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1. Record Number: 44618
Author(s): Pinder, Janice,
Contributor(s):
Title : The Religion of the Heart of the Abbey of the Holy Ghost

Source: The Abbaye du Saint Esprit: Spiritual Instruction for Laywomen, 1250-1500. Janice Pinder, translator Edited by Janice Pinder . Brepols, 2020. Pages 139 - 157. Available with a subscription from Brepols: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC-EB.5.121243
Year of Publication: 2020.

2. Record Number: 43641
Author(s): Poor, Sara S.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Countess, the Abbess, and their Books: Manuscript Circulation in a Fifteenth-Century German Family

Source: Nuns' Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Antwerp Dialogue. Edited by Virginia Blanton, Veronica O'Mara and Patricia Stoop . Brepols, 2017. Pages 341 - 365. Available with a subscription: https://doi.org/10.1484/M.MWTC-EB.5.112681
Year of Publication: 2017.

3. Record Number: 27618
Author(s): Farina, Lara
Contributor(s):
Title : Money, Books and Prayers: Anchoresses and Exchange in Thirteenth-century England [The author explores texts in the “Wooing Group,” analyzing the language of bargaining and exchange in the relationships the anchoress has both with Christ and her spiritual adviser. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Women and Wealth in Late Medieval Europe. Edited by Theresa Earenfight The New Middle Ages. . Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. Pages 171 - 185.
Year of Publication: 2010.

4. Record Number: 20730
Author(s): Mecham, June L
Contributor(s):
Title : Breaking Old Habits: Recent Research on Women, Spirituality, and the Arts in the Middle Ages

Source: History Compass , 4., 3 ( 2006): Pages 448 - 480.
Year of Publication: 2006.

5. Record Number: 33538
Author(s): Pearson, Andrea G.
Contributor(s):
Title : Gendered Subject, Gendered Spectator: Mary Magdalen in the Gaze of Margaret of York

Source: Gesta , 44., 1 ( 2005): Pages 47 - 66.
Year of Publication: 2005.

6. Record Number: 14124
Author(s): Legaré, Anne-Marie.
Contributor(s):
Title : La librairye de Madame: Two Princesses and Their Libraries [The author briefly surveys the manuscripts belonging to Margaret of York and Margaret of Austria. Margaret of York acquired a small number of French religious texts in line with her roles as wife and potential mother. In contrast her step-granddaughter c

Source: Women of Distinction: Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria. Edited by Dagmar Eichberger . Brepols, 2005. History Compass , 4., 3 ( 2006): Pages 206 - 219.
Year of Publication: 2005.

7. Record Number: 14126
Author(s): Rudy, Kathryn M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women's Devotions at Court [The author briefly surveys the devotional activities of Margaret of York and her step-grandaughter Margaret of Austria. These included prayers and sacred objects related to fertility and childbirth, books for prayer, meditation, and teaching young childr

Source: Women of Distinction: Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria. Edited by Dagmar Eichberger . Brepols, 2005. History Compass , 4., 3 ( 2006): Pages 230 - 239.
Year of Publication: 2005.

8. Record Number: 10536
Author(s): Chavasse, Ruth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Piety, Penance, and Popular Reading in Devotion to the Virgin Mary and Her Miracles: Italian Incunabula and Early Printed Collections

Source: The church and the book: papers read at the 2000 Summer Meeting and the 2001 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Edited by R. N. Swanson Studies in Church History, 38. 2004. Medieval Feminist Forum , 38., (Winter 2004): Pages 53 - 162.
Year of Publication: 2004.

9. Record Number: 10852
Author(s): Howie, Cary.
Contributor(s):
Title : Vision Beyond Measure: The Threshold of Iacopone's Bedroom

Source: Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality, and Sight in Medieval Text and Image. Edited by Emma Campbell and Robert Mills . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Gesta , 44., 1 ( 2005): Pages 139 - 153.
Year of Publication: 2004.

10. Record Number: 11409
Author(s): Blumreich, Kathleen.
Contributor(s):
Title : I Ne Sey Noght is in Despyt of Women: Antifeminism in Robert de Gretham's Mirror

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 38., (Winter 2004): Pages 38 - 46.
Year of Publication: 2004.

11. Record Number: 14637
Author(s): Fleck, Cathleen A
Contributor(s):
Title : To exercise yourself in these things by continued contemplation: Visual and Textual Literacy in the Frescoes at Santa Maria Donna Regina [The author argues that the Donna Regina fresco program was planned to enhance the resident nuns' understanding and meditation on the tenets of the faith. Furthermore many of the nuns would have had a visual literacy as well as a textual literacy to understand the sophisticated iconography and the Latin inscriptions. The nuns also would need to summon up relevant Biblical texts and other readings from memory. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Church of Santa Maria Donna Regina: Art, Iconography, and Patronage in Fourteenth-Century Naples. Edited by Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr . Ashgate, 2004. Medieval Feminist Forum , 38., (Winter 2004): Pages 109 - 128.
Year of Publication: 2004.

12. Record Number: 10782
Author(s): Field, Richard S.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Fifteenth-Century Woodcut of the "Death of the Virgin" in a Manuscript of "Der Stachel der Liebe" [The author examines the development and meaning of an iconographic theme, the figure of the kneeling Virgin in woodcut scenes of the Dormition. This devotional image presented Mary as humankind's stongest intercessor with both her son and God. It also served as a model for the good death with Mary kneeling in pious prayer as her earthly life ends. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studies in Iconography , 24., ( 2003): Pages 71 - 137.
Year of Publication: 2003.

13. Record Number: 11094
Author(s): Watson, Nicholas.
Contributor(s):
Title : Ancrene Wisse, Religious Reform and the Late Middle Ages [The author examines later Middle English texts that borrowed heavily from the "Ancrene Wisse." For the most part their authors were interested in adapting the anchoritic life for devout lay men and women. In some cases the texts have a pronounced puritan streak. The "Ancrene Wisse's" theme of living a life of perfection appealed to many reformist authors in fourteenth century England. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: A Companion to "Ancrene Wisse." Edited by Yoko Wada . D. S. Brewer, 2003. Medieval Feminist Forum , 38., (Winter 2004): Pages 197 - 226.
Year of Publication: 2003.

14. Record Number: 11660
Author(s): Dutton, Elisabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Textual Disunities and Ambiguities of "mise-en-page" in the Manuscripts Containing "Book to a Mother" ["Book to a Mother" is a compilation text in which a son discusses prayers and various teachings of the Church. It is frequently accompanied by other devotional pieces in its four surviving manuscript copies. Dutton presents a brief codicological analysis of the four manuscripts emphasizing scribal practices in handling divisions within texts and separations between texts. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History , 6., ( 2003): Pages 149 - 159.
Year of Publication: 2003.

15. Record Number: 11830
Author(s): Swanson, R. N.
Contributor(s):
Title : Will the Real Margery Kempe Please Stand Up! [The author examines "The Book of Margery Kempe" for religion as it was experienced by women. Swanson cites in particular male roles in Margery's spiritual life, pilgrimage, the urban milieu, pardons and indulgences, heresy, and the influence of devotional literature read to Margery (who was likely illiterate). Swanson suggests that in some respects Margery was like many other lay women who were deeply concerned about their salvation. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval England. Edited by Diana Wood . Oxbow Books, 2003. Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History , 6., ( 2003): Pages 141 - 165.
Year of Publication: 2003.

16. Record Number: 9637
Author(s): Robertson, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : This Living Hand: Thirteenth-Century Female Literacy, Materialist Immanence, and the Reader of the "Ancrene Wisse" [The author first surveys the manuscripts of the "Ancrene Wisse" and the languages that early readers would have used. Then she analyzes the broadly historical context of thirteenth century female religious readers. In the final section, Robertson focuses

Source: Speculum , 78., 1 (January 2003): Pages 1 - 36. Abridged version published in Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates. Edited by Holly A. Crocker and D. Vance Smith. Routledge, 2014. Pages 162-179.
Year of Publication: 2003.

17. Record Number: 11826
Author(s): Leyser, Henrietta.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and the Word of God [The author briefly traces women's use of books from an eighth century Anglo-Saxon copy of the Pauline Epistles that has Ada's name inscribed to late medieval books of hours with illustrations of their female owners. At the same time Leyser reflects on affective piety and women's spirituality, particularly in connection with the book as metaphor for the Christian life as well as for the salvation offered by Christ. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval England. Edited by Diana Wood . Oxbow Books, 2003. Speculum , 78., 1 (January 2003): Pages 32 - 45.
Year of Publication: 2003.

18. Record Number: 11092
Author(s): Innes-Parker, Catherine.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Legacy of "Ancrene Wisse ": Translations, Adaptations, Influences, and Audience, with Special Attention to Women Readers [The author traces the adaptations and echoes of the "Ancrene Wisse" in fourteenth and fifteenth century vernacular devotional literature. In looking at manuscript ownership and wills, Innes-Parker finds circles of reading among religious and lay women. Surprisingly the most innovative texts quickly found their way into women's possession. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: A Companion to "Ancrene Wisse." Edited by Yoko Wada . D. S. Brewer, 2003. Speculum , 78., 1 (January 2003): Pages 145 - 173.
Year of Publication: 2003.

19. Record Number: 11052
Author(s): Marshall, Simone Celine
Contributor(s):
Title : An Abstracte Owte of a Boke That is Callid Formula Nouiciorum [the author presents an edition of a Middle English translation of Part One of a Latin devotional work known as "De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione." Marshall argues that the translators' audience was probably female, though it is not clear whether it was for religious or lay women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 29., 40241 (September-December 2003): Pages 70 - 139.
Year of Publication: 2003.

20. Record Number: 9707
Author(s): Powell, Raymond A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe: An Exemplar of Late Medieval English Piety [The author argues that scholars for the most part have not put Margery Kempe within the context of late medieval English religious beliefs and practices. He suggests that Kempe was not religiously abnormal and that the themes in her book reflect contemporary religious concerns. Powell argues that people reacted badly to Kempe because she was annoying. Furthermore, Kempe was writing an account of her life as a saint, and persecution from her peers was part of her suffering. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Catholic Historical Review (Full Text via Project Muse) 89, 1 (January 2003): 1-23. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2003.

21. Record Number: 7871
Author(s): Backhouse, Janet.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Further Illuminated Devotional Book for the Use of Lady Margaret Beaufort [The author analyzes a recently identified manuscript that was made for Margaret Beaufort in Italy at the order of Giovanni Gigli, an Italian cleric who was made Bishop of Worcester in 1497. The author suggests that the gift commemorated the papal bull in 1494 that sanctioned the observation of the Feast of the Name of Jesus by Margaret Beaufort and others. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion. Edited by Bernard J. Muir . University of Exeter Press, 2002. PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002): Pages 221 - 235.
Year of Publication: 2002.

22. Record Number: 8061
Author(s): Wiethaus, Ulrike.
Contributor(s):
Title : Street Mysticism: An Introduction to "The Life and Revelations" of Agnes Blannbekin [The author provides a brief overview of Blannbekin's life and the record of her revelations. Blannbekin was a Beguine from Vienna whose confessor wrote down her visions and thoughts in Latin. It is unclear how much influence the confessor/scribe had on Agnes' written account. Excerpts from the Latin text and English translation follow. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. Volume 2: Medieval Women Writing Latin. Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey . Routledge, 2002. PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002): Pages 281 - 307.
Year of Publication: 2002.

23. Record Number: 8062
Author(s): Straubhaar, Sandra.
Contributor(s):
Title : Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bride of Sweden (1303?- 1373) [The author provides a brief overview of Saint Bridget's life and writings. She dictated her revelations, presumably in Swedish, to a series of male religious scribes. She also participated in the editorial work that came when translating the text into Latin. Short excerpts from the Latin text with English translations follow the overview. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

24. Record Number: 7442
Author(s): Dockray-Miller, Mary.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Maternal Performance of the Virgin Mary in the Old English "Advent"

Source: NWSA Journal , 14., 2 (Summer 2002): Pages 38 - 55.
Year of Publication: 2002.

25. Record Number: 7848
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Hoccleve, the Virgin, and the Politics of Complaint

Source: PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002): Pages 1172 - 1187.
Year of Publication: 2002.

26. Record Number: 9513
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Patronage of Vernacular Religious Works in Fifteenth-Century Castile: Aristocratic Women and Their Confessors [The author examines four texts and the relationships between their female patrons and their authors/confessors as represented by Hernando de Talavera's "Colación de cómo se deben renovar en las ánimas todos los fieles cristianos en el tiempo de adviento" [Sermon on How All Faithful Christians Must Be Renewed in Their Souls during Advent] and "Tractado de loores de sant Juan evangelista" [Treatise in Praise of Saint John the Evangelist] for Queen Isabella la Catolica and Juan Lopez's "Historias que comprenden toda la vida de Nuestra Señora" [Histories that Include the Entire Life of Our Lady] and "Evangelios moralizados" [The Gospels Sermonized] for Leonor Pimentel, Countess of Plasencia. Surtz argues that the authors/confessors are in part concerned with establishing hierarchies of gender and spiritual authority and emphasize traditional models of female behavior. Surtz points out that neither female patron curtailed her active involvement in politics as a result of these devotional directives. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Medieval Religious Literature. Edited by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Bradley Warren . The New Middle Ages series. Palgrave, 2002. PMLA: Publications of the Modern Language Association of America , 117., 5 (October 2002): Pages 263 - 282.
Year of Publication: 2002.

27. Record Number: 6067
Author(s): Mortimer, Julia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Reflections in "The Myroure of Oure Ladye": The Translation of a Desiring Body [the author analyzes a number of Brigittine texts, in particular the "Myroure of Oure Ladye" written for the nuns at Syon; the author notes the efforts made to minimize Bridget's individual voice and the instances where Bridget identifies herself with the Virgin Mary's experiences through dissolving body boundaries].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 27., 2 (June 2001): Pages 58 - 76.
Year of Publication: 2001.

28. Record Number: 6928
Author(s): Clark, Robert L. A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Constructing the Female Subject in Late Medieval Devotion [The author analyzes a number of devotional manuals addressed to laywomen and argues that the practices therein advised (prayer, fasting, etc.) empowered women, giving them choices and some control over their everyday lives. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Conduct. Edited by Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark . Medieval Cultures, Volume 29. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Mystics Quarterly , 27., 2 (June 2001): Pages 160 - 182.
Year of Publication: 2001.

29. Record Number: 5460
Author(s): McGovern-Mouron, Anne.
Contributor(s):
Title : Listen to Me, Daughter, Listen to a Faithful Counsel: The "Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem" [The author argues that the "Liber" and its translation are indications of the concern that some monks felt for the spiritual welfare of nuns; the Appendix lists the chapter headings of the "Liber de modo bene vivendi ad sororem"].

Source: Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England. Edited by Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead . University of Toronto Press, 2000. Mystics Quarterly , 27., 2 (June 2001): Pages 81 - 106.
Year of Publication: 2000.

30. Record Number: 5462
Author(s): Boklund-Lagopoulou, Karin.
Contributor(s):
Title : Yate of Heven: Conceptions of the Female Body in the Religious Lyrics [The author explores a variety of images including Jesus as nourishing mother, the soul as the bride of Christ, the body as the site of decay and corruption, and the closed, virginal body].

31. Record Number: 4803
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Many Grete Myraclys...in Divers Contreys of the Eest: The Reading and Circulation of the Middle English prose "Three Kings of Cologne" [The author argues that the "Three Kings" may have had a special appeal for women because it frequently appears in manuscript collections with devotional works specifically addressed to women].

Source: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays for Felicity Riddy. Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchison, Carol M. Meale, and Lesley Johnson Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts . Brepols, 2000. Mystics Quarterly , 27., 2 (June 2001): Pages 35 - 47.
Year of Publication: 2000.

32. Record Number: 5459
Author(s): Selman, Rebecca.
Contributor(s):
Title : Spirituality and Sex Change: "Horologium sapientiae" and "Speculum devotorum" [The author argues that the "Speculum devotorum" was written for women; the intended readers, possibly Bridgettine nuns, were presented with the figures of Mary and Bridget as models].

33. Record Number: 5395
Author(s): Zarri, Gabriella
Contributor(s):
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. Mystics Quarterly , 27., 2 (June 2001): Pages 79 - 91.
Year of Publication: 2000.

34. Record Number: 4811
Author(s): Watson, Nicholas.
Contributor(s):
Title : Fashioning the Puritan Gentry-Woman's Devotion and Dissent in "Book to a Mother" [The author argues that the son who wrote a devotional text for his mother was a priest or friar who was angry about the corruption in the Church; he joined the worlds of devotion and religious dissent together].

35. Record Number: 3952
Author(s): Smith, Kathryn A.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Neville of Hornby Hours and the Design of Literate Devotion

Source: Art Bulletin (Full Text via JSTOR) 81,1 (March 1999): 72-92. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1999.

36. Record Number: 5531
Author(s): De Courcelles, Dominique.
Contributor(s):
Title : Recherches sur les livres et les femmes en Catalogne aux XVe et XVIe siècles [the author briefly considers the literary debate about woman's nature, the roles which women played in the creation of literary works as authors, dedicatees, and commissioners, and the kinds of books found in women's libraries; in briefly considering women's literary circles, the author mentions the noble woman Isabel Suaris who promoted courtly literature and Abbess Isabel de Villena whose convent was a center of literary activity].

Source: Des Femmes et des Livres: France et Espagnes, XIVe-XVIIe siècle. Actes de la journée d'étude organisée par l'École nationale des chartes et l'École normale supérieure de Fontenay/Saint-Cloud (Paris, 30 avril 1998). Edited by Dominique de Courcelles and Carmen Val Julián . Études et Rencontres de l'École des Chartes, 4. École des Chartes, 1999. Mystics Quarterly , 27., 2 (June 2001): Pages 95 - 114.
Year of Publication: 1999.

37. Record Number: 4021
Author(s): Carrasco, Magdalena Elizabeth
Contributor(s):
Title : The Imagery of the Magdalen in Christina of Markyate's Psalter (St. Albans Psalter)

Source: Gesta (Full Text via JSTOR) 38, 1 (1999): 67-80. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1999.

38. Record Number: 4310
Author(s): Grise, C. Annette.
Contributor(s):
Title : In the Blessid Vyneyerd of Oure Holy Saueour : Female Religious Readers and Textual Reception in the "Myroure of Oure Ladye" and the "Orcherd of Syon" [The author argues that the two devotional works that come from Syon emphasized the ideal reader, whether lay or religious, as someone who was as meek, obedient, submissive, and devout as a nun from Syon].

Source: The Medieval Mystical Tradition England, Ireland, and Wales. Exeter Symposium VI. Papers read at Charney Manor, July 1999. Edited by Marion Glasscoe . D. S. Brewer, 1999. Pages 380 - 381.
Year of Publication: 1999.

39. Record Number: 4753
Author(s): Kemp, Theresa D.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Lingua Materna" and the Conflict Over Vernacular Religious Discourse in Fifteenth-Century England [the author examines varied clerical writings that react to or make use of the vernacular; each text "depicts the struggle over who should have access to religious discourse as a gendered contest between a potentially transgressive vernacular, feminized as the 'Lingua Materna,' or 'the mother tongue,' and the authoritative Latin of the male-dominated Church"; clerics who used the vernacular to teach the laity had to distinguish between good uses that they masculinized and bad uses, such as demystifying theology, which they saw as a feminization].

Source: Philological Quarterly , 78., 3 (Summer 1999): Pages 233 - 257.
Year of Publication: 1999.

40. Record Number: 4223
Author(s): Hamburger, Jeffrey.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Picture Book of Madame Marie [The author discusses the devotional book of "Madame Marie" in light of two recent monographs devoted to it].

Source: Scriptorium , 52., 1 ( 1998): Pages 413 - 428.
Year of Publication: 1998.

41. Record Number: 7172
Author(s): Barratt, Alexandra.
Contributor(s):
Title : Stabant matres dolorosae: Women as Readers and Writers of Passion Prayers, Meditations, and Visions [The author surveys late medieval writings on Christ's passion from Richard Rolle, the anonymous "Faits and the Passion of our Lord Jesu Christ," Eleanor Hull's translation, Margery Kempe, and Julian of Norwich. With the exception of the last author, the writers all aim at generating strong emotions in order to prompt contrition and reformed behavior. Only Julian emphasizes the joy and love of the Passion and encourages her reader to contemplate new ideas through positive theological metaphors. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Broken Body: Passion Devotion in Late-Medieval Culture. Edited by A. A. MacDonald, H. N. B. Ridderbos, and R. M. Schlusemann . Mediaevalia Groningana, vol. 21. Egbert Forsten, 1998. Scriptorium , 52., 1 ( 1998): Pages 55 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1998.

42. Record Number: 1599
Author(s): Lewis, Flora.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Wound in Christ's Side and the Instruments of the Passion: Gendered Experience and Response [images of sexual union and childbirth as well as knightly combat were used by both women and men to contemplate the Passion].

Source: Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor . British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1997. Notes and Queries , 3 (September 1997): Pages 204 - 229.
Year of Publication: 1997.

43. Record Number: 2754
Author(s): Hodapp, William F.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sacred Time and Space Within: Drama and Ritual in late Medieval Affective Passion Meditations [focuses primarily on Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe].

Source: Downside Review , 115., 401 (October 1997): Pages 235 - 248.
Year of Publication: 1997.

44. Record Number: 3509
Author(s): Savage, Anne.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Solitary Heroine: Aspects of Meditation and Mysticism in "Ancrene Wisse," the Katherine Group, and the Wooing Group

Source: Mysticism and Spirituality in Medieval England. Edited by William F. Pollard and Robert Boenig . D.S. Brewer, 1997. Downside Review , 115., 401 (October 1997): Pages 63 - 83.
Year of Publication: 1997.

45. Record Number: 3512
Author(s): Ellis, Roger.
Contributor(s):
Title : Further Thoughts on the Spirituality of Syon Abbey

46. Record Number: 1600
Author(s): Sutton, Anne F. and Livia Visser-Fuchs
Contributor(s):
Title : The Cult of Angels in Late Fifteenth-Century England: An Hours of the Guardian Angel Presented to Queen Elizabeth Woodville [appendices include a full description of the manuscript along with a transcription of the Latin text of the "Hymn to the Guardian Angel" and an English translation].

Source: Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor . British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1997. Scriptorium , 52., 1 ( 1998): Pages 230 - 265.
Year of Publication: 1997.

47. Record Number: 2070
Author(s): Barratt, Alexandra.
Contributor(s):
Title : Books for Nuns: Cambridge University Library MS Additional 3042 [the manuscript contains twenty texts including liturgical pieces, private prayers, mystical treatises, and didactic works ; the article concludes with editions of the two texts: "Form of Confession for a Female Augustinian" and "English Version of De Triplici Via"].

Source: Notes and Queries , 3 (September 1997): Pages 310 - 319.
Year of Publication: 1997.

48. Record Number: 1601
Author(s): Penketh, Sandra.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and Books of Hours [discusses women's use and reading of books of hours ; suggests that many of the illustrations were intended to extol such virtues as obedience, humility, and purity ; and analyzes some female owner portraits].

49. Record Number: 3680
Author(s): Jambeck, Karen K.
Contributor(s):
Title : Patterns of Women's Literary Patronage: England, 1200- ca.1475 [The author argues that many noble women managed their estates while their husbands were away or deceased; in order to train their daughters they patronized literature that reflected female capacity and self-worth.]

Source: The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. Edited by June Hall McCash . University of Georgia Press, 1996. Medium Aevum , 65., 2 ( 1996): Pages 228 - 265.
Year of Publication: 1996.

50. Record Number: 820
Author(s): Chavasse, Ruth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Latin Lay Piety and Vernacular Lay Piety in Word and Image: Venice, 1471- Early 1500s [devotion to the Virgin Mary].

Source: Renaissance studies : journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies , 10., 3 (Sept. 1996): Pages 319 - 342.
Year of Publication: 1996.

51. Record Number: 954
Author(s): Gros, Gérard.
Contributor(s):
Title : Guillaume Alecis et Jean Bouchet: Pour un style français de l' oraison mariale?

Source: Moyen Age , 102., 1 ( 1996): Pages 81 - 92.
Year of Publication: 1996.

52. Record Number: 1155
Author(s): Hasenohr, Geneviève.
Contributor(s):
Title : Du bon usage de la galette des rois [a meditation describes in detail the traditional holiday game in which the person who finds the bean hidden in the twelfth night cake is named king; the text appears in a manuscript copied by a Benedictine nun; the article includes an edition of the text

Source: Romania , 40241 ( 1996): Pages 445 - 467.
Year of Publication: 1996.

53. Record Number: 1196
Author(s): Sinclair, K. V.
Contributor(s):
Title : Un élément datable de la piété du "livre de la vertu du sacrement de mariage et du reconfort des dames mariees" de Philippe de Mézières [analysis of the thirteenth chapter "Oroison a la Vierge Marie"].

Source: Recherches de Théologie ancienne et médiévale , 63., ( 1996): Pages 156 - 176.
Year of Publication: 1996.

54. Record Number: 2543
Author(s): Martin, Nell Gifford.
Contributor(s):
Title : Vision and Violence in Some Gothic Meditative Imagery [analyzes manuscript images of ritual sacrifice (Jephthah's daughter and Abraham's offering of Isaac) and Christ's crucifixion for meanings conveyed by gender].

Source: Studies in Iconography , 17., ( 1996): Pages 311 - 348.
Year of Publication: 1996.

55. Record Number: 3675
Author(s): Ferrante, Joan M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women's Role in Latin Letters from the Fourth to the Early Twelfth Century [The author examines three classes of Latin literature; religious tracts, lyric poetry, and histories and biographies; the author argues that the literary works represented a collaborative effort between the writer and the female patron].

Source: The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. Edited by June Hall McCash . University of Georgia Press, 1996. Downside Review , 115., 401 (October 1997): Pages 73 - 104.
Year of Publication: 1996.

56. Record Number: 1220
Author(s): Suydam, Mary A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Writing Beguines: Ecstatic Performances [argues for a "performance art" approach to Beguine visionary writings with an emphasis on the multiple audiences involved and physicality].

Source: Magistra , 2., 1 (Summer 1996): Pages 137 - 169.
Year of Publication: 1996.

57. Record Number: 1433
Author(s): Taylor, Helen Clare.
Contributor(s):
Title : Mulier Quid Ploras? Holy Tears in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [influence of devotional texts, the Psalter, and liturgy on Margery's "rhetoric" of weeping].

Source: Mediaevalia , 19., ( 1996): Pages 363 - 384. (1996 (for 1993)) Published by the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton
Year of Publication: 1996.

58. Record Number: 1469
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : A Voice for the Prioress: The Context of English Devotional Prose [analyzes stylistic features that echo the colloquial and affective elements in devotional literature written for women religious as well as common rhetorical practices like repetition and opposition].

Source: Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 18., ( 1996): Pages 25 - 54.
Year of Publication: 1996.

59. Record Number: 13837
Author(s): Karras, Ruth Mazo.
Contributor(s):
Title : Two Models, Two Standards: Moral Teaching and Sexual Mores [The author examines lay beliefs about sexual behavior in contrast to Church teaching. As evidence Karras analyzes the devotional text, "Dives and Pauper," and ecclesiastical court records. She finds instances of a double standard with women expected to be chaste while men had sex outside of marriage with the fault frequently lodged against the women who had "tempted" the men into sin. 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. Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 18., ( 1996): Pages 123 - 138.
Year of Publication: 1996.

60. Record Number: 780
Author(s): Fulton, Rachel.
Contributor(s):
Title : Mimetic Devotion, Marian Exegesis, and the Historical Sense of the Song of Songs

Source: Viator , 27., ( 1996): Pages 85 - 116.
Year of Publication: 1996.

61. Record Number: 953
Author(s): O' Gorman, Richard.
Contributor(s):
Title : Le Dit de la Rose: dit allégorique en forme de prière en l' honneur de la Viege" [two parts]

Source: Moyen Age , 102., 1 ( 1996): Pages 57 - 71. and 102, 2 (1996): 217-227 [two parts].
Year of Publication: 1996.

62. Record Number: 1182
Author(s): Hardman, Phillipa.
Contributor(s):
Title : Lydgate's "Life of Our Lady": A Text in Transition

Source: Medium Aevum , 65., 2 ( 1996): Pages 248 - 268.
Year of Publication: 1996.

63. Record Number: 1709
Author(s): Margolis, Nadia.
Contributor(s):
Title : La progression polémique, spirituelle et personelle dans les écrits religieux de Christine de Pizan

Source: Une femme de Lettres au Moyen Age: Études autour de Christine de Pizan. Edited by Liliane Dulac and Bernard Ribémont . Paradigme, 1995. Manuscripta , 39., 1 (March 1995): Pages 297 - 316.
Year of Publication: 1995.

64. Record Number: 354
Author(s): Bartlett, Anne Clark.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Reasonable Affection: Gender and Spiritual Friendship in Middle English Devotional Literature

Source: Vox Mystica: Essays on Medieval Mysticism in Honor of Professor Valerie M Lagorio. Edited by Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul, Janet Goebel, and William F. Pollard . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Studies in Iconography , 17., ( 1996): Pages 131 - 145.
Year of Publication: 1995.

65. Record Number: 1208
Author(s): Birkel, Michael.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Meditation on the Magnificat Attributable to Guigo II

Source: Magistra , 1., 2 (Winter 1995): Pages 249 - 265.
Year of Publication: 1995.

66. Record Number: 377
Author(s): Summit, Jennifer.
Contributor(s):
Title : William Caxton, Margaret Beaufort, and the Romance of Female Patronage ["Blanchardyn and Eglantine" as a sphere of masculine activity].

Source: Women, the Book and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 2. [Volume 1: Women, the Book, and the Godly]. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor . D.S.Brewer, 1995. Magistra , 1., 2 (Winter 1995): Pages 151 - 165.
Year of Publication: 1995.

67. Record Number: 1652
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Costanza de Castilla and the Gynaeceum of Compassion [Costanza, royal princess and prioress, wrote for a female audience and celebrated the feminine virtues of compassion and motherhood].

Source: Writing Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain: The Mothers of Saint Teresa of Avila. Ronald E. Surtz . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. Magistra , 1., 2 (Winter 1995): Pages 41 - 67.
Year of Publication: 1995.

68. Record Number: 376
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Lydgate's Lyrics and Women Readers

69. Record Number: 5052
Author(s): Kamerick, Kathleen.
Contributor(s):
Title : Patronage and Devotion in the Prayer Book of Anne of Brittany, Newberry Library MS 83 [The author analyzes the prayer book, arguing that the individualized contents reflect the queen's concerns including safe delivery from childbirth, private prayers during Mass, and the steps necessary to earn indulgences].

Source: Manuscripta , 39., 1 (March 1995): Pages 40 - 50.
Year of Publication: 1995.

70. Record Number: 357
Author(s): Hayes, Stephen E.
Contributor(s):
Title : Of Three Workings in Man's Soul: A Middle English Prose Meditation on the Annunciation

Source: Vox Mystica: Essays on Medieval Mysticism in Honor of Professor Valerie M Lagorio. Edited by Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul, Janet Goebel, and William F. Pollard . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Manuscripta , 39., 1 (March 1995): Pages 177 - 199.
Year of Publication: 1995.

71. Record Number: 386
Author(s): Dutton, Anne M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Passing the Book: Testamentary Transmission of Religious Literature to and By Women in England, 1350-1500

Source: Women, the Book and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 1 [Volume 2: Women, the Book and the Worldly]. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Manuscripta , 39., 1 (March 1995): Pages 41 - 54.
Year of Publication: 1995.

72. Record Number: 3514
Author(s): Gill, Katherine.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and the Production of Religious Literature in the Vernacular, 1300-1500

Source: Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance. Edited by E. Ann Matter and John Coakley . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Manuscripta , 39., 1 (March 1995): Pages 64 - 104.
Year of Publication: 1994.

73. Record Number: 8676
Author(s): Papa, Cristina.
Contributor(s):
Title : . . .l'avrebbe adorata come Dio, se la fede cristiana non l'avesse trattenuto. La "Vita Cristi" di Isabel de Villena [Isabel de Villena, a Franciscan nun, was the first woman to write an entire religious work in Catalan prose. Her "Life of Christ" reports only episodes which involve women witnesses. Isabel presents a vision of harmony not only between the Virgin and Jesus but also between Mary and her mother as well as Mary and the Magdalene. This vision of harmony reverses the evil done by Eve and contradicts misogynist writings by men. 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 , 1., ( 1994): Pages 287 - 314.
Year of Publication: 1994.

74. Record Number: 14350
Author(s): Fletcher, Alan J.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Dancing Virgins of "Hali Meiðdhad" [The author points out a passage in "Hali Meidenhad" in which the virgins in Heaven are described as dancing and singing. Fletcher suggests that they would have been performing a "carole en ronde" as in the "Roman de la Rose." Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Notes and Queries , 238., (December 1993): Pages 437 - 439.
Year of Publication: 1993.

75. Record Number: 9458
Author(s): Bartlett, Anne Clark.
Contributor(s):
Title : “Delicious Matyr”: Feminine Courtesy in Middle English Devotional Literature for Women [The author explores how devotional texts addressed to women readers often used the discourses of courtly literature and romances, while at the same time critiquing these literary conventions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Essays in Medieval Studies , 9., ( 1992): Pages 9 - 18.
Year of Publication: 1992.

76. Record Number: 14684
Author(s): Morgan, Nigel.
Contributor(s):
Title : Texts of Devotion and Religious Instruction Associated with Margaret of York [The author surveys the religious texts known to have belonged to Margaret of York. Morgan categorizes them as books of religious instruction, texts dealing with the soul and the body, and a related group about prayer and contemplation. Morgan suggests that Margaret may have been very devout and read widely in her comprehensive library. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margaret of York, Simon Marmion, and "The Visions of Tondal": Papers Delivered at a Symposium organized by the Department of Manuscripts of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Collaboration with the Huntington Library and Art Collections, June 21-24, 1990. Edited by Thomas Kren . J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992. Essays in Medieval Studies , 9., ( 1992): Pages 63 - 76.
Year of Publication: 1992.

77. Record Number: 10241
Author(s): Armstrong, Elizabeth Psakis.
Contributor(s):
Title : “Understanding by Feeling” in Margery Kempe’s Book [When Kempe’s writing is compared to the various devotional writers she mentions in her book (Richard Rolle, Julian of Norwich, Walter Hilton, Saints Bridget of Sweden and Catherine of Siena), it is clear that she borrows from both devotional and hagiographical traditions. She combines these traditions with other discourses in order to triumph over clerical authority and to enact her own new spirituality based on feeling. The author suggests that her religious practices are close to those of Protestants in later periods (including Pentecostal women). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Notes and Queries , 238., (December 1993): Pages 17 - 35.
Year of Publication: 1992.

78. Record Number: 10017
Author(s): Millett, Bella.
Contributor(s):
Title : The origins of Ancrene Wisse: new answers, new questions [The author reconsiders the West Midlands and Augustinian origins of the Ancrene Wisse. The Appendix presents the Lay Brothers‚ Hours from the Dominican constitutions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medium Aevum , 61., 2 ( 1992): Pages 206 - 228.
Year of Publication: 1992.

79. Record Number: 10249
Author(s): Barratt, Alexandra.
Contributor(s):
Title : Margery Kempe and the King’s Daughter of Hungary [In her “Book,” English mystic Margery Kempe adapts the text of another woman visionary, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Instances of devotional suffering, weeping, and self-martyrdom in Kempe’s book could be modeled on selected incidents in Elizabeth’s writings. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Medium Aevum , 61., 2 ( 1992): Pages 189 - 201.
Year of Publication: 1992.

80. Record Number: 10975
Author(s): Pezzini, Domenico.
Contributor(s):
Title : Brigittine Tracts of Spiritual Guidance in Fifteenth-century England: A Study in Translation [The author discusses the fifteenth-century translations of St. Bridget‚s Revelations, by way of studying late medieval English devotional prose. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Translator , 2., ( 1991): Pages 175 - 207.
Year of Publication: 1991.

81. Record Number: 12736
Author(s): Takacs, Sarolta A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Manuel Philes’ Meditation on an Icon of the Virgin Mary [This devotional poem by the fourteenth century Greek poet represents a progression from a meditation of a concrete object (an icon of the Virgin Mary) to a mystical or metaphysical plane of understanding. The author gives a line by line analysis of the language of the poem, which employs numerous rhetorical devices to connect allusions to the burning bush (which typographically prefigures the Virgin Mary) to imagery of divine fire. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Byzantinische Forschungen , 15., ( 1990): Pages 277 - 288.
Year of Publication: 1990.

82. Record Number: 12739
Author(s): Newman, Barbara.
Contributor(s):
Title : Some Mediaeval Theologians and the Sophia Tradition [The author explores the diverse ways in which four theologians transformed the Biblical figure of Sophia, or Wisdom, into a powerful feminine image of God’s activity in creation and redemption. In the twelfth century, Bernard of Clairvaux frequently alluded to the figure of Wisdom from the Song of Songs in order to represent the maternal and nurturing qualities of the Divine; Hildegard of Bingen’s images of the feminine divine, in contrast, stressed the active forces of creation and redemption. In the fourteenth century, Henry Suso casts himself as a courtly lover who courts Wisdom as a knight serves a lady; Julian of Norwich adapts the maternal imagery of the Divine to embrace a much more inclusive and wider affective range. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Downside Review , 108., ( 1990): Pages 111 - 130.
Year of Publication: 1990.

83. Record Number: 12743
Author(s): Keefer, Sarah Larratt.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Monastic Echo in an Old English Charm [The Old English metrical poem most commonly known as “Charm for Delayed Birth” is often interpreted as a magical incantation intended to protect a woman from a spontaneous miscarriage or stillbirth. Although the poem may have origins in pagan practices, the poem’s references to Bethlehem and the Nativity give it Christian relevance. Moreover, the poem repeatedly echoes monastic references to scripture and liturgy, giving the poem an oral quality that could serve a prayerful or devotional purpose instead of just being a pagan incantation with Christian terminology. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Leeds Studies in English , 21., ( 1990): Pages 71 - 80.
Year of Publication: 1990.

84. Record Number: 12754
Author(s): Lewis, Suzanne.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Apocalypse of Isabella of France: Paris, Bibl. Nat. MS Fr. 13096. The Appendix outlines the picture cycle and text of the manuscript, listing the text (by chapter and verse number) and subject matter of images on each folio [Title note supplied by Feminae].

Source: Art Bulletin , 72., 2 (June 1990): Pages 224 - 260.
Year of Publication: 1990.

85. Record Number: 14553
Author(s): Bennett, Adelaide.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Book Designed for a Noblewoman: An Illustrated "Manuel des Péchés" of the Thirteenth Century [The author analyzes a manuscript made for the noble woman Joan Tateshal of Lincolnshire. The devotional and didactic texts include a manual on confession with sixty exempla underlining the moral points (see Appendix I for a listing of the exempla). Joan Tateshal is represented twice in the manuscript, not in the typical pose praying before an altar but standing in a more commanding position. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence. Edited by Linda L. Brownrigg . Proceedings of the Second Conference of the Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford July 1988. Anderson-Lovelace, 1990. Art Bulletin , 72., 2 (June 1990): Pages 163 - 181.
Year of Publication: 1990.

86. Record Number: 12762
Author(s): Hale, Rosemary Drage.
Contributor(s):
Title : Imitatio Mariae: Motherhood Motifs in Devotional Memoirs [The author discusses what she calls “spiritual motherhood” or “mother mysticism” (visionary appearances of Jesus as an infant, used to express the same desire for mystical union with God as is often expressed by the imagery of spiritual marriage) in South German fourteenth-century Dominican devotional writing. She discusses in particular the mystics Christine Ebner, Adelheide Langmann and Margarete Ebner. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 16., 4 ( 1990): Pages 193 - 203.
Year of Publication: 1990.

87. Record Number: 12771
Author(s): Casey, Michael.
Contributor(s):
Title : Bernard of Clairvaux and the Assumption [The author discusses Bernard of Clairvaux’s Marian writings, with particular attention to this treatment of the Assumption. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Word and Spirit , 12., ( 1990): Pages 21 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1990.

88. Record Number: 12730
Author(s): Breeze, Andrew.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Blessed Virgin's Joys and Sorrows [Based upon a comparison with analogous material in English, Latin, and Anglo-Norman texts, the author establishes the dating and attribution of three religious poems (two in Welsh and one in Irish) that concern the Virgin's joys and sorrows. Although the manuscripts attribute the three poems to three thirteenth century poets, the textual evidence indicates that they were actually written by three entirely different poets in the fourteenth century. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies , 19., (Summer 1990): Pages 41 - 54.
Year of Publication: 1990.

89. Record Number: 35185
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : The Soul Entrusts her Heart to the Fear of God and to Contrition

Source: Art Bulletin , 72., 2 (June 1990):
Year of Publication:

90. Record Number: 39193
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Perceval meets with his aunt, a recluse or anchoress

Source: Art Bulletin , 72., 2 (June 1990):
Year of Publication: