Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 44895
Author(s): Christine de Pizan
Contributor(s):
Title : Christine de Pizan on the Virtues of Toleration

Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader. Edited by Eugene Smelyansky . University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pages 180 - 187.
Year of Publication: 2020.

2. Record Number: 13779
Author(s): Ferzoco, George.
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Title : The Massa Marittima Mural [The Massa Marittima mural, discovered in 2000 on the site of a public fountain, has been interpreted, because of the presence of imperial eagles, as a piece of pro-Empire Ghibelline art. Yet the presence of a woman being sodomized beneath an eagle sugges

Source: Il murale di Massa Marittina. George Ferzoco Toscana Studies . 2004. Pages 71 - 92. [In Italian on pp.29-50]
Year of Publication: 2004.

3. Record Number: 9664
Author(s): Dudash, Susan J.
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Title : Christine de Pizan and the "menu peuple" [The author examines the representation of the poor and laboring classes in four of Christine de Pizan's texts. The purposes of the texts, the audiences addressed, and the characterizations of the "menu peuple" vary, but in each case Christine serves as an intercessor on behalf of the suffering and the weak. Furthermore, she does not hesitate to point out the responsibilities of rulers and the unjust treatment of the lower classes including prostitutes and the destitute. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Speculum , 78., 3 (July 2003): Pages 788 - 831.
Year of Publication: 2003.

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

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

5. Record Number: 1080
Author(s): Green, Karen.
Contributor(s):
Title : Christine de Pisan and Thomas Hobbes [differing political philosophies and moral psychologies; Christine advocates a maternalist ethic of caring and responsibility].

Source: Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers. Edited by Linda Lopez McAlister . Indiana University Press, 1996. Pages 48 - 67. [originally published in Philosophical Quarterly 44 (Oct. 1994): 456-475].
Year of Publication: 1996.

6. Record Number: 3008
Author(s): Graña Cid, Maria del Mar and Ángela Muõz Fernández
Contributor(s):
Title : Mujeres y no ciudadanía. La relación de las mujeres con los espacios públicos en el bajo medievo castellano

Source: Arenal: Revista de Historia de las Mujeres , 2., 1 (January-June 1995): Pages 41 - 52.
Year of Publication: 1995.

7. Record Number: 558
Author(s): McLaughlin, Megan.
Contributor(s):
Title : On Feminism and Medievalism: Musings from a Prone Position [what is the political impact of research in medieval feminist studies?]

Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 19., (Spring 1995): Pages 21 - 23.
Year of Publication: 1995.

8. Record Number: 11115
Author(s): Zimmerman, Margarete.
Contributor(s):
Title : Vox femina, vox politica: The "Lamentacion sur les maux de la France" [Christine wrote this text in 1410 as civil war engulfed Paris. She rejects the mascuine values of glory and victory in war, speaking out as a woman for peace. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Politics, Gender, and Genre: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan. Edited by Margaret Brabant . Westview Press, 1992. Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 19., (Spring 1995): Pages 113 - 127.
Year of Publication: 1992.

9. Record Number: 11110
Author(s): Willard, Charity Cannon.
Contributor(s):
Title : Christine de Pizan: From Poet to Political Commentator [The author analyzes and dates two little known works by Christine, "Livre de la prod'hommie de l'homme" and the "Livre de prudence" (which is in many respects identical to the first text). Willard suggests that the former was an early work immediately following the "Querelle de la Rose" writing and marks Christine's transition from poet to political moralist. While writing to attract the favor of princes, Christine felt duty bound to offer advice in regard to their behavior and to plead for them to aid France in its troubles. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

10. Record Number: 11121
Author(s): Brabant, Margaret and Michael Brint
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Title : Identity and Difference in Christine de Pizan's "Cité des Dames" [The author explores tensions within the "Cité des dames." Christine frequently calls on universal Christian values, but she also gives voice to others, in particular women who have been marginalized. By demonstrating a mutual respect for these differences, Christine skillfully navigates between universalism and a politics of the other. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

11. Record Number: 11111
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Title : Polycracy, Obligation, and Revolt: The Body Politic in John of Salisbury and Christine de Pizan

12. Record Number: 11113
Author(s): Richards, Earl Jeffrey.
Contributor(s):
Title : French Cultural Nationalism and Christian Universalism in the Works of Christine de Pizan [The author argues that Christine identified the nationalist cause of France with the divine plan of salvation history. Differences in religion meant that the Muslim and the Jew were the irreducible Other. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

13. Record Number: 11109
Author(s): Hicks, Eric.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Political Significance of Christine de Pizan [The author argues that Christine's significance lies in her role as a moralist. Hicks also cautions that Christine's importance for the present age (including issues of her "feminism") must be considered carefully to avoid anachronisms. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

14. Record Number: 11108
Author(s): Elshtain, Jean Bethke.
Contributor(s):
Title : Introduction [The author briefly summarizes political themes in the works and life of Christine de Pizan including ethics, the body politic, women's status, difference, care, and authority. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

15. Record Number: 8574
Author(s): Crabb, Ann Morton.
Contributor(s):
Title : How Typical Was Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi of Fifteenth-Century Florentine Widows? [The author studies a Florentine widow who became an agent and representative of her family (a role normally unavailable to patrician women, but one that carried many hardships) after her husband's death in exile. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Upon My Husband's Death: Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe. Edited by Louise Mirrer Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization . University of Michigan Press, 1992. Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 19., (Spring 1995): Pages 47 - 68.
Year of Publication: 1992.

16. Record Number: 6461
Author(s): Bausi, Francesco.
Contributor(s):
Title : Machiavelli e Caterina Sforza [after her husband, Girolamo Riario of Forlì, was murdered, Caterina Sforza gained control of the castel in the city by a stratagem; Machiavelli used the most fantastic and vulgar of the stories that had reached him in the "Discourses;" later he used the simplest and most credible in his "Florentine Histories"].

Source: Archivio Storico Italiano , 149., ( 1991): Pages 887 - 892.
Year of Publication: 1991.

17. Record Number: 10893
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Title : Marian Politics in Quattrocento Florence: The Renewed Dedication of Santa Maria del Fiore in 1412 [The author argues that the political leaders of Florence chose in 1412 to identify the state with the Virgin Mary in the rededication of the cathedral to "Santa Maria del Fiore." The lily symbolized not only Mary's purity but also the city of Florence. M

Source: Renaissance Quarterly , 44., 4 (Winter 1991): Pages 673 - 719.
Year of Publication: 1991.

18. 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.