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1.
Record Number:
11756
Author(s):
Raguin, Virginia Chieffo.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Real and Imagined Bodies in Architectural Space: The Setting for Margery Kempe's "Book" [The author argues that Margery Kempe constructs an image of herself in her text based on experiences in religious spaces. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church. Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury . State University of New York Press, 2005. Pages 105 - 140.
Year of Publication:
2005.
2.
Record Number:
11757
Author(s):
French, Katherine L.
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Title :
The Seat under Our Lady: Gender and Seating in Late Medieval English Parish Churches [The author argues that women's seating arrangements in churches give access to information about women in parish life that is otherwise unavailable. In her study of pew usage in Winchester, French demonstrates that women had a sanctioned space in the nave that frequently expressed status and the promotion of family interests. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church. Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury . State University of New York Press, 2005. Pages 141 - 160.
Year of Publication:
2005.
3.
Record Number:
8677
Author(s):
Pentcheva, Bissera V.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Rhetorical Images of the Virgin: The Icon of the "Usual Miracle" at the Blachernai [The author connects the icon of Mary at the Blachernai (which was revealed every Friday by the miraculous raising of a silk cover) with a new image-type in which Mary raises her hands in prayer and has a medallion that contains the Christ child hovering on her chest. The author argues that this image was influenced by Neoplatonic ideas to represent both the presence of the Holy Spirit and the embodiment of the incarnation. The author also connects the new image type to the Komnenoi dynasty which had various political reasons to champion orthodoxy. In the Appendix the author surveys publications on seals to identify instances of the orans Virgin with the hovering medallion. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics , 38., ( 2000): Pages 34 - 55.
Year of Publication:
2000.
4.
Record Number:
4246
Author(s):
Remensnyder, Amy G.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Colonization of Sacred Architecture: The Virgin Mary, Mosques, and Temples in Medieval Spain and Early Sixteenth-Century Mexico
Source:
Monks and Nuns, Saints and Outcasts: Religion in Medieval Society. Essays in Honor of Lester K. Little. Edited by Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein . Cornell University Press, 2000. Pages 189 - 219.
Year of Publication:
2000.
5.
Record Number:
4337
Author(s):
Gerstel, Sharon E. J.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Painted Sources for Female Piety in Medieval Byzantium [the author analyzes the depictions of female saints in Byzantine churches in order to deduce the roles that women played in the Church; women prayed for fertility and healthy children in chapels decorated with paintings of Saint Anne, and they mourned the dead in narthexes decorated with portraits of female saints].
Source:
Dumbarton Oaks Papers
(Full Text via JSTOR) 52 (1998): 89-111.
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Year of Publication:
1998.
6.
Record Number:
13758
Author(s):
Schulenburg, Jane Tibbetts.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Gender, Celibacy, and Proscriptions of Sacred Space: Symbol and Practice [In the early and high Middle Ages women were regularly excluded from men's monasteries and from their churches, which held the relics and tombs of many saints. In some cases, monks made accommodations with separate oratories for women or special exceptions for queens and other highly-placed figures. Nevertheless, there are recorded incidents of women who ignored the monastic rules and entered areas forbidden to all females. Schulenburg suggests that in some cases, at least, women considered the rules only man-made and sought equal access to the tombs and relics of the saints. 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. Pages 353 - 376.
Year of Publication:
1998.
7.
Record Number:
3667
Author(s):
Randolph, Adrian.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Regarding Women in Sacred Space [the author discusses the separation of women from men at public sermons and in church; religious writers warned women to keep their minds on God and their gaze lowered because their sexuality was a danger for all men especially the celibate; poets considered Church the place for romantic meetings because a shared gaze signaled sexual choice].
Source:
Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy. Edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Mathews Grieco . Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pages 17 - 41.
Year of Publication:
1997.
8.
Record Number:
4348
Author(s):
Holladay, Joan A.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Relics, Reliquaries, and Religious Women: Visualizing the Holy Virgins of Cologne [the author points to the growth in the cult of Ursula and her virgins including the excavations of their supposed bodies, renovation of the church dedicated to the martyrs, and the invention of Ursula busts; the author suggests that the cult and the busts were designed to appeal to the daughters of patricians and burghers by showing that a holy life could be found in their social class and in marriage rather than in the extremes of the Beguines].
Source:
Studies in Iconography , 18., ( 1997): Pages 67 - 118.
Year of Publication:
1997.
9.
Record Number:
1561
Author(s):
Signori, Gabriela.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Miracle Kitchen and Its Ingredients: A Methodical and Critical Approach to Marian Shrine Wonders (10th to 13th Century)
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 , 3., ( 1996): Pages 277 - 303.
Year of Publication:
1996.
10.
Record Number:
1162
Author(s):
van Dijk, Ann.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Domus Sanctae Dei Genetricis Mariae: Art and Liturgy in the Oratory of Pope John VII (705-707)
Source:
Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 21., ( 1995): Pages 76
Year of Publication:
1995.
11.
Record Number:
150
Author(s):
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Title :
Case of the Beata Simona: Iconography, Hagiography, and Misogyny in Three Paintings by Taddeo di Bartolo
Source:
Art History , 18., 2 (June 1995): Pages 154 - 184.
Year of Publication:
1995.
12.
Record Number:
149
Author(s):
Sekules, Veronica.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Beauty and the Beast: Ridicule and Orthodoxy in Architectural Marginalia in Early Fourteenth-Century Lincolnshire [sculpted corbels, several of women representing various sins].
Source:
Art History , 18., 1 (March 1995): Pages 37 - 62.
Year of Publication:
1995.
13.
Record Number:
95
Author(s):
Wood, Jeryldene M.
Contributor(s):
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.
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Year of Publication:
1995.
14.
Record Number:
40331
Author(s):
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Title :
Matilda of Canossa greeting Pope Paschal II
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15.
Record Number:
45168
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Title :
Nuns in choir stalls
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