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1.
Record Number:
29056
Author(s):
Burger, Glenn
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Title :
In the Merchant's Bedchamber
Source:
Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces. Edited by Elina Gertsman and Jill Stevenson . Boydell Press, 2012. Pages 239 - 259.
Year of Publication:
2012.
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Record Number:
15839
Author(s):
Tomas, Natalie.
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Title :
Did Women Have a Space? [The author briefly surveys the kinds of activities in which Florentine women took part. Given the gendered expectations of fathers and husbands based on religious beliefs and concerns with family honor, young and married women from privileged families mostly stayed at home. But this situation is further complicated by palaces being used for politics and business. Furthermore marriages were part of family strategies, and mothers of brides and grooms often took an active role in the considerations. Women from powerful families like Lucrezia Tornabuoni of the Medici, used their patron-client relationships to help the deserving and promote their families. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Renaissance Florence: A Social History. Edited by Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti . Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pages 311 - 328.
Year of Publication:
2006.
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Record Number:
20789
Author(s):
Stanbury, Sarah
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Title :
The clock in Filippino Lippi's Annunciation Tondo [Investigates the significance of Lippi's inclusion of a mechanical clock in his painting of the Annunciation in Gimignano through comparative analysis of contemporary works by Ghirlandaio and Botticelli. Issues of the cultural transition from feudal to merchant economy and domestic order are discussed, and the significance of the clock as a memento mori is disputed. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
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Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004): Pages 197 - 219.
Year of Publication:
2004.
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Record Number:
8072
Author(s):
Rees Jones, Sarah.
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Title :
Women's Influence on the Design of Urban Homes [The author argues that home ownership was more important to women than to men. Houses provided security, status, and a means for earning income. The physical environment of the home shaped the bourgeois ideal of female domesticity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski . Cornell University Press, 2003. Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004): Pages 190 - 211.
Year of Publication:
2003.
5.
Record Number:
8073
Author(s):
Riddy, Felicity.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Looking Closely: Authority and Intimacy in the Late Medieval Urban Home [The author explores the meanings of "home" and "homeliness" in late medieval English texts. She argues that it was a place where women took care of all the needs of the body. The author suggests that this kind of intimacy promoted a certain egalitarian attitude in the bourgeois home. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski . Cornell University Press, 2003. Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004): Pages 212 - 228.
Year of Publication:
2003.
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Record Number:
6617
Author(s):
Randolph, Adrian W. B.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Renaissance Household Goddesses: Fertility, Politics, and the Gendering of the Spectatorship [the author argues that these terracotta statuettes of Dovizia (a woman with a basket of fruit on her head who is leading a little boy), based on Donatello's statue now lost, can be read both as an embodiment of wealth and fertility and as a political, public symbol of the city and reminder of the pre-Medicean era; the author explores the implications of both female and male spectatorship].
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The Material Culture of Sex, Procreation, and Marriage in Premodern Europe. Edited by Anne L. McClanan and Karen Rosoff Encarnación . Palgrave, 2002. Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004): Pages 163 - 189.
Year of Publication:
2002.
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Record Number:
6616
Author(s):
Johnson, Geraldine A.
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Title :
Beautiful Brides and Model Mothers: The Devotional and Talismanic Functions of Early Modern Marian Reliefs [The author discusses fifteenth century madonna and child reliefs in regard to their production, devotional uses, levels of contemplation evoked, and as magical objects for marriage and the procreation of male babies].
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The Material Culture of Sex, Procreation, and Marriage in Premodern Europe. Edited by Anne L. McClanan and Karen Rosoff Encarnación . Palgrave, 2002. Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004): Pages 135 - 161.
Year of Publication:
2002.
8.
Record Number:
6928
Author(s):
Clark, Robert L. A.
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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.].
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Medieval Conduct. Edited by Kathleen Ashley and Robert L. A. Clark . Medieval Cultures, Volume 29. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Studies in Iconography , 25., ( 2004): Pages 160 - 182.
Year of Publication:
2001.
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Record Number:
8328
Author(s):
Cossar, Roisin.
Contributor(s):
Title :
A Good Woman: Gender Roles and Female Religious Identity in Late Medieval Bergamo [The author argues that women in Bergamo in the late Middle Ages saw a growing limitation on their participation in public religion. Confraternities became more male-dominated and changed their female members from participants to clients for services including estate management and memorial masses. However, women did find other outlets for their religious devotion within private, domestic environments, such as female monasteries. This resulted in women meeting their spiritual needs by cobbling together a network of relationships and services as reflected by women's bequests from Bergamo of household goods, money, and land to female monasteries, parish churches and confraternities. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome , 46., ( 2001): Pages 119 - 132.
Year of Publication:
2001.
10.
Record Number:
7951
Author(s):
Bolard, Laurent.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Thalamus Virginis. Images de la "Devotio moderna" dans la peinture italienne du XVe siècle
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Revue de l'Histoire des Religions , 216., 1 (janvier-mars 1999): Pages 87 - 110.
Year of Publication:
1999.
11.
Record Number:
4334
Author(s):
Kazhdan, Alexander P.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Women at Home [The author explores the question of women's separate quarters as well as other domestic issues].
Source:
Dumbarton Oaks Papers
(Full Text via JSTOR) 52 (1998): 1-17.
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Year of Publication:
1998.
12.
Record Number:
3183
Author(s):
Martines, Lauro.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Séduction, espace familial et autorité dans la renaissance Italienne
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Annales : Histoire, Sciences Sociales , 53., 2 (mars-avril 1998): Pages 255 - 290.
Year of Publication:
1998.
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Record Number:
3209
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Title :
Domesticating the Spanish Inquisition [conversa women were accused of being judaizers based on the practices within their homes that were spied by their neighbors].
Source:
Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts. Edited by Anna Roberts . University Press of Florida, 1998. Annales : Histoire, Sciences Sociales , 53., 2 (mars-avril 1998): Pages 195 - 209.
Year of Publication:
1998.
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Record Number:
4335
Author(s):
Hanawalt, Barbara A.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Medieval English Women in Rural and Urban Domestic Space [The author argues that women's space was strictly regulated; if they ventured outside it (especially into fields and taverns), they risked their honor and their persons].
Source:
Dumbarton Oaks Papers
(Full Text via JSTOR) 52 (1998): 19-26.
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Year of Publication:
1998.
15.
Record Number:
3515
Author(s):
Scott, Karen.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Urban Spaces, Women's Networks, and the Lay Apostolate in the Siena of Catherine Benincasa
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. Pages 105 - 119.
Year of Publication:
1994.
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Record Number:
8479
Author(s):
Gilchrist, Roberta.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Medieval Bodies in the Material World: Gender, Stigma, and the Body [ The author addresses two issues, one of which concerns the defining of the gendered female body through high status architecture. The author compares the spaces for women in castles with female monasteries. She finds segregation and enclosure in both with physical boundaries to control access. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
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Framing Medieval Bodies. Edited by Sarah Kay and Miri Rubin . Manchester University Press, 1994. Pages 43 - 61.
Year of Publication:
1994.
17.
Record Number:
10528
Author(s):
Piponnier, Francoise.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The World of Women [Living quarters and work areas (and artistic representations of domestic activity) reveal much about the everyday life and work of medieval women. Rural women were involved in agricultural tasks like tending grapevines and animals, artisan wives and widows participated in selling crafts, and textile production was largely done by urban women (as were the professional activities of sewing and spinning). Evidence from medieval dwellings gives insight into women’s duties in the domestic sphere, including raising children, preparing meals, and even managing the household. Although they did dominate certain fields such as textile production, women at all levels of society enjoyed less freedom of movement and action than men. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
A History of Women in the West. Volume 2: Silences of the Middle Ages. Edited by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. Pages 323 - 335.
Year of Publication:
1992.
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Record Number:
11220
Author(s):
Stanbury, Sarah.
Contributor(s):
Title :
The Voyeur and the Private Life in "Troilus and Criseyde."
Source:
Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 13., ( 1991): Pages 141 - 158.
Year of Publication:
1991.
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Record Number:
12745
Author(s):
Harbison, Craig.
Contributor(s):
Title :
Sexuality and Social Standing in Jan van Eyck's Arnolfini Double Portrait [The painting of Giovanni Arnolfini and his wife Giovanna Cenami depict the couple holding hands while standing in the bedroom, but the rest of the iconography and inscriptions throughout the image do not necessarily suggest that the double portrait is the visual equivalent of a marriage certificate or contract. The visual representation of husband and wife (including gestures and iconography) is instead a more generalized image of marriage that reflects the importance of fertility and defined sexual roles for men and women. Furthermore, the artist's detailed depiction of domestic space projects the social status, courtly aspirations, and religious values of the merchant class Arnolfini couple. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source:
Renaissance Quarterly , 43., 2 (Summer 1990): Pages 249 - 291.
Year of Publication:
1990.
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Record Number:
28553
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Title :
Bathsheba
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Hans_Memling_-_Bathsheba_-_WGA14921.jpg/250px-Hans_Memling_-_Bathsheba_-_WGA14921.jpg
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Record Number:
28575
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Portrait of a Woman
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Record Number:
28752
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Portrait of Female Donor
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Record Number:
28815
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Birth of St. John the Baptist
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Record Number:
28816
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Desco da parto [birth tray]: Birthing Chamber Scene (obverse view)
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Record Number:
28954
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Title :
Buonomini Visiting a Sick Woman
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Oratorio_dei_buonomini_di_san_martino%2C_bottega_di_Domenico_ghirlandaio%2C_lunetta_10.JPG/250px-Oratorio_dei_buonomini_di_san_martino%2C_bottega_di_Domenico_ghirlandaio%2C_lunetta_10.JPG
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Record Number:
28955
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Buonomini Taking Inventory
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Record Number:
30914
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Arnolfini Portrait
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Record Number:
30919
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Temptation of the Idler/Dream of the Doctor
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30926
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Nativity of the Virgin
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Christine de Pizan Presents her Book to Isabeau of Bavaria
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Warm Water
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Coitus
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Winter
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31220
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Temptation through Impatience
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31221
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Holy Family at Work: Opening Image for Saturday Hours of the Virgin, Sext
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