Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 7170
Author(s): Lazzari, Loredana.
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Title : Regine, badesse, sante: il contributo della donna anglosassone all'evangelizzazione (secc. VII e VIII) [Anglo-Saxon women inherited a peacemaking role from their Germanic ancestors while adding a new responsibility for spreading the gospel. Well-born Anglo-Saxon nuns might become abbesses, even of double houses. Holy nuns feature prominently in Anglo-Saxon hagiography, and Aldhelm wrote on virginity for nuns. Later generations of nuns were more thoroughly subjected to male authority. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Studi Medievali , 39., 2 (Dicembre 1998): Pages 601 - 632.
Year of Publication: 1998.

2. Record Number: 2354
Author(s): Wilkins, Constance L.
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Title : Textual Production and Reproduction: Hild, Whitby, and the Christianization of the North

Source: Old English Newsletter , 29., 3 (Spring 1996):
Year of Publication: 1996.

3. Record Number: 2355
Author(s): Farr, Carol A.
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Title : Reception of Word and Image at Whitby and Its Daughter Houses

Source: Old English Newsletter , 29., 3 (Spring 1996):
Year of Publication: 1996.

4. Record Number: 2356
Author(s): Hawkes, Jane.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sermons in Stone: Sculpture, Iconography, and the Christianization of the North

Source: Old English Newsletter , 29., 3 (Spring 1996):
Year of Publication: 1996.

5. Record Number: 1091
Author(s): Rigg, A. G.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Latin Poem on St. Hilda and Whitby Abbey

Source: Journal of Medieval Latin , 6., ( 1996): Pages 12 - 43.
Year of Publication: 1996.

6. Record Number: 867
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Title : Anglo- Saxon Double Monasteries [abbesses in charge of double monasteries often came from royal families; their powerful influence was felt in education, politics, and the Church].

Source: History Today , 45., 10 (Oct. 1995): Pages 33 - 39.
Year of Publication: 1995.

7. Record Number: 10777
Author(s): Smith, Robin.
Contributor(s):
Title : Glimpses of Some Anglo-Saxon Women [The author briefly profiles three Anglo-Saxon women: Abbess Hilda, the nun Hygeburg (author of a pilgrimage account), and Aethelflaed, ruler of the Mercians. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck. Edited by Juliette Dor . English Department, University of Liège, 1992. History Today , 45., 10 (Oct. 1995): Pages 256 - 263.
Year of Publication: 1992.