Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 1126
Author(s): Feiss, Hugh, O.S.B.
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Title : A Poet Abbess from Notre-Dame de Saintes [verses on a mortuary roll are attributed to Sibille, fifth abbess of the monastery; in the poems she celebrates the deceased, Abbess Mathilda of Holy Trinity Monastery, Caen, and reflects on the inevitability of death].

Source: Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995): Pages 39 - 54.
Year of Publication: 1995.

2. Record Number: 4391
Author(s): Feiss, Hugh, O.S.B.
Contributor(s):
Title : Consecrated to Christ, Nuns of This Church Community: The Benedictines of Notre-Dame de Saintes, 1047-1792 [the author maintains that the documents and other evidence present "the picture of a large, independent, and self-consciously feminine community, which played an important part in the economic and cultural life of its region and possesed the vitality to survive long periods of war and other hardships during the 750 years of its existence" (Page 270)].

Source: American Benedictine Review , 45., 3 (September 1994): Pages 269 - 302.
Year of Publication: 1994.

3. Record Number: 5098
Author(s): Dabrowska, Elzbieta.
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Title : La Crosse de l'Abbesse Florence et la sépulture des abbesses du XIe au XIIIe siècle

Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. . Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. American Benedictine Review , 45., 3 (September 1994): Pages 111 - 124.
Year of Publication: 1994.

4. Record Number: 8700
Author(s): Feiss, Hugh, O.S.B.
Contributor(s):
Title : Care for the Text: A Twelfth-Century Glossed Rule of Benedict for Notre Dame de Saintes [The author examines a Latin copy of St. Benedict’s "Rule" belonging to the women’s monastery of Notre Dame in Saintes. Many of the Latin endings were changed to the feminine forms and extensive glosses were added to the prologue and first two chapters. The author suggests that the scribe/editor was a nun although there is no certain evidence. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: American Benedictine Review , 43., 1 (March 1992): Pages 47 - 56.
Year of Publication: 1992.