Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 8069
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Title : Did Goddesses Empower Women? The Case of Dame Nature [The author argues that Christine de Pizan reinterprets the figure of Nature, making her a representation of all forms of female creativity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski .   Cornell University Press, 2003.  Pages 135 - 155.
Year of Publication: 2003.
2. Record Number: 11649
Author(s): Dor, Juliette.
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Title : The Sheela-na-Gig: An Incongruous Sign of Sexual Purity? [The author argues for a complex reading of the sheela na gig statues, naked women displaying their vulvas. Dor contextualizes them with references to Celtic goddesses as well as the sovereignty myth in which the old hag turns into a beautiful maiden. In concluding the author suggests that medieval audiences might have had different reactions and that the sculptures lend themselves to multiple readings. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Medieval Virginities.   Edited by Anke Bernau, Ruth Evans, and Sarah Salih .   Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages series. University of Wales Press; University of Toronto Press, 2003.  Pages 33 - 55.
Year of Publication: 2003.
3. Record Number: 10533
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Title : Henry Suso and the Medieval Devotion to Christ the Goddess
Source: Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (Full Text via Project Muse) 2, 1 (Spring 2002): 1-14. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2002.
4. Record Number: 2910
Author(s): Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita.
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Title : Symbolic Grain and Symbolic Bread: Relationships Between the Ancient Grain Goddess and the Virgin Mary in the Late Middle Ages
Source: Magistra , 3., 1 (Summer 1997):  Pages 108 - 141.
Year of Publication: 1997.
5. Record Number: 11433
Author(s): Herbert, Máire.
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Title : Goddess and King: The Sacred Marriage in Early Ireland
Source: Women and Sovereignty.   Edited by Louise Olga Fradenburg. Cosmos: The Yearbook of the Traditional Cosmology Society, volume 7 Cosmos: The Yearbook of the Traditional Cosmology Society, 7.   Edinburgh University Press, 1992. Magistra , 3., 1 (Summer 1997):  Pages 264 - 275.
Year of Publication: 1992.
6. Record Number: 12744
Author(s): Balas, Edith.
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Title : Cybele and Her Cult in Andrea Mantegna's "The Triumph of Caesar" [English adaptation of French abstract: The article explains in detail the presence, never before noted, of the pagan goddess Cybele in the series of paintings by Mantegna, "The Triumph of Caesar." Mantegna draws upon Classical and early medieval art and literature in order to present Cybele in different roles: political, military, and religious. The author analyzes Cybele in relation to her cult, suggesting that, during the time of Julius Caesar, she became a national goddess. She was carried along from Gaul by the army for protection, and was brought into Rome in triumph as a spoil of war. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Gazette des Beaux-Arts , 115., (January 1990):  Pages 1 - 14.
Year of Publication: 1990.
7. Record Number: 12802
Author(s): Enright, Michael J.
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Title : The Goddess Who Weaves: Some Iconographic Aspects of Bracteates of the Fürstenberg Type [The author identifies a possible Nordic weaving goddess on a bracteate, and suggests that further study in this area may allow scholars to perceive continuities between German paganism and the High Middle Ages. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Frühmittelalterliche Studien , 24., ( 1990):  Pages 54 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1990.
8. Record Number: 35436
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Title : Disc Brooch with Bust of a Helmeted Woman, probably Athena
Source: Frühmittelalterliche Studien , 24., ( 1990):
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9. Record Number: 37630
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Title : Hestia Polyolbos tapestry
Source: Frühmittelalterliche Studien , 24., ( 1990):
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