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1. Record Number: 4381
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Title : The Candlemas Vision and Marie d'Oignies's Role in Its Dissemination [the author explores the visions associated with Candlemas, the Feast day commemorating the presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple and the purification of the Virgin Mary, in the writings associated with Gertrude the Great, Mechthild of Hackeborn, Angela of Foligno, Henry Suso, Bridget of Sweden, and Margery Kempe].
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.  Pages 195 - 214.
Year of Publication: 1999.
2. Record Number: 13838
Author(s): Gibson, Gail McMurray
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Title : Blessing from Sun and Moon: Churching as Women's Theater [The author argues for a more complex understanding of churching. While acknowledging the element of clerical misogyny, Gibson believes that women experienced a corporate identity and bodily power from the female-only ritual. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Bodies and Disciplines: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteenth-Century England.   Edited by Barbara A. Hanawalt and David Wallace .   Medieval Cultures series, 9. University of Minnesota Press, 1996.  Pages 139 - 154.
Year of Publication: 1996.