Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 20331
Author(s): Librandi, Rita
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Title : Dal lessico della "Lettere" di Santa Caterina da Siena: La concretezza della fusione [Catherine of Siena used prophetic language in her letters. Although we lack a critical edition, the vocabulary of the letters can be studied for its use of metaphor. Her emphasis on images of spiritual feeding contrasts vividly with her extreme fasting i
Source: Dire l'ineffabile: Caterina da Siena e il linguaggio della mistica.   Edited by Lino Leonardi and Pietro Trifone .   Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006.  Pages 19 - 40.
Year of Publication: 2006.

2. Record Number: 20338
Author(s): Bartolomei Romagnoli, Alessandra
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Title : Il linguaggio del corpo in Santa Caterina da Siena [Raymond of Capua described Catherine of Siena's body as transformed from a natural entity to one expressing Christ's own body. This was achieved by extreme mortification of the flesh, especially by giving up food. Catherine used bodily metaphors in her w
Source: Dire l'ineffabile: Caterina da Siena e il linguaggio della mistica.   Edited by Lino Leonardi and Pietro Trifone .   Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006.  Pages 205 - 229.
Year of Publication: 2006.

3. Record Number: 10948
Author(s): Dinshaw, Carolyn.
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Title : Theater Makes History: Ritual Murder by Proxy in the "Mistere de la Sainte Hostie" [The author explores the connections between the antisemitic play in which a Christian servant murders her own child and several infanticides that occured around Metz and resulted in the mothers' guesome executions. Enders argues that host desecration is equated with infanticide, the horror of which was vivid in people's minds due to the recent crimes. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004):  Pages 991 - 1016.
Year of Publication: 2004.

4. Record Number: 11033
Author(s): Bildhauer, Bettina.
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Title : Bloodsuckers: The Construction of Female Sexuality in Medieval Science and Fiction [The author briefly examines three texts ("Secrets of Women," Mechthild of Magdeburg's "The Flowing Light of the Godhead," and Der Stricker's "Daniel of the Blossoming Valley"). Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Consuming Narrative: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.   Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters .   University of Wales Press, 2002. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 104 - 115.
Year of Publication: 2002.

5. Record Number: 7271
Author(s): McCracken, Peggy.
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Title : Engendering Sacrifice: Blood, Lineage, and Infanticide in Old French Literature [The author analyzes the theme of infanticide in Chretien de Troyes' "Philomena," "Ami et Amile," accounts of Abraham and Isaac, and "Jourdain de Blaye." The author argues that the child's death takes on a different meaning according to the gender of the sacrificer. When the father kills the child, the blood is paternal blood and represents a sacrifice for loyalty or for God. When the mother kills the child, the blood is maternal, associated with the impurities of childbirth, and is done only as an act of revenge. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 55 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2002.

6. Record Number: 4276
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Title : Blood and Rosaries: Virginity, Violence, and Desire in Chaucer's "Prioress's Tale"
Source: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl .   St. Martin's Press, 1999. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 181 - 198.
Year of Publication: 1999.

7. Record Number: 4187
Author(s): Tuerk, Jacquelyn.
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Title : An Early Byzantine Inscribed Amulet and Its Narratives
Source: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , 23., ( 1999):  Pages 25 - 42.
Year of Publication: 1999.

8. Record Number: 6726
Author(s): Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney.
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Title : Sarah and the Hyena: Laughter, Menstruation and the Genesis of a Double Entendre [the author examines a passage fom the Qur'an along with relevant poems, all of which refer to menstruation; in the story of Sarah menstrutation is associated with fertility and freshness, while in the poetry menstruation is a sign of pollution with the menstruating hyena defiling the dead who have not been avenged].
Source: History of Religions (Full Text via JSTOR) 36, 1 (August 1996): 13-41. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1996.

9. Record Number: 5132
Author(s): Lee, Becky R.
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Title : The Purification of Women After Childbirth: A Window onto Medieval Perceptions of Women [The author suggests that women may have seen childbirth and the attendant rituals, including churching, as an opportunity for gender reversal and time to spend with other women].
Source: Florilegium , 14., ( 1995- 1996):  Pages 43 - 55.
Year of Publication: 1995- 1996.

10. Record Number: 6624
Author(s): Noffke, Suzanne, O. P.
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Title : The Physical in the Mystical Writings of Catherine of Siena [The author argues that Catherine's physically vivid stories and images were intended to help her readers understand both God and human spirituality as incorporating and transcending the physical].
Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995):  Pages 109 - 129. Women Mystic Writers. Edited by Dino S. Cervigni
Year of Publication: 1995.

11. Record Number: 1639
Author(s): Tamburr, Karl.
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Title : Mystic Transformation: Julian's Version of the Harrowing of Hell
Source: Mystics Quarterly , 20., 2 (June 1994):  Pages 60 - 67.
Year of Publication: 1994.

12. Record Number: 37464
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Title : The woman with the blood flow
Source: Mystics Quarterly , 20., 2 (June 1994):
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13. Record Number: 37534
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Title : Vision of St Bernard
Source: Mystics Quarterly , 20., 2 (June 1994):
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