Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 43188
Author(s): Dusil, Stephan,
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Title : The Emerging Jurisprudence, the Second Lateran Council of 1139 and the Development of Canonical Impediments

Source: The Use of Canon Law in Ecclesiastical Administration, 1000 – 1234. Edited by Melodie H. Eichbauer and Danica Summerlin . Brill, 2019. Pages 140 - 158.
Year of Publication: 2019.

2. Record Number: 35776
Author(s): van Houts, Elisabeth
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Title : The Fate of the Priests' Sons in Normandy with Special Reference to Serlo of Bayeux

Source: Haskins Society Journal , 25., ( 2013): Pages 57 - 105. The Warren Hollister Memorial Essay.
Year of Publication: 2013.

3. Record Number: 28444
Author(s): Robinson, I. S.,
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Title : Conversio and conversatio in the Life of Herluca of Epfach

Source: Medieval Italy, Medieval and Early Modern Women: Essays in Honour of Christine Meek. Edited by Conor Kostick . Four Courts Press, 2010. Haskins Society Journal , 25., ( 2013): Pages 172 - 194.
Year of Publication: 2010.

4. Record Number: 4610
Author(s): Moore, Stephen D.
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Title : The "Song of Songs" in the History of Sexuality [The author argues that medieval commentators read the "Song of Songs" as an allegory about the celibate male as the Bride who unites with Christ as the Bridegroom].

Source: Church History , 69., 2 (June 2000): Pages 328 - 349.
Year of Publication: 2000.

5. 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. Church History , 69., 2 (June 2000): Pages 123 - 137.
Year of Publication: 1999.

6. Record Number: 3750
Author(s): Swanson, R. N.
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Title : Angels Incarnate: Clergy and Masculinity From Gregorian Reform to Reformation

Source: Masculinity in Medieval Europe. Edited by D.M. Hadley . Women and Men in History Series. Addison Wesley Longman, 1999. Church History , 69., 2 (June 2000): Pages 160 - 177.
Year of Publication: 1999.

7. Record Number: 3747
Author(s): Leyser, C.
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Title : Masculinity in Flux: Nocturnal Emission and the Limits of Celibacy in the Early Middle Ages

Source: Masculinity in Medieval Europe. Edited by D.M. Hadley . Women and Men in History Series. Addison Wesley Longman, 1999. Church History , 69., 2 (June 2000): Pages 103 - 120.
Year of Publication: 1999.

8. Record Number: 13750
Author(s): Frassetto, Michael.
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Title : Heresy, Celibacy, and Reform in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes [The monk Ademar records interconnecting concerns in his sermons. Heretics in Aquitaine called priests' behavior into question. Church councils sought to prevent clergy from having wives or concubines in order to ensure the purity of the Eucharist. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Purity and Piety: Essays on Medieval Clerical Celibacy and Religious Reform. Edited by Michael Frassetto Garland Medieval Casebooks Series . Garland Publishing, 1998. Church History , 69., 2 (June 2000): Pages 131 - 148.
Year of Publication: 1998.

9. Record Number: 13751
Author(s): Van Meter, David C.
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Title : Eschatological Order and the Moral Arguments for Clerical Celibacy in Francia Around the Year 1000 [The author traces the thinking of various abbots and bishops in the debates over the moral order of society. Celibacy was claimed by the monks, which gave them a higher rank than secular clergy. All sides in the debate used apocalyptic rhetoric to press for reform while strengthening their own positions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

10. Record Number: 13754
Author(s): Blumenthal, Uta-Renate.
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Title : Pope Gregory VII and the Prohibition of Nicolaitism [The author examines Gregory's efforts to eliminate nicolaitism, marriage by the clergy. Blumenthal also takes into consideration earlier legistlation and beliefs that valued clerical celibacy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

11. Record Number: 13749
Author(s): Dachowski, Elizabeth.
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Title : Tertius est optimus: Marriage, Continence and Virginity in the Politics of Late Tenth- and Early Eleventh-Century Francia [The author concentrates on Abbo, abbot of Fleury, who wrote texts arguing for the importance of clerical celibacy. He stressed the moral superiority of monks and the pope. Abbo also urged ecclesiastical oversight of marriage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

12. Record Number: 13746
Author(s): Beaudette, Paul.
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Title : In the world but not of it: Clerical Celibacy as a Symbol of the Medieval Church

13. Record Number: 13757
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Title : Owe armiu phaffheite: Heinrich von Melk's Views on Clerical Life [The poet Heinrich von Melk criticizes priests for their unworthy behavior. They try to justify their wives and concubines, but they will be punished in the afterlife. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

14. Record Number: 13755
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Title : Pope Gregory VII and the Chastity of the Clergy [The author examines the activities of Pope Gregory with an emphasis on his efforts to enforce clerical celibacy, particularly in Germany and France. He brought a moral emphasis to the issue and communicated its importance to every level within the church and among the laiety. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

15. Record Number: 13748
Author(s): Bond, James.
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Title : Why Celibacy? Odo of Cluny and the Development of a New Sexual Morality

16. Record Number: 13753
Author(s): McLaughlin, Megan.
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Title : The Bishop as Bridegroom: Marital Imagery and Clerical Celibacy in the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries [The author argues that reformers used the longstanding image of the bishop as a bridegroom of his church to combat problems of lay investiture, simony, and episcopal elections. In instances of clerical celibacy, the bridegroom allegory complicated matters. Nevertheless, it was not entirely eliminated from the debate. McLaughlin suggests this is an indication of the importance of the bridegroom metaphor to the reformist program. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

17. Record Number: 13752
Author(s): Moore, R. I.
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Title : Property, Marriage, and the Eleventh-Century Revolution: A Context for Early Medieval Communism

18. Record Number: 13745
Author(s): Peters, Edward.
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Title : History, Historians, and Clerical Celibacy [The author briefly surveys the historiography of clerical celibacy. Earlier historians took a polemical stance on the issues, but in the latter half of the twentieth century, scholars contextualized their research within a much wider perspective. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

19. Record Number: 13747
Author(s): de Jong, Mayke.
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Title : Imitatio morum. The Cloister and Clerical Purity in the Carolingian World [The author argues for the importance of male monasteries as a model for and training ground of clerical purity through celibacy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

20. Record Number: 582
Author(s): McNamara, Jo Ann.
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Title : Canossa and the Ungendering of the Public Man [men in religion and politics both acted to eliminate women's access to power and create a public space without women].

Source: Render Unto Caesar: The Religious Sphere in World Politics. Edited by Sabrina Petra Ramet and Donald W. Treadgold . American University Press, 1995. Church History , 69., 2 (June 2000): Pages 131 - 150. Later published in Medieval Religion: New Approaches. Edited by Constance Hoffman Berman. Routledge, 2005. Pages 102-122.
Year of Publication: 1995.

21. Record Number: 266
Author(s): Betzig, Laura.
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Title : Medieval Monogamy [polygynous mating and monogamous marriage - inheritance strategies and the influence of the Church].

Source: Journal of Family History , 20., 2 ( 1995): Pages 181 - 216.
Year of Publication: 1995.

22. Record Number: 3554
Author(s): McNamara, Jo Ann.
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Title : The "Herrenfrage" : The Restructuring of the Gender System, 1050-1150

Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages. Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7. University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Journal of Family History , 20., 2 ( 1995): Pages 3 - 29.
Year of Publication: 1994.

23. Record Number: 12858
Author(s): Gibson, Mary S.
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Title : Female Sexuality in Renaissance, Early Modern, and Modern Italy [The article groups the literature on the history of female sexuality into two periods in Italy's history, the first being Renaissance/early modern (1300-1750), the second being modern (1750-present). Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Trends in History , 4., 4 ( 1990): Pages 159 - 185.
Year of Publication: 1990.

24. Record Number: 12675
Author(s): Haboucha, Reginetta.
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Title : Clerics, Their Wives, and Their Concubines in the "Partidas" of Alfonso el Sabio [The author focuses on the women, wives and concubines, caught between the demands of the reforming church and their priest-husbands. In general the women were punished more harshly (banished to monasteries, sold into slavery, or worse), while priests had their punishments revoked once they repented. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life. Edited by Helen Rodite Lemay Acta . Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990. Trends in History , 4., 4 ( 1990): Pages 85 - 104. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987
Year of Publication: 1990.

25. Record Number: 12673
Author(s): Godfrey, Aaron W.
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Title : Rules and Regulation: Monasticism and Chastity [The author briefly surviews early medieval monastic rules for monks concerning the avoidance of sexual behavior as well as sexual thoughts. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Homo Carnalis: The Carnal Aspect of Medieval Human Life. Edited by Helen Rodite Lemay Acta . Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1990. Trends in History , 4., 4 ( 1990): Pages 45 - 57. Papers presented at a conference held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1987
Year of Publication: 1990.

26. Record Number: 23418
Author(s): Vitalis, Ordericus
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Title : Clerical Celibacy Causes a Riot at Rouen (1119) [From Ecclesiastical History]

Source: The Broadview Book of Medieval Anecdotes. Edited by Richard Kay, compiler . Broadview Press, 1988. Trends in History , 4., 4 ( 1990): Pages 184 - 185.
Year of Publication: 1988.

27. Record Number: 23426
Author(s): Anonymous
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Title : Saint Thomas and the Temptress (1244) [From History of St. Thomas, written 1316- 1321]

Source: The Broadview Book of Medieval Anecdotes. Edited by Richard Kay, compiler . Broadview Press, 1988. Trends in History , 4., 4 ( 1990): Pages 240 - 240.
Year of Publication: 1988.

28. Record Number: 43161
Author(s):
Contributor(s): Kay, Richard, comp
Title : A Beam in the Bishop's Eye (ca. 1275) [From The Lanercost Chronicle (1346)]

Source: The Broadview Book of Medieval Anecdotes. Edited by Richard Kay, compiler . Broadview Press, 1988. Trends in History , 4., 4 ( 1990): Pages 255 - 256.
Year of Publication: 1988.

29. Record Number: 31999
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Title : Origen Castrating Himself before a Nun

Source: Trends in History , 4., 4 ( 1990):
Year of Publication: