Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 14122
Author(s): Franke, Birgit.
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Title : Female Role Models in Tapestries [The author briefly describes some of the tapestries owned or used by Margaret of York and her step-grand-daughter, Margaret of Austria. Frequently a series of tapestries celebrated heroic female figures like Esther, as savior of her people, and Abigail,
Source: Women of Distinction: Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria.   Edited by Dagmar Eichberger .   Brepols, 2005.  Pages 154 - 165.
Year of Publication: 2005.
2. Record Number: 14120
Author(s): Welzel, Barbara.
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Title : Widowhood: Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria [The author briefly discusses the two women's roles as protectors of their country. They are sometimes figured as the Biblical Judith, but in portraits Margaret of York is represented as a married woman. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Women of Distinction: Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria.   Edited by Dagmar Eichberger .   Brepols, 2005.  Pages 102 - 113.
Year of Publication: 2005.
3. Record Number: 14124
Author(s): Legaré, Anne-Marie.
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Title : La librairye de Madame: Two Princesses and Their Libraries [The author briefly surveys the manuscripts belonging to Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria. Margaret of York acquired a small number of French religious texts in line with her roles as wife and potential mother. In contrast her step-granddaughter c
Source: Women of Distinction: Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria.   Edited by Dagmar Eichberger .   Brepols, 2005.  Pages 206 - 219.
Year of Publication: 2005.
4. Record Number: 14125
Author(s): Fontaine, Marie Madeleine.
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Title : Olivier de la Marche and Jean Lemaire de Belges: The Author and His Female Patron [The author briefly surveys the careers of the two men who were courtiers and poets in the service of Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria. Both wrote works celebrating women. Olivier de la Marche had a strong influence on the Burgundian court because
Source: Women of Distinction: Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria.   Edited by Dagmar Eichberger .   Brepols, 2005.  Pages 220 - 229.
Year of Publication: 2005.
5. Record Number: 14121
Author(s): Lorentz, Philippe.
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Title : Children's Portraits: Between Politics and Family Memories [The author briefly surveys portraits done in the late medieval period, looking most closely at paintings of Margaret of Austria. In some cases the portraits were made to be sent to potential husbands in marriage negotiations. Title note supplied by Femin
Source: Women of Distinction: Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria.   Edited by Dagmar Eichberger .   Brepols, 2005.  Pages 114 - 123.
Year of Publication: 2005.
6. Record Number: 14126
Author(s): Rudy, Kathryn M.
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Title : Women's Devotions at Court [The author briefly surveys the devotional activities of Margaret of York and her step-grandaughter Margaret of Austria. These included prayers and sacred objects related to fertility and childbirth, books for prayer, meditation, and teaching young childr
Source: Women of Distinction: Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria.   Edited by Dagmar Eichberger .   Brepols, 2005.  Pages 230 - 239.
Year of Publication: 2005.
7. Record Number: 7270
Author(s): Beach, Alison I.
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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: 4243
Author(s): Beach, Alison I.
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Title : Claustration and Collaboration Between the Sexes in the Twelfth-Century Scriptorium [the author compares the book production practices of two German double houses; Admont valued women's learning and the abbot worked with nuns to write down his Biblical commentaries; Schäftlarn did not train women in writing nor allow them access to books, but women who could already write were put to work in the scriptorium].
Source: Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society. Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little.   Edited by Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein .   Cornell University Press, 2000. Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002):  Pages 57 - 75.
Year of Publication: 2000.
9. Record Number: 2772
Author(s): Brunner, Karl.
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Title : Leopold III. von Österreich. Wege zur Heiligkeit
Source: Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft , 7., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 34 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1996.
10. Record Number: 2773
Author(s): Rath, Brigitte.
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Title : Im Reich der Topoi. Nonnenleben im mittelalterlichen Österreich zwischen Norm und Praxis
Source: Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft , 7., 1 ( 1996):  Pages 122 - 134.
Year of Publication: 1996.
11. Record Number: 2774
Author(s): Rath, Brigitte.
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Title : ... und wolt das Schwert durch in stossen. Zur physischen Gewalt in Südtirol um 1500
Source: Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft , 7., 2 ( 1996):  Pages 56 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1996.
12. Record Number: 246
Author(s): Ward, Jennifer C.
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Title : Mechthild von der Pfalz as Patroness: Aspects of Female Patronage in the Early Renaissance
Source: Medievalia et Humanistica New Series , 22., ( 1995):  Pages 141 - 170. Special issue: Diversity
Year of Publication: 1995.
13. Record Number: 15599
Author(s): Freed, John B.
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Title : German Source Collections: The Archdiocese of Salzburg as a Case Study [The author uses printed source collections to study the women of the Pettau family, an extremely successful group of archiepiscopal ministerials, who served the archbishops of Salzburg as bondsmen. Freed concludes that the male family members married up in social status, while the females did not. He also found that women generally retained a good deal of control over thier property. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History.   Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal .   University of Georgia Press, 1990. Medievalia et Humanistica New Series , 22., ( 1995):  Pages 80 - 121.
Year of Publication: 1990.
14. Record Number: 12808
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Title : Mars in Taurus at the Nativity of the Wife of Bath [The author investigates the Wife of Bath’s horoscope, and concludes she was predisposed to prostitution, basing this claim on a passage from Leopold of Austria’s astrological treatise, which states that if a woman is born under a feminine astrological sign, such as Taurus, and Mars is in that sign, she will become a prostitute. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: English Language Notes , 28., 1 ( 1990):  Pages 16
Year of Publication: 1990.
15. Record Number: 28749
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Title : Margaret of Austria
Source: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Master_of_Moulins_-_Portrait_of_Margaret_of_Austria_%28Portrait_of_a_Young_Princess%29_-_WGA14462.jpg/250px-Master_of_Moulins_-_Portrait_of_Margaret_of_Austria_%28Portrait_of_a_Young_Princess%29_-_WGA14462.jpg
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