Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 2806
Author(s): Wolf, Kirsten.
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Title : The Severed Breast: A Topos in the Legends of Female Virgin Martyr Saints [argues that the severing of virgins' breasts is a way of turning the corporeal into the spiritual, so that the virgins can have a spiritual union with God; the study relies primarily on Old Norse-Icelandic Saints' lives].

Source: Arkiv för nordisk filologi , 112., ( 1997): Pages 97 - 112.
Year of Publication: 1997.

2. Record Number: 3669
Author(s): Holmes, Megan.
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Title : Disrobing the Virgin: The "Madonna Lactans" in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Art [the author argues that the popularity of the "Madonna lactans" waned from the 1440s through the 1470s because increased naturialism made the bare breast problematic; when the motif reappeared in the late fifteenth century , it was modified by making the Virgin less immediate and less accessible].

Source: Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. Edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Mathews Grieco . Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pages 167 - 195.
Year of Publication: 1997.

3. Record Number: 28836
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Title : Massacre of the Innocents

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4. Record Number: 30933
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Title : Virgin and Child/Madonna of Melun

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5. Record Number: 30934
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Title : Torture of St. Barbara

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