Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 4786
Author(s): Brasington, Bruce C.
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Title : Crusader, Castration, Canon Law: Ivo of Chartres' Letter 135 [the author considers the case of a former crusader who castrated a priest in a dispute over property; Ivo, though shocked by the horrific crime, showed mercy by allowing the knight to go to Rome and ask the pope to remove Ivo's penance; the appendix reproduces Ivo's letter in Latin].
Source: Catholic Historical Review , 85., 3 (July 1999):  Pages 367 - 382.
Year of Publication: 1999.
2. Record Number: 3709
Author(s): Ringrose, Kathryn M.
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Title : Passing the Test of Sanctity: Denial of Sexuality and Involuntary Castration [the author traces the changing status of eunuchs in the spiritual life; in Late Antiquity, eunuchs had a negative image and could not achieve sanctity but by the ninth to the twelfth century eunuchs could achieve sanctity through denial (other than the flesh) and other forms of selflessness].
Source: Desire and Denial in Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-First Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1997.   Edited by Liz James. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Publications 6 .   Variorum (Ashgate Publishing), 1999. Catholic Historical Review , 85., 3 (July 1999):  Pages 123 - 137.
Year of Publication: 1999.
3. Record Number: 3929
Author(s): Kim, Susan.
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Title : Bloody Signs: Circumcision and Pregnancy in the Old English Judith [The author argues that the beheading of Holofernes can be read as a castration or circumcision while the severed head of Holofernes figures as the result of Judith's symbolic pregnancy].
Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 11., 2 (Spring 1999):  Pages 285 - 307.
Year of Publication: 1999.
4. Record Number: 3651
Author(s): Murray, Jacqueline.
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Title : Mystical Castration: Some Reflections on Peter Abelard, Hugh of Lincoln, and Sexual Control
Source: Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West.   Edited by Jacqueline Murray .   Garland Medieval Casebooks, volume 25. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 2078. Garland Publishing, 1999. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 11., 2 (Spring 1999):  Pages 73 - 91.
Year of Publication: 1999.
5. Record Number: 34282
Author(s): Irvine, Martin,
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Title : Abelard and (Re)Writing the Male Body: Castration, Identity, and Remasculinization
Source: Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler .   Garland Publishing, 1997. Catholic Historical Review , 85., 3 (July 1999):  Pages 87 - 106.
Year of Publication: 1997.
6. Record Number: 2418
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Title : Origenary Fantasies: Abelard's Castration and Confession
Source: Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler .   Garland Publishing, 1997. Catholic Historical Review , 85., 3 (July 1999):  Pages 107 - 128.
Year of Publication: 1997.
7. Record Number: 2419
Author(s): Ferroul, Yves.
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Title : Abelard's Blissful Castration
Source: Becoming Male in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler .   Garland Publishing, 1997. Catholic Historical Review , 85., 3 (July 1999):  Pages 129 - 149.
Year of Publication: 1997.
8. Record Number: 1425
Author(s): Kuefler, Mathew S.
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Title : Castration and Eunuchism in the Middle Ages
Source: Handbook of Medieval Sexuality.   Edited by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage .   Garland Reference Library of the Humanities vol. 1696. Garland Publishing, 1996. Catholic Historical Review , 85., 3 (July 1999):  Pages 279 - 306.
Year of Publication: 1996.
9. Record Number: 1130
Author(s): McNamara, Jo Ann.
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Title : The Nun of Watton [translation of Aelred's account of the nun who sleeps with a young monk and becomes pregnant; the other nuns castrate the guilty youth but when the foetus disappears they judge it to be a miracle and cease punishing the penitent nun].
Source: Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995):  Pages 122 - 137.
Year of Publication: 1995.
10. Record Number: 31999
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Title : Origen Castrating Himself before a Nun
Source: Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995):
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11. Record Number: 32269
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Title : Beavers
Source: Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995):
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