Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 8065
Author(s): Watson, Nicholas.
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Title : With the Heat of the Hungry Heart : Empowerment and "Ancrene Wisse" [Watson presents his article in two parts. First he argues that the author of the "Ancrene Wisse" conceives of his anchoress readers as herioc figures whose difficult lives raise them above others and serve as a sign of the coming breakdown between clergy and laity. Secondly Watson looks at the influences the text had on later writings which were addressed to lay readers, frequently men. 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 52 - 70.
Year of Publication: 2003.
2. Record Number: 7835
Author(s): Gilmore, Gloria Thomas.
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Title : Marie de France's "Bisclavret": What the Werewolf Will and Will Not Wear ["This chapter will attempt to unravel that tangled tension in the story of 'Bisclavret,' where there are two opposing functions of clothing: to confine in a social role or identity imposed from without , or to express a self-definition, chosen or generated from within." Page 67.].
Source: Encountering Medieval Textiles and Dress: Objects, Texts, Images.   Edited by Désirée G. Koslin and Janet E. Snyder .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002):  Pages 67 - 84.
Year of Publication: 2002.
3. Record Number: 7848
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Title : Hoccleve, the Virgin, and the Politics of Complaint
Source: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002):  Pages 1172 - 1187.
Year of Publication: 2002.
4. Record Number: 4578
Author(s): Stevenson, Barbara.
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Title : Re-Visioning the Widow Christine de Pizan [The author argues that critics have misread Christine by concentrating on her writings that deal with the autobiographical].
Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers.   Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho .   Palgrave, 2000. PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002):  Pages 29 - 44.
Year of Publication: 2000.
5. Record Number: 4594
Author(s): Roman, Marco D.
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Title : Reclaiming the Self Through Silence: "The Riverside Counselor's Stories" and the "Lais" of Marie de France [The author compares two stories in which the wronged women use silence to express their disapproval].
Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers.   Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho .   Palgrave, 2000. PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002):  Pages 175 - 188.
Year of Publication: 2000.
6. Record Number: 4884
Author(s): Ambrosio, Francis J.
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Title : Feminist Self-Fashioning: Christine de Pizan and "The Treasure of the City of Ladies"
Source: European Journal of Women's Studies , 6., 1 (February 1999):  Pages 9 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1999.
7. Record Number: 4752
Author(s): Cadden, Joan.
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Title : The Wealth They Left Us: Two Women Author Themselves Through Others' Lives in "Beowulf" [the author examines the cases of Wealhtheow who contemplates the story of Hildeburh mourning over her son and brother on the Finnsburg battlefield in order to avoid being a victim and of Hygd who considers the alternative of Thryth's life story, where she redeems her violence with generosity and a happy marriage].
Source: Philological Quarterly , 78., (Winter/Spring 1999):  Pages 49 - 76.
Year of Publication: 1999.
8. Record Number: 3107
Author(s): Landman, James H.
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Title : The Laws of Community, Margery Kempe, and the "Canon's Yeoman's Tale"
Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 2 (Spring 1998):  Pages 389 - 425.
Year of Publication: 1998.
9. Record Number: 3059
Author(s): Smith, Ruth.
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Title : The Mystical Self in the "Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno"
Source: Mystics Quarterly , 24., 1 (March 1998):  Pages 8 - 22.
Year of Publication: 1998.
10. Record Number: 2270
Author(s): Chewning, Susannah Mary.
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Title : Mysticism and the Anchoritic Community: "A Time... of Veiled Infinity" [suggests that the author's persona presented in the "Wohunge" is feminine and that mystical texts are acts of feminine writing irrespective of the sex of the author].
Source: Medieval Women in Their Communities.   Edited by Diane Watt .   University of Toronto Press, 1997. Mystics Quarterly , 24., 1 (March 1998):  Pages 116 - 137.
Year of Publication: 1997.
11. Record Number: 2213
Author(s): Classen, Albrecht.
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Title : Flowing Light of the Godhead: Binary Oppositions of Self and God in Mechthild von Magdeburg
Source: Studies in Spirituality , 7., ( 1997):  Pages 79 - 98.
Year of Publication: 1997.
12. Record Number: 2752
Author(s): Abbott, Christopher
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Title : Piety and Egoism in Julian of Norwich: A Reading of Long Text Chapters 2 and 3 [The author analyzes a portion of text that represents the young Julian's affective spirituality; Julian hopes for the gift of touching Christ and other ways of participating in the crucifixion].
Source: Downside Review , 114., 397 (October 1996):  Pages 267 - 282.
Year of Publication: 1996.
13. Record Number: 1627
Author(s): Partner, Nancy F.
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Title : Did Mystics Have Sex? [argues that medievalists need to use psychoanalytic theory and cross-cultural anthropology to come to grips with the full mental structure of medieval people, thereby restoring the "depth, complexity, and fellowship with ourselves they deserve"].
Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler .   University of Toronto Press, 1996. Studies in Spirituality , 7., ( 1997):  Pages 296 - 311.
Year of Publication: 1996.
14. Record Number: 2550
Author(s): Beemer, Suzy.
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Title : Asceticism, Masochism, and Female Autonomy: Catherine of Siena and "The Story of O"
Source: Studies in Medievalism , 8., ( 1996):  Pages 195 - 209.
Year of Publication: 1996.
15. Record Number: 1615
Author(s): Ruud, Jay.
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Title : Images of the Self and Self Image in Julian of Norwich [analysis of the varied kinds of feminine imagery used and their relations to Julian's assertions of self-worth].
Source: Studia Mystica New Series , 16., 1 ( 1995):  Pages 82 - 105.
Year of Publication: 1995.
16. Record Number: 2306
Author(s): McCabe, Maureen, O.C.S.O.
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Title : The Scriptures and Personal Identity: A Study in the "Exercises" of St. Gertrud
Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book Two. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three.   Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series .   Cistercian Publications, 1995. Downside Review , 114., 397 (October 1996):  Pages 497 - 507.
Year of Publication: 1995.
17. Record Number: 501
Author(s): Gameson, Fiona.
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Title : A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: The Individual in "The Wife's Lament" and "Wulf and Eadwacer" [Second International Medieval Conference, University of Leeds, July 10-13, 1995. Session 104].
Source: Old English Newsletter , 28., 3 (Spring 1995):
Year of Publication: 1995.
18. Record Number: 517
Author(s): Robertson, Elizabeth.
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Title : Medieval Female Subjectivity and the Church: A Modest Proposal for Future Research
Source: Aestel , 3., ( 1995):  Pages 61 - 80.
Year of Publication: 1995.
19. Record Number: 10244
Author(s): Szell, Timea K.
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Title : From Woe to Weal and Weal to Woe: Notes on the Structure of "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The complicated narrative structure of Margery’s “Book” reflects the author’s attempt to reconcile two contradictory psychological impulses: one is the need to gain social acceptance and legitimacy; the other is the desire to be publicly shunned and perceived as outside of societal norms. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Sandra J. McEntire .   Garland Publishing, 1992. Studia Mystica New Series , 16., 1 ( 1995):  Pages 73 - 91.
Year of Publication: 1992.
20. Record Number: 10682
Author(s): Ross, Ellen M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Spiritual Experience and Women's Autobiography: The Rhetoric of Selfhood in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [Kempe uses domestic and familial language as the dominant metaphors for describing her relationship with the divine and her mode of understanding, experiencing, and expressing the self. Not only does she use relational terms like "daughter," "mother," and "sister" to describe her connections to Christ and the Virgin Mary, but she also identifies herself with a tradition of holy women and, at other times, as a prophet. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Journal of the American Academy of Religion , 59., 3 (Fall 1991):  Pages 527 - 546.
Year of Publication: 1991.