Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 9712
Author(s): Wolbrink, Shelley Amiste.
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Title : Women in the Premonstratensian Order of Northwestern Germany, 1120-1250 [The established historiography of the Premonstratensians shows women being marginalized from the early years onward. The documentary record is more complex. The German records show men's houses serving as "mother" houses to women's monasteries. This relationship was not free of conflict, but it shows a more vital presence of women in the order than the historiography has claimed. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Catholic Historical Review (Full Text via Project Muse) 89, 3 (July 2003): 387-408. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2003.
2. Record Number: 10517
Author(s): Hotchin, Julie.
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Title : Abbot as Guardian and Cultivator of Virtues: Two Perspectives on the "cura monialium" in Practice [The author explores two twelfth century letters from the abbey of Reinhandsbrunn concerning the pastoral care of nuns. The first is from a papal legate to the abbey's abbot answering his concerns about providing spiritual direction for the women at his monastery. The second letter is from the abbess of a nearby female house asking Reinhandsbrunn for one of its monks as a spiritual director. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of John Tillotson for His 60th Birthday.   Edited by Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear, and Dianne Tillotson .   Merton Priory Press, 2002.  Pages 50 - 64.
Year of Publication: 2002.
3. Record Number: 7270
Author(s): Beach, Alison I.
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Title : Voices from a Distant Land: Fragments of a Twelfth-Century Nuns' Letter Collection [The author has identified nineteen full or partial letters written by nuns at Admont. Some are routine correspondence relating to patronage, but others are of a personal nature including a mother who wants her young daughter brought to her and a nun who
Source: Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 34 - 54.
Year of Publication: 2002.
4. Record Number: 8189
Author(s): Sorrentino, Janet.
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Title : In Houses of Nuns, in Houses of Canons: A Liturgical Dimension to Double Monasteries
Source: Journal of Medieval History , 28., ( 2002):  Pages 361 - 372.
Year of Publication: 2002.
5. Record Number: 6716
Author(s): Hotchin, Julie.
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Title : Female Religious Life and the "Cura Monialium" in Hirsau Monasticism, 1080 to 1150
Source: Listen, Daughter: The "Speculum virginum" and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Constant J. Mews .   The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Journal of Medieval History , 28., ( 2002):  Pages 59 - 83.
Year of Publication: 2001.
6. Record Number: 6423
Author(s): Jäggi, Carola.
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Title : Eastern Choir or Western Gallery? The Problem of the Place of the Nuns' Choir in Königsfelden and Other Early Mendicant Nunneries
Source: Gesta , 40., 1 ( 2001):  Pages 79 - 93.
Year of Publication: 2001.
7. Record Number: 4243
Author(s): Beach, Alison I.
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Title : Claustration and Collaboration Between the Sexes in the Twelfth-Century Scriptorium [the author compares the book production practices of two German double houses; Admont valued women's learning and the abbot worked with nuns to write down his Biblical commentaries; Schäftlarn did not train women in writing nor allow them access to books, but women who could already write were put to work in the scriptorium].
Source: Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society. Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little.   Edited by Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein .   Cornell University Press, 2000. Gesta , 40., 1 ( 2001):  Pages 57 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2000.
8. Record Number: 5149
Author(s): Meyer, Marc Anthony.
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Title : Queens, Convents, and Conversion in Early Anglo-Saxon England [the author argues for the importance of royal and noble women who made politically strategic marriages, in part to convert pagans; some of these same women were then charged with ruling newly founded monasteries or double houses and passed on to their daughters this unique opportunity for exercising power].
Source: Revue Bénédictine , 109., 40180 ( 1999):  Pages 90 - 116.
Year of Publication: 1999.
9. Record Number: 5265
Author(s): Goodrich, Margaret.
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Title : Westwood, a Rural English Nunnery with Its Local and French Connections [The author suggests that Westwood, a double house and daughter house of Fontevrault, is notable because of its connections to that important French monastery, its local involvement with the salt industry, and its surviving archive of documents].
Source: The vocation of service to God and neighbour: essays on the interests, involvements, and problems of religious communities and their members in medieval society: selected proceedings of the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, 14-17 July   Edited by Joan Greatrex International Medieval Research .   Brepols, 1998. Anglo-Saxon England , 27., ( 1998):  Pages 43 - 57.
Year of Publication: 1998.
10. Record Number: 5610
Author(s): Stramara, Daniel F., Jr.
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Title : Double Monasticism in the Greek East: Eighth Through Fifteenth Centuries [the author argues that double houses were not suppressed by Eastern ecclesiastical authorities to the point of disappearance; in fact new ones were built even in Constantinople throughout the period; the confusion comes in part from mixed houses, in which monks and nuns lived in the same space and were abolished due to sexual improprieties].
Source: Greek Orthodox Theological Review , 43., 40182 ( 1998):  Pages 185 - 202.
Year of Publication: 1998.
11. 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.
12. Record Number: 3630
Author(s): Cuadra García, Cristina.
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Title : Religious Women in the Monasteries of Castile-León(VIth -XIth Centuries) [The author surveys the development of women's monasteries; in the later period she discusses familial settlement monasteries, urban monasteries with Mozarabic influence, and royal monasteries ("Infantadgos")].
Source: Women at Work in Spain: From the Middle Ages to Early Modern Times.   Edited by Marilyn Stone and Carmen Benito-Vessels .   Peter Lang, 1998. Revue Bénédictine , 109., 40180 ( 1999):  Pages 33 - 63.
Year of Publication: 1998.
13. Record Number: 3701
Author(s): Hollis, Stephanie.
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Title : The Minster-in-Thanet Foundation Story [The author argues that the story of Domne Eafe and her daughter affirm the monastery's claim to its lands and give evidence of the power of monastic women].
Source: Anglo-Saxon England , 27., ( 1998):  Pages 41 - 64.
Year of Publication: 1998.
14. Record Number: 3512
Author(s): Ellis, Roger.
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Title : Further Thoughts on the Spirituality of Syon Abbey
Source: Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England.   Edited by William F. Pollard and Robert Boenig .   D.S. Brewer, 1997. Studi Medievali , 39., 2 (Dicembre 1998):  Pages 219 - 243.
Year of Publication: 1997.
15. Record Number: 2330
Author(s): Neuman de Vegvar, Carol.
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Title : Saints and Companions to Saints: Anglo-Saxon Royal Women Monastics in Context
Source: Holy Men and Holy Women: Old English Prose Saints' Live and Their Contexts.   Edited by Paul E. Szarmach .   State University of New York Press, 1996. Comitatus , 27., ( 1996):  Pages 51 - 93.
Year of Publication: 1996.
16. Record Number: 1105
Author(s): Hyland, William Patrick.
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Title : Missionary Nuns and the Monastic Vocation in Anglo-Saxon England [nuns aided the missionary efforts of Boniface and his colleagues in Germany through their prayers and gifts; a few nuns, most notably Leoba, travelled to Germany, founded monasteries, and served as abbesses].
Source: American Benedictine Review , 47., 2 (June 1996):  Pages 141 - 174.
Year of Publication: 1996.
17. Record Number: 2751
Author(s): Wybourne, Catherine and Dame
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Title : Seafarers and Stay-At-Homes: Anglo-Saxon Nuns and Mission [The author traces the activity of nuns during the Anglo Saxon period from Leoba's missionary efforts in Germany to the much more restricted period in the tenth and eleventh centuries as double houses disappeared].
Source: Downside Review , 114., 397 (October 1996):  Pages 246 - 266.
Year of Publication: 1996.
18. Record Number: 747
Author(s): Venarde, Bruce L.
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Title : Praesidentes Negotiis: Abbesses as Managers in Twelfth- Century France [Hersende and Petronilla of Fontevraud and Héloïse, of Paraclet].
Source: Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Honor of David Herlihy.   Edited by Samual K. Cohn, Jr. and Steven A. Epstein .   University of Michigan Press, 1996. American Benedictine Review , 47., 2 (June 1996):  Pages 189 - 205.
Year of Publication: 1996.
19. Record Number: 1081
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth.
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Title : Nuns in the Public Sphere: Aelred of Rievaulx's "De Sanctimoniali De Wattun" and the Gendering of Authority [how the Gilbertine nuns of Watton punished a sister who had sexual relations with a man belonging to the double house].
Source: Comitatus , 27., ( 1996):  Pages 55 - 80. [contributions are accepted from graduate students and those who have received their doctorates within the last three years]
Year of Publication: 1996.
20. Record Number: 922
Author(s): Head, Pauline.
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Title : Integritas in Rudolph of Fulda's "Vita Leobae Abbatissae"
Source: Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. New Series , 13., 1 (July 1995):  Pages 33 - 51.
Year of Publication: 1995.
21. Record Number: 9519
Author(s): Bruzelius, Caroline.
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Title : Queen Sancia of Mallorca and the Convent Church of Sta. Chiara in Naples [The author argues that the convent church building significantly departs from previous models of architectural planning in the Poor Clare tradition. In part she attributes this to Queen Sancia's deep devotion to the original ideals of Francis which prompted her to found a double house and redesign the church layout so that the nuns could see the host while remaining unseen by the laity and the Friars. The queen also was reacting to ecclesiastical controversies in which her own relatives took leading roles as proponents of the Franciscan Spirituals against Pope John XXII. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome , 40., ( 1995):  Pages 69 - 100.
Year of Publication: 1995.
22. Record Number: 1130
Author(s): McNamara, Jo Ann.
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Title : The Nun of Watton [translation of Aelred's account of the nun who sleeps with a young monk and becomes pregnant; the other nuns castrate the guilty youth but when the foetus disappears they judge it to be a miracle and cease punishing the penitent nun].
Source: Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995):  Pages 122 - 137.
Year of Publication: 1995.
23. Record Number: 24
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Title : What the Nuns Read: Literary Evidence from the English Bridgettine House, Syon Abbey
Source: Mediaeval Studies , 57., ( 1995):  Pages 205 - 222.
Year of Publication: 1995.
24. 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.
25. Record Number: 5100
Author(s): Barrière, Bernadette.
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Title : Coyroux, Doublet féminin de l'Abbaye d'Obazine (Limousin, XIIe-XIIIe siècles) [The author, using textual and archaeological evidence, considers the dependence of the female house at Coyroux on the nearby male house ; Coyroux needed financial support, spiritual care, and even contact with the outside world through Obazine.]
Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. .   Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome , 40., ( 1995):  Pages 131 - 138.
Year of Publication: 1994.
26. Record Number: 10561
Author(s): Helvétius, Anne-Marie
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Title : Sainte Aldegonde et les origines du monastère de Maubeuge [The author focuses on the earliest "vita" of Saint Aldegonde written by a monk who had some contact with her. The "Life" emphasizes her visions and the miracles associated with her, both during her lifetime and after death. At Maubeuge the noble woman Al
Source: Revue du Nord , 74., 295 (avril-juin 1992):  Pages 221 - 237.
Year of Publication: 1992.
27. Record Number: 10297
Author(s): Simmons, Loraine N.
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Title : The Abbey Church at Fontevraud in the Later Twelfth Century: Anxiety, Authority and Architecture in the Female Spiritual Life [The article considers how Abbey of Fontevraud implemented spatial expressions of "proximity anxiety" prompted by the special needs of a dual-gender community. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Gesta 31, 2 (1992): 99-107. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1992.
28. Record Number: 11054
Author(s): Kelso, Carl, Jr.
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Title : Women in Power: Fontevrault and the Paraclete Compared [The author argues that the Paraclet under Heloise shared many similarities with Fontevrault. Most importantly both institutions and their daughter houses were independent, not being affiliated with any monastic order and using their own rules. Both called for strong abbesses who held authority even over male functionaries. With their emphasis on female responsibility, both houses made provisions for noncloistered nuns to do business with the world. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Comitatus , 22., ( 1991):  Pages 55 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1991.