Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 17109
Author(s): Yorke, Barbara
Contributor(s):
Title : Carriers of the Truth: Writing the Biographies of Anglo-Saxon Female Saints [The author explores "vitae" of Anglo-Saxon women saints in which aspects of their actual lives were incorporated. Yorke argues that these elements were important for hagiographical purposes. Texts included in the study concern Edith, her mother Wulfthryth and cousin Wulfhild, Leoba, Mildrith, and Aethelthryth of Ely. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Writing Medieval Biography, 750-1250: Essays in Honour of Professor Frank Barlow. Edited by David Bates, Julia Crick, and Sarah Hamilton . Boydell Press, 2006. Pages 49 - 60.
Year of Publication: 2006.

2. Record Number: 5148
Author(s): Hen, Yitzhak.
Contributor(s):
Title : Milites Christi utriusque sexus: Gender and the Politics of Conversion in the Circle of Boniface [The author argues that Boniface gave nuns new roles in inculcating Christian ideas and values; the author cites the case study of Leoba who had direct interaction with the people she had come to teach].

Source: Revue Bénédictine , 109., 40180 ( 1999): Pages 17 - 31.
Year of Publication: 1999.

3. Record Number: 7170
Author(s): Lazzari, Loredana.
Contributor(s):
Title : Regine, badesse, sante: il contributo della donna anglosassone all'evangelizzazione (secc. VII e VIII) [Anglo-Saxon women inherited a peacemaking role from their Germanic ancestors while adding a new responsibility for spreading the gospel. Well-born Anglo-Saxon nuns might become abbesses, even of double houses. Holy nuns feature prominently in Anglo-Saxon hagiography, and Aldhelm wrote on virginity for nuns. Later generations of nuns were more thoroughly subjected to male authority. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Studi Medievali , 39., 2 (Dicembre 1998): Pages 601 - 632.
Year of Publication: 1998.

4. Record Number: 1940
Author(s): Mayeski, Marie Anne.
Contributor(s):
Title : Let Women Not Despair: Rabanus Maurus on Women as Prophets [his commentary on women prophets is compared with the ideas of Thomas Aquinas].

Source: Theological Studies , 58., 2 (June 1997): Pages 237 - 253.
Year of Publication: 1997.

5. Record Number: 1105
Author(s): Hyland, William Patrick.
Contributor(s):
Title : Missionary Nuns and the Monastic Vocation in Anglo-Saxon England [nuns aided the missionary efforts of Boniface and his colleagues in Germany through their prayers and gifts; a few nuns, most notably Leoba, travelled to Germany, founded monasteries, and served as abbesses].

Source: American Benedictine Review , 47., 2 (June 1996): Pages 141 - 174.
Year of Publication: 1996.

6. Record Number: 922
Author(s): Head, Pauline.
Contributor(s):
Title : Integritas in Rudolph of Fulda's "Vita Leobae Abbatissae"

Source: Parergon: Bulletin of the Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. New Series , 13., 1 (July 1995): Pages 33 - 51.
Year of Publication: 1995.