Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 29199
Author(s): O'Brien, Emily,
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Title : Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini's Chrysis: Prurient Pastime--or Something More? [The Chrysis by Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini is less a play than a critique of contemporary ethical ideas. The characters in the play make pronouncements about their values, but they act the opposite as lust overcomes reason. Piccolomini's critique of rational ethics is akin to the philosophical opinions of Lorenzo Valla, who taught a philosophical epicureanism far from mere hedonism. Both men thought many philosophers also acted contrary to their teachings. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: MLN: Modern Language Notes , 124., 1 ( 2009):  Pages 111 - 136.
Year of Publication: 2009.
2. Record Number: 14834
Author(s): King, Margaret L.
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Title : Kristeller ad feminam [Paul Kristeller rarely wrote about women in the Renaissance, and he disliked the application of political agendas to scholarship. He was, however, helpful to women scholars; and his "Iter Italicum" made a contribution to the recovery of women authors, patrons and dedicatees of learned works. His work casts light on women's roles in high culture but little on vernacular culture or daily lives of women. Title note supplied by Feminae].
Source: Kristeller Reconsidered: Essays on His Life and Scholarship.   Edited by John Monfasani .   Italica Press, 2006. Speculum , 81., 4 (October 2006):  Pages 139 - 151.
Year of Publication: 2006.
3. Record Number: 16304
Author(s): Weiss, Julian.
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Title : What Every Noblewoman Needs to Know: Cultural Literacy in Late-Medieval Spain
Source: Speculum , 81., 4 (October 2006):  Pages 1118 - 1149.
Year of Publication: 2006.
4. Record Number: 18171
Author(s): Simons, Patricia
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Title : Separating the Men from the Boys: Masculinites in Early Quattrocento Florence and Donatello's "Saint George" [Nineteenth and twentieth century scholars projected an idealized masculinity onto Renaissance Florence. Seen from this viewpoint, Donatello's "Saint George" is an idealized young man just entering maturity. The supposed display of manly self control fits in with ideals of masculinity described by humanists like Leonardo Bruni. This, however, involves rejecting alternative evidence showing how homoerotic desire and nostalgia for lost youth were projected onto the same image by some Florentines. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Rituals, Images, and Words: Varieties of Cultural Expression in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe.   Edited by F. W. Kent and Charles Zika Late Medieval Early Modern Studies .   Brepols, 2005. Speculum , 81., 4 (October 2006):  Pages 147 - 176.
Year of Publication: 2005.
5. Record Number: 11427
Author(s): Parker, Holt N.
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Title : Women and Humanism: Nine Factors for the Woman Learning
Source: Viator , 35., ( 2004):  Pages 581 - 616.
Year of Publication: 2004.
6. Record Number: 10455
Author(s): Levy, Allison.
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Title : Augustine's Concessions and Other Failures: Mourning and Masculinity in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany [The author examines paintings of St. Augustine mourning his mother along with excerpts from his "Confessions," and humanist funeral orations. Levy argues that female mourning in public was suppressed in favor of controlled, masculine commemorations in Latin. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Grief and Gender: 700-1700.   Edited by Jennifer C. Vaught with Lynne Dickson Bruckner .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Viator , 35., ( 2004):  Pages 81 - 94.
Year of Publication: 2003.
7. Record Number: 7349
Author(s): Gasparini, Giuseppina De Sandre.
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Title : Isotta Nogarola umanista, monaca domestica e pellegrina al Giubileo (1450) [Isotta Nogarola, a Veronese humanist, visited Rome during the Jubilee Year 1450 and delivered a discourse before Pope Nicholas V. At home, Isotta combined a nun-like religious life with the study of letters. In her Jubilee pilgrimage and her writings, Isotta revealed a conservative approach to the church and especially to the papacy. This is rooted in her elite upbringing in Verona.].
Source: I percorsi della fede e l'esperienza della carità nel Veneto medioevale: atti del convegno, Castello di Monselice, 28 maggio 2000.   Edited by Antonio Rigon .   Il poligrafo, 2002. Renaissance Quarterly , 55., 2 (Summer 2002):  Pages 133 - 154.
Year of Publication: 2002.
8. Record Number: 7401
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Title : Marriage, Sexual Pleasure, and Learned Brides in the Wedding Orations of Fifteenth-Century Italy
Source: Renaissance Quarterly , 55., 2 (Summer 2002):  Pages 379 - 433.
Year of Publication: 2002.
9. Record Number: 5393
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Title : The Fifteenth Century: (i) Humanism [The author gives a brief overview of women humanists including Battista da Montefeltro Malatesta, Isotta Nogarola, Cassandra Fedele, Laura Cereta, and Nicolosa Castellani Sanuti].
Source: A History of Women's Writing in Italy.   Edited by Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood .   Cambridge University Press, 2000. Renaissance Quarterly , 55., 2 (Summer 2002):  Pages 25 - 30.
Year of Publication: 2000.
10. Record Number: 5451
Author(s): Robin, Diana.
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Title : Humanism and Feminism in Laura Cereta's Public Letters [the author considers six epistolary essays: "De amicitia" ("On Friendship"), "De adventu Turchorum" ("On the Coming of the Turks"), "Topographia et Epicuri defensio" ("A Topography and a Defence of Epicurus"), "De falsa delectatione vitae privatae admonitio" ("An Admonition Against the False Pleasure of the Solitary Life"), "De subeundo maritali iugo iudicium" ("An Opinion on Entering into the Bond of Matrimony"), and "De liberali mulierum institutione defensio" ("In Defense of a Liberal Education for Women")].
Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society.   Edited by Letizia Panizza .   European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Renaissance Quarterly , 55., 2 (Summer 2002):  Pages 368 - 384.
Year of Publication: 2000.
11. Record Number: 9054
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Title : Women Humanists: Education for What? [The author looks at the case of Isotta Nogarola, and to a lesser degree those of Cassandra Fedele and Alessandra Scala. Their mentors at first praise them for their learning and declare that they are fellow humanists. However, the mentors soon rebuff further contact or turn the epistolary exchange into a series of love letters. Jardine argues that the purpose of humanism was to prepare men for professions. Women could not be allowed in that public sphere nor could they even be imagined with the kinds of power available to those professions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Feminism and Renaissance Studies.   Edited by Lorna Hutson .   Oxford Reading in Feminism series. Oxford University Press, 1999. Renaissance Quarterly , 55., 2 (Summer 2002):  Pages 48 - 81. Originally published in Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine, "From Humanism to the Humanists." Duckworth, 1986. Pages 29-57. Reprinted in The Italian Renaissance. Edited by Paula Findlen. Blackwell Publishing, 2002. Pages 273-291
Year of Publication: 1999.
12. Record Number: 2068
Author(s): Sydie, R.A.
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Title : The Phallocentric Gaze: Leon Battista Alberti and Visual Art
Source: Journal of Historical Sociology , 10., 3 (September 1997):  Pages 310 - 341.
Year of Publication: 1997.
13. Record Number: 2985
Author(s): Parker, Holt.
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Title : Latin and Greek Poetry by Five Renaissance Italian Women Humanists [Angela Nogarola, Isotta Nogarola, Costanza Varano, Alessandra Scala, and Fulvia Olympia Morata].
Source: Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition.   Edited by Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter .   State University of New York Press, 1997. Journal of Historical Sociology , 10., 3 (September 1997):  Pages 247 - 285.
Year of Publication: 1997.
14. Record Number: 1202
Author(s): Glendinning, Robert.
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Title : Love, Death, and the Art of Compromise: Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini's "Tale of Two Lovers" [influences from "Pyramus and Thisbe" and "Tristan" shape a roman à clef novella in which Kaspar Schlick loves and leaves a Sienese married woman].
Source: Fifteenth Century Studies , 23., ( 1997):  Pages 101 - 120.
Year of Publication: 1997.
15. Record Number: 820
Author(s): Chavasse, Ruth.
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Title : Latin Lay Piety and Vernacular Lay Piety in Word and Image: Venice, 1471- Early 1500s [devotion to the Virgin Mary].
Source: Renaissance studies : journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies , 10., 3 (Sept. 1996):  Pages 319 - 342.
Year of Publication: 1996.
16. Record Number: 840
Author(s): Margolis, Nadia.
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Title : The Cry of the Chameleon: Evolving Voices in the Epistles of Christine de Pizan
Source: Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 1., ( 1996):  Pages 37 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1996.
17. Record Number: 246
Author(s): Ward, Jennifer C.
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Title : Mechthild von der Pfalz as Patroness: Aspects of Female Patronage in the Early Renaissance
Source: Medievalia et Humanistica New Series , 22., ( 1995):  Pages 141 - 170. Special issue: Diversity
Year of Publication: 1995.
18. Record Number: 935
Author(s): Calabrese, Michael.
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Title : Citations from Antiquity in Renaissance Medical Treatises on Love [physicians viewed erotic love as a pathological state akin to melancholy].
Source: Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. New Series , 12., 1 (July 1994):  Pages 1 - 13.
Year of Publication: 1994.
19. Record Number: 3463
Author(s): Schibanoff, Susan.
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Title : Botticelli's "Madonna del Magnificat": Constructing the Woman Writer in Early Humanist Italy
Source: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (Full Text via JSTOR) 109, 2 (March 1994): 190-206. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1994.
20. Record Number: 10379
Author(s): Reno, Christine.
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Title : The Preface to the “Avision-Christine” in ex-Phillips 128 [Reno provides a transcription and translation of the Preface to the “Avision-Christine” as it appears in a previously unpublished manuscript. The preface explains to the reader how to read Christine de Pizan’s allegorical poem. Reno explains Christine’s ties to the allegorical exegetical tradition and to Boccaccio’s poetry, concluding that Christine blended Italian humanism and French courtly traditions in her writings. She concludes that Christine must have read some of Boccaccio’s work in the original Latin. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno .   University of Georgia Press, 1992.  Pages 207 - 227.
Year of Publication: 1992.
21. Record Number: 10381
Author(s): Richards, Earl Jeffrey.
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Title : Christine de Pizan, the Conventions of Courtly Diction, and Italian Humanism [Christine dramatically transformed French poetic conventions through the influence of Italian humanist literary culture. The author argues that Christine prefers the models of eloquence offered by Italian poets like Dante and Petrarch over those offered by the French tradition (including the “Roman de la Rose” and Guillaume Machaut’s poetry). Christine’s writings offer a revolutionary political vision, espousing a unifying ideology of French nationalism over class division. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno .   University of Georgia Press, 1992.  Pages 250 - 271.
Year of Publication: 1992.
22. Record Number: 11113
Author(s): Richards, Earl Jeffrey.
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Title : French Cultural Nationalism and Christian Universalism in the Works of Christine de Pizan [The author argues that Christine identified the nationalist cause of France with the divine plan of salvation history. Differences in religion meant that the Muslim and the Jew were the irreducible Other. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Politics, Gender, and Genre: The Political Thought of Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Margaret Brabant .   Westview Press, 1992.  Pages 75 - 94.
Year of Publication: 1992.
23. Record Number: 11803
Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn.
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Title : The Dignity of Man: A Feminist Perspective [The author reveals previously un-discussed ironies in Gelli’s La Circe, focusing on the dialogue between Ulysses and Circe. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance.   Edited by Marilyn Migiel and Juliana Schiesari .   Cornell University Press, 1991.  Pages 211 - 232.
Year of Publication: 1991.