Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 44811
Author(s): 'Attar, Farid ad-Din,
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Title : Women’s Spirituality [a. Rabi'a, b. Venetian nuns, c. Converso women]
Source: Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650.   Edited by Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos and Mark D. Meyerson .   University of California Press, 2022.  Pages 213 - 216.
Year of Publication: 2022.
2. Record Number: 45226
Author(s): Isaac son of Meir haLevi, , and Tzafrir Barzilay,
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Title : The Custom of Having Sexual Relations on Sabbath Eve
Source: Jewish Everyday Life in Medieval Northern Europe, 1080-1350: A Sourcebook.   Edited by Tzafrir Barzilay, Eyal Levinson, and Elisheva Baumgarten. The text is introduced by Tzafrir Barzilay and comes from Israel Elfenbein, “Minhagim Yeshanim mi-Dura,” Horeb 10 (1948): 129–84, 157 .  2022.  Pages 57 - 58. The book is available open access: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/mip_teamsdp/9/
Year of Publication: 2022.
3. Record Number: 29191
Author(s): Timmermann, Achim,
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Title : Frau Venus, the Eucharist, and the Jews of Landshut
Source: Judaism and Christian Art: Aesthetic Anxieties from the Catacombs to Colonialism.   Edited by Herbert L. Kessler and David Nirenberg .   university of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.  Pages 183 - 202.
Year of Publication: 2011.
4. Record Number: 24052
Author(s): Cuffel, Alexandra
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Title : The Matter of Others: Menstrual Blood and Uncontrolled Semen in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalists' Polemic against Christians, "Bad" Jews, and Muslims [The author argues that Kabbalist writers viewed sexual impurities and intercourse with non-Jewish women with alarm. These sins made Jewish men the equivalent of menstruating women in terms of the pollution they brought their families and the Jewish community. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom.   Edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells Studies in the History of Christian Traditions .   Brill, 2009.  Pages 249 - 284.
Year of Publication: 2009.
5. Record Number: 14690
Author(s): Ner-David, Haviva.
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Title : Medieval "Responsa" Literaure on "Niddah": Perpetuations of Notions of "Tumah" [The author argues that medieval Jewish legal authorities accepted folk practices in regard to menstruating women. This broadened the scope of ritually impure activities involving women while at the same time making the menstruating woman the sole source of contamination in the Post-Temple world. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Menstruation: A Cultural History.   Edited by Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.  Pages 188 - 199.
Year of Publication: 2005.
6. Record Number: 13672
Author(s): Clancy-Smith, Julia.
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Title : Exemplary Women and Sacred Journeys: Women and Gender in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from Late Antiquity to the Eve of Modernity [The author explores themes involving women's nature and prescribed behavior, exemplary women from scripture and history, and pilgrimage and saints' cults in Judaism, Western Christianity, and Islam. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Women's History in Global Perspective Volume 1.   Edited by Bonnie G. Smith .   University of Illinois Press, 2004.  Pages 92 - 144.
Year of Publication: 2004.
7. Record Number: 5372
Author(s): Poorthuis, Marcel and Chana Safrai
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Title : Fresh Water for a Tired Soul: Pregnancy and Messianic Desire in a Mediaeval Jewish Document from Sicily [The authors examine a text in Hebrew from the Cairo Geniza that describes three events full of Messianic promise; the first event involves a pregnant Jewish woman who experiences visions and calls on Jews to repent].
Source: Women and Miracle Stories: A Multidisciplinary Exploration.   Edited by Anne-Marie Korte Studies in the History of Religions, 88.   Brill, 2001.  Pages 123 - 144.
Year of Publication: 2001.
8. Record Number: 5467
Author(s): Baskin, Judith R.
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Title : Dolce of Worms: Women Saints in Judaism [Dolce, along with her two daughters, was murdered during an antisemitic attack; her husband, Rabbi Eleazar, wrote both a prose (reproduced in the text with English translation) and verse memorial in which he praised her piety, her knowledge of Hebrew, her abilities at managing the household, her bravery in seeking help during the attack on their family, and her shrewd business skills that supported the family and allowed her husband to study the Torah; Dolce's saintliness consisted largely in her willingness to obey her husband and support him in his study of the divine word].
Source: Women Saints in World Religions.   Edited by Arvind Sharma .   State University of New York Press, 2000.  Pages 39 - 69.
Year of Publication: 2000.
9. Record Number: 4296
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Title : The Jewish Mother-in-Law: Synagoga and the "Man of Law's Tale" [The author suggests that Custance's mothers-in-law bring to mind Hildegard's figure of Synagoga].
Source: Hildegard of Bingen: A book of Essays.   Edited by Maud Burnett McInerney .   Garland Publishing, 1998.  Pages 191 - 226.
Year of Publication: 1998.
10. Record Number: 10656
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Title : Female Rabbi in Fourteenth Century Zaragoza? [The author provides a short note regarding the mention of a "rabess" named Ceti in a letter issued by the Infant Alfonso in 1325. Evidently a Jewish man was contesting for her position at the synagogue, and she sought the support of the prince. Nirenberg suggests that her position was something like a sexton, being in charge of the women's section of the synagogue and possibly the "mikveh." The article concludes with the latin text of the letter. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Sefarad , 51., 1 ( 1991):  Pages 179 - 182.
Year of Publication: 1991.
11. Record Number: 30912
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Title : Synagoga
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12. Record Number: 30931
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Title : Synagoga
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13. Record Number: 45362
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Title : Jewish Women Reading
Source: Sefarad , 51., 1 ( 1991):
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