Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 24046
Author(s): Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts
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Title : Holy Women and the Needle Arts: Piety, Devotion, and Stitching the Sacred, ca. 500- 1150 [The author catalogs evidence of women’s embroidery for the Church done by queens, noble women, and nuns. They decorated Church vestments with gold, silver, and jewels. Schulenburg argues that their skills were values and associated with wisdom. Many of the embroiderers and patrons hoped for the special prayers of saints in return for their shining gifts. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom. Edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells Studies in the History of Christian Traditions . Brill, 2009. Pages 83 - 110.
Year of Publication: 2009.

2. Record Number: 10113
Author(s): Wickham-Crowley, Kelley M
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Title : Buried Truth: Shrouds and Female Production

Source: Old English Newsletter , 33., 3 (Spring 2000): Paper presented at the Thirty-Fifth International Congress on Medieval Studies, The Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 4-7, 2000, Eighteenth Symposium on the Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture
Year of Publication: 2000.

3. Record Number: 4977
Author(s): Labarge, Margaret Wade.
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Title : Stitches in Time: Medieval Embroidery in Its Social Setting [The author examines surviving physical evidence as well as some documentary evidence of embroiderers (who were mostly women); she traces the increasing luxuriousness of royal embroideries with gems and gold thread].

Source: Florilegium , 16., ( 1999): Pages 77 - 96.
Year of Publication: 1999.

4. Record Number: 4025
Author(s): Gourlay, Kristina E.
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Title : A Positive Representation of the Power of Young Women: The Malterer Embroidery Re-examined [The author argues that the embroidery is to be interpreted as "positive and good-natured acknowledgment of the power of love and female sexuality and the responsibility of men in succumbing to this power..."].

Source: Young Medieval Women. Edited by Katherine J. Lewis, Noel James Menuge, and Kim M. Phillips . St. Martin's Press, 1999. Old English Newsletter , 33., 3 (Spring 2000): Pages 69 - 102.
Year of Publication: 1999.

5. Record Number: 742
Author(s): Bitel, Lisa M.
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Title : Reproduction and Production in Early Ireland [roles of women, especially as makers of babies and makers of cloth].

Source: Portraits of Medieval and Renaissance Living: Essays in Honor of David Herlihy. Edited by Samual K. Cohn, Jr. and Steven A. Epstein . University of Michigan Press, 1996. Florilegium , 16., ( 1999): Pages 71 - 89.
Year of Publication: 1996.

6. Record Number: 244
Author(s): Van Vleck, Amelia E.
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Title : Textiles as Testimony in Marie de France and "Philomena"

Source: Medievalia et Humanistica New Series , 22., ( 1995): Pages 31 - 60. Diversity
Year of Publication: 1995.

7. Record Number: 11171
Author(s): Frese, Dolores Warwick.
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Title : Worda and Worca : "The Battle of Maldon" and the Lost Text of AElfflaed's Tapestry [The author trace similar narrative patterns in "The Battle of Maldon" and the Bayeux Tapestry. Frese suggests that they both may have drawn from AElfflaed's tapestry, described in the "Liber Eliensis," wihich celebrated the deeds of her husband, Byrhtnoth, who was killed at Maldon. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Mediaevalia , 17., ( 1994): Pages 27 - 51. (1994 (for 1991))
Year of Publication: 1994.

8. Record Number: 32299
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Title : The Whore of Babylon Seated on the Waters

Source: Mediaevalia , 17., ( 1994):
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9. Record Number: 32585
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Title : Portrait of a Lady in Yellow

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10. Record Number: 40852
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Title : Theodora. From The Dinner Party.

Source: Mediaevalia , 17., ( 1994):
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