Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 17748
Author(s): Dietl, Cora
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Title : The Virgin, the Church, and the Heathens: The Innsbruck "Ludus de assumptione beatae Mariae virginis" [The author examines a German language play about the Assumption of the Virgin Mary found in a late 14th Century manuscript. The play presents Mary as mediator and emphasizes the malignity and deceit of the Jews who want to burn her body in revenge. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: European Medieval Drama , 10., ( 2006):  Pages 187 - 205.
Year of Publication: 2006.
2. Record Number: 20780
Author(s): Eckhard, Simon
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Title : The First German Mary Assumption Play (c.1300) and the Mary Portal of Strasbourg Cathedral [Investigates the relationship between thirteenth and fourteenth century German Assumption plays, the Song of Solomon/Song of Songs, and the carvings of Strasbourg Cathedral. Focuses on the plays' and carvings' use of the figures of "Ecclesia" as bride and God as Solomon, with God/Solomon's embrace of "Synagoga" acting as a device to encourage the conversion of Jews. The relationship between Mary and the figure of "Ecclesia" is also discussed. Title note supplied by Feminae].
Source: European Medieval Drama , 9., ( 2005):  Pages 1 - 23.
Year of Publication: 2005.
3. Record Number: 20781
Author(s): Kovacs, Lenke
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Title : The Staging of the "Ludus de assumptione beatae Mariae virginis" (cod. 960, University Library, Innsbruck) [Describes the variations of stage settings and performance venues used for Assumption plays, emphasizing how practical concerns (such as needing to silence the audience) were incorporated into play scripts. Examines the relationship between the Virgin Mary and the Bride in the Song of Songs, and the depiction of Jews and Jerusalem. Title note supplied by Feminae].
Source: European Medieval Drama , 9., ( 2005):  Pages 25 - 34.
Year of Publication: 2005.
4. 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.
5. Record Number: 8089
Author(s): Price, Merrall Llewelyn.
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Title : Imperial Violence and the Monstrous Mother: Cannibalism at the Siege of Jerusalem [The author explores the popular tale of Maria of Jerusalem who ate her own infant during a siege of Jerusalem. The author is interested in her as both a double and opposite of the Virgin Mary whose son was also sacrificed. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts.   Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price .   University Press of Florida, 2002. Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004):  Pages 272 - 298.
Year of Publication: 2002.
6. Record Number: 3965
Author(s): Rosenthal, Judith.
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Title : Margery Kempe and Medieval Anti-Judaic Ideology
Source: Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 409 - 420.
Year of Publication: 1999.
7. Record Number: 4277
Author(s): Roberts, Anna.
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Title : Like a Virgin: Mary and Her Doubters in the N-Town Cycle
Source: Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Cindy L. Carlson and Angela Jane Weisl .   St. Martin's Press, 1999. Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 199 - 217.
Year of Publication: 1999.
8. Record Number: 3963
Author(s): Stone, Carole.
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Title : Anti-Semitism in the Miracle Tales of the Virgin
Source: Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 364 - 374.
Year of Publication: 1999.
9. 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. Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 181 - 198.
Year of Publication: 1999.
10. Record Number: 3964
Author(s): Gaynor, Stephanie.
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Title : He Says, She Says: Subjectivity and the Discourse of the Other in the "Prioress's Portrait" and "Tale"
Source: Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 375 - 390.
Year of Publication: 1999.
11. Record Number: 2271
Author(s): Kraman, Cynthia.
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Title : Communities of Otherness in Chaucer's "Merchant's Tale" [suggests that the female body, the Jewish text of the "Song of Songs," and the enclosed garden are all marginal elements that take on central importance at January's expense].
Source: Medieval Women in Their Communities.   Edited by Diane Watt .   University of Toronto Press, 1997. Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Culture in Confluence and Dialogue , 5., 3 ( 1999):  Pages 138 - 154.
Year of Publication: 1997.
12. Record Number: 2704
Author(s): Evans, Ruth.
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Title : When a Body Meets a Body: Fergus and Mary in the York Cycle [argues that the staging and audience reaction to the "other" embodied by the crossdressing actor as Mary and the feminized figure of Fergus the Jew play upon complex symbolisms of gender and social group].
Source: New Medieval Literatures , 1., ( 1997):  Pages 193 - 212.
Year of Publication: 1997.
13. Record Number: 871
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Title : The Struggle Over Mary's Body: Theological and Dramatic Resolution in the N- Town Assumption Play
Source: JEGP: Journal of English and Germanic Philology , 95., 2 (Apr. 1996):  Pages 190 - 203.
Year of Publication: 1996.
14. Record Number: 2840
Author(s): Dauven-van-Knippenberg, Carla.
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Title : Maria Magdalena als Katalysator des Antijudaismus im 'Frankfurter Passionsspiel (1493).'
Source: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik , ( 1995):  Pages 162 - 176.
Year of Publication: 1995.
15. Record Number: 1740
Author(s): Dishon, Judith.
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Title : Images of Women in Medieval Hebrew Literature [emphasis on the many negative representations which the author categorizes in three sets: fearfulness and cruelty, laziness and greed or gluttony, and stupidity and shrewdness or deceitfulness].
Source: Women of the Word: Jewish Women and Jewish Writing.   Edited by Judith R. Baskin .   Wayne State University Press, 1994. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik , ( 1995):  Pages 35 - 49.
Year of Publication: 1994.
16. Record Number: 3563
Author(s): Mirrer, Louise.
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Title : Representing "Other" Men: Muslims, Jews and Masculine Ideals in Medieval Castilian Epic and Ballad [The author argues that the texts represent Muslim and Jewish men as docile and defeated; at the same time they stand in stark contrast to the Christian heroes who are manly and aggressive.]
Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7.   University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik , ( 1995):  Pages 169 - 186.
Year of Publication: 1994.
17. Record Number: 4632
Author(s): Carpenter, Dwayne E.
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Title : A Sorcerer Defends the Virgin: Merlin in the "Cantigas de Santa Maria" [in "Cantiga 108" Merlin disputes the Incarnation with a Jew; the Virgin punishes the Jew by giving him a deformed son who serves as an instrument to convert many Jews].
Source: Bulletin of the Cantigueiros de Santa Maria , 5., (Spring 1993):  Pages 5 - 24.
Year of Publication: 1993.
18. Record Number: 10374
Author(s): Beer, Jeanette M. A.
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Title : Stylistic Conventions in "Le Livre de la mutacion de Fortune" [In her allegorical poem, Christine uses rhetorical devices (particularly “dilatio,” “amplificatio,” and “abbreviatio”) in order to construct her relationship with her readers. While she does use some tropes that male poets use, Christine disassociates herself from particular tropes used in Jean de Meun’s “Roman de la Rose” and Guillaume Machaut’s “Livre de Voir-Dit.” The author also argues that Christine is unable to integrate the question of Jewish history into the larger historical vision of the work. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno .   University of Georgia Press, 1992. Florilegium , 11., ( 1992):  Pages 124 - 136.
Year of Publication: 1992.
19. Record Number: 9542
Author(s): Alexander, Philip S.
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Title : Madame Eglentyne, Geoffrey Chaucer and the Problem of Medieval Anti-Semitism [The author argues that Chaucer’s Prioress’s Tale is unquestionably antisemitic in nature. Although many literary critics have tried to defend Chaucer against antisemitism by pointing to his highly ironic portrayal of the tale’s narrator (the Prioress), Chaucer ultimately reflects the biases of his contemporaries. Title note supplied by Feminae].
Source: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester , 74., 1 (Spring 1992):  Pages 109 - 120.
Year of Publication: 1992.
20. Record Number: 9461
Author(s): Orsten, Elisabeth M.
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Title : Madame Eglentyne in Her Day and in Ours: Anti-Semitism in "The Prioress’s Tale" and a Modern Parallel [The author assesses twentieth-century scholarship on Chaucer’s Prioress and the controversy over whether the character is anti-Semitic (she tells a story about a little boy killed by Jews). Although one might see the Prioress as anti-Semitic according to our modern post-Holocaust perspective, it is ultimately unknowable whether Chaucer shared her views. The author finds a modern parallel to “The Prioress’s Tale” in the story of a shrine in Rinn, Austria (dedicated to a boy supposedly killed by Jewish merchants in 1462); its cult following endured through the late twentieth-century. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Florilegium , 11., ( 1992):  Pages 82 - 100.
Year of Publication: 1992.
21. Record Number: 10890
Author(s): Nichols, Ann Eljenholm.
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Title : The Hierosphthitic Topos, or the Fate of Fergus: Notes on the N-Town Assumption [The "N-Town Assumption of Mary Play" contains a reference to the apocryphal story of Fergus, a Jew who interrupts the Virgin Mary’s funeral by attacking her bier as it is carried by the Apostles. In some versions of the story, Fergus is punished for his
Source: Comparative Drama , 25., 1 ( 1991):  Pages 29 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1991.