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1. Record Number: 43447 Author(s): Powell, Austin, Contributor(s): Title : Manuscript Miscellanies, Jerome's Letters to Women, and the Dominican Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Italy Source: Renaissance Quarterly , 74., 3 ( 2021):  Pages 722 - 762. Available with a subscription from Cambridge University Press: https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2021.99 Year of Publication: 2021.

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2. Record Number: 45032 Author(s): Archambeau, Nicole Contributor(s): Title : Sister Resens de Insula and the Desire for Certainty Source: Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence. Nicole Archambeau .   Cornell University Press, 2021. Renaissance Quarterly , 74., 3 ( 2021):  Pages 144 - 162. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctv12sdw0s.14 Year of Publication: 2021.

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3. Record Number: 24049 Author(s): Valentine, Susan, Contributor(s): Title : Inseparable Companions: Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise [The author analyzes both Abelard’s and Heloise’s ideas about Mary Magdalene. Rather than concentrating on her sinful life, Abelard emphasized her devotion to Christ and her role of apostle to the apostles in first bringing news of the Resurrection. The strong presence of the Magdalene in the Paraclete liturgy and Heloise’s questioning about her in the “Problemata” help to indicate Heloise’s concern to emulate the Magdalene’s loving devotion perhaps not only for Christ but for Abelard as well. 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. Renaissance Quarterly , 74., 3 ( 2021):  Pages 151 - 171. Year of Publication: 2009.

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4. Record Number: 10830 Author(s): Hamburger, Jeffrey F. Contributor(s): Title : The "Various Writings of Humanity": Johannes Tauler on Hildegard of Bingen's "Scivias" [The author analyzes Tauler's sermon delivered in Cologne to the Dominican nuns of St. Gertrude's in 1339. The sermon concerns in part an image in the nuns' refectory which was a copy of an illustration from Hildegard's "Scivias." Hamburger argues that Tauler adapts her visions to his particular needs, both as a mystic and a preacher. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: The Voice of Silence: Women's Literacy in a Men's Church.   Edited by Thérèse de Hemptinne and María Eugenia Góngora Medieval Church Studies .   Brepols, 2004. Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004):  Pages 167 - 191. Printed in an extended version in Visual Culture and the German Middle Ages. Edited by Kathryn Starkey and Horst Wenzel. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. New Middle Ages series. Pages 161-205. Year of Publication: 2004.

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5. Record Number: 15871 Author(s): Piatti, Pierantonio. Contributor(s): Title : Augustinianae mulieres: "Un problema storiografico: il "moveimento femminile agostiniano" nel Medioevo tra carisma ed istituzione [The Augustinian hermits, like the other mendicant orders, were mostly based in cities and towns. One of their roles was spiritual direction of pious women, both nuns and tertiaries. The hermits promoted the cult of Saint Monica, the mother of Augustine of Hippo. They also adapted the Rule of Augustine for use by women connected to the order. The hermits, however, issued few regulations for the care of these women. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Quaderni Medievali , 58., (dicembre 2004):  Pages 43 - 61. Year of Publication: 2004.

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6. Record Number: 20787 Author(s): Fleck, Cathleen A Contributor(s): Title : Blessed the eyes that see those things you see: The Trecento Choir Frescoes at Santa Maria Donnaregina in Naples [Describes the events depicted in the fresco cycles of the monastery, and makes connections between the relationship of the nun's agency as viewer of the frescoes to her relationship with the male mendicant orders of the monastery. Also examines how the content of the frescoes alludes to increases in women's literacy in Naples during this period. Title note supplied by Femiane.]. Source: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte , 67., ( 2004):  Pages 201 - 224. Year of Publication: 2004.

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7. Record Number: 11661 Author(s): Izbicki, Thomas M. Contributor(s): Title : The Origins of the "De ornatu mulierum" of Antoninus of Florence [The author highlights the significance of a legal text on excess in clothing. Franciscan observants had petitioned the pope for an opinion, and he had charged a committe to respond. (Two versions of the report written in Latin are presented as appendices to the article.) The expert committee included Antoninus, archbishop of Florence, and his text, "De ornatu mulierum," Izbicki demonstrates, was originally written to accompany their opinion. In general the committe sought a moderate path and urged respect for individual cities' customs in dress. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: MLN: Modern Language Notes (Full Text via Project Muse) 119, 1 (January 2004): 142-161. Supplement. Studia Humanitatis: Essays in Honor of Salvatore Camporeale. Link Info Year of Publication: 2004.

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8. Record Number: 11027 Author(s): Mazour-Matusevich, Yelena. Contributor(s): Title : Late Medieval "Counseling": Jean Gerson (1363-1419) as a Family Pastor Source: Journal of Family History , 29., 2 (April 2004):  Pages 153 - 167. Year of Publication: 2004.

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9. Record Number: 14096 Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth. Contributor(s): Title : Houses of a Peculiar Order: Cistercian Nunneries in Medieval England, with Special Attention to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries [Only two English women's monasteries, Marham and Tarrant, were officially incorporated as Cistercian houses. However, visitation records, mortuary rolls, and other evidence document unofficial houses for women that claimed Cistercian privileges. Freeman Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 55., 40241 ( 2004):  Pages 245 - 287. Year of Publication: 2004.

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10. Record Number: 10781 Author(s): Schmidt, Peter. Contributor(s): Title : The Use of Prints in German Convents of the Fifteenth Century: The Example of Nuremberg [The author focuses on the uses made by nuns in the Dominican house, the Katharinenkloster. Schmidt argues that the woodcuts were a medium of communication among nuns as well as between confessors and their female penitents. Title note supplied by Feminae Source: Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003):  Pages 43 - 69. Year of Publication: 2003.

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11. Record Number: 10558 Author(s): Field, Sean. Contributor(s): Title : Gilbert of Tournai's Letter to Isabelle of France: An Edition of the Complete Text [The author works from a recently discovered manuscript of the letter that the Franciscan preacher wrote to the daughter of King Louis VIII. Writing on his own initiative, Gilbert offered much of the standard spiritual advice to the religiously inclined princess. However, he also included a sophisticated section on spiritual ascent based on Pseudo-Dionysius. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003):  Pages 57 - 97. Year of Publication: 2003.

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12. Record Number: 10517 Author(s): Hotchin, Julie. Contributor(s): Title : Abbot as Guardian and Cultivator of Virtues: Two Perspectives on the "cura monialium" in Practice [The author explores two twelfth century letters from the abbey of Reinhandsbrunn concerning the pastoral care of nuns. The first is from a papal legate to the abbey's abbot answering his concerns about providing spiritual direction for the women at his monastery. The second letter is from the abbess of a nearby female house asking Reinhandsbrunn for one of its monks as a spiritual director. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of John Tillotson for His 60th Birthday.   Edited by Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear, and Dianne Tillotson .   Merton Priory Press, 2002. Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003):  Pages 50 - 64. Year of Publication: 2002.

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13. Record Number: 9512 Author(s): Wiethaus, Ulrike. Contributor(s): Title : Thieves and Carnivals: Gender in German Dominican Literature of the Fourteenth Century [The author examines two autobiographical vernacular texts from Margarete Ebner and Heinrich Seuse. She argues that Seuse was concerned in part with disciplining nuns under his care and showing that female spirituality was inferior to his more intellectual approach. Ebner, on the other hand, wrote a spiritual manual for the nuns in her house in order to enhance their daily practices. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature.   Edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Bradley Warren .   The New Middle Ages series. Palgrave, 2002. Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003):  Pages 209 - 238. Year of Publication: 2002.

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14. Record Number: 6722 Author(s): Bos, Elisabeth. Contributor(s): Title : The Literature of Spiritual Formation for Women in France and England, 1080-1180 [The author draws on letters written by such notable ecclesiastics as Peter the Venerable, Anselm, and Bernard of Clairvaux to nuns and to secular women, offering them advice on their spiritual problems]. Source: Listen, Daughter: The "Speculum virginum" and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Constant J. Mews .   The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003):  Pages 201 - 220. Year of Publication: 2001.

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15. Record Number: 6716 Author(s): Hotchin, Julie. Contributor(s): Title : Female Religious Life and the "Cura Monialium" in Hirsau Monasticism, 1080 to 1150 Source: Listen, Daughter: The "Speculum virginum" and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Constant J. Mews .   The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003):  Pages 59 - 83. Year of Publication: 2001.

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16. Record Number: 6718 Author(s): Powell, Morgan Contributor(s): Title : The Speculum virginum and the Audio-Visual Poetics of Women's Religious Instruction Source: Listen, Daughter: The "Speculum virginum" and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Constant J. Mews .   The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003):  Pages 59 - 83. Year of Publication: 2001.

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17. Record Number: 6724 Author(s): Küsters, Urban. Contributor(s): Title : The Second Blossoming of a Text: The "Spieghel der Maechden" and the Modern Devotion Source: Listen, Daughter: The "Speculum virginum" and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Constant J. Mews .   The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003):  Pages 245 - 261. Year of Publication: 2001.

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18. Record Number: 6714 Author(s): Mews, Constant J. Contributor(s): Title : Virginity, Theology, and Pedagogy in the "Speculum Virginum" Source: Listen, Daughter: The "Speculum virginum" and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Constant J. Mews .   The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003):  Pages 15 - 40. Year of Publication: 2001.

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19. Record Number: 4607 Author(s): Kay, Sarah. Contributor(s): Title : Audacious Nuns: Institutionalizing the Franciscan Order of Saint Clare [The author analyzes the legal and political struggles between the Poor Clares and the male Franciscan order, with the women finally successful in ensuring that the Franciscans would provide them with spiritual care]. Source: Church History , 69., 1 (March 2000):  Pages 41 - 62. Year of Publication: 2000.

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20. Record Number: 5306 Author(s): Feiss, Hugh, O.S.B. Contributor(s): Title : Hildegard's Vision of the Euchrist ("Scivias" 2.6): Theology and Pastoral Practice Source: American Benedictine Review , 49., 2 (June 1998):  Pages 165 - 194. Year of Publication: 1998.

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21. Record Number: 3988 Author(s): Ferrante, Joan. Contributor(s): Title : Correspondent: "Blessed is the Speech of Your Mouth" [Hildegard of Bingen as a letter writer]. Source: Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World.   Edited by Barbara Newman .   University of California Press, 1998. American Benedictine Review , 49., 2 (June 1998):  Pages 91 - 109. Year of Publication: 1998.

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22. Record Number: 5504 Author(s): Schmidt, Margot. Contributor(s): Title : Hildegard's Care of Souls [The author briefly considers the themes of the search for God, the supernatural gift of "discretio," and the divine force of grace]. Source: Wisdom Which Encircles Circles: Papers on Hildegard of Bingen.   Edited by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson .   Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1996. American Benedictine Review , 49., 2 (June 1998):  Pages 43 - 52. Year of Publication: 1996.

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23. Record Number: 6623 Author(s): Scott, Karen. Contributor(s): Title : Candied Oranges, Vinegar, and Dawn: The Imagery of Conversion in the Letters of Caterina of Siena [The author examines three letters that Catherine wrote in 1378 to Monna Costanza Soderini, wife of one of the Guelph leaders of Florence, to Stefano Maconi, one of her disciples in Siena, and to Pope Urban; all three of her correspondents were having dif Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995):  Pages 91 - 107. Women Mystic Writers. Edited by Dino S. Cervigni Year of Publication: 1995.

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24. Record Number: 10304 Author(s): Krahmer, Shawn Madison. Contributor(s): Title : Interpreting the Letters of Bernard of Clairvaux to Ermengarde, Countess of Brittany: the Twelfth-Century Context and the Language of Friendship [The article studies the letters of friendship and spiritual guidance written by Bernard of Clairvaux to women in general, and to Ermengarde in particular. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 27., 3 ( 1992):  Pages 217 - 250. Year of Publication: 1992.

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25. Record Number: 10298 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Art, Enclosure and the "Cura Monialium": Prolegomena in the Guise of a Postscript [The author addresses the question of female spirituality in the Middle Ages by looking both at monastic architecture and female patronage within the visual arts. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Gesta 31, 2 (1992): 108-134. Link InfoReprinted in The Visual and the Visionary: Art and Female Spirituality in Late Medieval Germany. By Jeffrey F. Hamburger. Zone Books, 1998. Pages 35-109. Year of Publication: 1992.

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26. Record Number: 10520 Author(s): Casagrande, Carla. Contributor(s): Title : The Protected Woman [Writers of didactic and pastoral literature aimed at women classified their intended female audience in various ways (by marital status, age, social status, or family role), but these texts shared many of the same values. They state that since women are weak and inconstant, they cannot be their own guardians and must submit to the authority of men. Instead of living in the public sphere, women should focus on the domestic sphere and discipline themselves. These texts discourage excessive attention to exterior concerns like clothing and cosmetics and instead encourage cultivating the inner virtues of chastity, humility, modesty, sobriety, silence, industriousness, and mercy. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: A History of Women in the West. Volume 2: Silences of the Middle Ages.   Edited by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber .   Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.  Pages 70 - 104. Year of Publication: 1992.

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27. Record Number: 10521 Author(s): Vecchio, Silvana. Contributor(s): Title : The Good Wife [Pastoral literature aimed at women helped spread church doctrine on women’s duties in marriage, often using examples from the lives of virtuous Biblical figures like Sarah or of female saints. These writings and others (like sermons) support the Aristotelian doctrine of marriage as a relationship between unequal partners; the wife must be faithful and submit to the will of her husband. The article also provides an overview of social views on the role of the husband as master and guide to the wife and family as well as the wife’s supplemental role in household management and the education and raising of children. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: A History of Women in the West. Volume 2: Silences of the Middle Ages.   Edited by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber .   Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.  Pages 105 - 135. Year of Publication: 1992.

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28. Record Number: 8685 Author(s): Biller, P.P.A. Contributor(s): Title : Marriage Patterns and Women's Lives: A Sketch of a Pastoral Geography [The author asks what pastoral manuals from northwestern and southern Europe might tell us about women's lives, and suggests that they might provide a response to demographic patterns in those regions. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Woman is a Worthy Wight: Women in English Society c. 1200-1500.   Edited by P.J.P. Goldberg .   Alan Sutton Publishing, 1992.  Pages 60 - 107. Year of Publication: 1992.

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29. Record Number: 10887 Author(s): Coakley, John Contributor(s): Title : Gender and the Authority of Friars: The Significance of Holy Women for Thirteenth-Century Franciscans and Dominicans [In their letters and other writings, friars often reflected on their relationships with devout women. As preachers, friars exerted pastoral authority over devout women, but they also saw these particular women as having a privileged relationship with God. Although the friars admired the close relationship these women had with the divine, they also asserted their own distance and superiority over the women along the lines of gender difference. At the same time, the friars used gender difference as a means of expressing doubts about themselves and the limits of their own powers. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Church History , 60., 4 ( 1991):  Pages 445 - 460. Year of Publication: 1991.

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30. Record Number: 10680 Author(s): Stoudt, Debra L. Contributor(s): Title : The Production and Preservation of Letters by Fourteenth-Century Dominican Nuns [Dominican priests often advised members of female religious houses on both practical and spiritual matters, and at times they aided women writers like Margaretha Ebner and Elsbeth Stagel as scribes or editors of their work. Letters by priests to nuns are more likely to be preserved than correspondence written by nuns themselves. The author gives two major reasons for the discrepancy: the letters were pereived to have historical and instructional values for the convent community, and priests held higher rank in the church hierarchy than nuns. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Mediaeval Studies , 53., ( 1991):  Pages 309 - 326. Year of Publication: 1991.

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31. Record Number: 7472 Author(s): Wilkins, Walter J. Contributor(s): Title : Submitting the Neck of Your Mind: Gregory the Great and Women of Power [The author argues that in his letters, Gregory, both as bishop and pope, identified with women's experiences, encouraged them in their spiritual development, and recognized their rational competence. When dealing with queens and empresses, Gregory recogn Source: Catholic Historical Review , 77., 4 (October 1991):  Pages 583 - 594. Year of Publication: 1991.

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32. Record Number: 35021 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Guta and Sintram with the Virgin Mary Source: Church History , 60., 4 ( 1991): Year of Publication:

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33. Record Number: 45127 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Abbess teaching nuns Source: Church History , 60., 4 ( 1991): Year of Publication:

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