Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 29257
Author(s): Neff, Amy,
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Title : The Humble Man's Wedding: Two Late Thirteenth-Century Franciscan Images of the "Miracle at Cana" : [The author analyzes two Franciscan-inspired paintings of the Miracle at Cana, a fresco in the Upper Church of San Francesco in Assisi and a full-page illustration in the “Supplicationes variae,” a devotional manual. Neff traces iconography and theolog

Source: Gothic Art and Thought in the Later Medieval Period: Essays in Honor of Willibald Sauerländer. Edited by Colum Hourihane . Index of Christian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University in association with Penn State University Press, 2011. Pages 292 - 323.
Year of Publication: 2011.

2. Record Number: 27904
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Title : XLIII. On the Turtle-Dove [The turtle-dove remains faithful to her mate, even if he is captured or killed. The author notes her chastity and allegorizes her as the Church faithful to her crucified mate. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Physiologus. . University of Chicago Press, 2009. Pages 56 - 57.
Year of Publication: 2009.

3. Record Number: 11011
Author(s): Muir, Carolyn Diskant.
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Title : Bride or Bridegroom? Masculine Identity in Mystic Marriages [The author briefly examines two cases, those of Heinrich Seuse and Saint Hermann Joseph. Muir argues that men were less likely to report mystic marriage than women, but they had a wider range of experiences. Most notably they took on both masculine and feminine identities simultaneously. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages. Edited by P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis . Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series. University of Wales Press, 2004. Pages 58 - 78.
Year of Publication: 2004.

4. Record Number: 11010
Author(s): Craun, Christopher C.
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Title : Matronly Monks: Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Sexual Imagery in the "Historia religiosa" [The author argues that Theodoret portrays early Syrian holy men as languishing in their love for God the Bridegroom and as bearing spiritual children. However, their innate masculinity is not compromised because they willed their submission to God. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

5. Record Number: 8308
Author(s): Priest, Ann-Marie.
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Title : I am You: Medieval Love Mysticism as a Post-Modern Theology of Relation [The author argues that the mystical writings of Hadewijch, Mechthild von Magdeburg, and Angela of Foligno present a God who is passionately connected to humans. The author sees these ideas echoed in such postmodern theologians as Carter Heyward for whom relationality strengthens people and defines the loving nature of God. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Magistra , 8., 1 (Summer 2002): Pages 85 - 117.
Year of Publication: 2002.

6. Record Number: 9508
Author(s): Powell, Morgan.
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Title : Translating Scripture for "Ma Dame de Champagne": The Old French "Paraphrase" of Psalm 44 ("Eructavit") [The author analyzes the Old French translation of Psalm Forty-Four made for Marie de Champagne. The poet sets his wedding song for Christ and his bride, Holy Church, within the context of the secular court which is seen as the equivalent of heaven. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature. Edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Bradley Warren . The New Middle Ages series. Palgrave, 2002. Magistra , 8., 1 (Summer 2002): Pages 83 - 103.
Year of Publication: 2002.

7. Record Number: 10785
Author(s): Hodgson, Miranda.
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Title : Impossible Women: Aelfric's "Sponsa Christi" and "La Mysterique" [The author analyzes Aelfric's account of the life of the virgin martyr, Saint Agnes. She focuses on the speeches that Agnes makes with an emphasis on the Bride of Christ imagery and on "la mysterique," a concept borrowed from Luce Irigaray which describes the only public space in which women can speak about their relationship with Christ. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 33., (Spring 2002): Pages 12 - 21.
Year of Publication: 2002.

8. Record Number: 7133
Author(s): Salih, Sarah.
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Title : Queering "Sponsalia Christi": Virginity, Gender, and Desire in the Early Middle English Anchoritic Texts [The author examines virginity, in particular the image of the bride of Christ, in the Katherine Group and "Wohunge of Ure Lauerd." She argues that the sexualization in the text does not imply heterosexualization but an eroticism that emphasizes likeness, sometimes both masculine with images of power and sometimes both feminine with images of beauty. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: New Medieval Literatures , 5., ( 2002): Pages 155 - 175.
Year of Publication: 2002.

9. Record Number: 6717
Author(s): Power, Kim E.
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Title : From Ecclesiology to Mariology: Patristic Traces and Innovation in the "Speculum virginum"

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. New Medieval Literatures , 5., ( 2002): Pages 85 - 110.
Year of Publication: 2001.

10. Record Number: 6719
Author(s): Jeffreys, Catherine.
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Title : Listen, Daughters of Light: The Epithalamium and Musical Innovation in Twelfth-Century Germany

11. Record Number: 6720
Author(s): Pinder, Janice M.
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Title : The Cloister and the Garden: Gendered Images of Religious Life from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

12. Record Number: 4673
Author(s): Pasztor, Edith.
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Title : Filippa Mareri e Chiara d'Assisi [Filippa Mareri, a noblewoman, tried being a bride of Christ in her parents' castle, and then she became an anchoress. Eventually she and her followers became Poor Clares. Unlike Clare, Filippa did not know Francis, and she acted more as a dominant lady and less as a sister to her nuns, as Clare had done].

Source: Donne e sante: Studi sulla religiosità femminile nel Medio Evo. Edith Pasztor . Edizioni Studium, 2000. Studies in Spirituality , 10., ( 2000): Pages 173 - 196. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication: 2000.

13. Record Number: 4834
Author(s): Hostetler, Margaret
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Title : I Wold Thow Wer Closyd in a Hows of Ston: Sexuality and Lay Sanctity in the Book of Margery Kempe

Source: Lay Sanctity, Medieval and Modern: A Search for Models. Edited by Ann W. Astell . University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Studies in Spirituality , 10., ( 2000): Pages 91 - 104.
Year of Publication: 2000.

14. Record Number: 5463
Author(s): Fanous, Samuel.
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Title : Measuring the Pilgrim's Progress: Internal Emphases in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues that Margery's amanuensis used specific time and place references to mark significant events in Margery's spiritual life; this follows the model established by saints' lives].

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. New Medieval Literatures , 5., ( 2002): Pages 157 - 176.
Year of Publication: 2000.

15. Record Number: 5464
Author(s): Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita.
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Title : Veneration of Virgin Martyrs in Margery Kempe's Meditation: Influence of the Sarum Liturgy and Hagiography

16. Record Number: 4737
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Title : Gertrud of Helfta: "Arbor Amoris" in Her Heart's Garden

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 163 - 178.
Year of Publication: 2000.

17. Record Number: 4609
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Title : The Virile Bride of Bernard of Clairvaux [The author analyzes the figure of the Bride in Bernard's "Sermon on the Song of Songs;" the Bride combines feminine affectivity with the rationality and strength of the masculine].

Source: Church History , 69., 2 (June 2000): Pages 304 - 327.
Year of Publication: 2000.

18. Record Number: 5385
Author(s): Delio, Ilia.
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Title : Mirrors and Footprints: Metaphors of Relationship in Clare of Assisi's Writings

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 10., ( 2000): Pages 167 - 181.
Year of Publication: 2000.

19. Record Number: 3550
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Title : A Marriage and Its Observer: Christine of Stommeln, the Heavenly Bridegroom, and Friar Peter of Dacia [The author compares the writings of Peter of Dacia with those letters and other pieces taken down from Christine's dictation; the author argues that Peter managed things with an eye to Christine's canonization].

Source: Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters. Edited by Catherine M. Mooney . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Studies in Spirituality , 10., ( 2000): Pages 99 - 117.
Year of Publication: 1999.

20. Record Number: 3546
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Title : Hildegard and Her Hagiographers: The Remaking of Female Sainthood [The author analyzes the "vita" by Gottfried of St. Disibod and finished by Theoderic of Echternach as well as the memoir written by Hildegard herself; the issue examined is the treatment of her prophetic speech].

21. Record Number: 3659
Author(s): Jacobi, Renate.
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Title : Secular Brides and Convent Brides: Wedding Ceremonies in Italy During the Renaissance and Counter-Reformation [The author examines ceremonies of vestition, profession, and consecration in terms of the different meanings they held for the various interested parties].

Source: Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650. Edited by Trevor Dean and K. J. P. Lowe . Cambridge University Press, 1998. Studies in Spirituality , 10., ( 2000): Pages 41 - 65.
Year of Publication: 1998.

22. Record Number: 3564
Author(s): Weed, Stanley E.
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Title : My Sister, Bride, and Mother: Aspects of Female Piety in Some Images of the "Virgo Inter Virgines" [The author argues that art representing the Virgin among virgins carried multiple layers of symbolism; the art work examined was produced for an audience of nuns].

Source: Magistra , 4., 1 (Summer 1998): Pages 3 - 26.
Year of Publication: 1998.

23. Record Number: 1599
Author(s): Lewis, Flora.
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Title : The Wound in Christ's Side and the Instruments of the Passion: Gendered Experience and Response [images of sexual union and childbirth as well as knightly combat were used by both women and men to contemplate the Passion].

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. American Benedictine Review , 48., 1 (March 1997): Pages 204 - 229.
Year of Publication: 1997.

24. Record Number: 3151
Author(s): Halsall, Paul.
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Title : Wedded to Christ: Nuptiality and Gender Reversed in the "Lives" of Byzantine Male Saints

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 23., ( 1997): Pages 66
Year of Publication: 1997.

25. Record Number: 1864
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Title : The Bride as Friend in Bernard of Clairvaux's "Sermones Super Cantica"

Source: American Benedictine Review , 48., 1 (March 1997): Pages 69 - 87.
Year of Publication: 1997.

26. Record Number: 2381
Author(s): Rose-Lefmann, Deborah.
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Title : As It Is Painted: Reflections of Image-Based Devotional Practices in the "Confessions" of Katherine Tucher [her journal records mystical visions of the intercession of Mary, the crucifixion, and Christ as the bridegroom; all are strongly influenced by popular religious paintings and prints].

Source: Studia Mystica New Series , 17., 2 ( 1996): Pages 185 - 204.
Year of Publication: 1996.

27. Record Number: 1566
Author(s): Yoshikawa, Naoë Kukita.
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Title : Searching for the Image of New "Ecclesia": Margery Kempe's Spiritual Pilgrimage Reconsidered

Source: Medieval Perspectives , 11., ( 1996): Pages 125 - 138. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
Year of Publication: 1996.

28. Record Number: 1386
Author(s): Brennan, Brian.
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Title : Deathless Marriage and Spiritual Fecundity in Venantius Fortunatus's "De Virginitate" [written for Radegunde probably on the occasion of her "spiritual daughter's" installation as abbess; the text combines an "epithalamium" with a "consolatio" for women who neither married nor had children].

Source: Traditio , 51., ( 1996): Pages 73 - 97.
Year of Publication: 1996.

29. Record Number: 990
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Title : Occurrences of Nuptial Imagery in Old English Hagiographical Texts

Source: English Language Notes , 33., 4 (June 1996): Pages 1 - 9.
Year of Publication: 1996.

30. Record Number: 259
Author(s): Dusel, Juliana, Sister
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Title : Bride of Christ: Image in the the "Ancren Riwle"

Source: Sovereign Lady: Essays on Women in Middle English Literature. Edited by Muriel Whitaker . Garland Publishing, 1995. Studia Mystica New Series , 17., 2 ( 1996): Pages 115 - 132.
Year of Publication: 1995.

31. Record Number: 2305
Author(s): Schmitt, Miriam, O.S.B.
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Title : Gertrud of Helfta: Her Monastic Milieu and Her Spirituality

Source: Hidden Springs: Cistercian Monastic Women. Book Two. Medieval Religious Women Volume Three. Edited by John A. Nichols and Lillian Thomas Shank, O.S.C.O Cistercian Studies Series . Cistercian Publications, 1995. Studia Mystica New Series , 17., 2 ( 1996): Pages 471 - 496.
Year of Publication: 1995.

32. Record Number: 351
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Title : Beatrice of Nazareth (c. 1200-1268): A Search for Her True Spirituality

Source: Vox Mystica: Essays on Medieval Mysticism in Honor of Professor Valerie M Lagorio. Edited by Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul, Janet Goebel, and William F. Pollard . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Studia Mystica New Series , 17., 2 ( 1996): Pages 57 - 74.
Year of Publication: 1995.

33. Record Number: 2471
Author(s): Hudson, Vivian Kay.
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Title : Clothing and Adornment Imagery in "The Scale of Perfection" : A Reflection of Contemplation

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 4., ( 1994): Pages 116 - 145.
Year of Publication: 1994.

34. Record Number: 2468
Author(s): Peterson, Ingrid, O.S.F.
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Title : Clare of Assisi's Mysticism of the Poor Crucified

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 4., ( 1994): Pages 51 - 78.
Year of Publication: 1994.

35. Record Number: 11670
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Title : The Mark of Gender in Saint Bernard's "De diligendo deo" [In his treatise on loving God, Bernard figures the soul at times as feminine and at times as masculine in his exploration of the ascent toward union with God. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Romance Languages Annual , 3., ( 1991): Pages 7 - 11.
Year of Publication: 1991.

36. Record Number: 11197
Author(s): Head, Thomas.
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Title : The Marriages of Christina of Markyate

Source: Viator , 21., ( 1990): Pages 75 - 101.
Year of Publication: 1990.

37. Record Number: 32713
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Title : Virgo inter virgines

Source: Viator , 21., ( 1990):
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