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1. Record Number: 45029
Author(s): Kras, Pawel, and Tomasz Galuszka,
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Title : Examination of Witnesses in the Case of the Hooded Sisters at Swidnica / Examinatio testium in causa Capuciatarum monialium in Swydnicz

Source: The Beguines of Medieval Swidnica: The Interrogation of the "Daughters of Odelindis" in 1332. Tomasz Galuszka and Pawel Kras. Translated into English by Stephen C. Rowell . York Medieval Press, 2023. Pages 168 - 257. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv2x4kp5p.16]
Year of Publication: 2023.

2. Record Number: 44847
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Title : Interrogators’ View of Joan of Arc

Source: The Medieval Devil: A Reader. Edited by Richard Raiswell and David R. Winter . University of Toronto Press, 2022. Pages 363 - 368.
Year of Publication: 2022.

3. Record Number: 44891
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Title : Papal Prohibitions against Beguines and Beghards at the Council of Vienne

Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader. Edited by Eugene Smelyansky . University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pages 88 - 91.
Year of Publication: 2020.

4. Record Number: 44892
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Title : The Fruits of Clerical Imagination: A Heretical Orgy []

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Year of Publication: 2020.

5. Record Number: 44893
Author(s): John of Winterthur, ,
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Title : The Fruits of Clerical Imagination: A Heretical Orgy

Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader. Edited by Eugene Smelyansky . University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pages 91 - 93.
Year of Publication: 2020.

6. Record Number: 29129
Author(s): Lahav, Rina,
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Title : Marguerite Porete and the Predicament of her Preaching in Fourteenth-Century France

Source: Gender, Catholicism and Spirituality: Women and the Roman Catholic Church in Britain and Europe, 1200-1900. Edited by Laurence Lux-Sterritt and Carmen M. Mangion . Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pages 38 - 50.
Year of Publication: 2011.

7. Record Number: 29804
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Title : With another deposition, of Petronilla of Villefranche-de-Rouergue, who stated that she had seen exiles or fugitives from their country, in flight from the justice of the inquisitors; and that one, having taken refuge in Lombardy, had been so badly treate

Source: Inquisitors and Heretics in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc: Edition and Translation of Toulouse Inquisition Depositions, 1273-1282. Edited by Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi and Shelagh Sneddon. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions, 147. Brill, 2011. Pages 180 - 183.
Year of Publication: 2011.

8. Record Number: 29805
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Title : The hearing of Petronilla, wife of William of Castanet of Verfeil in the diocese of Rodez, held for the crime of heresy, containing that she had eaten with heretics in her house, and had adored them, kneeling and saying to them, "Bless me", and they would

9. Record Number: 29806
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Title : The deposition of Guillelma, the wife of a carpenter of Toulouse, containing that she had heard it said by a neighbour of hers, named Fabrissa, that Lucifer had made man, and that, when God told him to make him speak, he replied that he could not, and tha

10. Record Number: 29807
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Title : With the depositions of the said Fabrissa and of Philippa her daughter, who confessed to having had dealings with the heretics, and among others with one named Peter Maurel, a messenger of the heretics of Lombardy, who complained about the state of the na

11. Record Number: 29808
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Title : The deposition of Arnalda, hospitaller of the hospital of Saint-Antonin, containing that she had heard it said by Raymonda, widow of Raymond Molinier of Cordes, that she did not believe in marriage, or in the sacrifice of the altar, or that Jesus Christ w

12. Record Number: 29809
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Title : The deposition of Bona, wife of Bernard of Puy, of Prades near Puylaurens, in which she stated that her said husband had often received William Prunel and Bernard of Tilhol, heretics, in their house; that they had adored them with several other people nam

13. Record Number: 29810
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Title : The deposition of Rixendis of Mireval of Graulhet, containing among other things that when Fays, widow of Reynard of Palajac, knight, was ill, she sent at night for William Prunel, heretic, and his companion, who made her a heretic. July 16, 1274, 173r-17

14. Record Number: 29811
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Title : The deposition of Guirauda, the wife of Durand of Rouffiac of Laumière, containing that she had heard it said by Grimald of Laumière that there were two gods, and that she had seen that he did not receive the Holy Sacrament in his illness, closing his mou

15. Record Number: 29812
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Title : The deposition of Bernarda, wife of William of Lafont, containing that William Auriola of Saint- Paul- Cap- de- Joux, "bailli" of Bartac of Palajac, knight, became a heretic in his illness with the assistance of the said knight. From the eve of Pentecost

16. Record Number: 29813
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Title : The deposition of Raymonda Ferrier of Jul, who stated that she had heard brother William of the Order of the Holy Cross, saying that there were three gods. 1276, 241r-242v

17. Record Number: 29814
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Title : The deposition of Esclarmonda, widow of the said Raymond, containing that she was not aware of having ever seen a heretic, and that she had never known that her said husband had become one. From the month of March 1273, 66v-67v

18. Record Number: 29815
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Title : The deposition of Ermengardis, widow of Isarn Pagèse, containing that the lord Loubens, and Berengaria his wife had ordered the said Isarn, and William Pagèse, brothers, to lodge in their cowshed William of Airoux, doctor, Bernard Gitbert and other hereti

Source: Inquisitors and Heretics in Thirteenth-Century Languedoc: Edition and Translation of Toulouse Inquisition Depositions, 1273-1282. Edited by Peter Biller, Caterina Bruschi and Shelagh Sneddon. Studies in the History of Christian Traditions . Brill, 2011. Pages 758 - 761.
Year of Publication: 2011.

19. Record Number: 45744
Author(s): Mackay, Ronan,
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Title : Kyteler (Kettle, Keyetler), Dame Alice

Source: Dictionary of Irish Biography Edited by James McGuire and James Quinn . Cambridge University Press, 2009. Available open access from the Dictionary of Irish Biography, a project of the Royal Irish Academy: https://www.dib.ie/biography/kyteler-kettle-keyetler-dame-alice-a4617
Year of Publication: 2009.

20. Record Number: 28624
Author(s): Kabala, Irene,
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Title : Dressing the Hodegetria in Czestochowa [In the late fourteenth century Pauline brothers took custody of a painting of the Virgin and Child at their monastery on Jasna Góra in Poland. The Virgin holds the Child with her left arm and points toward him, a motif known as the Hodegetria or "She Who Points the Way" named for a famous prototype which allegedly belonged to the Hodegon Monastery in Constantinople and dated to the pre-iconoclastic era. In point of fact the motif became popular in the 11th century and was given a legendary origin. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry , 22., 3 ( 2006): Pages 275 - 284.
Year of Publication: 2006.

21. Record Number: 19229
Author(s): Bueno, Irene
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Title : Preferire l'eresia? Donne catare in Linguadoca nel primo Trecento [The histography of women Cathars usually focuses on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, not on their declining numbers in the early fourteenth century. Evidence from Montaillou shows Cathar teachings transmitted within families. The women who converted often ignored misogynistic tenets of Catharism in favor of elements like belief that dead babies would experience reincarnation. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Storia delle donne 2 (2006): 243-266.
Year of Publication: 2006.

22. Record Number: 14647
Author(s): Benedetti, Marina.
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Title : Donne valdesi nelle fonti della repressione tra XV e VI secolo [In 1487 the papacy authorized a crusade against the Waldensians in Dauphiny. Following this campaign, inquisitors strove to eradicate heresy. Among those questioned were several women, some themselves considered heretical, not just kin of heretics. These testimonies cast light on the impact of the women who survived the crusade, some of them widows of the slain. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Chiesa, vita religiosa, societa nel Medioevo italiano: Studi offerti a Giuseppina De Sandre Gasparini. Edited by Mariaclara Rossi and Gian Maria Varanini . Herder, 2005. Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry , 22., 3 ( 2006): Pages 33 - 51.
Year of Publication: 2005.

23. Record Number: 14137
Author(s): Elliott, Dyan.
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Title : Lollardy and the Integrity of Marriage and the Family [The author argues that Lollardy saw women's roles in the orthodox church as open to exploitation by the clergy. Lollardy targeted such abuse as friars taking advantage of women both for sex and for alms, as well as for priests becoming too familiar with

Source: The Medieval Marriage Scene: Prudence, Passion, Policy. Edited by Sherry Roush and Cristelle L. Baskins . Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005. Word and Image: A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry , 22., 3 ( 2006): Pages 37 - 54.
Year of Publication: 2005.

24. Record Number: 11407
Author(s): Lifshitz, Felice.
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Title : The Persistence of Late Antiquity: Christ as Man and Woman in an Eighth-Century Miniature [The author discusses a miniature in which she argues that Christ is portrayed twice, once as the crucified Jesus and beneath as a female blessing figure. Lifshitz connects this to an intellectual milieu in which aristocratic women in monastic double houses were used to having spiritual authority. Furthermore they had access to late antique sources with similar outlooks including the Priscillianist tractates and the "Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles." Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 38., (Winter 2004): Pages 18 - 27.
Year of Publication: 2004.

25. Record Number: 11423
Author(s): Peterson, Janine Larmon.
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Title : Social Roles, Gender Inversion, and the Heretical Sect: The Case of the Guglielmites

Source: Viator , 35., ( 2004): Pages 203 - 219.
Year of Publication: 2004.

26. Record Number: 11831
Author(s): Aston, Margaret.
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Title : Lollard Women [The author examines women's involvement in the Lollard movement from three aspects: 1) women's domestic situation ; 2) women's opportunities for reading and teaching ; 3) the church and religious ritual in terms of women's roles. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval England. Edited by Diana Wood . Oxbow Books, 2003. Mystics Quarterly , 29., 40180 (March-June 2003): Pages 166 - 185.
Year of Publication: 2003.

27. Record Number: 11051
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Title : Tak and Bren Hir: Lollardry as Conversion Motif in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author argues that the text presents Margery as religously and socially aberrant. Yet this is necessary to prove that she is chosen by God as a spiritual instructor. The charges of Lollardy allow her doubters to convert eventually, while also emphasizing her orthodoxy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 29., 40180 (March-June 2003): Pages 24 - 44.
Year of Publication: 2003.

28. Record Number: 9511
Author(s): Wiberg Pedersen, Else Marie
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Title : Can God Speak in the Vernacular? On Beatrice of Nazareth's Flemish Exposition of the Love for God [The author examines the "Seven manieren van heiliger Minnen," a vernacular text written by Beatrice, a prioress of the Cistercian convent of Nazareth in present day Belgium near Antwerp. Wiberg Pedersen also looks at Beatrice's "vita," written in Latin by an unknown monk. The monk also translated her "Seven manieren" text into Latin for inclusion with the "vita." Wiberg Pedersen argues that the Church was frequently uncomfortable with women who wrote theological texts, particularly in the vernacular. Nevertheless Beatrice and other "mulieres religiosae" found various orthodox outlets for their writings. 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. Mystics Quarterly , 29., 40180 (March-June 2003): Pages 185 - 208.
Year of Publication: 2002.

29. Record Number: 5868
Author(s): Timko, Philip, O.S.B.
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Title : Hildegard of Bingen Against the Cathars [Hildegard critiqued the Cathars because they denied the basic tenets of Christianity; she was especially critical of the Cathar condemnation of marriage and procreation; Hildegard took an active role in exposing the dangers of the heresy].

Source: American Benedictine Review , 52., 2 (June 2001): Pages 191 - 205.
Year of Publication: 2001.

30. Record Number: 4738
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Title : The Dialogics of Margery Kempe and Her "Book" [using Bakhtin's writings on the dialogic, the author examines the relationship between the authoritative discourse of the Church and the State and Kempe's internal and persuasive voice from Jesus Christ].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 26., 4 (December 2000): Pages 179 - 197.
Year of Publication: 2000.

31. Record Number: 4546
Author(s): Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn.
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Title : Prophecy and Suspicion: Closet Radicalism, Reformist Politics, and the Vogue for Hildegardiana in Ricardian England [The author argues that Hildegard's prophetic texts inspired late-medieval English reformers and thinkers, even when other writers were regarded as too dangerous].

Source: Speculum , 75., 2 (April 2000): Pages 318 - 341.
Year of Publication: 2000.

32. Record Number: 14694
Author(s): Müller, Daniela.
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Title : Les Connotations Féminines dans l'image cathare de Dieu. Ses conséquences dans la pratique [The author examines Cathar doctrine, as it is known, for female elements. She also uses historical evidence of practices. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Heresis: Revue d'hérésiologie médiévale. Edition de Textes-Recherche , 31., ( 1999): Pages 55 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1999.

33. Record Number: 4753
Author(s): Kemp, Theresa D.
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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.

34. Record Number: 14693
Author(s): Biller, Peter.
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Title : The Preaching of the Waldensian Sisters [The author argues that there may have been Waldensian women who preached and instructed lay believers, especially female followers. Nevertheless, Biller maintains that women's roles as preachers have been overstated by some scholars. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Heresis: Revue d'hérésiologie médiévale. Edition de Textes-Recherche , 30., ( 1999): Pages 137 - 168.
Year of Publication: 1999.

35. Record Number: 13750
Author(s): Frassetto, Michael.
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Title : Heresy, Celibacy, and Reform in the Sermons of Ademar of Chabannes [The monk Ademar records interconnecting concerns in his sermons. Heretics in Aquitaine called priests' behavior into question. Church councils sought to prevent clergy from having wives or concubines in order to ensure the purity of the Eucharist. 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. Heresis: Revue d'hérésiologie médiévale. Edition de Textes-Recherche , 31., ( 1999): Pages 131 - 148.
Year of Publication: 1998.

36. Record Number: 2963
Author(s): Brenon, Anne.
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Title : The Voice of the Good Women: An Essay on the Pastoral and Sacerdotal Role of Women in the Cathar Church [women were ordained and could administer the sacraments in an emergency; they also preached].

Source: Women Preachers and Prophets Through Two Millennia of Christianity. Edited by Beverly Mayne Kienzle and Pamela J. Walker . University of California Press, 1998. Heresis: Revue d'hérésiologie médiévale. Edition de Textes-Recherche , 31., ( 1999): Pages 114 - 133.
Year of Publication: 1998.

37. Record Number: 2962
Author(s): Kienzle, Beverly Mayne.
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Title : The Prostitute-Preacher: Patterns of Polemic Against Medieval Waldensian Women Preachers [the analysis draws on the writings of Geoffrey of Auxerre, Bernard of Fontcaude, and Moneta of Cremona].

38. Record Number: 13752
Author(s): Moore, R. I.
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Title : Property, Marriage, and the Eleventh-Century Revolution: A Context for Early Medieval Communism

39. Record Number: 4344
Author(s): Biller, Peter.
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Title : Cathars and Material Women [The author explores the historiography of the issue and calls into question the idea that Cathars offered positive roles for women].

Source: Medieval Theology and the Natural Body. Edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis York Studies in Medieval Theology . York Medieval Press, 1997. Viator , 28., ( 1997): Pages 61 - 107.
Year of Publication: 1997.

40. Record Number: 14680
Author(s): Burr, David.
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Title : Na Prous Boneta and Olivi [When she was first questioned in 1325, Na Prous Boneta was open about her beliefs. She believed she had become the herald of the advent of the Holy Spirit. Prous, who harbored refugee Spiritual Franciscans, also described Pope John XXII, their enemy, as the Antichrist. Prous identified with the condemned Franciscan theologian, Peter Olivi, who believed a papal Antichrist would come. She parted with Olivi in claiming a unique charism and a direct role in ushering in a new age of the Spirit. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 67., 40241 ( 1997): Pages 477 - 500.
Year of Publication: 1997.

41. Record Number: 3998
Author(s): Sargent, Michael G.,
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Title : The Annihilation of Marguerite Porete

Source: Viator , 28., ( 1997): Pages 253 - 279.
Year of Publication: 1997.

42. Record Number: 1223
Author(s): Gasse, Rosanne.
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Title : Margery Kempe and Lollardy [suggests why Kempe was accused of heresy and how her beliefs and actions differed from those of the Lollards].

Source: Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 43 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1996.

43. Record Number: 5502
Author(s): Pernoud, Regine.
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Title : The Preaching Peregrinations of a Twelfth-Century Nun, ca. 1158- 70

Source: Wisdom Which Encircles Circles: Papers on Hildegard of Bingen. Edited by Audrey Ekdahl Davidson . Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1996. Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 15 - 26.
Year of Publication: 1996.

44. Record Number: 3682
Author(s): Hanna, Ralph, III
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Title : Some NorFolk Women and Their Books, ca. 1390-1440 [the author explores two pair of women involved in literature culture: Margery Baxter and Avis Mone, two peasant women who were Lollards, and Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich; the author argues that all four women were dependent on male clerics or teachers to translate and read texts to them and that women's attempts to fulfill themselves through the written word were very difficult].

Source: The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. Edited by June Hall McCash . University of Georgia Press, 1996. Collectanea Franciscana , 67., 40241 ( 1997): Pages 288 - 305.
Year of Publication: 1996.

45. Record Number: 1583
Author(s): Schibanoff, Susan.
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Title : Worlds Apart: Orientalism, Antifeminism, and Heresy in Chaucer's "Man of Law's Tale" [heresy includes both Islam and the Lollard movement which is mentioned in the "Epilogue" to the "Man of Law's Tale"].

Source: Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 8., 1 (Spring 1996): Pages 59 - 96.
Year of Publication: 1996.

46. Record Number: 1613
Author(s): Lichtmann, Maria.
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Title : Marguerite Porete's "Mirror for Simple Souls": Inverted Reflection of Self, Society, and God

Source: Studia Mystica New Series , 16., 1 ( 1995): Pages 4 - 29.
Year of Publication: 1995.

47. Record Number: 7223
Author(s): Fauth, Dieter.
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Title : Chronique internationale - Allemagne - Hérétiques, Femmes hérétiques, dissendents: de l'Antinquité aux débuts du Siècle des Lumières. Déviance religieuse dans les sociétés imprégnées de christianisme. Congrès organisé par le Diözesengeschichtsverein et le Centre d'Études Cathares du 16 au 18 mai 1996 à Würzburg.

Source: Heresis: Revue d'hérésiologie médiévale. Edition de Textes-Recherche , 25., ( 1995): Pages 135 - 138.
Year of Publication: 1995.

48. Record Number: 1007
Author(s): Brenon, Anne.
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Title : L' Hérésie en Languedoc aux XIIe-Xllle siècles: Une religion pour les femmes? [Catharism offered women more opportunities ; the "Good Women" were preachers, teachers, and givers of the final sacrament, the "consolamentum"].

Source: La Femme dans l' histoire et la société méridionales (IXe-XIXe S.): Actes du 66e congrés. . Fédération historique du Languedoc méditerranéen et du Roussillon, 1995. Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 103 - 116.
Year of Publication: 1995.

49. Record Number: 449
Author(s): Shklar, Ruth.
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Title : Cobham's Daughter: "The Book of Margery Kempe" and the Power of Heterodox Thinking

Source: MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly , 56., 3 (Sept. 1995): Pages 277 - 304.
Year of Publication: 1995.

50. Record Number: 379
Author(s): Blamires, Alcuin.
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Title : Women and Preaching in Medieval Orthodoxy, Heresy, and Saints' Lives

Source: Viator , 26., ( 1995): Pages 135 - 152. Published under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Year of Publication: 1995.

51. Record Number: 4333
Author(s): Copeland, Rita.
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Title : Why Women Can't Read: Medieval Hermeneutics, Statutory Law, and the Lollard Heresy Trials

Source: Representing Women: Law, Literature, and Feminism. Edited by Susan Sage Heinzelman and Zipporah Batshaw Wiseman . Duke University Press, 1994. Pages 253 - 286.
Year of Publication: 1994.

52. Record Number: 1406
Author(s): Crone, Patricia.
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Title : Zoroastrian Communism [Zaradushtism, an heretical sect of Zoroastrianism, advocated that both women and property should be shared equally; the sect was promoted by the Sasanian emperor Kavad and by Mazdak, a leader of peasant rebels].

Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History (Full Text via JSTOR) 36, 3 (July 1994): 447-462. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1994.

53. Record Number: 10530
Author(s): Duby, Georges.
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Title : Affidavits and Confessions [Medieval women’s voices are often mediated by men, but records of legal testimony provide some access to unmediated female voices. The author gives a partial transcription of the testimony of Grazida and Beatrice, two fourteenth-century French widows who were interrogated on suspicions of witchcraft and heresy. The women confess to having multiple affairs and having sex with priests. Both were sentenced for heresy but eventually had their sentences commuted as long as they wore yellow crosses on their clothing. 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 483 - 491.
Year of Publication: 1992.

54. Record Number: 10245
Author(s): Lawton, David.
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Title : Voice, Authority, and Blasphemy in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The author examines the importance of blasphemy in the production of literary texts in fifteenth-century England; during this time, vernacular writing was sometimes associated with heresy. While some readers fear Kempe expresses unorthodox religious ideas, the author notes that Kempe espouses orthodox views. Kempe also demonstrates a knowledge of Latin texts even though she claims to be illiterate. Ultimately, Kempe’s unique voice as a woman is preserved through the text even if her speech is mediated by a long line of male scribes and editors. Title note supplied by Feminae].

Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays. Edited by Sandra J. McEntire . Garland Publishing, 1992. Pages 93 - 115.
Year of Publication: 1992.

55. Record Number: 8660
Author(s): McSheffrey, Shannon.
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Title : Women and Lollardy: A Reassessment [The author examines the role of women in the Lollard movement (a heretical sect in medieval England) by focusing on a Lollard community in fifteenth-century East Anglia. Members of this community believed that women as well as men could become preachers; they held that marriage was a private affair that did not need solemnization in church; and many social factors, such as the influence of one’s immediate social circle, compelled both men and women to join the movement. The author explores the court records of two female Lollards, Hawise Mone and Margery Baxter, and shows them to be assertive and daring women. Nonetheless, the author concludes that women were not any more involved in the Lollard movement than they were in orthodox religion. Title note supplied by Feminae].

Source: Canadian Journal of History , 26., ( 1991): Pages 199 - 223.
Year of Publication: 1991.

56. Record Number: 8678
Author(s): Corsi, Dinora.
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Title : Dal sacrificio al maleficio: La donna e il sacro nell'eresia e nella stregoneria [Womens roles feature prominently in all interpretations of witchcraft. One element in this history is the gradual exclusion of Christian women from all sacramental functions. Many medieval women were attracted to religious movements, some of them heretical. Witchcraft was seen as one more movement of rebellion against orthodoxy, particularly with the prominent role taken by women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 30., (dicembre 1990): Pages 8 - 62.
Year of Publication: 1990.

57. Record Number: 15605
Author(s): McNamara, Jo Ann.
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Title : De quibusdam mulieribus: Reading Women's History from Hostile Sources [The author analyzes the cases of two women who testified about their religious beliefs to church authorities. In the Abruzzi Catania spoke in support of Celestine V during his canonization process. In Provence Na Prous Boneta testified to her devotion to Peter Olivi, a Franciscan spiritual. Documents like this indicate women's ingenuity and determination to lead meaningful spiritual lives even in cases like that of Prous Bonete where the church declared her a heritic. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History. Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal . University of Georgia Press, 1990. Canadian Journal of History , 26., ( 1991): Pages 237 - 258.
Year of Publication: 1990.

58. Record Number: 12757
Author(s): Martin, Carol A.N.
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Title : Alys as Allegory: The Ambivalent Heretic [The author argues that Chaucer endows his Wife of Bath with recognizably, even stereotypically, Lollard features in order to explore the tensions between orthodox culture and Lollardy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Comitatus , 21., ( 1990): Pages 52 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1990.

59. Record Number: 31814
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Title : Two Waldensian Witches, from Le champion des dames

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 30., (dicembre 1990):
Year of Publication: