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1. Record Number: 43447 Author(s): Powell, Austin, Contributor(s): Title : Manuscript Miscellanies, Jerome's Letters to Women, and the Dominican Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Italy Source: Renaissance Quarterly , 74., 3 ( 2021):  Pages 722 - 762. Available with a subscription: https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2021.99 Year of Publication: 2021.

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2. Record Number: 32413 Author(s): Izbicki, Thomas M. Contributor(s): Title : Antoninus of Florence and the Dominican Witch Theorists Source: Memorie Domenicane , 42., ( 2012):  Pages 347 - 361. Year of Publication: 2012.

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3. Record Number: 42497 Author(s): Catherine of Siena and Suzanne Noffke, O. P. Contributor(s): Title : Catherine of Siena: An Anthology Source: Catherine of Siena: An Anthology. Catherine of Siena.   Edited by Suzanne Noffke, O.P .   Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012. Memorie Domenicane , 42., ( 2012):  Pages 3 - 1143. Year of Publication: 2012.

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4. Record Number: 30981 Author(s): Warr, Cordelia Contributor(s): Title : Visualizing Stigmata: Stigmatic Saints and Crises of Representation in Late medieval and Early Modern Italy Source: Studies in Church History , 47., ( 2011):  Pages 228 - 247. Special issue: Saints and Sanctity Year of Publication: 2011.

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5. Record Number: 29909 Author(s): Ehrenschwendtner, Marie-Luise Contributor(s): Title : Creating the Sacred Space Within: Enclosure as a Defining Feature in the Convent Life of Medieval Dominican Sisters (13th–15th c.) Source: Viator , 41., 2 ( 2010):  Pages 301 - 316. Year of Publication: 2010.

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6. Record Number: 20601 Author(s): Stuard, Susan Mosher Contributor(s): Title : Satisfying the Laws: The "Legenda" of Maria of Venice [Susan Mosher Stuard analyzes the "Vita" of Maria Sturion written by her confessor, Thomas Caffarini. Thomas had been given the task of writing a rule for Dominican penitents, lay people who lived a religious life without vows (and also known as tertiaries or third orders). Maria Sturion (or Maria of Venice) had been abandoned by her young husband and led a religious life at the home of her parents; Caffarini developed a close relationship with her as confessor and teacher. He saw Maria's "vita" as a model that other wealthy, young Venetian women could follow. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe.   Edited by Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, and E. Ann Matter .   University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. Viator , 41., 2 ( 2010):  Pages 197 - 210. Year of Publication: 2008.

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7. Record Number: 23299 Author(s): Dunlop, Anne Contributor(s): Title : The Dominicans and Cloistered Women: The Convent of Sant'Aurea in Rome Source: Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal , 2., ( 2007):  Pages 43 - 71. Year of Publication: 2007.

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8. Record Number: 20335 Author(s): Zaggia, Masimo Contributor(s): Title : Varia fortuna editoriale delle lettere di Caterina da Siena [In the 16th century, the diffusion of the letters of Catherine of Siena in print derived from Venice. The texts were secured from Venetian Dominican houses. Only in the 18th century did the printing of Catherine's works pass to Tuscany and Rome. Older pr Source: Dire l'ineffabile: Caterina da Siena e il linguaggio della mistica.   Edited by Lino Leonardi and Pietro Trifone .   Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 1., ( 2006):  Pages 127 - 187. Year of Publication: 2006.

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9. Record Number: 20607 Author(s): Herzig, Tamar Contributor(s): Title : Women's Participation in the Savonarolan Reform in Ferrara [The author explores women's activities in late 15th and early 16th century Ferrara. The holy woman, Lucia Brocadelli, was brought to the city by Duke Ercole d'Este to confer her prestige as a living saint on Ferrara. Lucia founded a house for female tertiaries dedicated to Saint Catherine of Siena. Savonarola's niece and other impoverished girls were encouraged to join (with their dowry paid by the duke) and perpetuate Savonarola's reformist ideals. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: French Historical Studies , 29., 4 (Fall 2006):  Pages 543 - 564. Year of Publication: 2006.

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10. Record Number: 15565 Author(s): Herzig, Tamar Contributor(s): Title : Witches, Saints, and Heretics: Heinrich Kramer's Ties with Italian Women Mystics [Heinrich Kramer is best known for the "Malleus malleficarum," which denounced women as prone to becoming witches. While disputing with heretics in Bohemia, Kramer argued that the holiness of four Dominican tertiaries in Ferrara proved the authenticity of the Church. Kramer's holy women all were given to bodily manifestations of piety, such as stigmata; but they were carefully regulated by friars. They were the mirror opposites of witches, saintly despite bodily appetites that might have led them into error. The heretics were unmoved by their example, but Kramer spread their fame even while the "Malleus" spread negative stereotypes of other women. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 1., ( 2006):  Pages 24 - 55. Year of Publication: 2006.

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11. Record Number: 14604 Author(s): Carbonetti Vendittelli, Cristina. Contributor(s): Title : In registro di entrate e uscite del convento domenicano di San Sisto negli anni 1369-1381 [Dominican friars kept administrative records for the nuns of San Sisto Vecchio, as well as for their convent at the same church. These records occasionally reflect records kept by the nuns themselves. The accounting of income reflects the economic base of the two houses, including from land held for the nuns and gifts given by their friends and kin. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Economia e societa a Roma tra Medioevo e Rinascimento: Studi dedicati ad Arnold Esch.   Edited by Anna Esposito and Luciano Palermo .   Viella, 2005. French Historical Studies , 29., 4 (Fall 2006):  Pages 83 - 121. Year of Publication: 2005.

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12. Record Number: 11758 Author(s): Heller, Ena Giurescu. Contributor(s): Title : Access to Salvation: The Place (and Space) of Women Patrons in Fourteenth-century Florence [The author provides a case study of Monna Andrea Acciaiuoli's patronage of her husband's family chapel in Santa Maria Novella. She commissioned the glass windows and the altarpiece. Heller raises the question of whether Monna Andrea and other female patrons had access to these family chapels beyond the rood screen. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church.   Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury .   State University of New York Press, 2005. French Historical Studies , 29., 4 (Fall 2006):  Pages 161 - 183. Year of Publication: 2005.

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13. Record Number: 11750 Author(s): Fassler, Margot. Contributor(s): Title : Music and the Miraculous: Mary in the Mid-Thirteenth-Century Dominican Sequence Repertory [The early Dominicans felt a special closeness to the Virgin Mary. This was expressed in hymns like the "Salve regina," and in special liturgical sequences for Saturday devotions to Mary. The order, guided by Humbert of Romans, created a unified liturgy that drew upon Parisian models. These were adapted to Dominican needs, including by editing existing compositions, and new compositions were prepared after Humbert's time. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Aux origines de la liturgie dominicaine: Le manuscrit Santa Sabina XIV L 1.   Edited by Leonard Boyle and Pierre-Marie Gy .   École française de Rome, 2004. Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004):  Pages 229 - 278. Year of Publication: 2004.

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14. Record Number: 18224 Author(s): Herzig, Tamar Contributor(s): Title : The Rise and Fall of a Savonarolan Visionary: Lucia Brocadelli's Contribution to the Piagnone Movement [The author explores Lucia Brocadelli's activities in the reform movement inspired by Girolamo Savonarola. The duke, Ercole d'Este, brought her to Ferrara because of her reputation for saintliness and her support of the Piagnoni, followers of Savonarola. Lucia promoted Savonarola's cult in the monastery she directed. Despite historians' interests in the Piagnoni movement, Lucia's role has been ignored. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte / Archive for Reformation History , 95., ( 2004):  Pages 34 - 59. Year of Publication: 2004.

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15. Record Number: 10934 Author(s): Lehmijoki-Gardner, Maiju. Contributor(s): Title : Writing Religious Rules as an Interactive Process: Dominican Penitent Women and the Making of Their "Regula" [In the fifteenth century, when the Dominican Order adopted their affiliated groups of penitent women officially, Thomas Caffarini rewrote the history of that association to make it appear more coherent. In fact, the relationship was informal; and these women and their patrons needed to lobby the friars for attention. Thus the original rule granted by Munio of Zamora was informal, given in response to these women. Once the order adopted the penitents more formally, they lost much of their initiative to the friars, whose histories of the movement buried traces of women's activities. Appendicies present the Latin text of Munio's "Ordinationes" written in 1286 for penitent women in Orvieto and a listing that compares the chapter headings in the "Ordinationes" with those in the "Tractatus," the Dominican penitent rule circa 1402-1405. Title note supplied by Feminae] Source: Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004):  Pages 660 - 687. Year of Publication: 2004.

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16. Record Number: 10782 Author(s): Field, Richard S. Contributor(s): Title : A Fifteenth-Century Woodcut of the "Death of the Virgin" in a Manuscript of "Der Stachel der Liebe" [The author examines the development and meaning of an iconographic theme, the figure of the kneeling Virgin in woodcut scenes of the Dormition. This devotional image presented Mary as humankind's stongest intercessor with both her son and God. It also served as a model for the good death with Mary kneeling in pious prayer as her earthly life ends. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003):  Pages 71 - 137. Year of Publication: 2003.

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17. Record Number: 10748 Author(s): Carroll, Jane L. Contributor(s): Title : Woven Devotions: Reform and Piety in Tapestries by Dominican Nuns [The author examines two tapestries that were produced by Dominican nuns in Germany. Both have small depictions of nuns working at looms in the margins. Carroll suggests that these images are part self-portraits, part devotional images, while also serving as exemplars of the Dominican reform for a "vita activa" that avoided luxury and sloth. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Saints, Sinners, and Sisters: Gender and Northern Art in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.   Edited by Jane L. Carroll and Alison G. Stewart .   Ashgate, 2003. Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004):  Pages 182 - 201. Year of Publication: 2003.

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18. Record Number: 10781 Author(s): Schmidt, Peter. Contributor(s): Title : The Use of Prints in German Convents of the Fifteenth Century: The Example of Nuremberg [The author focuses on the uses made by nuns in the Dominican house, the Katharinenkloster. Schmidt argues that the woodcuts were a medium of communication among nuns as well as between confessors and their female penitents. Title note supplied by Feminae Source: Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003):  Pages 43 - 69. Year of Publication: 2003.

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19. Record Number: 11418 Author(s): Klaniczay, Gábor Contributor(s): Title : Le stigmate di santa Margherita d'Ungheria: immagini e testi [The earliest sources for Margaret of Hungary, a princess who became a Dominican nun, do not mention her stigmata. Reports of her reciept of the Stigmata were rejected by Tommaso Caffarini, but defenders of the story can be found as late as the sixteenth century. The earliest depictions of Margaret usually lack the stigmata, but a royal crown often is shown at her feet or on her head. Dominican claims to stigmatics threatened Franciscan ideas of their founder as "another Christ" ("alter Christus"), and questions about Margaret became intertwined with disputes over the stigmata of Catherine of Siena. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Iconographica , 1., ( 2002):  Pages 16 - 31. Year of Publication: 2002.

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20. Record Number: 9512 Author(s): Wiethaus, Ulrike. Contributor(s): Title : Thieves and Carnivals: Gender in German Dominican Literature of the Fourteenth Century [The author examines two autobiographical vernacular texts from Margarete Ebner and Heinrich Seuse. She argues that Seuse was concerned in part with disciplining nuns under his care and showing that female spirituality was inferior to his more intellectual approach. Ebner, on the other hand, wrote a spiritual manual for the nuns in her house in order to enhance their daily practices. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature.   Edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Bradley Warren .   The New Middle Ages series. Palgrave, 2002. Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003):  Pages 209 - 238. Year of Publication: 2002.

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21. Record Number: 7207 Author(s): Simonetti, Adele. Contributor(s): Title : Le Vite e gli agiografi della bedta Stefana Quinzani [Stefana Quinzani was of humble birth and became a Dominican tertiary in 1500. She enjoyed good relations with the nobility and was able to found a religious house at Soncino. Much of the documentation available was connected with her cult which culiminated in her beatification in the eighteenth century. Only in Bartolomeo da Mantová's account do we hear of Stefana's voice, including her account of visions which she received concerning her choice between the Dominican and Franciscan third orders. 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 , 8., ( 2001):  Pages 191 - 231. Year of Publication: 2001.

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22. Record Number: 4833 Author(s): Scott, Karen. Contributor(s): Title : Catherine of Siena and Lay Sanctity in Fourteenth-Century Italy [The author argues that Catherine's status as a Dominican tertiary without monastic vows or enclosure made her a lay person; in her preaching, letters, writings, and active involvement in Church and secular politics, she emphasized the roles of the laity] Source: Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: A Search for Models.   Edited by Ann W. Astell .   University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. 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 , 8., ( 2001):  Pages 77 - 90. Year of Publication: 2000.

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23. Record Number: 5260 Author(s): Taglietti, Nadia Contributor(s): Title : Dicte priora et sorores non sint moniales nec earum domus monasterium appellatur. La Domus Milanese delle umiliate di Cambiago tra XII e XIV Secolo Source: Archivio Storico Lombardo. Twelfth Series , 124- 125., ( 1998- 1999):  Pages 11 - 111. Year of Publication: 1998- 1999.

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24. Record Number: 4295 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Rhenish Confluences: Hildegard and the Fourteenth-Century Dominicans [The author explores Hildegard's influence on John Tauler in particular, as well as briefly considering Meister Eckhart, Margaret Ebner, and Christina Ebner]. Source: Hildegard of Bingen: A book of Essays.   Edited by Maud Burnett McInerney .   Garland Publishing, 1998. Archivio Storico Lombardo. Twelfth Series , 124- 125., ( 1998- 1999):  Pages 177 - 190. Year of Publication: 1998.

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25. Record Number: 4222 Author(s): Naughton, Joan. Contributor(s): Title : Friars and Their Books at Saint-Louis de Poissy, a Dominican Foundation for Nuns [in an appendix the author lists and describes manuscripts that were owned by the friars at Poissy]. Source: Scriptorium , 52., 1 ( 1998):  Pages 83 - 102. Year of Publication: 1998.

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26. Record Number: 5563 Author(s): Naughton, Joan. Contributor(s): Title : Books for a Dominican Nuns' Choir: Illustrated Liturgical Manuscripts at Saint-Louis de Poissy, c. 1330- 1350 [The author examines a group of six manuscripts made for the Dominican women's house at Poissy; the author argues that the group "reflect an established tradition for liturgical book production and illustration as supervised by the Dominicans in Paris at Source: The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship.   Edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir .   University of Exeter Press, 1998. Scriptorium , 52., 1 ( 1998):  Pages 67 - 100. Year of Publication: 1998.

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27. Record Number: 3077 Author(s): Sullivan, Joseph M. Contributor(s): Title : Brother Hermann's "Iolande": A Tale of Ideal Female Spirituality Source: Monatshefte , 90., 2 (Summer 1998):  Pages 161 - 175. Year of Publication: 1998.

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28. Record Number: 1595 Author(s): Ehrenschwendtner, Marie-Luise. Contributor(s): Title : A Library Collected by and for the Use of Nuns: St. Catherine's Convent, Nuremberg [by the end of the fifteenth century the library had between 500 and 600 books, mostly in German, consisting of spritual literature and texts supporting the reformed Dominican life]. 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. History Today , 47., 3 (March 1997):  Pages 123 - 132. Year of Publication: 1997.

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29. Record Number: 2267 Author(s): Ehrenschwendtner, Marie Luise. Contributor(s): Title : Puellae litteratae: The Use of the Vernacular in the Dominican Convents of Southern Germany Source: Medieval Women in Their Communities.   Edited by Diane Watt .   University of Toronto Press, 1997. History Today , 47., 3 (March 1997):  Pages 49 - 71. Year of Publication: 1997.

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30. Record Number: 1955 Author(s): Linehan, Peter. Contributor(s): Title : Zamora's Nuns in the Oven [Dominican Friars were accused of scandalous affairs with the nuns of Zamora; the Pope's efforts to curb the mendicant orders and force strict enclosure on nuns may have been in reaction to the well-known case at Zamora]. Source: History Today , 47., 3 (March 1997):  Pages 46 - 51. Year of Publication: 1997.

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31. Record Number: 2771 Author(s): Borries, Ekkehard. Contributor(s): Title : Die besessene Schwester Agnes: Ein Schwesternspiegel des 15. Jahrhunderts aus dem Haus Ten Orten in Herzogenbusch. Edition der Berliner Handschrift mit Kommentaren und Untersuchungen Source: Ons geesttlijk erf , 70., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 10 - 61. Year of Publication: 1996.

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32. Record Number: 4908 Author(s): Solvi, Daniele. Contributor(s): Title : Riscritture agiografiche: le due "legendae" latine di Margherita da Città di Castello [the legends of saints frequently were reworked; that of the Dominican tertiary Margaret of Citta di Castello went through two Latin versions before being redone in Italian by Tommaso Caffarini; one Latin legend emphasizes parallels between Margaret's life and the life of Christ in the Franciscan tradition of Francis as "Alter Christus;" this made her a more universal figure, and Caffarini built his Italian legend on this vision of Margaret's life; the shorter Latin legend emphasizes Margaret's ties with the Dominican order and her local context]. 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 , 2., ( 1995):  Pages 251 - 276. Year of Publication: 1995.

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33. Record Number: 8475 Author(s): de Courcelles, Dominique. Contributor(s): Title : Le Dialogue de Catherine de Sienne ou l'accès du sujet intelligent créé à la perfection ultime du langage Thomiste au langage de l'âme Source: Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age , 62., ( 1995):  Pages 71 - 135. Year of Publication: 1995.

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34. Record Number: 355 Author(s): Lewis, Gertrud Jaron. Contributor(s): Title : Music and Dancing in the Fourteenth- Century Sister- Books Source: Vox Mystica: Essays on Medieval Mysticism in Honor of Professor Valerie M Lagorio.   Edited by Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul, Janet Goebel, and William F. Pollard .   D.S. Brewer, 1995. Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du Moyen Age , 62., ( 1995):  Pages 159 - 169. Year of Publication: 1995.

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35. Record Number: 264 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Mary Magdalen and the Mendicants: The Preaching of Penance in the Late Middle Ages Source: Journal of Medieval History , 21., 1 (March 1995):  Pages 1 - 25. Year of Publication: 1995.

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36. Record Number: 1122 Author(s): Tinsley, David F. Contributor(s): Title : The Spirituality of Suffering in the Revelations of Elsbeth von Oye Source: Mystics Quarterly , 21., 4 (December 1995):  Pages 121 - 147. Year of Publication: 1995.

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37. Record Number: 1309 Author(s): Rublack, Ulinka. Contributor(s): Title : Female Spirituality and the Infant Jesus in Late Medieval Dominican Convents [Margaretha Ebner's experiences with an infant Jesus doll need to be understood within the contexts of her spiritual desire and her social condition as a nun]. Source: Gender and History , 6., 1 (April 1994):  Pages 37 - 57. Year of Publication: 1994.

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38. Record Number: 3559 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Friars, Sanctity, and Gender: Mendicant Encounters with Saints, 1250-1325 [comparison and contrast of female and male saints supported by the mendicants; topics explored include renunciation of the world, religious confidants or confessors, the amount of interaction the saint had with her/his mendicant venerators, and the saints' inner life and interaction with God]. Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7.   University of Minnesota Press, 1994. 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 , 2., ( 1995):  Pages 91 - 110. Year of Publication: 1994.

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39. Record Number: 3516 Author(s): Roberts, Ann M. Contributor(s): Title : Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa as Patroness of the Arts [the author argues that Prioress Chiara Gambacorta had an important role in commissioning and in choosing the subject, style, and imagery of the paintings produced for the convent of San Domenico, many of which represented female saints including Catherine of Siena and Bridget of Sweden]. 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. 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 , 2., ( 1995):  Pages 120 - 154. Year of Publication: 1994.

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40. Record Number: 10003 Author(s): Sorelli, Fernanda. Contributor(s): Title : La produzione agiografica del domenicano Tommaso d'Antonio da Siena: esempi di santità ed intenti di propaganda [Many late-medieval saints' lives were composed by persons who knew their subjects, and chose to individualize them. Tommaso Caffarini's works personalize Catherine of Siena, presenting a spritual profile, not just recounting miracles. His work on Vanna of Orvieto and Margaret of Citta di Castello, however, is less rich in personal detail. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale.   Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi .   Liguori Editore, 1992. Medium Aevum , 61., 2 ( 1992):  Pages 157 - 169. Year of Publication: 1992.

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41. Record Number: 10017 Author(s): Millett, Bella. Contributor(s): Title : The origins of Ancrene Wisse: new answers, new questions [The author reconsiders the West Midlands and Augustinian origins of the Ancrene Wisse. The Appendix presents the Lay Brothers‚ Hours from the Dominican constitutions. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Medium Aevum , 61., 2 ( 1992):  Pages 206 - 228. Year of Publication: 1992.

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42. Record Number: 10887 Author(s): Coakley, John Contributor(s): Title : Gender and the Authority of Friars: The Significance of Holy Women for Thirteenth-Century Franciscans and Dominicans [In their letters and other writings, friars often reflected on their relationships with devout women. As preachers, friars exerted pastoral authority over devout women, but they also saw these particular women as having a privileged relationship with God. Although the friars admired the close relationship these women had with the divine, they also asserted their own distance and superiority over the women along the lines of gender difference. At the same time, the friars used gender difference as a means of expressing doubts about themselves and the limits of their own powers. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Church History , 60., 4 ( 1991):  Pages 445 - 460. Year of Publication: 1991.

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43. Record Number: 10603 Author(s): Mayberry, Nancy. Contributor(s): Title : The Controversy over the Immaculate Conception in Medieval and Renaissance Art, Literature, and Society [The belief that Mary was freed from original sin had taken root by the late twelfth century. Dominicans placed this cleansing after Mary's conception; Franciscans placed it before, a "pre-redemption." The Franciscan position gradually triumphed, not just in theology but also in populat devotion as witnessed by art and literature. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 21., 2 (Fall 1991):  Pages 207 - 224. Year of Publication: 1991.

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44. Record Number: 10680 Author(s): Stoudt, Debra L. Contributor(s): Title : The Production and Preservation of Letters by Fourteenth-Century Dominican Nuns [Dominican priests often advised members of female religious houses on both practical and spiritual matters, and at times they aided women writers like Margaretha Ebner and Elsbeth Stagel as scribes or editors of their work. Letters by priests to nuns are more likely to be preserved than correspondence written by nuns themselves. The author gives two major reasons for the discrepancy: the letters were pereived to have historical and instructional values for the convent community, and priests held higher rank in the church hierarchy than nuns. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Mediaeval Studies , 53., ( 1991):  Pages 309 - 326. Year of Publication: 1991.

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45. Record Number: 8654 Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti. Contributor(s): Title : Secolo e chiostro [The penitent movement extended the monastic ideal to women living in the world. It was accessible not just to virgins, like Catherine of Siena, but to wives and widows. Originally published as "Penitenza e santità femminile in ambiente cateriniano e bernardiniano," in Atti del simposio internazionale cateriniano-bernardiniano, Siena 17-20 aprile 1980, edited by Domenico Maffei and Paolo Nardi (Accademia Senese degli Intronati, 1982). Pages 865-875. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi .   Herder, 1990. Mystics Quarterly , 16., 4 ( 1990):  Pages 247 - 259. Originally published as "Penitenza e santità femminile in ambiente cateriniano e bernardiniano," in Atti del simposio internazionale cateriniano-bernardiniano, Siena 17-20 aprile 1980, edited by Domenico Maffei and Paolo Nardi (Accademia Senese degli Intr Year of Publication: 1990.

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46. Record Number: 12762 Author(s): Hale, Rosemary Drage. Contributor(s): Title : Imitatio Mariae: Motherhood Motifs in Devotional Memoirs [The author discusses what she calls “spiritual motherhood” or “mother mysticism” (visionary appearances of Jesus as an infant, used to express the same desire for mystical union with God as is often expressed by the imagery of spiritual marriage) in South German fourteenth-century Dominican devotional writing. She discusses in particular the mystics Christine Ebner, Adelheide Langmann and Margarete Ebner. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Mystics Quarterly , 16., 4 ( 1990):  Pages 193 - 203. Year of Publication: 1990.

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47. Record Number: 30910 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : St. Catherine of Siena before Pope Gregory XI at Avignon Source: Mystics Quarterly , 16., 4 ( 1990): Year of Publication:

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48. Record Number: 30923 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Luttrell Family at Table Source: Mystics Quarterly , 16., 4 ( 1990): Year of Publication:

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49. Record Number: 34056 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Convent of St. Katherine’s Copy of the Chronicle of Töss Source: Mystics Quarterly , 16., 4 ( 1990): Year of Publication:

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