Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 8313
Author(s): Brown, Jennifer N.
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Title : The Rule of St. Benedict and Envisioning Jesus [The author compares Julian of Norwich's approach to knowing Christ with that of the Benedictine Rule. While the Rule emphasizes Christ's divinity, Julian stresses Christ's humanity and meditates on it through her own corporeality. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Magistra , 8., 2 (Winter 2002): Pages 62 - 76.
Year of Publication: 2002.

2. Record Number: 12728
Author(s): Hull, Vida J.
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Title : The Sex of the Savior in Renaissance Art: The Revelations of Saint Bridget and the Nude Christ Child in Renaissance Art [Bridget's description of the nude Christ child at the Nativity, written during the fourteenth century, had a strong influence on fifteenth century visual representations of the Christ child, who was often depicted as naked infant with genitals in open view. The exposure of the Christ child's penis is a moment of revelation that displays His gender and also exemplifies His humanity. This was a common motif in the Brigittine scenes of the Nativity and the Adoration of the Shepherds, but was later transferred into other contexts, such as the Adoration of the Magi and devotional images of the Virgin and Child. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studies in Iconography , 15., ( 1993): Pages 77 - 112.
Year of Publication: 1993.

3. Record Number: 10734
Author(s): Bynum, Caroline Walker.
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Title : The Body of Christ in the Later Middle Ages: A Reply to Leo Steinberg [The author argues against Steinberg’s notion that Renaissance painters focused on Christ’s penis in order to make a theological statement about sexuality; she suggests instead that fifteenth-century artists show Jesus as both male and female, and saw his as a generative body. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. Caroline Walker Bynum . MIT Press, 1991. Studies in Iconography , 15., ( 1993): Pages 79 - 118.
Year of Publication: 1991.

4. Record Number: 10735
Author(s): Bynum, Caroline Walker.
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Title : Women Mystics and Eucharistic Devotion in the Thirteenth Century [The essay illustrates the importance of women in developing an increasing emphasis on devotion to the Eucharist during the thirteenth century, and argues that women mystics in particular showed a special confidence in their salvation through the Incarnation. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

5. Record Number: 10736
Author(s): Bynum, Caroline Walker.
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Title : “...And Woman His Humanity”: Female Imagery in the Religious Writing of the Later Middle Ages [The essay argues that late medieval writers used gendered imagery in different ways: while male writers saw gender as dichotomous, women writers often used the same imagery to represent a genderless humanity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].