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1. Record Number: 45680 Author(s): Carlotta, Vincenzo, Contributor(s): Title : Anonymous: Dialogue of the Philosophers and Cleopatra (c. 600–700 CE) Source: Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook.   Edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison and Erika Jones .   UCL Press, 2023.  Pages 35 - 39. The text is from Dialogue of the Philosophers and Cleopatra, ll. 21–64. Carlotta, Vincenzo. "The Alchemical Teachings of Cleopatra", Ambix: Sources of Alchemy and Chemistry (forthcoming, 2023). Available open access from JSTOR: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2w61bc7.12 Year of Publication: 2023.

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2. Record Number: 35828 Author(s): Francomano, Emily C. Contributor(s): Title : “Taking the Gold Out of Egypt”: Prostitution and the Economy of Salvation in the Vida de María Egipciaca Source: Hispanic Review , 82., 4 ( 2014):  Pages 397 - 420. Year of Publication: 2014.

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3. Record Number: 14140 Author(s): Baskins, Cristelle L. Contributor(s): Title : Scenes from a Marriage : Hospitality and Commerce in Boccaccio's "Tale of Saladin and Torello" [The author reads the panel paintings of a story from Boccaccio in terms of both gender and economics. Adalieta, the wife of Torello, gives him gifts (rather than vice versa as was customary). The Saracen figures in the story need to be domesticated, with Source: The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy.   Edited by Sherry Roush and Cristelle L. Baskins .   Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. Hispanic Review , 82., 4 ( 2014):  Pages 81 - 99. Year of Publication: 2005.

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4. Record Number: 9721 Author(s): Craig, Leigh Ann Contributor(s): Title : Stronger Than Men and Braver Than Knights: Women and the Pilgrimages to Jerusalem and Rome in the Later Middle Ages Source: Journal of Medieval History , 29., 3 (September 2003):  Pages 153 - 175. Year of Publication: 2003.

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5. Record Number: 11954 Author(s): McCracken, Peggy. Contributor(s): Title : Scandalizing Desire: Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Chroniclers Source: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady.   Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons The New Middle Ages .   Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Journal of Medieval History , 29., 3 (September 2003):  Pages 247 - 263. Year of Publication: 2003.

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6. Record Number: 5874 Author(s): Jennings, Margaret. Contributor(s): Title : The Three Marys of Bourges [The author briefly explores the representations of the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Egypt in the Cathedral of Bourges and comments on the theological meaning of their lives]. Source: Downside Review , 119., 414 (January 2001):  Pages 35 - 50. Year of Publication: 2001.

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7. Record Number: 11180 Author(s): Duncan, David J. Contributor(s): Title : Scholarly Views of Shajarat Al-Durr: A Need for Consensus [Shajarat Al-Durr rose from the Mamluk harem to dominance of Egypt at the time of Louis IX's crusade. She gained power through one husband and placed a second on the throne, exercising power through allies as well as ruling briefly in her own right. During this time she freed the captured Louis IX for a very large ransom and regained Damietta from the Crusaders. Her murder of her second husband led to her downfall and execution. Most accounts of her life, even the feminist ones, give only a partial account of her achievements. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Arab Studies Quarterly , 22., 1 (Winter 2000):  Pages 51 - 69. Year of Publication: 2000.

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8. Record Number: 5056 Author(s): Scheil, Andrew P. Contributor(s): Title : Bodies and Boundaries in the Old English "Life of St. Mary of Egypt" Source: Neophilologus , 84., 1 (January 2000):  Pages 137 - 156. Year of Publication: 2000.

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9. Record Number: 14582 Author(s): Di Giorgi, Marianna Contributor(s): Title : Santa Maria Egiziaca tra Oriente e Occidente. La "Vita Sanctae Mariae Aegyptiacae Meretricis" di Paolo Diacono Napoletano [In the ninth century, Paul the Deacon translated a Greek life of Mary the Egyptian into Latin. Mary had an extensive cult in the East, and it had reached the West by the sixth century. Paul came from Naples, a center of Mary's cult and its texts. His translation was free enough to make his own theological points in a style that was unique. The article ends with a series of tables giving Paul's Latin renderings of Greek words and phrases. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Schede medievali , 38., ( 2000):  Pages 155 - 197. Year of Publication: 2000.

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10. Record Number: 5470 Author(s): Jackson, Peter. Contributor(s): Title : Aelfric and the Purpose of Christian Marriage: A Reconsideration of the "Life of Aethelthryth," Lines 120- 30 [The author argues that Aelfric adds a story from the "Historia monachorum in Aegypto" to the "Life of Aethelthryth" because he is uneasy about the saint's unilateral refusal of sex in marriage; by adding the exemplum about a man and his wife who have three sons and then agree to live together while abstaining from sex, Aelfric is able to reassert the Augustinian ideal of a Christian marriage]. Source: Anglo-Saxon England , 29., ( 2000):  Pages 235 - 260. Year of Publication: 2000.

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11. Record Number: 8490 Author(s): Mirri, Luciana. Contributor(s): Title : La preghiera nella "Vita Sanctae Mariae Aegyptiacae [The story of Mary of Egypt, prostitute turned hermit, entered Latin hagiography through a text by Paul the Deacon. The legend includes accounts of personal prayer by Abba Zosimus and Mary plus echoes of the liturgy, especially monastic usages. Zosimus helped Mary leave the life of the body for the prayerful inward life of the soul. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Studia Patristica , 35., ( 1999):  Pages 466 - 483. Year of Publication: 1999.

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12. Record Number: 6431 Author(s): Picone, Michelangelo. Contributor(s): Title : La vergine e l'eremita: Una lettura intertestuale della novella di Alibech ("Decameron" III. 10) [Boccaccio's tales burlesque hagiographic conventions, including the story of Mary of Egypt; the hermit's mortifications, in the tale of Alibech, lead, not to sanctity, but to pride and a fall; and the virgin Alibech finds sexual pleasure and worldly wisdom in the wilderness; the poet explores in this tale the relationship between the mystical and the erotic]. Source: Vox Romanica , 57., ( 1998):  Pages 85 - 99. Year of Publication: 1998.

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13. Record Number: 5255 Author(s): Robertson, Duncan. Contributor(s): Title : The Anglo-Norman Verse Life of St. Mary the Egyptian [The author examines the six surviving manuscripts which preserve the Life of St. Mary the Egyptian; the author also considers rhetorical devices (anadiplosis (repetition)) and structural elements (narrative sequence)]. Source: Romance Philology , 52., (Fall 1998):  Pages 13 - 44. Year of Publication: 1998.

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14. Record Number: 5992 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Jewish Women in the Middle Ages [The author provides a brief overview of women's lives both in the Muslim world and in Christian Europe, touching on marriage, work, education, roles in Judaism, and Jewish-Christian relations]. Source: Jewish Women in Historical Perspective.   Edited by Judith R. Baskin .   Second edition. Wayne State University Press, 1998. Romance Philology , 52., (Fall 1998):  Pages 101 - 127. Year of Publication: 1998.

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15. Record Number: 2388 Author(s): Behrens-Abouseif, Doris. Contributor(s): Title : The "Mahmal" Legend and the Pilgrimage of the ladies of the Mamluk Court [development of the legend of the ceremonial palanquin in pilgrim caravans and its association with Shajarat al-Durr, wife two sultans]. Source: Mamluk Studies Review , 1., ( 1997):  Pages 87 - 96. Year of Publication: 1997.

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16. Record Number: 1546 Author(s): Dimitrova, Margaret. Contributor(s): Title : Mary of Egypt in Medieval Slavic Literacy [comparisons among five Old Church Slavonic versions of the Life of St. Mary of Egypt]. Source: Byzantinoslavica , 56., 3 ( 1995):  Pages 617 - 624. Year of Publication: 1995.

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17. Record Number: 391 Author(s): Chapoutot- Remadi, Mounira. Contributor(s): Title : Femmes dans la Ville Mamluke Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 38., 2 (May 1995):  Pages 145 - 164. Year of Publication: 1995.

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18. Record Number: 187 Author(s): Hunt, Lucy-Anne. Contributor(s): Title : Fine Incense of Virginity: A Late Twelfth Century Wallpainting of the Annuciation at the Monastery of the Syrians, Egypt Source: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , 19., ( 1995):  Pages 182 - 232. Year of Publication: 1995.

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19. Record Number: 329 Author(s): Cardenas, Anthony J. Contributor(s): Title : Desert Experience as Other World in the Poem "Vida de Santa Maria Egipciaca" Source: Romance Languages Annual , 7., ( 1995):  Pages 413 - 418. Year of Publication: 1995.

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20. Record Number: 1765 Author(s): Semple, Benjamin. Contributor(s): Title : The Male Psyche and the Female Sacred Body in Marie de France and Christine de Pizan Source: Yale French Studies (Full Text via JSTOR) 86 (1994): 164-186 Corps Mystique, Corps Sacré: Textual Transfigurations of the Body from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century.Link Info Year of Publication: 1994.

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21. Record Number: 1554 Author(s): van der Vliet, J. Contributor(s): Title : Une Vierge de Daphné: Notes sur un thème apocalyptique [analysis of an episode in two Greek texts concerning the birth of the Antichrist; the Antichrist ,in the form of a small fish, is touched by an impure virgin, resulting in her pregnancy]. Source: Byzantion , 64., 2 ( 1994):  Pages 377 - 390. Year of Publication: 1994.

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22. Record Number: 5409 Author(s): Villani, Matteo. Contributor(s): Title : L'Onomastica femminile nel ducato di Napoli: L'esempio di Maria [by Carolingian times, Maria was the most common name given Southern Italian women; this antedated by centuries the same development elsewhere in Italy; this is explained in part by the cult of the Virgin, especially in monastic circles; but a great impetus was given to the use of the name Maria by the spread of the cult of Saint Mary of Egypt; two lives of this reformed prostitute were in circulation in Italy in the Carolingian era, one translated from the Greek by Paul, a Neapolitan deacon]. Source: Me´langes de l'Ecole franc¸aise de Rome. Moyen a^ge , 106., 2 ( 1994):  Pages 641 - 651. Year of Publication: 1994.

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23. Record Number: 9066 Author(s): Seidenspinner-Nunez, Dayle. Contributor(s): Title : The Poetics of (Non)Conversion: The "Vida de Santa Maria Egipciaca" and "La Celestina" [The author reads Fernando de Rojas' story of Celestina, an aged ex-prostitute, against the conventions of hagiographic romance. The author argues that female prostitute-saints were popular in medieval Spain, and the cult of Saint Mary of Egypt was particularly strong. Although there is no direct connection between the "Vida de Santa Maria Egipciaca" (a poem about Saint Mary of Egypt) and "La Celestina," the author argues that Rojas intentionally subverts the literary conventions used in other texts about prosititute-saints. In contrast to what medieval readers might expect, Celestina never undergoes a religious conversion. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Medievalia et Humanistica , 18., ( 1992):  Pages 95 - 128. Year of Publication: 1992.

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24. Record Number: 10891 Author(s): Hunt, Lucy-Anne Contributor(s): Title : A Woman’s Prayer to Saint Sergios in Latin Syria: Interpreting a Thirteenth-century Icon at Mount Sinai [The icons at Saint Catherine’s Monastery at Mount Sinai include one depicting a black-veiled woman keeling in prayer before an equestrian Saint Sergios. The symbolic significance of the woman’s black veil is unknown, but the painting may indicate the imp Source: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , 15., ( 1991):  Pages 96 - 145. Year of Publication: 1991.

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25. Record Number: 8505 Author(s): Grieve, Patricia E. Contributor(s): Title : Vida de Santa María Egipciaca: Economic Discourse and the Hagiographic Pattern Source: Corónica , 19., 1 (Fall 1990):  Pages 185 - 187. Year of Publication: 1990.

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26. Record Number: 8650 Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti. Contributor(s): Title : Alibech el il deserto [Boccaccio’s tale of Alibech apes exempla about holy hermits. Human nature leads the pious Alibech and the holy hermit into sin. This tale was told when Italy was full of urban recluses like Margaret of Cortona, but it is set in a woodland. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi .   Herder, 1990. Corónica , 19., 1 (Fall 1990):  Pages 403 - 414. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78. Year of Publication: 1990.

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27. Record Number: 10987 Author(s): Karras, Ruth Mazo. Contributor(s): Title : Holy Harlots: Prostitute Saints in Medieval Legend [The author examines stories and representations in art of five prostiture saints (Mary of Egypt, Thaïs, Pelagia, Mary (the niece of Abraham), and Afra of Augsburg) and Mary Magdalene. Karras argues that although Mary Magdalene does not make money from her indiscriminate sexuality, she is condemned for lust along with the prostitute saints. Since the essence of femininity is sexuality, it is women's greatest weakness and the prime cause for their repentance. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Journal of the History of Sexuality , 1., 1 (July 1990):  Pages 3 - 32. Year of Publication: 1990.

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28. Record Number: 40972 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Pitcairn Flight into Egypt Source: Corónica , 19., 1 (Fall 1990): Year of Publication:

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29. Record Number: 41146 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Temptation of Saint Anthony Source: Corónica , 19., 1 (Fall 1990): Year of Publication:

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30. Record Number: 41169 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Temptation of Saint Anthony (Image #1) Source: Corónica , 19., 1 (Fall 1990): Year of Publication:

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