Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 13655
Author(s): Windeatt, Barry.
Contributor(s):
Title : I Use but Comownycacyon and Good Wordys: Teaching and "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues that scholars have tended to discount Kempe's inner life. Windeatt draws attention to her as a contemplative, praising the prayers throughout her book. Furthermore her conversations with Jesus Christ, Mary, and other holy figures offer important teachings for Margery and her readers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Approaching Medieval English Anchoritic and Mystical Texts. Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching and Research Series, Volume 2. Edited by Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, and Roger Ellis . D. S. Brewer, 2005. Pages 115 - 128.
Year of Publication: 2005.

2. Record Number: 11407
Author(s): Lifshitz, Felice.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Persistence of Late Antiquity: Christ as Man and Woman in an Eighth-Century Miniature [The author discusses a miniature in which she argues that Christ is portrayed twice, once as the crucified Jesus and beneath as a female blessing figure. Lifshitz connects this to an intellectual milieu in which aristocratic women in monastic double houses were used to having spiritual authority. Furthermore they had access to late antique sources with similar outlooks including the Priscillianist tractates and the "Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles." Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 38., (Winter 2004): Pages 18 - 27.
Year of Publication: 2004.

3. Record Number: 11091
Author(s): Robertson, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Savoring "Scienta": The Medieval Anchoress Reads "Ancrene Wisse" [The author explores the reading experience that the "Ancrene Wisse" afforded the anchoress. Though intended as a guide book, it also encouraged the devout reader to experience Christ's life and thus transcend the limits of the anchorhold. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: A Companion to "Ancrene Wisse." Edited by Yoko Wada . D. S. Brewer, 2003. Medieval Feminist Forum , 38., (Winter 2004): Pages 113 - 144.
Year of Publication: 2003.

4. Record Number: 11378
Author(s): Passmore, S. Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Painting Lions, Drawing Lines, Writing Lives: Male Authorship in the Lives of Christina of Markyate, Margery Kempe, and Margaret Paston [First article in a Roundtable series entitled "Are You Still Deciding Whether to be a Medievalist or a Feminist?"]

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 36., (Fall 2003): Pages 36 - 40.
Year of Publication: 2003.

5. Record Number: 9719
Author(s): Mecham, June L.
Contributor(s):
Title : Reading Between the Lines: Compilation, Variation, and the Recovery of an Authentic Female Voice in the "Dornenkron" Prayer Books from Wienhausen

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 29., 2 (June 2003): Pages 109 - 128.
Year of Publication: 2003.

6. Record Number: 8061
Author(s): Wiethaus, Ulrike.
Contributor(s):
Title : Street Mysticism: An Introduction to "The Life and Revelations" of Agnes Blannbekin [The author provides a brief overview of Blannbekin's life and the record of her revelations. Blannbekin was a Beguine from Vienna whose confessor wrote down her visions and thoughts in Latin. It is unclear how much influence the confessor/scribe had on Agnes' written account. Excerpts from the Latin text and English translation follow. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. Volume 2: Medieval Women Writing Latin. Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey . Routledge, 2002. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002): Pages 281 - 307.
Year of Publication: 2002.

7. Record Number: 7270
Author(s): Beach, Alison I.
Contributor(s):
Title : Voices from a Distant Land: Fragments of a Twelfth-Century Nuns' Letter Collection [The author has identified nineteen full or partial letters written by nuns at Admont. Some are routine correspondence relating to patronage, but others are of a personal nature including a mother who wants her young daughter brought to her and a nun who

Source: Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002): Pages 34 - 54.
Year of Publication: 2002.

8. Record Number: 8058
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Autobiography or Autohagioglraphy? Decoding the subtext in the "Visions" of Elisabeth of Schonau [The author provides a brief overview of Elisabeth's life and her writings. She discusses the influence that Elisabeth's brother Ekbert may have had on the written accounts of her visions. She also considers the themes of pain and suffering and the devil's temptations that feature prominently in Elisabeth's visions. Excepts follow from the Latin text and English translation of Elizabeth's vision. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

9. Record Number: 6715
Author(s): Seyfarth, Jutta.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Speculum virginum": The Testimony of the Manuscripts

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. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002): Pages 41 - 57.
Year of Publication: 2001.

10. Record Number: 8550
Author(s): Edmunds, Sheila.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Life and Work of Clara Hatzlerin [Hatzlerin was a scribe in Augsburg who has nine signed surviving manuscripts. She lived with her brother, a notary, and was commissioned to produce books for wealthy citizens. The article concludes with a descriptive catalog of her nine known manuscripts. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History , 2., ( 1999): Pages 1 - 25.
Year of Publication: 1999.

11. Record Number: 7359
Author(s): Mckitterick, Rosamond.
Contributor(s):
Title : Les Femmes, les arts et la culture en occident dans le haut moyen âge [The author examines the efforts made by learned women during the Carolingian era to promote Biblical knowledge and reform the liturgy. In monasteries high-born women copied important texts and wrote in all the valued literary genres. Royal and noblewomen, including Gisela, the sister of Charlemagne, and Rotrude, his daughter, developed relationships as patrons and allies with scholars and churchmen from whom they commissioned texts which responded to their religious needs. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Femmes et pouvoirs des femmes à Byzance et en Occident (VIe -XIe siècles). Colloque international organisé les 28, 29 et 30 mars 1996 à Bruxelles et Villeneuve d'Ascq. Edited by Stéphane Lebecq, Alain Dierkens, Régine Le Jan, and Jean-Marie Sansterre . Centre de Recherche sur l'Histoire de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3, 1999. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002): Pages 149 - 161.
Year of Publication: 1999.

12. Record Number: 3545
Author(s): Mooney, Catherine M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Voice, Gender, and the Portrayal of Sanctity briefly explores common patterns and themes in the lives and writings by and about holy women; themes include the ways that women speak about themselves in contrast to the ways male associates represent them, differing uses of bridal imagery, different emphases on bodily descriptions, differences in women's active roles, and the prototypes and exempla put forward for women's imitation].

Source: Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters. Edited by Catherine M. Mooney . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002): Pages 1 - 15.
Year of Publication: 1999.

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.

14. Record Number: 3525
Author(s): Ferrante, Joan.
Contributor(s):
Title : Scribe quae vides et audis: Hildegard, Her Language, and Her Secretaries [The author suggests that Guibert, Hildegard's last secretary, had her permission to embellish her texts with ornate rhetoric while all her earlier scribes had confined themselves to making corrections].

Source: The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin. Edited by David Townsend and Andrew Taylor . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Romance Philology , 52., (Fall 1998): Pages 102 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1998.

15. Record Number: 3502
Author(s): Elliott, Dyan.
Contributor(s):
Title : Dominae or "Dominatae"? Female Mysticism and the Trauma of Textuality

Source: Women, Marriage, and Family in Medieval Christendom: Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, C.S.B. Edited by Constance M. Rousseau and Joel T. Rosenthal . Western Michigan University, 1998. Romance Philology , 52., (Fall 1998): Pages 47 - 77.
Year of Publication: 1998.

16. Record Number: 13513
Author(s): Derolez, Albert.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Manuscript Transmission of Hildegard of Bingen's Writings: The State of the Problem [Many Hildegard manuscripts originated at the Rupertsberg scriptorium during her lifetime and have corrections suggesting an effort to produce uniformity. Most of the rest were produced in monasteries with ties to Rupertsberg. Few were created after the effort to canonize Hildegard failed in the first half of the thirteenth century.].

Source: Hildegard of Bingen: The Context of Her Thought and Art. Edited by Charles Burnett and Peter Dronke Warburg Institute Colloquia Series . The Warburg Institute, 1998. Romance Philology , 52., (Fall 1998): Pages 17 - 28.
Year of Publication: 1998.

17. Record Number: 1595
Author(s): Ehrenschwendtner, Marie-Luise.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Library Collected by and for the Use of Nuns: St. Catherine's Convent, Nuremberg [by the end of the fifteenth century the library had between 500 and 600 books, mostly in German, consisting of spritual literature and texts supporting the reformed Dominican life].

Source: Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor . British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1997. French Studies , 51., 1 (January 1997): Pages 123 - 132.
Year of Publication: 1997.

18. Record Number: 2025
Author(s): Seymour, M.C.
Contributor(s):
Title : Chaucer's Revision of the Prologue of "The Legend of Good Women" [suggests that Chaucer revised the prologue in 1399 or 1400 in order to present the text to the new king, Henry IV; he excised some portions to make it more accessible and added material on the duties of lordship and his own literary achievements].

Source: Modern Language Review , 92., 4 (October 1997): Pages 832 - 841.
Year of Publication: 1997.

19. Record Number: 3488
Author(s): Gates, Laura Doyle.
Contributor(s):
Title : Distaff and Pen: Producing the Evangiles des Quenouilles

Source: Neophilologus , 81., 1 (January 1997): Pages 13 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1997.

20. Record Number: 1600
Author(s): Sutton, Anne F. and Livia Visser-Fuchs
Contributor(s):
Title : The Cult of Angels in Late Fifteenth-Century England: An Hours of the Guardian Angel Presented to Queen Elizabeth Woodville [appendices include a full description of the manuscript along with a transcription of the Latin text of the "Hymn to the Guardian Angel" and an English translation].

Source: Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor . British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1997. Romance Philology , 52., (Fall 1998): Pages 230 - 265.
Year of Publication: 1997.

21. Record Number: 1594
Author(s): Oliver, Judith.
Contributor(s):
Title : Worship of the Word: Some Gothic "NonnenbŸcher" in Their Devotional Context [choirbooks, antiphonals, psalters, homilaries and other books necessary for the monastic life; discusses the importance placed on individual words and the influence of needlework on the aesthetics of the manuscripts].

22. Record Number: 1589
Author(s): Smith, Lesley.
Contributor(s):
Title : Scriba, Femina: Medieval Depictions of Women Writing [appendix inventories the Western European manuscript illustrations that depict women writing].

23. Record Number: 2094
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Le Roman de la Dame a la Lycorne et du Biau Chevalier au Lion: Text, Image, Rubric [argues that marginal instructions and illustrations prove a workshop collaboration between the "chef d'atelier" and the artist ; they both had read the romance and planned and executed illustrations to help readers understand the narrative's details and interpret the characters].

Source: French Studies , 51., 1 (January 1997): Pages 1 - 18.
Year of Publication: 1997.

24. Record Number: 2272
Author(s): Wilson, Janet.
Contributor(s):
Title : Communities of Dissent: The Secular and Ecclesiastical Communities of Margery Kempe's "Book" [argues that the controversies Kempe provoked on religious, social, and sexual questions demonstrate underlying tensions among Lynn's laiety and religious which Kempe's enthusiastic excesses merely exacerbated].

Source: Medieval Women in Their Communities. Edited by Diane Watt . University of Toronto Press, 1997. French Studies , 51., 1 (January 1997): Pages 155 - 185.
Year of Publication: 1997.

25. Record Number: 1565
Author(s): Tarvers, Josephine K.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Alleged Illiteracy of Margery Kempe: A Reconsideration of the Evidence

Source: Medieval Perspectives , 11., ( 1996): Pages 113 - 124. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
Year of Publication: 1996.

26. Record Number: 1155
Author(s): Hasenohr, Geneviève.
Contributor(s):
Title : Du bon usage de la galette des rois [a meditation describes in detail the traditional holiday game in which the person who finds the bean hidden in the twelfth night cake is named king; the text appears in a manuscript copied by a Benedictine nun; the article includes an edition of the text

Source: Romania , 40241 ( 1996): Pages 445 - 467.
Year of Publication: 1996.

27. Record Number: 1343
Author(s): Kennedy, Beverly
Contributor(s):
Title : Cambridge MS. DD.4.24: A Misogynous Scribal Revision of the "Wife of Bath's Prologue"?

Source: Chaucer Review , 30., 4 ( 1996): Pages 343 - 358.
Year of Publication: 1996.

28. Record Number: 2354
Author(s): Wilkins, Constance L.
Contributor(s):
Title : Textual Production and Reproduction: Hild, Whitby, and the Christianization of the North

Source: Old English Newsletter , 29., 3 (Spring 1996):
Year of Publication: 1996.

29. Record Number: 901
Author(s): O' Mara, V. M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Scribal Ability and Scribal Activity in Late Medieval England: The Evidence?

Source: Leeds Studies in English , ( 1996): Pages 87 - 130.
Year of Publication: 1996.

30. Record Number: 1616
Author(s): Pigg, Daniel F.
Contributor(s):
Title : Medieval Theories of Textual Formation and the Book of Margery Kempe [argues that both Margery and the second scribe consciously shaped the text in response to the commentary tradition].

Source: Studia Mystica New Series , 16., 1 ( 1995): Pages 106 - 115.
Year of Publication: 1995.

31. Record Number: 338
Author(s): McGurk, Patrick and Jane Rosenthal
Contributor(s):
Title : Anglo-Saxon Gospelbooks of Judith, Countess of Flanders: Their Text, Make-Up, and Function

Source: Anglo-Saxon England , 24., ( 1995): Pages 251 - 308.
Year of Publication: 1995.

32. Record Number: 6621
Author(s): Arcangeli, Tiziana.
Contributor(s):
Title : Re-reading a Mis-known and Mis-read Mystic: Angela da Foligno [The author argues that Angela used the language of the body to make her "voice" heard; even though Angela had to couch her revelations in a male subtext of Biblical references and filter her voice through a male scribe, her writings did survive].

Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995): Pages 41 - 78. Women Mystic Writers. Edited by Dino S. Cervigni
Year of Publication: 1995.

33. Record Number: 462
Author(s): Dillon, Janette.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Making of Desire in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [relations between laywomen and male clergy that defined sexuality].

Source: Leeds Studies in English , ( 1995): Pages 113 - 144.
Year of Publication: 1995.

34. Record Number: 677
Author(s): Laing, Margaret and Angus McIntosh
Contributor(s):
Title : The Language of "Ancrene Riwle," the Katherine Group Texts and "The Wohunge of Ure Lauerd" in BL Cotton Titus D XVIII [detailed analysis of language overlays including a North West Midland element and a North Midland element].

Source: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen , 96., ( 1995): Pages 235 - 263.
Year of Publication: 1995.

35. Record Number: 387
Author(s): Voaden, Rosalynn.
Contributor(s):
Title : God's Almighty Hand: Women Co- Writing the Book [women visionaries' call to write].

Source: Women, the Book and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 1 [Volume 2: Women, the Book and the Worldly]. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Leeds Studies in English , ( 1995): Pages 55 - 65.
Year of Publication: 1995.

36. Record Number: 3351
Author(s): Uhlman, Diana R.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Comfort of Voice, the Solace of Script: Orality and Literacy in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues against a dichotomy between oral versus written and instead suggests a complex interdependence].

Source: Studies in Philology , 91., 1 (Winter 1994): Pages 50 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1994.

37. Record Number: 6260
Author(s): Ferroni, Giulio.
Contributor(s):
Title : L'Io e gli altri nelle "Lettere" di Caterina da Siena [Catherine of Siena can be described as the first woman author in the Italian vernacular, because we can hear her distinctive voice; however, in the transmission of her letters, most of them dictated to men, we have numerous problems of mediation to resol

Source: Les Femmes écrivains en Italie au moyen âge et à la renaissance. Actes du colloque international Aix-en-Provence, 12, 13, 14 novembre 1992. . Université de Provence, 1994. Studies in Philology , 91., 1 (Winter 1994): Pages 139 - 156.
Year of Publication: 1994.

38. Record Number: 1958
Author(s): Christie, Niall.
Contributor(s):
Title : Troubadour or Trobairitz? Inconsistent Gender Markings in Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Ms. fr. 844 [analysis of the Countess de Dia's "A chanta m'er de so qu'ieu no volria"].

Source: Manuscripta , 38., 3 (November 1994): Pages 205 - 206.
Year of Publication: 1994.

39. Record Number: 1560
Author(s): Valentini, Daria.
Contributor(s):
Title : In Search of the Subject: Angela of Foligno and Her Mediator

Source: Romance Languages Annual , 6., ( 1994): Pages 371 - 375.
Year of Publication: 1994.

40. Record Number: 3513
Author(s): Mooney, Catherine M.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Authorial Role of Brother A. in the Composition of Angela of Foligno's Revelations [The author argues that Brother A. and Angela collaborated on the writing of her "Memorial"].

Source: Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance. Edited by E. Ann Matter and John Coakley . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Romance Languages Annual , 6., ( 1994): Pages 34 - 63.
Year of Publication: 1994.

41. 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.

42. Record Number: 10005
Author(s): Morse, Charlotte Cook.
Contributor(s):
Title : What to Call Petrarch’s Griselda [The story about Griselda appears in many medieval manuscripts and early printed editions, but each version is unique, with different introductory and concluding rubrics (headings and titles). These rubrics provide insights into the variety of ways early scribes and readers read the story: it could be read as a myth, history, fable, or exemplum. A bibliography lists 188 manuscripts containing Petrarch’s Latin Griselda story. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Uses of manuscripts in literary studies: essays in memory of Judson Boyce Allen. Edited by Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods Studies in medieval culture . Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992. American Benedictine Review , 43., 1 (March 1992): Pages 263 - 303.
Year of Publication: 1992.

43. Record Number: 8732
Author(s): McKitterick, Rosamond.
Contributor(s):
Title : Nuns‚ Scriptoria in England and Francia in the Eighth Century [The author discusses book production in eighth-century French and English female monasteries, as well as their cross-channel influences on one another. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Francia , 19., 1 ( 1992): Pages 1 - 35. Reprinted in Rosamond McKitterick, Books, Scribes and Learning in the Frankish Kingdoms, 6th-9th Centuries. Variorum, 1994. Article 7
Year of Publication: 1992.

44. Record Number: 10245
Author(s): Lawton, David.
Contributor(s):
Title : Voice, Authority, and Blasphemy in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author examines the importance of blasphemy in the production of literary texts in fifteenth-century England; during this time, vernacular writing was sometimes associated with heresy. While some readers fear Kempe expresses unorthodox religious ideas, the author notes that Kempe espouses orthodox views. Kempe also demonstrates a knowledge of Latin texts even though she claims to be illiterate. Ultimately, Kempe’s unique voice as a woman is preserved through the text even if her speech is mediated by a long line of male scribes and editors. Title note supplied by Feminae].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Francia , 19., 1 ( 1992): Pages 93 - 115.
Year of Publication: 1992.

45. Record Number: 10661
Author(s): Davidson, Audrey Ekdahl.
Contributor(s):
Title : Another manuscript of the "Ordo Virtutum" of Hildegard von Bingen [The author provides a breif note on a manuscript copied in fifteenth century Germany probably by a monk at the monastery of Sponheim. Davidson includes two musical examples showing the words and music from both the Sponheim manuscript (British Library Add. MS 15, 102) and the twelfth century Wiesbaden manuscript (Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek, MS 2).]

Source: Early Drama, Art, and Music Review , 13., 2 (Spring 1991): Pages 36 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1991.

46. Record Number: 11067
Author(s): Hicks, Eric.
Contributor(s):
Title : “Le Livre des Trois Vertus” of Christine de Pizan: Beinecke MS. 427 [Christine exerted a large degree of control over the production and transmission of her writings. Although it is unknown whether any existing manuscript of Christine’s work is written in her own handwriting, Christine did act as both author and editor of manuscripts containing her own poetry. The paintings in Beinecke MS. 427 suggest that Christine also oversaw the illumination of her manuscripts, as the representation of allegorical figures in this volume follow the text of the poem more closely than the illustrations in other manuscripts. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Yale French Studies (Full Text via JSTOR) (1991): 57-71. Special Editions: Style and Values in Medieval Art and Literature.Link Info
Year of Publication: 1991.

47. Record Number: 11084
Author(s): Johnson, Lynn Staley.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Trope of the Scribe and the Question of Literary Authority in the Works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe [The author examines “scribal metaphors” and the figure of the scribe as they relate to women authors and literary authority in the works of Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Speculum , 66., 4 ( 1991): Pages 820 - 838.
Year of Publication: 1991.

48. Record Number: 11209
Author(s): McNamer, Sarah
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Authors, Provincial Setting: The Re-versing of Courtly Love in the Findern Manuscript [The article includes an appendix with transcriptions of Middle English poems believed to be written by women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Viator , 22., ( 1991): Pages 279 - 310.
Year of Publication: 1991.

49. Record Number: 10687
Author(s): Bowers, John M.
Contributor(s):
Title : The House of Chaucer & Son: The Business of Lancastrian Canon-Formation [The author argues that Thomas Chaucer, son of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, maintained the lease on his father’s tenement in Westminster Abbey in order to maintain control over the poet’s manuscripts. Here, exemplars for the authoritative Chaucer manuscripts were assembled for copying by professional scribes. By overseeing the transmission of his father’s texts, Thomas wished to maintain political connections to the Lancastrians (the ruling dynasty) and to establish Chaucer’s place in the canon as the “father” of English poetry. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Perspectives , 6., ( 1991): Pages 135 - 143.
Year of Publication: 1991.

50. 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.

51. Record Number: 12806
Author(s): Millett, Bella.
Contributor(s):
Title : Some editorial problems in the Katherine Group [The author discusses the textual problems, caused by both scribes and editors, to the Katherine Group. The article includes an appendix that gives statistics on alliterative and rhythmical phrases in Seinte Iuliene, Seinte Katerine and Seinte Margarete, as compared with a sample from Aelfric's Passio sanctae Ceciliae. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: English Studies , 71., 5 ( 1990): Pages 386 - 394.
Year of Publication: 1990.

52. Record Number: 31217
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Dedicatory Image of the Lippoldsberg Gospels