Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 8636
Author(s): Bray, Dorothy Ann.
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Title : Saint Brigit and the Fire from Heaven [The author argues that the fire miracles in the life of St Brigit confirm her connections with a pre-Christian deity, but also are related to her status as a Christian saint. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Études Celtiques , 29., ( 1992): Pages 105 - 113.
Year of Publication: 1992.

2. Record Number: 12736
Author(s): Takacs, Sarolta A.
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Title : Manuel Philes’ Meditation on an Icon of the Virgin Mary [This devotional poem by the fourteenth century Greek poet represents a progression from a meditation of a concrete object (an icon of the Virgin Mary) to a mystical or metaphysical plane of understanding. The author gives a line by line analysis of the language of the poem, which employs numerous rhetorical devices to connect allusions to the burning bush (which typographically prefigures the Virgin Mary) to imagery of divine fire. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Byzantinische Forschungen , 15., ( 1990): Pages 277 - 288.
Year of Publication: 1990.

3. Record Number: 31430
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Title : The Wife of Hasdrubal and Her Children

Source: Byzantinische Forschungen , 15., ( 1990):
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