Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 6085
Author(s): Lichtmann, Maria R.
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Title : Three Models of Self-Governance: Medieval English Translations of Latin Rules for Nuns [The author looks at the rules for the Benedictines, Brigittines, and Poor Clares in regard to issues of governance and discipline].
Source: Magistra , 7., 2 (Winter 2001):  Pages 100 - 125.
Year of Publication: 2001.
2. Record Number: 4841
Author(s): Crean, John E., Jr.
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Title : Liturgia Horarum Feminina: The Office in German for Women [The author compares three German translations of the "Rule" (the "Oxford Rule," the "Berlin Rule," and the "Altenburg Rule") intended for women's houses].
Source: Magistra , 6., 2 (Winter 2000):  Pages 87 - 96.
Year of Publication: 2000.
3. Record Number: 4243
Author(s): Beach, Alison I.
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Title : Claustration and Collaboration Between the Sexes in the Twelfth-Century Scriptorium [the author compares the book production practices of two German double houses; Admont valued women's learning and the abbot worked with nuns to write down his Biblical commentaries; Schäftlarn did not train women in writing nor allow them access to books, but women who could already write were put to work in the scriptorium].
Source: Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society. Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little.   Edited by Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein .   Cornell University Press, 2000. Magistra , 6., 2 (Winter 2000):  Pages 57 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2000.
4. Record Number: 5444
Author(s): Primhak, Victoria.
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Title : Benedictine Communities in Venetian Society: The Convent of S. Zaccaria [S. Zaccaria was a conventual convent where the nuns did not observe "clausura" and had use of their private incomes; the nuns were able to resist reform because the convent was one of the oldest and most prestigious in the city and welcomed the daughters
Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society.   Edited by Letizia Panizza .   European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Magistra , 6., 2 (Winter 2000):  Pages 92 - 104.
Year of Publication: 2000.
5. Record Number: 15185
Author(s): Cubitt, Catherine.
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Title : Virginity and Misogyny in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England
Source: Gender and History , 12., 1 (April 2000):  Pages 1 - 32.
Year of Publication: 2000.
6. Record Number: 3904
Author(s): Cohen, Adam S.
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Title : The Art of Reform in a Bavarian Nunnery around 1000 [the author explores the efforts to reform Niedermünster, a noble foundation of canonesses, and turn it into a more strict Benedictine nunnery; the author uses surviving art and architecture, concentrating in particular on two manuscripts, the rule book and the Uta Codex, both of which feature illuminations of Niedermünster's reforming abbess, Uta.]
Source: Speculum , 74., 4 (October 1999):  Pages 992 - 1020.
Year of Publication: 1999.
7. Record Number: 4713
Author(s): Sutera, Judith, O.S.B.
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Title : Benedictine Spirituality in the Life and Works of Hildegard of Bingen
Source: Magistra , 5., 1 (Summer 1999):  Pages 3 - 23.
Year of Publication: 1999.
8. Record Number: 3465
Author(s): Warren, Nancy B.
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Title : Saving the Market: Textual Strategies and Cultural Transformations in Fifteenth Century Translations of the Benedictine Rule for Women [The author argues that the translations/adaptations work to set up a hierarchical sex/gender system in which the female is constrained and Latin is privileged over the vernacular].
Source: Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 3., ( 1998):  Pages 34 - 50. Translation, Transformation, and Transubstantiation in the Late Middle Ages
Year of Publication: 1998.
9. Record Number: 5003
Author(s): Mariani, Roberta.
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Title : Monasteri benedettini femminili a Milano prima della riforma [Reform of women's monasteries in Milan, especially when the nuns resisted, required support from ecclesiastical and lay authorities. These authorities occasionally failed to act in concert. Strict enclosure, one of the hardest reforms to impose, served to ameliorate one problem, nuns acting out the hostilities among their kindred. Even nuns desirous of living strict lives had difficulties finding acceptable confessors and visitors to meet their spiritual needs].
Source: Il monachesimo femminile in Italia dall' Alto Medioevo al secolo XVII a confronto con l' oggi.   Edited by Gabriella Zarri .   San Pietro in Cariano: Il Segno dei Gabrielli editori, 1997. Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 3., ( 1998):  Pages 219 - 247.
Year of Publication: 1997.
10. Record Number: 749
Author(s): Rigon, Antonio.
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Title : A Community of Female Penitents in Thirteenth- Century Padua [group of female penitents evolved into a Benedictine monastery].
Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy.   Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider .   University of Chicago Press, 1996. American Benedictine Review , 47., 4 (December 1996):  Pages 28 - 38. Originally published as "Una comunità femminile di penitenti a Padova agli inizi del secolo XIII" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 25-35.
Year of Publication: 1996.
11. Record Number: 1108
Author(s): Mellinger, Laura.
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Title : Prayer and Politics in Medieval Brittany: The Making of Saint- Georges [the abbey was founded by Duke Alain III for his sister Adèle; it continued its close association with the ducal family, making Saint- Georges a prestigious Breton institution].
Source: American Benedictine Review , 47., 4 (December 1996):  Pages 433 - 444.
Year of Publication: 1996.
12. Record Number: 2305
Author(s): Schmitt, Miriam, O.S.B.
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Title : Gertrud of Helfta: Her Monastic Milieu and Her Spirituality
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. American Benedictine Review , 47., 4 (December 1996):  Pages 471 - 496.
Year of Publication: 1995.
13. Record Number: 572
Author(s): Tuten, Belle Stoddard.
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Title : Disputing Corpses: Le Ronceray d'Angers Versus Saint-Nicolas d'Angers, Ca. 1080-1140 [nuns and monks contest parish boundaries and the rights to burials and offerings].
Source: Medieval Perspectives , 10., ( 1995):  Pages 178 - 188. Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
Year of Publication: 1995.
14. Record Number: 1132
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Title : Anglo-Saxon Monastic Women: A Work in Progress [the late author compiled a biographical dictionary of Benedictine women; the editors of Magistra are revising the manuscript and adding bibliographical sources in preparation for final publication].
Source: Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995):  Pages 139 - 171.
Year of Publication: 1995.
15. Record Number: 2780
Author(s): Hirschmann, Frank G.
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Title : Wo die Nonnen plieben, welche von Steinfeld ausgewichen sein. Auf den Spuren der Frauen vor dem Hintergrund der religiösen Bewegung des 12. Jahrhunderts
Source: Jahrbuch für westdeutsche Landesgeschichte , 20., ( 1994):  Pages 37 - 54.
Year of Publication: 1994.
16. Record Number: 5432
Author(s): Klueting, Edeltraud.
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Title : Les Pouvoirs des abbesses dans les couvents de femmes de la congrégation de Bursfeld [the reformers from Bursfeld decided that Benedictine abbots and abbesses needed to have their powers restricted].
Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. .   Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995):  Pages 219 - 238.
Year of Publication: 1994.
17. Record Number: 4391
Author(s): Feiss, Hugh, O.S.B.
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Title : Consecrated to Christ, Nuns of This Church Community: The Benedictines of Notre-Dame de Saintes, 1047-1792 [the author maintains that the documents and other evidence present "the picture of a large, independent, and self-consciously feminine community, which played an important part in the economic and cultural life of its region and possesed the vitality to survive long periods of war and other hardships during the 750 years of its existence" (Page 270)].
Source: American Benedictine Review , 45., 3 (September 1994):  Pages 269 - 302.
Year of Publication: 1994.
18. Record Number: 1235
Author(s): Clayton, Mary.
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Title : Centralism and Uniformity Versus Localism and Diversity: The Virgin and Native Saints in the Monastic Reform
Source: Peritia: Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland , 8., ( 1994):  Pages 95 - 106.
Year of Publication: 1994.
19. Record Number: 1956
Author(s): Lermack, Annette.
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Title : The Historiated Initial of the St. Albans Psalter: Christina of Markyate's Textbook for the Monastic Life
Source: Manuscripta , 38., 3 (November 1994):  Pages 197 - 198.
Year of Publication: 1994.
20. Record Number: 12696
Author(s): Schmitt, Miriam.
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Title : Freed to Run with Expanded Heart: The Writings of Gertrud of Helfta and the Rule of Benedict [In her writings, Helfta interprets liberty of heart as a personal passage from inner bondage to spiritual freedom. She also exemplifies the qualities of a liberated heart which Benedict outlines in his regula. The author equates Gertrude's "libertas cordis" (liberated heart in mystical love) is equated with Benedict's "cor dilatatus" (heart expanded by ineffable love). Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Cistercian Studies , 25., 2 ( 1990):  Pages 220 - 232.
Year of Publication: 1990.
21. Record Number: 30942
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Title : Apparition of the Virgin to St. Bernard
Source: Cistercian Studies , 25., 2 ( 1990):
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