Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 45035
Author(s): Enders, Jody
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Title : Confession Follies: Folie à Deux? [Le Badin, la Femme, et la Chambriere] (RBM, #16;)
Source: Immaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Farces in Modern English.   Edited by Jody Enders, ed. and trans .   University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022.  Pages 130 - 162. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv25j12t8.12
Year of Publication: 2022.

2. Record Number: 44901
Author(s): Bernardino da Siena
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Title : Bernardino of Siena Preaches on Marriage
Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.   Edited by Eugene Smelyansky .   University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 237 - 241.
Year of Publication: 2020.

3. Record Number: 45009
Author(s): Marie de France and Kisha G. Tracy,
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Title : Bisclavret (ca. 12th c.)
Source: Medieval Disability Sourcebook: Western Europe.   Edited by Cameron Hunt McNabb .   punctum books, 2020.  Pages 233 - 241. Available open access from the JSTOR website: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv11hptcd.23
Year of Publication: 2020.

4. Record Number: 15314
Author(s): Butler, Sara M.
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Title : Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth and Fourteenth- Century England
Source: Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005):  Pages 9 - 31.
Year of Publication: 2005.

5. Record Number: 14145
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Title : Tecla Servent and Her Two Husbands [The author analyzes the case of Tecla Servent, a fifteenth century Spanish visionary, who was mistreated by her husband. In her visions, however, Tecla has a rich and rewarding relationship with Christ who takes her as his wife. Difficulties with her ear
Source: The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy.   Edited by Sherry Roush and Cristelle L. Baskins .   Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005):  Pages 187 - 200.
Year of Publication: 2005.

6. Record Number: 8077
Author(s): Salisbury, Eve.
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Title : Chaucer's "Wife," the Law, and the Middle English Breton Lays [The author argues that Chaucer's Wife and the Breton lays address legal questions and loopholes concerning rape and marriage, commenting on and reinforcing the laws of both ecclesiastical and secular counts. 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. Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005):  Pages 73 - 93.
Year of Publication: 2002.

7. Record Number: 8082
Author(s): Nugent, Christopher G.
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Title : Reading Riannon: The Problematics of Motherhood in "Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet" [The author focuses on the episode in which Riannon, the queen, is wrongly accused by her serving women of killing her newborn son. Riannon must accept a strange ritual humiliation as her punishment until the baby is brought back to the royal court. 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. Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005):  Pages 180 - 202.
Year of Publication: 2002.

8. Record Number: 8074
Author(s): Salisbury, Eve, Georgiana Donavin and Merrall Llewelyn Price
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Title : Introduction [In this introductory essay the authors briefly survey the historiography and surviving evidence for domestic violence in the Middle Ages. They argue for the importance of the essays in this collection because they consider issues of domestic violence more broadly than much of the previous scholarship on the topic. 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. Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005):  Pages 1 - 27.
Year of Publication: 2002.

9. Record Number: 8081
Author(s): Migiel, Marilyn.
Contributor(s):
Title : Domestic Violence in the "Decameron" [The author examines Emilia's story about Melisso and Giosefo in the "Decameron." They both receive advice from Solomon who advocates wife beating. The story ends with the narrator Emilia offening justifications for violence against women. 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. Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005):  Pages 164 - 179.
Year of Publication: 2002.

10. Record Number: 8281
Author(s): Vasvári, Louise O.
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Title : Intimate Violence: Shrew Taming as Wedding Ritual in the "Conde Lucanor"
Source: Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Hispanic Issues, Volume 26.   Edited by Eukene Lacarra Lanz .   Routledge, 2002. Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005):  Pages 21 - 38.
Year of Publication: 2002.

11. Record Number: 8075
Author(s): Maddern, Philippa.
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Title : Interpreting Silence: Domestic Violence in the King's Courts in East Anglia, 1422-1442 [The author argues that domestic violence in medieval households was sanctioned when husbands were disciplining their wives, children, or servants. However, subordinates who rebelled were severely punished as were husbands who killed members of their household. 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. Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005):  Pages 31 - 56.
Year of Publication: 2002.

12. Record Number: 8076
Author(s): Hawkes, Emma.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Reasonable" Laws of Domestic Violence in Late Medieval England [The author argues theat the concept of reason worked on three levels in regard to the law and domestic abuse: 1) Rationality (a masculine characteristic) was regarded as the key issue, 2) Husbands could discipline their wives "reasonably," 3) Women were alienated from courts because their irrationality made them inherently unreliable. 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. Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005):  Pages 57 - 70.
Year of Publication: 2002.

13. Record Number: 5960
Author(s): Kienzle, Beverly Mayne and Nancy Nienhuis
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Title : Battered Women and the Construction of Sanctity [the authors explore written accounts of the lives of Monica, the mother of Augustine, Godelieve of Gistel, whose husband had her murdered, Dorothy of Montau, and Catherine of Genoa, all of whom suffered psychological and physical abuse at the hands of their husbands; they demonstrate a "complex theological internplay between holiness, patience, and suffering in the eyes of these women's hagiographers" (p. 59)].
Source: Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 17., 1 (Spring 2001):  Pages 33 - 61.
Year of Publication: 2001.

14. Record Number: 7063
Author(s): Chojnacki, Stanley.
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Title : Il divorzio di Cateruzza: rappresentazione femminile ed esito processuale (Venezia 1465 [Marriages helped unify the Venetian patriciate, and their dissolution undermined unity. Church courts dealing with dissolution of marriages had to take into account both law and politics. Church courts did not grant separations lightly, demanding evidence of marital failure; and they tried to promote reconciliation of spouses. The charges Cateruzza Vittori brought against her husband included keeping a servant as a concubine and failing to support his stepsons. Cateruzza obtained a rare case in this situation, perhaps because she had strong backing from her family and its connections. Title note supplied by Feminae]
Source: Coniugi nemici: la separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo.   Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni .   Il mulino, 2000. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 17., 1 (Spring 2001):  Pages 371 - 416.
Year of Publication: 2000.

15. Record Number: 7064
Author(s): Minnucci, Giovanni.
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Title : An mulier verberari possit‚: Una Œquaestio disputata‚ di argomento matrimoniale [An Italian jurist composed a "disputed question" debating whether an abusive husband could be bound under threat of a financial penalty not to beat his wife. The jurist answered, drawing on the work of the Bolognese legist Bulgarus, that the wife owed her husband the conjugal debt but that he could be bound not to inflict physical abuse. Title note supplied by Feminae].
Source: Coniugi nemici: la separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo.   Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni .   Il mulino, 2000. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 17., 1 (Spring 2001):  Pages 491 - 498.
Year of Publication: 2000.

16. Record Number: 7065
Author(s): Esposito, Anna.
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Title : Convivenza e separazione a Roma nel primo Rinascimento [Wills from early-Renaissance Rome reveal frequent sexual use of servants as concubines, some of whom had illegitimate children. Many of the fathers were married men. Adultery did not often lead to divorce, but wife beating could. Six primary source documents, pp. 512-517. Title note supplied by Feminae].
Source: Coniugi nemici: la separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo.   Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni .   Il mulino, 2000. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 17., 1 (Spring 2001):  Pages 499 - 517.
Year of Publication: 2000.

17. Record Number: 978
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Title : A Disgrace for All Jewish Men: Preliminary Considerations for the Study of Wife-Beating in Jewish History
Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 21., (Spring 1996):  Pages 21 - 23.
Year of Publication: 1996.

18. Record Number: 977
Author(s): Ho, Cynthia.
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Title : Spare the Rod, Spoil the Bride
Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 21., (Spring 1996):  Pages 19 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1996.

19. Record Number: 20797
Author(s): Pallarés Méndez, Maria del Carmen
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Title : Concienca y resistencia: la denuncia de la agresión masculina en la Galicia del siglo XV
Source: Arenal: Revista de Historia de las Mujeres , 2., 1 ( 1995):  Pages 67 - 79.
Year of Publication: 1995.

20. Record Number: 2718
Author(s): Sabaté, Flocel.
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Title : Femmes et violence dans la Catalogne du XIVe siècle
Source: Annales du Midi , 106., 207 (juillet-septembre 1994):  Pages 277 - 316.
Year of Publication: 1994.

21. Record Number: 7165
Author(s): Finch, Andrew.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and Violence in the Later Middle Ages: The Evidence of the Officiality of Cerisy
Source: Continuity and Change , 7., 1 ( 1992):  Pages 23 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1992.

22. Record Number: 11227
Author(s): Grossman, Avraham.
Contributor(s):
Title : Medieval Rabbinic Views on Wife-Beating, 800-1300
Source: Jewish History , 5., 1 (Spring 1991):  Pages 53 - 62.
Year of Publication: 1991.

23. Record Number: 12674
Author(s): Coudert, Allison.
Contributor(s):
Title : Exemplary Biblical Couples and the Sacrament of Marriage [The author explores the church's attitude toward marriage through medieval interpretations of Adam and Eve, Mary and Joseph, and the soul and Christ. Coudert concludes that the church's views on sexuality and women were decidedly hostile. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life.   Edited by Helen Rodite Lemay Acta .   Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990. Jewish History , 5., 1 (Spring 1991):  Pages 59 - 83. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987
Year of Publication: 1990.

24. Record Number: 32270
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Title : Jaloux battant sa femme (Jealous husband beating his wife)
Source: Jewish History , 5., 1 (Spring 1991):
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25. Record Number: 36069
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Title : Cantiga 105 How the wicked bridegroom planned to do something and committed a shameful deed
Source: Jewish History , 5., 1 (Spring 1991):
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26. Record Number: 36286
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Title : Murder of Godelieve from The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve
Source: Jewish History , 5., 1 (Spring 1991):
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