Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 16285
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Papi , Anna Benvenuti.
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  • Title: Cristomimesi al femminile [The crusade ideal could be lived out externally in action or internalized. Devout women, including tertiaries, supported the crusades and saw themselves as combating the enemies of Christ. Margaret of Cortona thought all these foes, except the Jews, could be converted. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali.Anna Benvenuti Papi.  Herder, 1990.  Pages 141 - 168. Originally printed as "Margarita filia Jerusalem: Santa Margherita da Cortona e il superamento mistica della crociata," in Toscana e Terrasanta nel medioevo,
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Albigensian Crusade Crusades Franciscan Order- Tertiaries Giunta Bevegnati, Franciscan and Hagiographer Jesus Christ- Imitation of Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan Penitent and Saint Marie d'Oignies, Mystic Penitents Women in Religion
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 13- 14
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  • Year of Publication: 1990.
  • Language: Italian
  • ISSN/ISBN: 8885876129