Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 8065
Author(s): Watson, Nicholas.
Contributor(s):
Title : With the Heat of the Hungry Heart : Empowerment and "Ancrene Wisse" [Watson presents his article in two parts. First he argues that the author of the "Ancrene Wisse" conceives of his anchoress readers as herioc figures whose difficult lives raise them above others and serve as a sign of the coming breakdown between clergy and laity. Secondly Watson looks at the influences the text had on later writings which were addressed to lay readers, frequently men. Title note supplied by Feminae. ].

Source: Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski . Cornell University Press, 2003. Pages 52 - 70.
Year of Publication: 2003.

2. 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.

3. Record Number: 7835
Author(s): Gilmore, Gloria Thomas.
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Title : Marie de France's "Bisclavret": What the Werewolf Will and Will Not Wear ["This chapter will attempt to unravel that tangled tension in the story of 'Bisclavret,' where there are two opposing functions of clothing: to confine in a social role or identity imposed from without , or to express a self-definition, chosen or generated from within." Page 67.].

Source: Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images. Edited by Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder . Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002): Pages 67 - 84.
Year of Publication: 2002.

4. Record Number: 7848
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Title : Hoccleve, the Virgin, and the Politics of Complaint

Source: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002): Pages 1172 - 1187.
Year of Publication: 2002.

5. Record Number: 19504
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth
Contributor(s):
Title : Medieval Women, Letter Writing and Performance [The author uses Heloise's letters as a case study of medieval women's epistolary affirmations of identity. Using the conventions of the "ars dictaminis," medieval women writers defined their identities. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Lilith , 10., ( 2001): Pages 58 - 74.
Year of Publication: 2001.

6. Record Number: 4578
Author(s): Stevenson, Barbara.
Contributor(s):
Title : Re-Visioning the Widow Christine de Pizan [The author argues that critics have misread Christine by concentrating on her writings that deal with the autobiographical].

Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers. Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho . Palgrave, 2000. Lilith , 10., ( 2001): Pages 29 - 44.
Year of Publication: 2000.

7. Record Number: 4594
Author(s): Roman, Marco D.
Contributor(s):
Title : Reclaiming the Self Through Silence: "The Riverside Counselor's Stories" and the "Lais" of Marie de France [The author compares two stories in which the wronged women use silence to express their disapproval].

8. 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.

9. Record Number: 10652
Author(s): Heene, Katrien.
Contributor(s):
Title : Deliberate Self-Harm and Gender in Medieval Saints' Lives [The author argues that both women and lower status men use self-inflicted harm as a means of atonement, self-discipline, and devotion to Christ. However, in cases where women sought to avoid marriage, self-mutilation could play a special role. Also in some cases, self-harm served as a didactic example, allowing women the unusual opportunity to act as teachers and preachers. 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 , 6., ( 1999): Pages 213 - 231.
Year of Publication: 1999.

10. Record Number: 4884
Author(s): Ambrosio, Francis J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Feminist Self-Fashioning: Christine de Pizan and "The Treasure of the City of Ladies"

Source: European Journal of Women's Studies , 6., 1 (February 1999): Pages 9 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1999.

11. Record Number: 4752
Author(s): Cadden, Joan.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Wealth They Left Us: Two Women Author Themselves Through Others' Lives in "Beowulf" [the author examines the cases of Wealhtheow who contemplates the story of Hildeburh mourning over her son and brother on the Finnsburg battlefield in order to avoid being a victim and of Hygd who considers the alternative of Thryth's life story, where she redeems her violence with generosity and a happy marriage].

Source: Philological Quarterly , 78., (Winter/Spring 1999): Pages 49 - 76.
Year of Publication: 1999.

12. Record Number: 3107
Author(s): Landman, James H.
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Title : The Laws of Community, Margery Kempe, and the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale"

Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 2 (Spring 1998): Pages 389 - 425.
Year of Publication: 1998.

13. Record Number: 3059
Author(s): Smith, Ruth.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Mystical Self in the "Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno"

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 24., 1 (March 1998): Pages 8 - 22.
Year of Publication: 1998.

14. Record Number: 2270
Author(s): Chewning, Susannah Mary.
Contributor(s):
Title : Mysticism and the Anchoritic Community: "A Time... of Veiled Infinity" [suggests that the author's persona presented in the "Wohunge" is feminine and that mystical texts are acts of feminine writing irrespective of the sex of the author].

Source: Medieval Women in Their Communities. Edited by Diane Watt . University of Toronto Press, 1997. Mystics Quarterly , 24., 1 (March 1998): Pages 116 - 137.
Year of Publication: 1997.

15. Record Number: 1832
Author(s): Lochrie, Karma.
Contributor(s):
Title : Desiring Foucault [analysis of the contradictions in Foucault's writings concerning sexuality in the Middle Ages].

Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 27, 1 (Winter 1997): 3-16. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

16. Record Number: 2213
Author(s): Classen, Albrecht.
Contributor(s):
Title : Flowing Light of the Godhead: Binary Oppositions of Self and God in Mechthild von Magdeburg

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 7., ( 1997): Pages 79 - 98.
Year of Publication: 1997.

17. Record Number: 2752
Author(s): Abbott, Christopher
Contributor(s):
Title : Piety and Egoism in Julian of Norwich: A Reading of Long Text Chapters 2 and 3 [The author analyzes a portion of text that represents the young Julian's affective spirituality; Julian hopes for the gift of touching Christ and other ways of participating in the crucifixion].

Source: Downside Review , 114., 397 (October 1996): Pages 267 - 282.
Year of Publication: 1996.

18. Record Number: 3646
Author(s): Lichtmann, Maria R.
Contributor(s):
Title : God Fulfylled my bodye: Body, Self, and God in Julian of Norwich

Source: Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Jane Chance . University Press of Florida, 1996. Studies in Spirituality , 7., ( 1997): Pages 263 - 278.
Year of Publication: 1996.

19. Record Number: 1627
Author(s): Partner, Nancy F.
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Title : Did Mystics Have Sex? [argues that medievalists need to use psychoanalytic theory and cross-cultural anthropology to come to grips with the full mental structure of medieval people, thereby restoring the "depth, complexity, and fellowship with ourselves they deserve"].

Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler . University of Toronto Press, 1996. Studies in Spirituality , 7., ( 1997): Pages 296 - 311.
Year of Publication: 1996.

20. Record Number: 2550
Author(s): Beemer, Suzy.
Contributor(s):
Title : Asceticism, Masochism, and Female Autonomy: Catherine of Siena and "The Story of O"

Source: Studies in Medievalism , 8., ( 1996): Pages 195 - 209.
Year of Publication: 1996.

21. Record Number: 1615
Author(s): Ruud, Jay.
Contributor(s):
Title : Images of the Self and Self Image in Julian of Norwich [analysis of the varied kinds of feminine imagery used and their relations to Julian's assertions of self-worth].

Source: Studia Mystica New Series , 16., 1 ( 1995): Pages 82 - 105.
Year of Publication: 1995.

22. Record Number: 2306
Author(s): McCabe, Maureen, O.C.S.O.
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Title : The Scriptures and Personal Identity: A Study in the "Exercises" of St. Gertrud

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. Downside Review , 114., 397 (October 1996): Pages 497 - 507.
Year of Publication: 1995.

23. Record Number: 501
Author(s): Gameson, Fiona.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: The Individual in "The Wife's Lament" and "Wulf and Eadwacer" [Second International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, July 10-13, 1995. Session 104].

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

24. Record Number: 517
Author(s): Robertson, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Medieval Female Subjectivity and the Church: A Modest Proposal for Future Research

Source: Aestel , 3., ( 1995): Pages 61 - 80.
Year of Publication: 1995.

25. Record Number: 1635
Author(s): Bartlett, Anne Clark.
Contributor(s):
Title : Foucault's "Medievalism" [Foucault's theories of the development of the self and of sexuality as he applied them to the Middle Ages].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 20., 1 (March 1994): Pages 10 - 18.
Year of Publication: 1994.

26. Record Number: 10672
Author(s): Park, Tarjei.
Contributor(s):
Title : Reflecting Christ: The Role of the Flesh in Walter Hilton and Julian of Norwich

Source: Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium , 5., ( 1992): Pages 17 - 37.
Year of Publication: 1992.

27. Record Number: 10244
Author(s): Szell, Timea K.
Contributor(s):
Title : From Woe to Weal and Weal to Woe: Notes on the Structure of "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The complicated narrative structure of Margery’s “Book” reflects the author’s attempt to reconcile two contradictory psychological impulses: one is the need to gain social acceptance and legitimacy; the other is the desire to be publicly shunned and perceived as outside of societal norms. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Mystics Quarterly , 20., 1 (March 1994): Pages 73 - 91.
Year of Publication: 1992.

28. Record Number: 10243
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Contributor(s):
Title : The Journey into Selfhood: Margery Kempe and Feminine Spirituality [The author reads Margery’s narrative of spiritual progression alongside feminist, psychological and theological accounts of how women achieve selfhood. This process involves self-negation, spiritual awakening, and self-naming. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Mystics Quarterly , 20., 1 (March 1994): Pages 51 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1992.

29. Record Number: 10246
Author(s): Bremner, Eluned.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and the Critics: Disempowerment and Deconstruction [The author compares selected twentieth-century analyses of Kempe’s “Book” (written by literary critics) to episodes in the “Book” itself, in which Margery faces criticism from various figures of authority. Both the modern critics outside the text and the clerical figures within the “Book” reinforce patriarchal structures in response to Kempe, who challenges female suppression and speaks to establish her autonomy and power. Despite critics’ attempts to disempower her, Kempe refuses to accept the marginalization of female sexuality, crosses traditional gender role boundaries, and determines her own voice and social role through speech and writing. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Mystics Quarterly , 20., 1 (March 1994): Pages 117 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1992.

30. Record Number: 10682
Author(s): Ross, Ellen M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Spiritual Experience and Women's Autobiography: The Rhetoric of Selfhood in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [Kempe uses domestic and familial language as the dominant metaphors for describing her relationship with the divine and her mode of understanding, experiencing, and expressing the self. Not only does she use relational terms like "daughter," "mother," and "sister" to describe her connections to Christ and the Virgin Mary, but she also identifies herself with a tradition of holy women and, at other times, as a prophet. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Religion , 59., 3 (Fall 1991): Pages 527 - 546.
Year of Publication: 1991.

31. Record Number: 12696
Author(s): Schmitt, Miriam.
Contributor(s):
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.

32. Record Number: 12749
Author(s): Ford-Grabowsky, Mary.
Contributor(s):
Title : Angels and Archetypes: A Jungian Approach to Saint Hildegard [Jung’s psychological work on archetypes helps explain the elusive essence and role of angels in Christian theology. Hildegard’s vision of angels in her writings depict them as resembling archetypes in their dual nature, their affinity to divine energies, and their role in the individuation and salvation of the self. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: American Benedictine Review , 41., 1 ( 1990): Pages 1 - 19.
Year of Publication: 1990.

33. Record Number: 12695
Author(s): Lewis, Gertrud Jaron.
Contributor(s):
Title : Libertas Cordis: The Concept of Inner Freedom in Saint Gertrud the Great of Helfta [Both the writings by and biographies of Saint Gertrud of Helfta (German nun and mystic) place supreme importance on inner freedom (freedom of spirit and freedom of heart). For Gertrud, striving for inner freedom and asceticism are intimately connected, and one paradoxically gains freedom by giving up oneself. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cistercian Studies , 25., 1 ( 1990): Pages 65 - 74.
Year of Publication: 1990.

34. Record Number: 43662
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Title : Historiated initial of Guda

Source: American Benedictine Review , 41., 1 ( 1990):
Year of Publication: