Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 45041
Author(s): Varnam, Laura
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Title : Poems for the Women of Beowulf: A ‘Contemporary Medieval’ Project
Source: Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies , 13., 1- 2 ( 2022):  Pages 105 - 121. Available with a subscription from Springer: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-022-00225-3
Year of Publication: 2022.
2. Record Number: 10827
Author(s): Hemptinne, Thérèse.de
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Title : Reading, Writing, and Devotional Practices: Lay and Religious Women and the Written Word in the Low Countries (1350-1550) [The author argues in part that manuscripts in the vernacular served as a means of connection among female relatives and friends, both urban laywomen and those in religious life (Beguines as well as nuns). 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. Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies , 13., 1- 2 ( 2022):  Pages 111 - 126.
Year of Publication: 2004.
3. Record Number: 10447
Author(s): Klinck, Anne L.
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Title : Poetic Markers of Gender in Medieval "Woman's Song": Was Anonymous a Woman? [The author examines five pairs of love-complaints, written wholly or in part in a woman's voice. The poems are drawn from Old English, Occitan, German, Italian, Galician-Portuguese, and Middle English. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Neophilologus , 87., 3 (July 2003):  Pages 339 - 359.
Year of Publication: 2003.
4. Record Number: 8592
Author(s): Tokunaga, Satoko.
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Title : Assessing Book Use by Women in Late Medieval England [The author surveys the difficulties in establishing actual use of books by women. Topics briefly discussed include marks of ownership, instances of women writing, communal reading, and the roles of men, particularly as chaplains, as readers, and as interpreters of Latin texts. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History , 5., ( 2002):  Pages 169 - 176.
Year of Publication: 2002.
5. Record Number: 3839
Author(s): Stokes, Charity Scott.
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Title : Margery Kempe: Her Life and the Early History of Her Book [The author examines Margery's life at length including background on medieval Lynn and Margery's family].
Source: Mystics Quarterly , 25., 40180 (March/June 1999):  Pages 9 - 68.
Year of Publication: 1999.
6. Record Number: 3537
Author(s): Müller, Catherine.
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Title : How To Do Things with Mystical Language: Marguerite d'Oingt's Performative Writing
Source: Performance and Transformation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality.   Edited by Mary A. Suydam and Joanna E. Ziegler .   St. Martin's Press, 1999. Mystics Quarterly , 25., 40180 (March/June 1999):  Pages 27 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1999.
7. Record Number: 3525
Author(s): Ferrante, Joan.
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Title : Scribe quae vides et audis: Hildegard, Her Language, and Her Secretaries [The author suggests that Guibert, Hildegard's last secretary, had her permission to embellish her texts with ornate rhetoric while all her earlier scribes had confined themselves to making corrections].
Source: The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin.   Edited by David Townsend and Andrew Taylor .   University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Mystics Quarterly , 25., 40180 (March/June 1999):  Pages 102 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1998.
8. Record Number: 3502
Author(s): Elliott, Dyan.
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Title : Dominae or "Dominatae"? Female Mysticism and the Trauma of Textuality
Source: Women, Marriage, and Family in Medieval Christendom: Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, C.S.B.   Edited by Constance M. Rousseau and Joel T. Rosenthal .   Western Michigan University, 1998. Mystics Quarterly , 25., 40180 (March/June 1999):  Pages 47 - 77.
Year of Publication: 1998.
9. Record Number: 3488
Author(s): Gates, Laura Doyle.
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Title : Distaff and Pen: Producing the Evangiles des Quenouilles
Source: Neophilologus , 81., 1 (January 1997):  Pages 13 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1997.
10. Record Number: 1589
Author(s): Smith, Lesley.
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Title : Scriba, Femina: Medieval Depictions of Women Writing [appendix inventories the Western European manuscript illustrations that depict women writing].
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. Mystics Quarterly , 25., 40180 (March/June 1999):  Pages 21 - 44.
Year of Publication: 1997.
11. Record Number: 1565
Author(s): Tarvers, Josephine K.
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Title : The Alleged Illiteracy of Margery Kempe: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
Source: Medieval Perspectives , 11., ( 1996):  Pages 113 - 124. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
Year of Publication: 1996.
12. Record Number: 842
Author(s): Richardson, Malcolm.
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Title : Women, Commerce, and Writing in Late Medieval England [family and business letters sent by women ].
Source: Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 1., ( 1996):  Pages 123 - 145.
Year of Publication: 1996.
13. Record Number: 1936
Author(s): Jager, Eric.
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Title : Did Eve Invent Writing? Script and the Fall in "The Adam Books" [Eve's role as represented in a patristic Latin text and two Middle English metrical versions, the Auchinleck (c.1330) and Trinity (1375) texts].
Source: Studies in Philology , 93., 3 (Summer 1996):  Pages 229 - 250.
Year of Publication: 1996.
14. Record Number: 901
Author(s): O' Mara, V. M.
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Title : Female Scribal Ability and Scribal Activity in Late Medieval England: The Evidence?
Source: Leeds Studies in English , ( 1996):  Pages 87 - 130.
Year of Publication: 1996.
15. Record Number: 3351
Author(s): Uhlman, Diana R.
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Title : The Comfort of Voice, the Solace of Script: Orality and Literacy in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues against a dichotomy between oral versus written and instead suggests a complex interdependence].
Source: Studies in Philology , 91., 1 (Winter 1994):  Pages 50 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1994.
16. Record Number: 3463
Author(s): Schibanoff, Susan.
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Title : Botticelli's "Madonna del Magnificat": Constructing the Woman Writer in Early Humanist Italy
Source: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (Full Text via JSTOR) 109, 2 (March 1994): 190-206. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1994.
17. Record Number: 3513
Author(s): Mooney, Catherine M.
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Title : The Authorial Role of Brother A. in the Composition of Angela of Foligno's Revelations [The author argues that Brother A. and Angela collaborated on the writing of her "Memorial"].
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.  Pages 34 - 63.
Year of Publication: 1994.
18. Record Number: 11741
Author(s): Paulsell, Stephanie.
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Title : Writing and Mystical Experience in Marguerite d'Oingt and Virginia Woolf [The author argues that both Woolf and Marguerite felt impelled to write because of transcendent experiences. They found writing to be both a healing process and an opportunity to come to a greater understanding of the insights they had received. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Comparative Literature (Full Text via JSTOR) 44, 3 (Summer 1992): 249-267. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1992.
19. Record Number: 8632
Author(s): Helfers, James P.
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Title : The Mystic as Pilgrim: Margery Kempe and the Tradition of Nonfictional Travel Narrative [The author proposes to re-read "The Book of Margery Kempe" as a bridge between the medieval allegorical pilgrimage narrative and the humanist, curiosity-centered travel-literature tradition of the Renaissance. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association , 13., ( 1992):  Pages 25 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1992.
20. Record Number: 10018
Author(s): Harvey, Nancy Lenz.
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Title : Margery Kempe: writer as creature [The article suggests that Kempe views her written book as a physical manifestation of her own spiritual experience. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Philological Quarterly , 71., 2 (Spring 1992):  Pages 173 - 184.
Year of Publication: 1992.
21. Record Number: 12678
Author(s): Westrem, Scott D.
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Title : Medieval Western European Views of Sexuality Reflected in the Narratives of Travelers to the Orient [The author briefly surveys four influential travel accounts written in the span of a century. Westrem cites discussion of fornication, adultery, polygamy, and incest. The authors, even the two churchmen, are surprisingly moderate in their attitudes toward these sexual crimes, although they indicate the increasingly serious nature of the offenses. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life.   Edited by Helen Rodite Lemay Acta .   Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990.  Pages 141 - 156. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987
Year of Publication: 1990.
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Title : Christine de Pizan in her Study
Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Christine_de_pisan.jpg/250px-Christine_de_pisan.jpg
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Title : Catherine of Cleves before the Virgin and Child
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24. Record Number: 31181
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Title : Panel from the Humility Polyptych - Umilta dictates her sermons
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25. Record Number: 42971
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Title : Christine de Pizan writes in her study, while the goddess Minerva stands outside
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26. Record Number: 43021
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Title : Laodamia writes to Protesilaus
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