Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 20867
Author(s): Cooke, Jessica
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Title : De Catherina Beata da Bologna di Sabadino degli Arienti (1472) [In his “Gynevera,” Sabadino degli Arienti wrote a life of Caterina Vigri of Bologna. It was heavily paraphrased from a life by Suor Illuminata Bembo. Sabadino degli Arienti wrote the account as part of a collection of lives which he dedicated to Ginevra Sforza Bentivoglio, a member of Bologna’s ruling family. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Hagiographica: Rivista di agiografia e biografia della società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino/ Journal of Hagiography and Biography of Società Internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino , 14., ( 2007):  Pages 231 - 241.
Year of Publication: 2007.
2. Record Number: 5395
Author(s): Zarri, Gabriella
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Title : Religious and Devotional Writing, 1400-1600 [The author briefly surveys women's relgious writings in Italy, arguing that they enjoyed success and were regarded favorably by the Church].
Source: A History of Women's Writing in Italy.   Edited by Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood .   Cambridge University Press, 2000. Hagiographica: Rivista di agiografia e biografia della società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino/ Journal of Hagiography and Biography of Società Internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino , 14., ( 2007):  Pages 79 - 91.
Year of Publication: 2000.
3. Record Number: 3644
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Title : Autohagiography and Medieval Women's Spiritual Autobiography
Source: Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages.   Edited by Jane Chance .   University Press of Florida, 1996. Hagiographica: Rivista di agiografia e biografia della società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino/ Journal of Hagiography and Biography of Società Internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino , 14., ( 2007):  Pages 216 - 236.
Year of Publication: 1996.
4. Record Number: 95
Author(s): Wood, Jeryldene M.
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Title : Breaking the Silence: The Poor Clares and the Visual Arts in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Source: Renaissance Quarterly (Full Text via JSTOR) 48, 2 (Summer 1995): 262-286. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.
5. Record Number: 6629
Author(s): Tylus, Jane
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Title : Mystical Enunciations: Mary, the Devil, and Quattrocento Spirituality [the author argues that Catherine Vigri's text, "Sette armi spirituali," written for the guidance of her Poor Clare sisters, embodies the era's growing doubts about mysticism and the ways to authenticate visions; the Virgin Mary at the Annunciation plays a central role for Catherine Vigri because she prefigures the mystic in the "clausura" of the convent, aware of diabolical dangers and maternal in her protection and love for her sisters].
Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995):  Pages 219 - 242. Women Mystic Writers. Edited by Dino S. Cervigni
Year of Publication: 1995.
6. Record Number: 10001
Author(s): Zarri, Gabriella
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Title : Profeti di corte nell'Italia del Rinascimento [By the fifteenth century, prophets had become fixtures of Italian courts. Many of them were women. By the end of the sixteenth century, this phenomenon had been rooted out. For a time, however, prophecies previously delivered in popular settings were heard at court. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale.   Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi .   Liguori Editore, 1992. Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995):  Pages 209 - 236.
Year of Publication: 1992.
7. Record Number: 40909
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Title : Christ with adoring nun (fol. 149v); Swaddled infant Christ (fol. 157r)
Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995):
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