Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 11011
Author(s): Muir, Carolyn Diskant.
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Title : Bride or Bridegroom? Masculine Identity in Mystic Marriages [The author briefly examines two cases, those of Heinrich Seuse and Saint Hermann Joseph. Muir argues that men were less likely to report mystic marriage than women, but they had a wider range of experiences. Most notably they took on both masculine and feminine identities simultaneously. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages.   Edited by P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis .   Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series. University of Wales Press, 2004.  Pages 58 - 78.
Year of Publication: 2004.
2. Record Number: 11012
Author(s): Heinonen, Meri.
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Title : Henry Suso and the Divine Knightood [The author argues that Suso's "Leben" manifests a gender ideology throughout with the Servant as an ideal friar who becomes a heavenly Knight through pain and repudiation. At the same time the Spiritual Daughter is given a much more passive role in an enclosed convent. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages.   Edited by P. H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis .   Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages Series. University of Wales Press, 2004.  Pages 79 - 92.
Year of Publication: 2004.
3. Record Number: 10533
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Title : Henry Suso and the Medieval Devotion to Christ the Goddess
Source: Spiritus: A Journal of Christian Spirituality (Full Text via Project Muse) 2, 1 (Spring 2002): 1-14. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2002.
4. Record Number: 9512
Author(s): Wiethaus, Ulrike.
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Title : Thieves and Carnivals: Gender in German Dominican Literature of the Fourteenth Century [The author examines two autobiographical vernacular texts from Margarete Ebner and Heinrich Seuse. She argues that Seuse was concerned in part with disciplining nuns under his care and showing that female spirituality was inferior to his more intellectual approach. Ebner, on the other hand, wrote a spiritual manual for the nuns in her house in order to enhance their daily practices. 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.  Pages 209 - 238.
Year of Publication: 2002.
5. Record Number: 5459
Author(s): Selman, Rebecca.
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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].
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.  Pages 63 - 79.
Year of Publication: 2000.
6. Record Number: 3551
Author(s): Tobin, Frank.
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Title : Henry Suso and Elsbeth Stagel: Was the "Vita" a Cooperative Effort? [The author argues that Elsbeth Stagel has left her imprint on Henry Suso's "Vita" in form and content].
Source: Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters.   Edited by Catherine M. Mooney .   University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.  Pages 118 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1999.
7. Record Number: 1981
Author(s): Plattig, Michael.
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Title : Heinrich Seuse als "christliche Erosgestalt"!?
Source: Studies in Spirituality , 6., ( 1996):  Pages 49 - 72.
Year of Publication: 1996.