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1. Record Number: 24050
Author(s): Smith, Kathryn A.
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Title : Book, Body, and the Construction of Self in the Taymouth Hours [The author analyzes miniatures and bas de page illustrations in a book of hours made for an English royal woman in the 1330s. Smith finds evidence of models of appropriate devout behavior for the laity. The portrait of the book owner at prayer during mass shows her with hands extended and the book of hours at her side. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom. Edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells Studies in the History of Christian Traditions . Brill, 2009. Pages 173 - 204.
Year of Publication: 2009.

2. Record Number: 10535
Author(s): Clanchy, Michael.
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Title : Images of Ladies with Prayer Books: What Do They Signify? [The author analyzes a few images including those of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Yolande of Soissons. He is interested particularly in the meaning of private prayer for these women and the influence that their devotion to Mary had on the use of psalters and books of hours. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Church and the Book: Papers Read at the 2000 Summer Meeting and the 2001 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Edited by R. N. Swanson. Studies in Church History, 38. 2004. Pages 106 - 122. Republished in Looking back from the Invention of Printing: Mothers and the Teaching of Reading in the Middle Ages. Michael Clanchy. Brepols, 2018. Pages 85-109.
Year of Publication: 2004.

3. Record Number: 10783
Author(s): Jones, Leslie C. and Jonathan J. G. Alexander
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Title : The Annunciation to the Shepherdess [The authors explore the representation of shepherdesses in fifteenth century deluxe books of hours. There are a variety of types including eroticized figures, pious saint-like young women, and disorderly peasant dancers. The authors suggest that in many cases differences in social class are being emphasized for noble owners (both male and female) of these books of hours. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003): Pages 165 - 198.
Year of Publication: 2003.

4. Record Number: 10570
Author(s): Pol, Frank van der.
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Title : The Book of Hours from the Sisters of Saint Agnes in Kampen: A Spiritual Guide for a Community of Worship [The author focuses on the community of the sisters of Saint Agnes, a female house of tertiaries, who were influenced by the Devotio Moderna. From their book of hours, he concentrates on two offices, the "Office of All Saints" and the "Office of Saint Agnes." The various experiences associated with death and dying are emphasized. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Spirituality renewed: studies on significant representatives of the Modern Devotion. Edited by Hein Blommestijn, Charles Caspers, and Rijcklof Hofman Studies in spirituality. Supplement . 10 2003. Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003): Pages 169 - 192.
Year of Publication: 2003.

5. Record Number: 7870
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Title : Chastity, Love, and Marriage in the Margins of the "Wharncliffe Hours" [The author argues that the marginal illustrations in the "Wharncliffe Hours" represent the theme of marriage and its moral opposites including lust and rape. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion. Edited by Bernard J. Muir . University of Exeter Press, 2002. Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003): Pages 201 - 220.
Year of Publication: 2002.

6. Record Number: 6632
Author(s): Skemer, Don C.
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Title : Amulet Rolls and Female Devotion in the Late Middle Ages [medieval written amulets in scroll form rarely survive, but those that do frequently are intended to guarantee safety in pregnancy and childbirth; these amulets might be read aloud, bound to the woman or even fed to her; many of the surviving rolls are dedicated to Margaret of Antioch, the patron saint of pregnant women; this article edits one such roll (with the Latin text presented in the appendix) and provides a plate with a picture of the original; its mention of Saint Sigismund, a Burgundian martyr, may point to an origin in or near the ancient Burgundian realm; some of the charms are general ones, intended to provide generalized protection; but others make specific reference to childbirth, the greatest period of danger in many women's lives; other religious objects, including books of hours, were expected to serve similar protective purposes].

Source: Scriptorium , 55., 2 ( 2001): Pages 197 - 227.
Year of Publication: 2001.

7. Record Number: 5457
Author(s): Millett, Bella.
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Title : Ancrene Wisse and the Book of Hours [the author argues that the instructions for devotions in the "Ancrene Wisse" represent a middle stage between monastic practice and the Book of Hours, the "breviary for the use of the laity;" the Appendix reproduces an excerpt from the "Ancrene Wisse" and from the early Dominican Constitution dealing with the instructions for saying Matins].

Source: Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England. Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead . University of Toronto Press, 2000. Scriptorium , 55., 2 ( 2001): Pages 21 - 40.
Year of Publication: 2000.

8. Record Number: 3952
Author(s): Smith, Kathryn A.
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Title : The Neville of Hornby Hours and the Design of Literate Devotion

Source: Art Bulletin (Full Text via JSTOR) 81,1 (March 1999): 72-92. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1999.

9. Record Number: 5697
Author(s): Bennett, Adelaide.
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Title : A Woman's Power of Prayer Versus the Devil in a Book of Hours, of ca. 1300 [The author argues that the manuscript is highly personalized with an emphasis on the female owner's need to repent, fight sin, and oppose the devil; even in the hours of the Virgin the initials depict worldly pleasures to be avoided].

Source: Image and Belief: Studies in Celebration of the Eightieth Anniversary of the Index of Christian Art. Edited by Colum Hourihane . Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Princeton University Press, 1999. Scriptorium , 55., 2 ( 2001): Pages 89 - 108.
Year of Publication: 1999.

10. Record Number: 4380
Author(s): Woods, Marjorie Curry.
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Title : Shared Books: Primers, Psalters, and the Adult Acquisition of Literacy Among Devout Laywomen and Women in Orders in Late Medieval England

Source: New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and Their Impact. Edited by Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 2. Brepols, 1999. Scriptorium , 55., 2 ( 2001): Pages 177 - 193.
Year of Publication: 1999.

11. Record Number: 5562
Author(s): Manion, Margaret M.
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Title : Women, Art, and Devotion: Three French Fourteenth-Century Royal Prayer Books [The author argues that the three prayerbooks were produced by the same group of skilled illuminators under the influence of Franciscan and Dominican spirituality; however, each book has many unique texts and illustrations adapted to the needs and interes

Source: The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship. Edited by Margaret M. Manion and Bernard J. Muir . University of Exeter Press, 1998. Pages 21 - 66.
Year of Publication: 1998.

12. Record Number: 4157
Author(s): Despres, Denise L.
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Title : Immaculate Flesh and the Social Body: Mary and the Jews

Source: Jewish History , 12., 1 (Spring 1998): Pages 47 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1998.

13. Record Number: 1600
Author(s): Sutton, Anne F. and Livia Visser-Fuchs
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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. Jewish History , 12., 1 (Spring 1998): Pages 230 - 265.
Year of Publication: 1997.

14. Record Number: 1601
Author(s): Penketh, Sandra.
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Title : Women and Books of Hours [discusses women's use and reading of books of hours ; suggests that many of the illustrations were intended to extol such virtues as obedience, humility, and purity ; and analyzes some female owner portraits].

15. Record Number: 24735
Author(s): Despres, Denise L.
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Title : Mary of the Eucharist: Cultic Anti-Judaism in Some Fourteenth-Century English Devotional Manuscripts

Source: From Witness to Witchcraft: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Christian Thought. Edited by Jeremy Cohen . Harrassowitz Verlag, 1996. Journal of the Walters Art Gallery , 54., ( 1996): Pages 375 - 401.
Year of Publication: 1996.

16. Record Number: 1360
Author(s): Bennett, Adelaide.
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Title : A Thirteenth-Century French Book of Hours for Marie [Marie, a laywoman, is named in one of the prayers; the manuscript is significant for its numerous and varied representations of women. Sixteen out of twenty-one historiated initials portray laywomen in religious devotion or in family scenes].

Source: Journal of the Walters Art Gallery , 54., ( 1996): Pages 21 - 50.
Year of Publication: 1996.

17. Record Number: 5670
Author(s): Nash, Susie.
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Title : A Fifteenth-Century French Manuscript and an Unknown Painting by Robert Campin [the author suggests that the illustration of the Virgin and child in the D'Ailly Hours was copied from a now-lost panel painting by Robert Campin; the author speculates that commissioners of manuscripts wanted copies of their favorite religious images in their prayer books in part because of their proven efficacy].

Source: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 137, 1108 (July 1995): 428-437. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.

18. Record Number: 380
Author(s): Guest, Gerald B.
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Title : A Discourse on the Poor: The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux

Source: Viator , 26., ( 1995): Pages 153 - 180. Published under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Year of Publication: 1995.

19. Record Number: 1556
Author(s): Bolduc, Michelle
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Title : The Disruptive Discourse: Women in the Margins of the "Bayeux Tapestry" and the "Hours of Catherine de Clèves"

Source: Romance Languages Annual , 6., ( 1994): Pages 18 - 22.
Year of Publication: 1994.

20. Record Number: 1358
Author(s): Holladay, Joan A.
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Title : The Education of Jeanne d'Evreux: Personal Piety and Dynastic Salvation in her Book of Hours at the Cloisters [analysis of the illustrations in the section of the Hours of Saint Louis; the saint-king ancestor is portrayed as a model for the young queen in his charitable acts and the honor he brought the royal family].

Source: Art History , 17., 4 (December 1994): Pages 585 - 611.
Year of Publication: 1994.

21. Record Number: 28720
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Title : St. Clotild Presents the Fleur-de-Lis to Clovis

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22. Record Number: 28834
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Title : Martyrdom of St. Apollonia

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Title : Mary of Guelders in Hortus Conclusus