Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 10934
Author(s): Lehmijoki-Gardner, Maiju.
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Title : Writing Religious Rules as an Interactive Process: Dominican Penitent Women and the Making of Their "Regula" [In the fifteenth century, when the Dominican Order adopted their affiliated groups of penitent women officially, Thomas Caffarini rewrote the history of that association to make it appear more coherent. In fact, the relationship was informal; and these women and their patrons needed to lobby the friars for attention. Thus the original rule granted by Munio of Zamora was informal, given in response to these women. Once the order adopted the penitents more formally, they lost much of their initiative to the friars, whose histories of the movement buried traces of women's activities. Appendicies present the Latin text of Munio's "Ordinationes" written in 1286 for penitent women in Orvieto and a listing that compares the chapter headings in the "Ordinationes" with those in the "Tractatus," the Dominican penitent rule circa 1402-1405. Title note supplied by Feminae]
Source: Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004):  Pages 660 - 687.
Year of Publication: 2004.
2. Record Number: 10003
Author(s): Sorelli, Fernanda.
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Title : La produzione agiografica del domenicano Tommaso d'Antonio da Siena: esempi di santità ed intenti di propaganda [Many late-medieval saints' lives were composed by persons who knew their subjects, and chose to individualize them. Tommaso Caffarini's works personalize Catherine of Siena, presenting a spritual profile, not just recounting miracles. His work on Vanna of Orvieto and Margaret of Citta di Castello, however, is less rich in personal detail. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale.   Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi .   Liguori Editore, 1992. Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004):  Pages 157 - 169.
Year of Publication: 1992.