Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 3412
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Herzig , Tamar
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  • 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.
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  • Article Type: Journal Article
  • Subject (See Also): Andreasi, Osanna, Dominican Tertiary and Mystic Brocadelli, Lucia, Dominican Tertiary and Holy Woman Dominican Order Ercole I, Duke of Ferrara Hussite Movement Kramer, Heinrich, Inquisitor, and Jacob Sprenger- Malleus Maleficarum Misogyny Quadragnoli, Col
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 15- 16
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  • Related Resources: Feminae Article of the Month January 2008
  • Author's Affiliation: Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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  • Year of Publication: 2006.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 15568547