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1. Record Number: 44848 Author(s): Kramer, Heinrich and Jacob Sprenger Contributor(s): Title : Toward the Witch Hunts Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader.   Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter .   University of Toronto Press, 2022.  Pages 378 - 383. Year of Publication: 2022.

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2. Record Number: 44899 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Jacoba Felicie: A Female Physician on Trial Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.   Edited by Eugene Smelyansky .   University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 229 - 233. Year of Publication: 2020.

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3. Record Number: 43994 Author(s): Merkley, Paul, Contributor(s): Title : The Golden Legend in Provence Source: Music and Patronage in the Court of René d’Anjou: Sacred and Secular Music in the Literary Program and Ceremonial. Paul Merkley .   Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2017.  Pages 183 - 189. Year of Publication: 2017.

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4. 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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5. Record Number: 28344 Author(s): Contributor(s): Ross, James Bruce, translator Title : The Faculty of Medicine of Paris vs. Jacoba Felicie [Account of a trial in which the Faculty of Medicine of Paris accused a female healer of illicit practice. Includes arguments that Jacoba advanced in her defense. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Medieval Medicine: A Reader.   Edited by Faith Wallis Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures, 15.   University of Toronto Press, 2010. Memorie Domenicane , 42., ( 2012):  Pages 366 - 369. Year of Publication: 2010.

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6. Record Number: 19217 Author(s): DeLeeuw, Patricia. Contributor(s): Title : Mary as Model: The Sacred Becomes Secular in Medieval Art [In this short, introductory essay for an art exhibit, the author traces the themes and representations of Mary in art across the centuries. DeLeeuw argues in part that paintings of a young, beautiful Mary in fashionable clothing served to bridge the gap between religious and secular art. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Secular Sacred: 11th-16th Century Works from the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.   Edited by Nancy Netzer .   McMullen Museum of Art, 2006. Memorie Domenicane , 42., ( 2012):  Pages 64 - 67. Year of Publication: 2006.

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7. 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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8. Record Number: 13779 Author(s): Ferzoco, George. Contributor(s): Title : The Massa Marittima Mural [The Massa Marittima mural, discovered in 2000 on the site of a public fountain, has been interpreted, because of the presence of imperial eagles, as a piece of pro-Empire Ghibelline art. Yet the presence of a woman being sodomized beneath an eagle sugges Source: Il murale di Massa Marittina. George Ferzoco Toscana Studies .  2004. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 1., ( 2006):  Pages 71 - 92. [In Italian on pp.29-50] Year of Publication: 2004.

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9. Record Number: 14639 Author(s): Warr, Cordelia. Contributor(s): Title : The "Golden Legend" and the Cycle of the "Life of Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia-Hungary" [The author briefly traces various lives of Saint Elizabeth as sources for the cycle of paintings in Santa Maria Donna Regina. Warr also argues that as patron Mary of Hungary was involved in the project's plans especially for those paintings that honored her great-aunt Elizabeth and celebrated the sanctity of the Arpád and Anjou lines. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples.   Edited by Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr .   Ashgate, 2004. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 1., ( 2006):  Pages 155 - 174. Year of Publication: 2004.

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10. Record Number: 11652 Author(s): Arnold, John H. Contributor(s): Title : The Labour of Continence: Masculinity and Clerical Virginity [The author looks at three narratives concerned in part with clerical chastity: "Jewel of the Church" by Gerald of Wales, Jacob of Voragine's "Golden Legend," and Caesarius of Heisterbach's "Dialogue on Miracles." Arnold identifies four different tropes in overcoming sexual temptations including divine intervention to remove the male saint's desire. In most cases though male chastity required vigilance and willpower because masculinity itself was flawed in its inclination toward temptation. 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. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 1., ( 2006):  Pages 102 - 118. Year of Publication: 2003.

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11. Record Number: 16586 Author(s): Hults, Linda C. Contributor(s): Title : Dürer's "Four Witches" Reconsidered [The author argues that Dürer's engraving should be viewed in conjunction with the "Malleus maleficarum" as part of the developing theory on women's sexuality and witchcraft. Hults suggests that Dürer cleverly combined a variety of visual allusions includ 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. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 1., ( 2006):  Pages 94 - 126. Year of Publication: 2003.

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12. Record Number: 6636 Author(s): Easton, Martha. Contributor(s): Title : Pain, Torture, and Death in the Huntington Library "Legenda aurea" [The author analyzes the manuscript illuminations representing the torture and executions of male and female martyrs, arguing that the binary system of gender was frequently transcended]. Source: Gender and Holiness: Men, Women, and Saints in Late Medieval Europe.   Edited by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih .   Routledge, 2002. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft , 1., ( 2006):  Pages 49 - 64. Year of Publication: 2002.

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13. Record Number: 9340 Author(s): Broedel, Hans Peter. Contributor(s): Title : To Preserve the Manly Form from So Vile a Crime: Ecclesiastical Anti-Sodomitic Rhetoric and the Gendering of Witchcraft in the "Malleus Maleficarum" [Broedel argues that Heinrich Krämer, the author, with the help of Jacob Sprenger, of the "Malleus maleficarum," adopted the language and critiques of sodomy to describe witchcraft, thus making it a crime of deviant sexuality. Since women were naturally predisposed to witchcraft due to weaknesses in their nature, they were lured into sexual sins with demons. Men who were enchanted by witches lost their potency or became emasculated. Using these kinds of arguments, Krämer created a witch that was much more threatening than in other contemporary tracts. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Essays in Medieval Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 19 (2002): 136-148. Link Info Year of Publication: 2002.

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14. Record Number: 6641 Author(s): Cullum, P. H. Contributor(s): Title : Gendering Charity in Medieval Hagiography [the author argues that not only did ideas about gendered behavior affect views of sanctity but conceptions of sanctity also had an impact on gender roles; men were expected to be charitable but responsible while women were often characterized as irresponsible, excessive, and other negative feminine stereotypes; in transgressing gender lines some charitable holy women and men were still canonized (e.g., Saint Francis and Elizabeth of Hungary) while others were rejected as role models (e.g., Charles of Blois and Peter Valdes)]. Source: Gender and Holiness: Men, Women, and Saints in Late Medieval Europe.   Edited by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih .   Routledge, 2002.  Pages 135 - 151. Year of Publication: 2002.

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15. Record Number: 5695 Author(s): Morini, Carla. Contributor(s): Title : La Passio S. Agathae. La tradizione medievale inglese [Agatha's legend was known in Anglo-Saxon England; one of the most influential versions in the late Middle Ages was that in the "Legenda Aurea;" Middle English translations derived from Latin, not Anglo-Saxon, texts; some influence from French hagiographic materials also can be discerned]. Source: Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale , 42., 1 (gennaio-giugno 2000):  Pages 49 - 60. Year of Publication: 2000.

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16. Record Number: 5656 Author(s): Bausi, Francesco. Contributor(s): Title : Le Lodi della Madonna nella poesia religiosa di Ugolino Verino [the poet Ugolino Verino wrote many religious poems in Latin; among these is a set of four poems dedicated to the conception, birth, dormition, and assumption of the Virgin Mary; Verino used Biblical and medieval sources, including the "Legenda Aurea," but made little use of classical texts; Marian themes also figure in Verino's poems about Charlemagne and Esther]. Source: Interpres: Rivista di Studi Quattrocenteschi , 18., ( 1999):  Pages 275 - 289. Year of Publication: 1999.

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17. Record Number: 10159 Author(s): Benedetti, Roberto. Contributor(s): Title : Teodora e il travestimento mistico nel diciottesimo dei "Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages" [The legend of Theodora of Alexandria, found in the "Miracles de Notre Dame par personnages," was composed in French and based on the "Legenda Aurea." Theodora adopted men's clothing to escape attempted seduction, and she embraced the life of a monk. Accused of rape, she endured that calumny in silence. Such hagiographic tales did not soften condemnation of cross dressing outside of carnival season. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Études Médiévales , 1., ( 1999):  Pages 21 - 29. Year of Publication: 1999.

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18. Record Number: 5367 Author(s): Enders, Jody Contributor(s): Title : Cutting Off the Memory of Women [The author argues that the "Malleus Maleficarum" demonized women's memory and thereby justified violence against women]. Source: The Changing Tradition: Women in the History of Rhetoric.   Edited by Christine Mason Sutherland and Rebecca Sutcliffe .   Papers at the Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric at the University of Saskatchewan in July, 1997. University of Calgary Press, 1999. Rivista di Cultura Classica e Medioevale , 42., 1 (gennaio-giugno 2000):  Pages 47 - 55. Year of Publication: 1999.

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19. Record Number: 3210 Author(s): Enders, Jody Contributor(s): Title : Violence, Silence, and the Memory of Witches Source: Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts.   Edited by Anna Roberts .   University Press of Florida, 1998. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 3 (Fall 1998):  Pages 210 - 232. Year of Publication: 1998.

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20. Record Number: 3108 Author(s): Stephens, Walter. Contributor(s): Title : Witches Who Steal Penises: Impotence and Illusion in "Malleus maleficarum" Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 3 (Fall 1998):  Pages 495 - 529. Year of Publication: 1998.

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21. Record Number: 3143 Author(s): Price, Richard M. Contributor(s): Title : God is More Weary of Woman Than of Man: Reflections on a Text in the "Golden Legend" [analysis of the Biblical text in which the birth of a girl causes uncleanness for twice as long as the birth of a boy]. Source: Gender and Christian religion: papers read at the 1996 Summer Meeting and the 1997 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society.   Edited by R. N. Swanson Studies in Church History, 34.  1998. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 3 (Fall 1998):  Pages 119 - 127. Year of Publication: 1998.

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22. Record Number: 1055 Author(s): Wolf, Kirsten. Contributor(s): Title : The Legend of Saint Dorothy: Medieval Vernacular Renderings and Their Latin Sources Source: Analecta Bollandiana , 114., 40180 ( 1996):  Pages 41 - 72. Year of Publication: 1996.

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23. Record Number: 378 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Apocryphal Entries: Judith and the Politics of Caxton's "Golden Legend" Source: Women, the Book and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 2. [Volume 1: Women, the Book, and the Godly].   Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor .   D.S.Brewer, 1995. Analecta Bollandiana , 114., 40180 ( 1996):  Pages 167 - 181. Year of Publication: 1995.

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24. Record Number: 3487 Author(s): Bloxam, M. Jennifer. Contributor(s): Title : Plainsong and Polyphony for the Blessed Virgin: Notes on Two Masses by Jacob Obrecht Source: Journal of Musicology (Full Text via JSTOR) 12, 1 (Winter 1994): 51-75. Link Info Year of Publication: 1994.

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25. Record Number: 3341 Author(s): Minkowski, William L. Contributor(s): Title : Physician Motives in Banning Medieval Traditional Healers [The author examines proceedings of the trial of Jacoba Felicie for evidence to support the University of Paris' claims that its laws regarding medical licensure were intended to promote public health]. Source: Women & Health , 21., 1 ( 1994):  Pages 83 - 96. Year of Publication: 1994.

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26. Record Number: 5834 Author(s): Tarbin, Stephanie. Contributor(s): Title : Knowledge and Gender: The "Malleus Malificarum" of 1485 [The author argues that the "Malleus" equates the Church with masculine power and knowledge while witchcraft, female nature, and devils all share the same negative characteristics]. Source: Sexuality and Gender in History: Selected Essays.   Edited by Penelope Hetherington and Philippa Maddern .   Centre for Western Australian History, University of Western Australia, 1993. Women & Health , 21., 1 ( 1994):  Pages 45 - 62. Year of Publication: 1993.

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27. Record Number: 11050 Author(s): Bloxam, M. Jennifer. Contributor(s): Title : La Contenance Italienne: The Motets on "Beata es Maria" by Compère, Obrecht, and Brumel [The author explores the influence of the "lauda," a popular Italian religious song, on three related motets in praise of the Virgin Mary. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Early Music History (Full Text via JSTOR) 11 (1992): 39-89. Link Info Year of Publication: 1992.

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28. Record Number: 9462 Author(s): Galloway, Andrew. Contributor(s): Title : Marriage Sermons, Polemical Sermons, and “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue”: A Generic Excursus [Instead of reading “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” against an antifeminist literary tradition, the author reads the work against medieval sermons on marriage. In the fourteenth century, these sermons were both for and against women, and in this poem the Wife of Bath assumes the authoritative stance of a preacher on marriage. The author sees parallels between the “Prologue” and the marriage sermons of Jacob of Voragine. Moreover, the poem’s focus on women’s speech and power refers to fourteenth century struggles over who had the authority to preach. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 14., ( 1992):  Pages 3 - 30. Year of Publication: 1992.

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29. Record Number: 10759 Author(s): Carruthers, Leo. Contributor(s): Title : No womman of no clerk is preysed: Attitudes to Women in Medieval English Religious Literature [The author briefly surveys Middle English sermon collections and penitential manuals. Title note supplied be Feminae.]. Source: A Wyf Ther Was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck.   Edited by Juliette Dor .   English Department, University of Liège, 1992. Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 14., ( 1992):  Pages 49 - 60. Year of Publication: 1992.

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30. Record Number: 12856 Author(s): Harley, David. Contributor(s): Title : Historians as Demonologists: The Myth of the Midwife-Witch [The author argues against the belief that midwives were frequently persecuted as witches throughout the medieval and early-modern periods. Article includes a summary. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Social History of Medicine , 3., 1 (April 1990):  Pages 1 - 26. Year of Publication: 1990.

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31. Record Number: 28827 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Execution of the Innocent Count Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/Bouts_Justice_Execution_of_the_Innocent_Count.jpg/250px-Bouts_Justice_Execution_of_the_Innocent_Count.jpg Year of Publication:

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32. Record Number: 28828 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Ordeal by Fire Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Bouts_Justice_Ordeal_by_Fire.jpg/250px-Bouts_Justice_Ordeal_by_Fire.jpg Year of Publication:

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33. Record Number: 28848 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : St. Apollonia Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Piero%2C_sant%27apollonia.jpg/250px-Piero%2C_sant%27apollonia.jpg Year of Publication:

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34. Record Number: 28849 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : St. George and the Dragon Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Paolo_Uccello_047b.jpg/250px-Paolo_Uccello_047b.jpg Year of Publication:

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35. Record Number: 28850 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : St. Lucy Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Francesco_del_Cossa%2C_santa_lucia%2C_dal_polittico_griffoni%2C_1472-73.JPG/250px-Francesco_del_Cossa%2C_santa_lucia%2C_dal_polittico_griffoni%2C_1472-73.JPG Year of Publication:

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36. Record Number: 30940 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Annunciation to Saint Anne Source: Year of Publication:

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37. Record Number: 30942 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard Source: Year of Publication:

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38. Record Number: 35183 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Saint Jerome in a woman's dress Source: Year of Publication:

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