Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 39175
Author(s): Wei, John C.
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Title : From Penitential Theology to the Canon Law of Magic
Source: Gratian the Theologian. John C. Wei .   Catholic University of America Press, 2016.  Pages 186 - 226.
Year of Publication: 2016.
2. Record Number: 23596
Author(s): Schmugge, Ludwig
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Title : Matrimonial Dispensation: How the Penitentiary Handled Cases of Impotence [The inability of one partner to consumate a marriage could be grounds for dissolving the bond. Dissolution with the right to remarry was not easy to obtain. Couples usually were expected to keep trying for three years before permission might be granted. The brief article appendix presents Latin excerpts from two registers of the Penitentiary from Italy in 1477 and Germany in 1484. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: ... et usque ad ultimum terrae: The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts   Edited by Gerhard Jaritz, Torstein Jørgensen, and Kirsi Salonen Ceu Medievalia .   Central European University Press, 2007.  Pages 71 - 82.
Year of Publication: 2007.
3. Record Number: 13628
Author(s): Rider, Catherine.
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Title : Between Theology and Popular Practice: Medieval Canonists on Magic and Impotence [The author argues that canon lawyers in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries created a set of rules to deal with impotence. Their writings indicate that they knew about lay magical practices. Some canonists urged those who were bewitched to seek magical cures. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Boundaries of the Law: Geography, Gender, and Jurisdiction in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.   Edited by Anthony Musson .   Ashgate, 2005.  Pages 53 - 66.
Year of Publication: 2005.
4. Record Number: 13779
Author(s): Ferzoco, George.
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Title : The Massa Marittima Mural [The Massa Marittima mural, discovered in 2000 on the site of a public fountain, has been interpreted, because of the presence of imperial eagles, as a piece of pro-Empire Ghibelline art. Yet the presence of a woman being sodomized beneath an eagle sugges
Source: Il murale di Massa Marittina. George Ferzoco Toscana Studies .  2004.  Pages 71 - 92. [In Italian on pp.29-50]
Year of Publication: 2004.
5. Record Number: 7065
Author(s): Esposito, Anna.
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Title : Convivenza e separazione a Roma nel primo Rinascimento [Wills from early-Renaissance Rome reveal frequent sexual use of servants as concubines, some of whom had illegitimate children. Many of the fathers were married men. Adultery did not often lead to divorce, but wife beating could. Six primary source documents, pp. 512-517. Title note supplied by Feminae].
Source: Coniugi nemici: la separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo.   Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni .   Il mulino, 2000.  Pages 499 - 517.
Year of Publication: 2000.
6. Record Number: 3108
Author(s): Stephens, Walter.
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Title : Witches Who Steal Penises: Impotence and Illusion in "Malleus maleficarum"
Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies , 28., 3 (Fall 1998):  Pages 495 - 529.
Year of Publication: 1998.
7. Record Number: 1115
Author(s): Furrow, Melissa.
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Title : A Minor Comic Poem in a Major Romance Manuscript: "Lyarde" [brief tale of impotent old husbands put to shame by friars].
Source: Forum for Modern Language Studies , 32., 4 ( 1996):  Pages 289 - 302.
Year of Publication: 1996.
8. Record Number: 3555
Author(s): Bullough, Vern L.
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Title : On Being a Male in the Middle Ages
Source: Medieval Masculinities: Regarding Men in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Clare A. Lees with the assistance of Thelma Fenster and Jo Ann McNamara Medieval Cultures, 7.   University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Forum for Modern Language Studies , 32., 4 ( 1996):  Pages 31 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1994.
9. Record Number: 11822
Author(s): Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
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Title : Reading Chaucer's Earnest Games: Folk-Mode or Literary Sophistication? [There is no strict difference between the categories of "ernest" (serious, moral) and "game" (light, entertaining) in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Merchant's Tale, a bawdy fabliau about an unfaithful wife and impotent husband, is an example of an "ernest game," a humorous form of story telling that has its roots in folklore and the oral tradition. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: English Language Notes , 29., 2 (December 1991):  Pages 16 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1991.
10. Record Number: 11194
Author(s): Rollo, David.
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Title : Sexual Escapades and Poetic Process: Three Poems by William IX of Aquitaine [The writings of the nobleman and poet William of Aquitaine subverts many of the conventions of courtly love poetry, as the elevated. chaste “domna” (lady) of troubadour poetry is sometimes characterized as promiscuous or bestial, and the poetry continually shifts between bawdy and meditative registers. Although the poems can be read as the narrator’s boasting over sexual exploits, some of the language in the poems suggests an underlying theme of male impotence. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Romanic Review , 81., 3 ( 1990):  Pages 293 - 311.
Year of Publication: 1990.
11. Record Number: 12797
Author(s): Murray, Jacqueline.
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Title : On the Origins and Role of 'Wise Women' in Causes For Annulment on the Grounds of Male Impotence [Article includes an abstract. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Journal of Medieval History , 16., 3 ( 1990):  Pages 235 - 249.
Year of Publication: 1990.
12. Record Number: 40771
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Title : Case of Impotence
Source: Journal of Medieval History , 16., 3 ( 1990):
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