madonna of Mercy]

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255. Record Number: 31890
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Title : Panel Painting of Saint Clare of Assisi with Scenes from her Life

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256. Record Number: 32320
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Title : St Elizabeth of Hungary clothing a beggar

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257. Record Number: 34056
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Title : Convent of St. Katherine’s Copy of the Chronicle of Töss

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258. Record Number: 37665
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Title : Panel with four scenes including St Clare Driving Saracens out of San Damiano

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259. Record Number: 39183
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Title : Abstinence Contrainte and Faux Semblant on their way to see Malebouche

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260. Record Number: 45020
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Title : The sick in their beds

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261. Record Number: 45126
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Title : Frontispiece for the Rule of Saint Augustine and Constitutions of the Hospital of Notre Dame at Seclin

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262. Record Number: 45168
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Title : Nuns in choir stalls

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263. Record Number: 45169
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Title : Nuns’ choir at Wienhausen Abbey

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264. Record Number: 45240
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Title : The Madonna rescues a child

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