Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 20474
Author(s): Donahue, Charles, Jr
Contributor(s):
Title : Johannes Faventinus on Marriage (with an Appendix Revisiting the Question of the Dating of Alexander III's Marriage Decretals) [Two ideas of marriage coexisted in the 12th century. The canonist Gratian favored consummation as the decisive element in matrimony. Peter Lombard, a theologian, emphasized consent. The canonist Johannes Faventinus, whose teachings may have helped mold the influential decrees of Pope Alexander III, accepted Peter Lombard's distinction of a promise to wed and words of consent in the present tense. Consummation was equated in Faventinus' opinion with consent in the present tense. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Medieval Church Law and the Origins of the Western Legal Tradition: A Tribute to Kenneth Pennington. Edited by Wolfgang P. Müller and Mary E. Sommar . Catholic University of America Press, 2006. Pages 179 - 197.
Year of Publication: 2006.

2. Record Number: 20475
Author(s): Schmugge, Ludwig
Contributor(s):
Title : Barbara Zymermanin's Two Husbands [In 1465 the Papal Penitentiary commissioned the bishop of Bamberg to examine the case of Barbara Zimermanin. She was wed to one man by her guardians but compelled by her brothers to marry another. The second man tried to claim Barbara and her possessions; but she cohabitated with the first man as his wife, bearing him children. One of Zymermanin's concerns in petitioning the penitentiary was to defend the legitimacy of her children. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

3. Record Number: 14139
Author(s): Jochens, Jenny.
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Title : Germanic Marriage : The Case of Medieval Iceland [The author analyzes the Germanic model of marriage, using written evidence from Iceland. Jochens characterizes pagan marriage as a commercial contract with the right to consent for both the woman and the man. Another important concept, marital fidelity,

Source: The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy. Edited by Sherry Roush and Cristelle L. Baskins . Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. Pages 55 - 65.
Year of Publication: 2005.

4. Record Number: 16588
Author(s): McSheffrey, Shannon.
Contributor(s):
Title : Place, Space, and Situation: Public and Private in the Making of Marriage in Late Medieval London [The author argues that marriage in fourteenth century London was a process that moved through a series of well-recognized steps with increasing publicity. Situations that we moderns would characterize as private (e.g. exchange of consent in the bride's h

Source: Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004): Pages 960 - 990.
Year of Publication: 2004.

5. Record Number: 14752
Author(s): Goldy, Charlotte Newman.
Contributor(s):
Title : The shiftiness of a woman: Narratizing the Anstey Case [The author examines documents surrounding an inheritance case that hinged on the legitimacy of a disputed marriage. From the court case reported by John of Salisbury, Goldy reconstructs the daughter Mabel's efforts to right the wrongs done to her mother. At the same time John of Salisbury leaves hints that the report of the father's deathbed remorse for abandoning Mabel's mother in favor of his previous bethrothed should not be trusted. After five years of litigation, church courts found in favor of the father's nephew and declared Mabel illegitimate. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004): Pages 89 - 107.
Year of Publication: 2004.

6. Record Number: 8088
Author(s): Stanton, Robert.
Contributor(s):
Title : Marriage, Socialization, and Domestic Violence in the "Life of Christina of Markyate" [The author emphasizes the social dimensions of the "Life" and argues that the monk/author was critical of the social acculturation required for the nobility. Stanton also argues that previous authors downplayed the violence her parents and fiancé do to Christina. Another important aspect of the "Life" is the pivotal moment it represents in the transformation of marriage when consent of both partners becomes more important. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts. Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price . University Press of Florida, 2002. Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004): Pages 242 - 271.
Year of Publication: 2002.

7. Record Number: 6941
Author(s): Seidel Menchi, Silvana
Contributor(s):
Title : Percorsi variegati, percorsi obligati: elogio del matrimonio pre-tridentino [Medieval ideas of marriage emphasized consent. This permitted individuals a great deal of control over their marriage choices, including through clandestine unions. Sexual consummation, however, was not ignored. The power of individuals, even against familial interests, led, after the Council of Trent, to greater regulation of marriages by both Church and political entities. Title note supplied by Feminae].

Source: Matrimoni in dubbio: unioni controverse e nozze clandestine in Italia dal XIV al XVIII secolo Edited by Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni. . Mulino, 2001. Journal of Family History , 26., 3 (July 2001): Pages 17 - 60.
Year of Publication: 2001.

8. Record Number: 6942
Author(s): Quaglioni, Diego.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sacramenti detestabili: La forma del matrimonio prima e dopo Trento [Medieval jurists combined natural law and Biblical knowledge, as well as sexual and emotional elements, in their teaching on marriage. There were enough ambiguities in local practices to further complicate litigation over contested marriages. This prompted the Council of Trent to attempt a systematization of matrimonial practices, forbidding clandestine unions and emphasizing the role of the priest as witness to the exchange of consents. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Matrimoni in dubbio: unioni controverse e nozze clandestine in Italia dal XIV al XVIII secolo. Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni . Mulino, 2001. Journal of Family History , 26., 3 (July 2001): Pages 61 - 79.
Year of Publication: 2001.

9. Record Number: 6944
Author(s): Meek, Christine.
Contributor(s):
Title : Un unione incerta: la vicenda di Neria, figlia dell‚organista, e di Baldassare, mercaio pistoiese (Lucca, 1396-1397)

10. Record Number: 7053
Author(s): Cristellon, Cecilia.
Contributor(s):
Title : La sposa in convento (Padova e Venezia 1455-1458) [Maddalena di Sicilia tried to end her union with Giorgio Zaccarotto by entering a monastery. The case over this marriage was heard by ecclesiastical judges in Padua and Venice. Giorgio based his claim to Maddalena on consummation. Maddalena blamed family pressure that made her lie about her being of sufficient age for sexual relations. Her plea was successful, and she remained a nun. (Additional documentation on CD-ROM accompanying the book). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

11. Record Number: 7054
Author(s): Benussi, Paola.
Contributor(s):
Title : Oltre il processo: itinerari di ricerca intorno al matrimonio controverso di Giorgio Zaccarotto e Maddalena di Sicilia (Padova e Venezia 1455-1458) [The archives of San Mattia, Padua, reveal that Maddalena di Sicilia was an illegitimate child naturalized as her father's heir. The girl was married off at age 11 despite her desire to become a nun. In the end, Maddalena stayed at San Mattia as a nun. Gi

12. Record Number: 7055
Author(s): Minnucci, Giovanni.
Contributor(s):
Title : Simpliciter et de plamno, ac sine sterpitu et figura iudicii: il processo di ità matrimoniale vertente Giorgio Zaccarotto e Maddalena di Sicilia (Padova e Venezia 1455-1458): una lettura storico-giuridica [Fantino Dandolo, bishop of Padua, was excluded from the Zaccarotto-di Sicilia case on the grounds that he wanted the girl’s dowry for the Church. Nonetheless, the judge in Venice ruled against the validity of the marriage, and Maddalena remained a nun. Maddalena's age at the time of marriage (11 years old) and proof of Zaccarotto's failure to consummate - despite his claim to the contrary - told in the girl's favor. (Additional documentation on CD-ROM accompanying the book). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

13. Record Number: 7056
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Valori patrizi nel tribunale patriarcale: Girolamo da Mula e Marietta Soranzo (Venezia 1460) [Venetian ecclesiastical tribunals often had to balance canon law and political considerations. Giovanni Gabriel was able to argue successfully the importance of the disparate social stranding of Orsa Dolfin and himself. Girolamo da Mula, however, was unsuccessful in using a similar argument to deny that he was married to Marietta Soranzo. Her family was noble and simply out of favor politically. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

14. Record Number: 7057
Author(s): Marchetto, Giuliano.
Contributor(s):
Title : Il matrimonium meticulosam in un "consilium" di Bartolomeo Cipolla (ca. 1420-1475) [Bartolomeo Cipolla had to weigh indirect evidence in the case between Alvise de Sonzino and Ursina Basso to determine whether the groom had been coerced into marriage. The jurist weighed the evidence presented and advised the judge to dismiss fear as a factor in the wedding. The judge, however, ignored the jurist's advice and used his judicial discretion to rule against the marriage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

15. Record Number: 7058
Author(s): Cristellon, Cecilia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Ursina Basso contro Alvise Soncin: il "consilium" respinto di Bartolomeo Cipolla e gli atti del processo (Padova e Venezia 1461-1462) [Although Bartolomeo Cipolla advised the judge in Padua that Alvise de Sonzino had not been coerced into marrying Ursina Basso, the judge in Padua ruled against the claim of a valid marriage. The appellate judge in Venice unearthed evidence that Ursina's witnesses were suspect for reasons including low social status. He concurred in the original decision. (Additional documentation on CD-ROM accompanying the book). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

16. Record Number: 35427
Author(s): Robertson, Elizabeth
Contributor(s):
Title : Public Bodies and Psychic Domains: Rape, Consent, and Female Subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde"

Source: Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose The New Middle Ages Series. . Palgrave, 2001. Journal of Family History , 26., 3 (July 2001): Pages 281 - 310.
Year of Publication: 2001.

17. Record Number: 6664
Author(s): Ribordy, Geneviève.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Two Paths to Marriage: The Preliminaries of Noble Marriage in Late Medieval France

Source: Journal of Family History , 26., 3 (July 2001): Pages 323 - 336.
Year of Publication: 2001.

18. Record Number: 7911
Author(s): Cannon, Christopher.
Contributor(s):
Title : Chaucer and Rape: Uncertainty's Certainties

Source: Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature. Edited by Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose . The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Journal of Family History , 26., 3 (July 2001): Pages 255 - 279.
Year of Publication: 2001.

19. Record Number: 7912
Author(s): Robertson, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Public Bodies and Psychic Domains: Rape, Consent, and Female Subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde"

20. Record Number: 7910
Author(s): Schotter, Anne Howland.
Contributor(s):
Title : Rape in the Medieval Latin Comedies

21. Record Number: 4469
Author(s): Phillips, Kim M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Written on the Body: Reading Rape from the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries [the author argues that English law and legal treatises give evidence of three phases over time in the understanding of rape: 1) The raped body as bleeding and violently assaulted 2) Rape as the violation of virginity 3) The raped body as absent, a body that has been feloniously abducted].

Source: Medieval Women and the Law. Edited by Noël James Menuge . Boydell Press, 2000. Journal of Family History , 26., 3 (July 2001): Pages 125 - 144.
Year of Publication: 2000.

22. Record Number: 4468
Author(s): Saunders, Corinne.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Matter of Consent: Middle English Romance and the Law of "Raptus"

Source: Medieval Women and the Law. Edited by Noël James Menuge . Boydell Press, 2000. Journal of Family History , 26., 3 (July 2001): Pages 105 - 124.
Year of Publication: 2000.

23. Record Number: 4611
Author(s): Resnick, Irven M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Marriage in Medieval Culture: Consent Theory and the Case of Joseph and Mary [The author argues that the Church emphasized the importance of consent in order to remove marriage from the control of the laity; yet in order to prove consent practical, theologians came around to conjugal relations as a sure sign of consent].

Source: Church History , 69., 2 (June 2000): Pages 350 - 371.
Year of Publication: 2000.

24. Record Number: 9623
Author(s): Guareschi, Massimiliano.
Contributor(s):
Title : Fra "Canones" e "Leges": "Magister Vacarius" e il Matrimonio [The relative importance of consent and consummation in validating marriage was disputed by canonists and theologians. Vacarius, an Italian jurist who worked in England, attempted to resolve this question by finding a "Third Way." Vacarius believed the couple's giving of themselves to each other established a marriage. Vacarius was not just a theorist, but a practicing jurist who served as a judge in a case of bigamy in the Archdiocese of York. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen âge , 111., 1 ( 1999): Pages 105 - 139.
Year of Publication: 1999.

25. Record Number: 5337
Author(s): Burch, Sally L.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Lady, the Lords, and the Priests: The Making and Unmaking of Marriage in "Amadas et Ydoine" [The author emphasizes the authority of the lords in the text to arrange marriages; clergy are clearly subordinates, but Ydoine uses deceit to manage the lords and arrive at her desired end].

Source: Reading Medieval Studies , 25., ( 1999): Pages 17 - 31.
Year of Publication: 1999.

26. Record Number: 4028
Author(s): Menuge, No‘l James.
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Wards and Marriage in Romance and Law: A Question of Consent

Source: Young Medieval Women. Edited by Katherine J. Lewis, Noel James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips . St. Martin's Press, 1999. Reading Medieval Studies , 25., ( 1999): Pages 153 - 171.
Year of Publication: 1999.

27. Record Number: 3504
Author(s): McSheffrey, Shannon.
Contributor(s):
Title : I Will Never Have None Ayenst My Faders Will: Consent and the Making of Marriage in the Late Medieval Diocese of London [depositions given before the diocese of London's consistory and commissary courts 1467-1476 and 1489-1497, give evidence of women's need for the permission of their families, employers, and friends in order to contract a marriage].

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. Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen âge , 111., 1 ( 1999): Pages 153 - 174.
Year of Publication: 1998.

28. Record Number: 5345
Author(s): Virtue, Nancy E.
Contributor(s):
Title : Another Look at Medieval Rape Legislation [The author argues that Gratian made important distinctions that heralded the emergence of the legal concept of female consent in sexual relations].

Source: Mediaevalia , 22., 1 ( 1998): Pages 79 - 94. Published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton
Year of Publication: 1998.

29. Record Number: 3503
Author(s): Murray, Jacqueline.
Contributor(s):
Title : Individualism and Consensual Marriage: Some Evidence from Medieval England

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. Mediaevalia , 22., 1 ( 1998): Pages 121 - 151.
Year of Publication: 1998.

30. Record Number: 6011
Author(s): Meek, Christine.
Contributor(s):
Title : La donna, la famiglia, e la legge nell'epoca di Ilaria del Carretto [the limits imposed on Italian women were imposed in Lucca as they were elsewhere; law and practice, however, could differ, often to the women's advantage; women can be found bringing suits claiming that they had been coerced by their families into marriages to which they had not consented; wives of insolvent husbands can be found petitioning for restitution of their dowries; widows can be found serving as guardians of their minor children without the advice or consent of their late husbands' kin].

Source: Ilaria del Carretto e il suo monumento: la donna nell'arte, la cultura, e la società del '400. Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi, 15-16-17 Settembre, 1994, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca. Edited by Stéphane Toussaint. Translated by Clotilde Soave Bowe. . Edizioni S. Marco Litotipo, 1995. Mediaevalia , 22., 1 ( 1998): Pages 137 - 163.
Year of Publication: 1995.

31. Record Number: 16756
Author(s): Bianco, Marinella
Contributor(s):
Title : Le classificazioni femminili nella mentalitá medievale (sec. XII-XVI) [Legal texts can cast light on medieval attempts to impose classifications on women. Local laws in Piedmont distinguished between adultery and non-marital sex, as well as between consensual and non-consensual relations. Laws in Piedmont dealt not just with the classification of sexual offenses but with issues of familial honor. Other categorizations were constructed, but Piedmontese laws looked at how a woman fit into social structures. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Nuova Rivista Storica , 79., 2 ( 1995): Pages 261 - 274.
Year of Publication: 1995.

32. Record Number: 10694
Author(s): Cosgrove, Art,
Contributor(s):
Title : Consent, Consummation and Indissolubility: Some Evidence from Medieval Ecclesiastical Courts [The author considers the principle of consent in medieval marriage law and practice during the twelfth through the fifteenth century. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Downside Review , 109., (April 1991): Pages 94 - 104.
Year of Publication: 1991.

33. Record Number: 28189
Author(s): Gellinek, Christian,
Contributor(s):
Title : Marriage by Consent in Literary Sources of Medieval Germany

Source: Collectanea Stephan Kuttner. II. Edited by Giuseppe Forchielli and Alfons M. Stickler Studia Gratiana, 12. Institutum Gratianum, 1967. Downside Review , 109., (April 1991): Pages 555 - 579.
Year of Publication: 1967.

34. Record Number: 41565
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Title : Isabella of France meets her husband, Richard II, king of England

Source: Downside Review , 109., (April 1991):
Year of Publication: