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1. Record Number: 43447
Author(s): Powell, Austin,
Contributor(s):
Title : Manuscript Miscellanies, Jerome's Letters to Women, and the Dominican Observant Reform in Fifteenth-Century Italy

Source: Renaissance Quarterly , 74., 3 ( 2021): Pages 722 - 762. Available with a subscription: https://doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2021.99
Year of Publication: 2021.

2. Record Number: 42630
Author(s): Margaret of Anjou, Wife of Henry VI, King of England
Contributor(s): Cron, B. M., ed. and Maurer, Helen, ed.
Title : The Letters of Margaret of Anjou

Source: The Letters of Margaret of Anjou. Edited by Helen Maurer and B. M. Cron . Boydell Press, 2019. Renaissance Quarterly , 74., 3 ( 2021): Pages 1 - 303. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvd1cb56
Year of Publication: 2019.

3. Record Number: 43682
Author(s): , Compiuta Donzell,
Contributor(s): Alfie, Fabian, trans.
Title : La Compiuta Donzella of Florence (ca. 1260): The Complete Poetry [Translation]

Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 55., 3 ( 2019): Pages 1 - 42.
Year of Publication: 2019.

4. Record Number: 35524
Author(s): Datini, Margherita,
Contributor(s): Pagliaro, Antonio, trans. and James, Carolyn, trans.
Title : Letters to Francesco Datini

Source: Letters to Francesco Datini. Margherita Datini Edited by Carolyn James and Antonio Pagliaro. The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series . Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012. Medieval Feminist Forum , 55., 3 ( 2019): Pages 1 - 431.
Year of Publication: 2012.

5. Record Number: 28446
Author(s): Hanaphy, Stephen,
Contributor(s):
Title : Consolation and Desperation: A Study of the Letters of Peter of Blois in the Name of Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

Source: Medieval Italy, Medieval and Early Modern Women: Essays in Honour of Christine Meek. Edited by Conor Kostick . Four Courts Press, 2010. Medieval Feminist Forum , 55., 3 ( 2019): Pages 206 - 219.
Year of Publication: 2010.

6. Record Number: 20330
Author(s): Pozzi, Giovanni
Contributor(s):
Title : Il linguaggio della scrittura mistica: Santa Caterina [Medieval mystics tried expressing their experiences in various forms, including autobiography, narrative, and metaphysical discourse. Women mystics frequently employed autobiography, a diary or personal letters. Catherine of Siena dictated prayers, lette

Source: Dire l'ineffabile: Caterina da Siena e il linguaggio della mistica. Edited by Lino Leonardi and Pietro Trifone . Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2006. Speculum , 81., 4 (October 2006): Pages 3 - 18.
Year of Publication: 2006.

7. Record Number: 20331
Author(s): Librandi, Rita
Contributor(s):
Title : Dal lessico della "Lettere" di Santa Caterina da Siena: La concretezza della fusione [Catherine of Siena used prophetic language in her letters. Although we lack a critical edition, the vocabulary of the letters can be studied for its use of metaphor. Her emphasis on images of spiritual feeding contrasts vividly with her extreme fasting i

8. Record Number: 20333
Author(s): Leonardi, Lino
Contributor(s):
Title : Il problema testuale dell'epistolario Cateriniano [Catherine of Siena dictated her letters, and her oral language is reflected in the surviving texts. Modern editions too easily iron out the evidence of orality. The surviving manuscript traditions reflect the work of different secretaries and hagiographe

9. Record Number: 20334
Author(s): Frosini, Giovanna
Contributor(s):
Title : Lingua e testo nel manoscritto Viennese delle letter di Caterina [Each collection of the letters of Catherine of Siena bears witness not just to the saint but to her secretaries and the compilers of individual manuscripts. The Vienna MS [ONB 3514] derives from the monastery of Monte Oliveto Maggiore. It brings together

10. Record Number: 20335
Author(s): Zaggia, Masimo
Contributor(s):
Title : Varia fortuna editoriale delle lettere di Caterina da Siena [In the 16th century, the diffusion of the letters of Catherine of Siena in print derived from Venice. The texts were secured from Venetian Dominican houses. Only in the 18th century did the printing of Catherine's works pass to Tuscany and Rome. Older pr

11. Record Number: 16304
Author(s): Weiss, Julian.
Contributor(s):
Title : What Every Noblewoman Needs to Know: Cultural Literacy in Late-Medieval Spain

Source: Speculum , 81., 4 (October 2006): Pages 1118 - 1149.
Year of Publication: 2006.

12. Record Number: 20357
Author(s): Fabbri, Lorenzo
Contributor(s):
Title : I carteggi familiari degli Strozzi e il tema del matrimonio: un'esperienza di ricerca [Private papers like those of the Strozzi family cast light on marriage negotiations in fifteenth century Florence. The letters of Alessandra Strozzi and Marco Pareti, her brother-in-law, reveal personal qualities sought in the brides for her sons, as well as practical issues like dowry. The character and appearance of the prospective bride were as important as the size of her dowry. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Mélanges de l'Ecole française de Rome. Moyen âge , 117., 1 ( 2005): Pages 223 - 237.
Year of Publication: 2005.

13. Record Number: 14698
Author(s): Luongo, F. Thomas.
Contributor(s):
Title : Saintly Authorship in the Italian Renaissance: The Quattrocento Reception of Catherine of Siena's Letters [The author argues that fifteenth century readers saw Catherine's letters as an important source of moral guidance. Furthermore their being written in the Italian vernacular was not a detraction. Catherine's mysticism conveyed authority as surely as Latin and Greek did for the classics. These trends crystalize in the edition of Catherine's letters printed by Aldus Manutius in 1500. He combines spiritual and literary goals with a new typeface for the saint's inspired vernacular. [Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of the Early Book Society for the Study of Manuscripts and Printing History , 8., ( 2005): Pages 1 - 46.
Year of Publication: 2005.

14. Record Number: 10558
Author(s): Field, Sean.
Contributor(s):
Title : Gilbert of Tournai's Letter to Isabelle of France: An Edition of the Complete Text [The author works from a recently discovered manuscript of the letter that the Franciscan preacher wrote to the daughter of King Louis VIII. Writing on his own initiative, Gilbert offered much of the standard spiritual advice to the religiously inclined princess. However, he also included a sophisticated section on spiritual ascent based on Pseudo-Dionysius. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003): Pages 57 - 97.
Year of Publication: 2003.

15. Record Number: 10517
Author(s): Hotchin, Julie.
Contributor(s):
Title : Abbot as Guardian and Cultivator of Virtues: Two Perspectives on the "cura monialium" in Practice [The author explores two twelfth century letters from the abbey of Reinhandsbrunn concerning the pastoral care of nuns. The first is from a papal legate to the abbey's abbot answering his concerns about providing spiritual direction for the women at his monastery. The second letter is from the abbess of a nearby female house asking Reinhandsbrunn for one of its monks as a spiritual director. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Our Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of John Tillotson for His 60th Birthday. Edited by Linda Rasmussen, Valerie Spear, and Dianne Tillotson . Merton Priory Press, 2002. Mediaeval Studies , 65., ( 2003): Pages 50 - 64.
Year of Publication: 2002.

16. Record Number: 7270
Author(s): Beach, Alison I.
Contributor(s):
Title : Voices from a Distant Land: Fragments of a Twelfth-Century Nuns' Letter Collection [The author has identified nineteen full or partial letters written by nuns at Admont. Some are routine correspondence relating to patronage, but others are of a personal nature including a mother who wants her young daughter brought to her and a nun who

Source: Speculum , 77., 1 (January 2002): Pages 34 - 54.
Year of Publication: 2002.

17. Record Number: 10835
Author(s): Delio, Ilia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Clare of Assisi: Beauty and Transformation

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 12., ( 2002): Pages 68 - 81.
Year of Publication: 2002.

18. Record Number: 6722
Author(s): Bos, Elisabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Literature of Spiritual Formation for Women in France and England, 1080-1180 [The author draws on letters written by such notable ecclesiastics as Peter the Venerable, Anselm, and Bernard of Clairvaux to nuns and to secular women, offering them advice on their spiritual problems].

Source: Listen, Daughter: The "Speculum virginum" and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Constant J. Mews . The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Mediaeval Studies , 63., ( 2001): Pages 201 - 220.
Year of Publication: 2001.

19. Record Number: 7136
Author(s): Rizzo, Catia Renzi.
Contributor(s):
Title : Riflessioni sulla lettera di Berta di Toscana al califfo Muktafî: l'apporto congiunto dei dati archeologici e delle fonti scritte [To counter Byzantine and other interests in the western Mediterranean, Bertha of Tuscany tried opening diplomatic relations with the reigning caliph. The effort failed when his envoy died on the way to visit her. Bertha's efforts were supported by the mineral wealth of Tuscany. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Archivio Storico Italiano , 159., 587 ( 2001): Pages 3 - 47.
Year of Publication: 2001.

20. Record Number: 6050
Author(s): Ferrante, Joan M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Licet longinquis regionibus corpore separati: Letters as a Link in and to the Middle Ages [in a presidential address delivered to the Medieval Academy of America, Ferrante describes the goals and contents of the online database "Epistolae" (http://db.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/Ferrante/about2.html) that presents the texts of letters from and to women, 4th through 13th centuries; the author traces a number of themes from the letters including women's involvement in public struggles, support of women by other women, and strong relationships between women and men].

Source: Speculum , 76., 4 (October 2001): Pages 877 - 895.
Year of Publication: 2001.

21. Record Number: 5604
Author(s): Mews, Constant J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Hugh Metel, Heloise, and Peter Abelard: The Letters of an Augustinian Canon and the Challenge of Innovation in Twelfth-Century Lorraine [in the Appendix the author presents transcriptions along with English translations of the two Latin letters written by Hugh Metel to Heloise].

Source: Viator , 32., ( 2001): Pages 59 - 91.
Year of Publication: 2001.

22. Record Number: 5892
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Familial Relationships in the Writings of Theoleptos of Philadelphia to Irene-Eulogia Choumnaina Palaiologina [Theoleptos, archbishop of Philadelphia, served as spiritual director to Irene, abbess of the double monastery Philanthropos Soter; in his letters he repeatedly advised her to stop seeing members of her family but she refused to comply].

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 27., ( 2001): Pages 63
Year of Publication: 2001.

23. Record Number: 6738
Author(s): Tessera, Miriam Rita.
Contributor(s):
Title : Philip Count of Flanders and Hildegard of Bingen: Crusading against the Saracens or Crusading against Deadly Sin? [The Count wrote to Hildegard for her prophetic advice on his imminent departure for the Crusades. The mission had been imposed as penance for his brutal execution of a man believed to be his wife's lover and other ill-judged actions. Hildegard in her reply ignored political and military concerns and urged him to purge his heart of sin. Latin texts of the two letters are appended. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Gendering the Crusades. Edited by Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert . University of Wales Press, 2001. Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 27., ( 2001): Pages 77 - 93.
Year of Publication: 2001.

24. Record Number: 19504
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth
Contributor(s):
Title : Medieval Women, Letter Writing and Performance [The author uses Heloise's letters as a case study of medieval women's epistolary affirmations of identity. Using the conventions of the "ars dictaminis," medieval women writers defined their identities. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Lilith , 10., ( 2001): Pages 58 - 74.
Year of Publication: 2001.

25. Record Number: 6495
Author(s): Graff, Eric.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Neglected Episode in the Prehistory of Syon Abbey: The Letter of Katillus Thornberni in Uppsala University Library Pappersbrev 1410-1420 [Katillus, a Brigittine brother from Sweden, was brought over to England to help establish the order in the British Isles by converting the hospital of St. Nicholas outside of York into a Brigittine abbey with female and male houses].

Source: Mediaeval Studies , 63., ( 2001): Pages 323 - 336.
Year of Publication: 2001.

26. Record Number: 5341
Author(s): Papaioannou, Eustratios N.
Contributor(s):
Title : Michael Psellos' Rhetorical Gender

Source: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , 24., ( 2000): Pages 133 - 146.
Year of Publication: 2000.

27. Record Number: 4581
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Romantic Entreaty in "The Kagero Diary" and "The Letters of Abelard and Heloise" [The author compares the requests of two women to renew contact with their lovers; they are both constrained by social expectations but use rhetoric to be both loving and wronged].

Source: Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Medieval European and Heian Japanese Women Writers. Edited by Barbara Stevenson and Cynthia Ho . Palgrave, 2000. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , 24., ( 2000): Pages 117 - 132.
Year of Publication: 2000.

28. Record Number: 5451
Author(s): Robin, Diana.
Contributor(s):
Title : Humanism and Feminism in Laura Cereta's Public Letters [the author considers six epistolary essays: "De amicitia" ("On Friendship"), "De adventu Turchorum" ("On the Coming of the Turks"), "Topographia et Epicuri defensio" ("A Topography and a Defence of Epicurus"), "De falsa delectatione vitae privatae admonitio" ("An Admonition Against the False Pleasure of the Solitary Life"), "De subeundo maritali iugo iudicium" ("An Opinion on Entering into the Bond of Matrimony"), and "De liberali mulierum institutione defensio" ("In Defense of a Liberal Education for Women")].

Source: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Edited by Letizia Panizza . European Humanities Research Centre, University of Oxford, 2000. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , 24., ( 2000): Pages 368 - 384.
Year of Publication: 2000.

29. Record Number: 4582
Author(s): Ho, Cynthia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Words Alone Cannot Express: Epistles in Marie de France and Murasaki Shikibu

30. Record Number: 5392
Author(s): Doglio, Maria Luisa.
Contributor(s):
Title : Letter Writing, 1350-1650 [The author gives a brief profile of a handful of women letter writers including St. Catherine of Siena and Alessandra Strozzi for the Middle Ages].

Source: A History of Women's Writing in Italy. Edited by Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood . Cambridge University Press, 2000. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , 24., ( 2000): Pages 13 - 24.
Year of Publication: 2000.

31. Record Number: 5385
Author(s): Delio, Ilia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Mirrors and Footprints: Metaphors of Relationship in Clare of Assisi's Writings

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 10., ( 2000): Pages 167 - 181.
Year of Publication: 2000.

32. Record Number: 4786
Author(s): Brasington, Bruce C.
Contributor(s):
Title : Crusader, Castration, Canon Law: Ivo of Chartres' Letter 135 [the author considers the case of a former crusader who castrated a priest in a dispute over property; Ivo, though shocked by the horrific crime, showed mercy by allowing the knight to go to Rome and ask the pope to remove Ivo's penance; the appendix reproduces Ivo's letter in Latin].

Source: Catholic Historical Review , 85., 3 (July 1999): Pages 367 - 382.
Year of Publication: 1999.

33. Record Number: 3706
Author(s): Mullett, Margaret
Contributor(s):
Title : From Byzantium, with Love [The author surveys letters looking for the erotic charge that we connect with love letters; she concludes with a case study of the letters of Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid].

Source: Desire and Denial in Byzantium: Papers from the Thirty-First Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, March 1997. Edited by Liz James. Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies, Publications 6 . Variorum (Ashgate Publishing), 1999. Catholic Historical Review , 85., 3 (July 1999): Pages 3 - 22.
Year of Publication: 1999.

34. Record Number: 5820
Author(s): Guzzetti, Linda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Donne e scrittura a Venezia nel tardo trecento [Remarkably few personal documents from Venice survive from before the 16th century nor was the Venetian vernacular a developed literary tongue; consequently we have very little material written by Venetian women; Cataruza da Pesaro, however, has left us letters to her brother-in-law; other signs of literacy include legacies of books and a handful of autograph wills].

Source: Archivio Veneto Series V , 187., 130 ( 1999): Pages 5 - 31.
Year of Publication: 1999.

35. Record Number: 6407
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : E' ti saluto con amore. Messaggi amorosi epistolari nella letteratura Arturiana in Italia [the love letter, as a literary genre, has its roots in Ovid's "Heroides," and Arthurian love letters can be found in twelfth century France; Italian Arthurian literature soon had its own love letters, many tied to the Tristan or Lancelot cycle; the Ovidian tradition was fused with the forms of the "Ars dictaminis," the standard method of drafting letters].

Source: Medioevo Romanzo , 23., ( 1999): Pages 277 - 298.
Year of Publication: 1999.

36. Record Number: 3754
Author(s): Haseldine, J. P.
Contributor(s):
Title : Love, Separation, and Male Friendship: Words and Actions in Saint Anselm's Letters to His Friends

Source: Masculinity in Medieval Europe. Edited by D.M. Hadley . Women and Men in History Series. Addison Wesley Longman, 1999. Medioevo Romanzo , 23., ( 1999): Pages 238 - 255.
Year of Publication: 1999.

37. Record Number: 3233
Author(s): Yorke, Barbara.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Bonifacian Mission and Female Religious in Wessex

Source: Early Medieval Europe , 7., 2 ( 1998): Pages 145 - 172.
Year of Publication: 1998.

38. Record Number: 5582
Author(s): Valori, Alessandro.
Contributor(s):
Title : L'Onore femminile attraverso l'epistolario di Margherita e Francesco Datini da Prato [Francesco Datini, a merchant of Prato, has left us many letters detailing his business dealings and his anxieties; one goal was to return from doing business abroad to his wife and his household; to this end he married a much younger woman, Margherita Bandini; Francesco shared the common assumptions of his day and class about women needing male tutelage and marriages creating alliances between families, as well as the importance of dowries; Datini's ideas of honor, applied to his wife and his illegitimate daughter, are based on submission and service to the family; Margherita too internalized these values, even though she was childless].

Source: Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana , 175., ( 1998): Pages 53 - 83.
Year of Publication: 1998.

39. Record Number: 4825
Author(s): Swabey, ffiona.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Letter Book of Alice de Bryene and Alice de Sutton's List of Debts [the author analyzes eight letters written to Alice de Bryene, commenting on the familial and administrative duties Alice undertook; her grandmother, Alice de Sutton, serves as an example of irresponsible management because she hadn't paid her husband's legacies thirty years after his death; the appendices reproduce the texts of the eight letters in French and the list of debts in Latin].

Source: Nottingham Medieval Studies , 42., ( 1998): Pages 121 - 145.
Year of Publication: 1998.

40. Record Number: 4287
Author(s): Rapp, Beverlee Sian.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Woman Speaks: Language and Self-Representation in Hildegard's Letters [The author suggests that Hildegard adopts a comforting motherly tone when writing to women, while she has a variety of approaches to men: supplicatory, humble yet confident, and bold as the mouthpiece of God].

Source: Hildegard of Bingen: A book of Essays. Edited by Maud Burnett McInerney . Garland Publishing, 1998. Nottingham Medieval Studies , 42., ( 1998): Pages 3 - 24.
Year of Publication: 1998.

41. Record Number: 3988
Author(s): Ferrante, Joan.
Contributor(s):
Title : Correspondent: "Blessed is the Speech of Your Mouth" [Hildegard of Bingen as a letter writer].

Source: Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World. Edited by Barbara Newman . University of California Press, 1998. Nottingham Medieval Studies , 42., ( 1998): Pages 91 - 109.
Year of Publication: 1998.

42. Record Number: 3634
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Me atrevo a escribir así: Confessional Politics in the Letters of Isabel I and Hernando de Talavera [The author argues that Isabel wrote exaggeratedly humble letters to her confessor in order to resist his rigid rules for women's behavior].

Source: Women at Work in Spain: From the Middle Ages to Early Modern Times. Edited by Marilyn Stone and Carmen Benito-Vessels . Peter Lang, 1998. Nottingham Medieval Studies , 42., ( 1998): Pages 147 - 173.
Year of Publication: 1998.

43. Record Number: 3395
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Dominus/"Ancilla": Rhetorical Subjectivity and Sexual Violence in the Letters of Heloise

Source: The Tongue of the Fathers: Gender and Ideology in Twelfth-Century Latin. Edited by David Townsend and Andrew Taylor . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. Nottingham Medieval Studies , 42., ( 1998): Pages 35 - 54.
Year of Publication: 1998.

44. Record Number: 3523
Author(s): Blamires, Alcuin.
Contributor(s):
Title : Caput a femina, membra a viris: Gender Polemic in Abelard's Letter "On the Authority and Dignity of the Nun's Profession [Abelard, at the request of Heloise, writes about the precedents for and the origins of female religious, emphasizing their parity, priority, exclusivity, and supremacy in a pro-feminist apology].

45. Record Number: 1914
Author(s): O'Connor, Eugene.
Contributor(s):
Title : Panormita's Reply to His Critics: The "Hermaphroditus" and the Literary Defense

Source: Renaissance Quarterly (Full Text via JSTOR) 50, 4 (Winter 1997): 985-1010. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

46. Record Number: 2537
Author(s): Kolia-Dermitzaki, Athina.
Contributor(s):
Title : Michael VII Doukas, Robert Guiscard, and the Byzantine-Norman Marriage Negotiations [study of two letters sent by the Emperor to Robert Guiscard offering to marry the Byzantine heir apparent to one of Robert's daughters].

Source: Byzantinoslavica , 58., 2 ( 1997): Pages 251 - 268.
Year of Publication: 1997.

47. Record Number: 6667
Author(s): Kent, Francis W.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sainted Mother, Magnificent Son: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Lorenzo de' Medici

Source: Italian History and Culture , 3., ( 1997): Pages 3 - 34.
Year of Publication: 1997.

48. Record Number: 1994
Author(s): Calabrese, Michael.
Contributor(s):
Title : Ovid and the Female Voice in the "De Amore" and the "Letters" of Abelard and Heloise

Source: Modern Philology (Full Text via JSTOR) 95, 1 (August 1997): 1-26. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

49. Record Number: 2978
Author(s): Jones, Nancy A.
Contributor(s):
Title : By Woman's Tears Redeemed: Female Lament in St. Augustine's "Confessions" and the Correspondence of Abelard and Heloise

Source: Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition. Edited by Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter . State University of New York Press, 1997. Pages 15 - 39.
Year of Publication: 1997.

50. Record Number: 2735
Author(s): Payne, Paddy and Caroline Barron
Contributor(s):
Title : The Letters and Life of Elizabeth Despenser, Lady Zouche (d. 1408) [her letters and will provide a glimpse of her personal concerns regarding family, household and servants, business affairs, and religion; appendices include an English translation of her will, a calendar of documents by or about Lady Elizabeth, and texts of her letters, 1402-1403].

Source: Nottingham Medieval Studies , 4., ( 1997): Pages 126 - 156.
Year of Publication: 1997.

51. Record Number: 2666
Author(s): Richardson, Malcolm.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women, Commerce, and Rhetoric in Medieval England [analyzes women's business letters, primarily from the collections of the Paston, Stonor, and Plumpton families; many of these gentry women were left in charge of the family estates while their husbands stayed in London on business].

Source: Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women. Edited by Molly Meijer Wertheimer . University of South Carolina Press, 1997. Pages 133 - 149.
Year of Publication: 1997.

52. Record Number: 1205
Author(s): Suranyi, Anna.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Fifteenth-Century Woman's Pathway to Fame: The "Querelle de la Rose" and the Literary Career of Christine de Pizan

Source: Fifteenth Century Studies , 23., ( 1997): Pages 204 - 221.
Year of Publication: 1997.

53. Record Number: 1868
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Public and Private Functions of Heloise's Letters

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 23., 1 (March 1997): Pages 15 - 28.
Year of Publication: 1997.

54. Record Number: 2984
Author(s): Robin, Diana.
Contributor(s):
Title : Woman, Space, and Renaissance Discourse [explores the landscape that Laura Cereta creates in her letters; also mentions Renaissance catalogs of famous women and Christine de Pizan's "Cité des dames" and her use of urban space].

55. Record Number: 840
Author(s): Margolis, Nadia.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Cry of the Chameleon: Evolving Voices in the Epistles of Christine de Pizan

Source: Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 1., ( 1996): Pages 37 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1996.

56. Record Number: 997
Author(s): Hatlie, Peter.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women of Discipline During the Second Iconoclast Age [nuns' support of icons and of their abbesses contrasted with monks' behavior, 815-843].

Source: Byzantinische Zeitschrift , 89., 1 ( 1996): Pages 37 - 44.
Year of Publication: 1996.

57. Record Number: 1361
Author(s): de Vries- van der Velden, Eva.
Contributor(s):
Title : La lune de Psellos [argues that the "moon" Psellos describes in his letter to John Mauropous is his young bride; includes the Greek text and a French translation of the letter].

Source: Byzantinoslavica , 57., 2 ( 1996): Pages 239 - 256.
Year of Publication: 1996.

58. 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.

59. Record Number: 2549
Author(s): Kienzle, Beverly M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Operatrix in Vinea Domini: Hildegard of Bingen's Preaching and Polemics Against the Cathars [Hildegard delivered at least twenty-one public sermons in cathedrals and monastic communities; the article discusses four texts: Visionary treatise sent to the monks of St. Martin in Mainz, Cologne sermon preserved in a letter, Kirchheim sermon preserved in a letter, and gospel homily on Luke 21: 25-33 included in "Ex positiones evangeliorum"].

Source: Heresis: Revue d'hérésiologie médiévale. Edition de textes-Recherche , ( 1996): Pages 43 - 56.
Year of Publication: 1996.

60. Record Number: 842
Author(s): Richardson, Malcolm.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women, Commerce, and Writing in Late Medieval England [family and business letters sent by women ].

Source: Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 1., ( 1996): Pages 123 - 145.
Year of Publication: 1996.

61. Record Number: 1217
Author(s): Johnson, Timothy.
Contributor(s):
Title : To Her Who Is Half of Her Soul: Clare of Assisi and the Medieval Epistolary Tradition [analysis of Clare's letters to Agnes of Prague].

Source: Magistra , 2., 1 (Summer 1996): Pages 24 - 50.
Year of Publication: 1996.

62. Record Number: 1632
Author(s): Godorecci, Barbara J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Re-Writing Griselda: Trials of the Grey Battle Maiden [the handling of the testing theme in Boccaccio, Petrarch's Latin translation, and Chaucer's English version].

Source: Romance Languages Annual , 8., ( 1996): Pages 192 - 196.
Year of Publication: 1996.

63. Record Number: 841
Author(s): Classen, Albrecht.
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Explorations of Literacy: Epistolary Challenges to the Literary Canon in the Late Middle Ages [style and content of women's letters found in Georg Steinhausen's edition, "Deutsche Privatbriefe des Mittelalters"].

Source: Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 1., ( 1996): Pages 89 - 121.
Year of Publication: 1996.

64. Record Number: 901
Author(s): O' Mara, V. M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Scribal Ability and Scribal Activity in Late Medieval England: The Evidence?

Source: Leeds Studies in English , ( 1996): Pages 87 - 130.
Year of Publication: 1996.

65. Record Number: 3637
Author(s): Brown, Catherine.
Contributor(s):
Title : Muliebriter: Doing Gender in the Letters of Heloise [argues that Heloise adopts a number of gendered personae in her letters, including whore, castrata, and hypocrite in order to assert her mastery over Abelard].

Source: Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Edited by Jane Chance . University Press of Florida, 1996. Leeds Studies in English , ( 1996): Pages 25 - 51.
Year of Publication: 1996.

66. Record Number: 1079
Author(s): Nye, Andrea.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Woman's Thought or a Man's Discipline? The Letters of Abelard and Heloise [contrasts the views of Heloise and Abelard on love, sexuality, ethics, logic, and universals].

Source: Hypatia's Daughters: Fifteen Hundred Years of Women Philosophers. Edited by Linda Lopez McAlister . Indiana University Press, 1996. Leeds Studies in English , ( 1996): Pages 25 - 47. [originally published in Hypatia 7, 3 (Summer 1992): 1-22
Year of Publication: 1996.

67. Record Number: 1129
Author(s): Oak, Ellen.
Contributor(s):
Title : She Who Is: Blessed Be She [Oak has recorded the songs of Hildegard of Bingen on "The Harmony of Heaven" and "Sounding the Living Light"; the article includes her translation of Hildegard's "Antiphon for the Dedication of a Church" and excerpts from her letter to Canoness Tengswith of Andernach].

Source: Magistra , 1., 1 (Summer 1995): Pages 116 - 121.
Year of Publication: 1995.

68. Record Number: 5154
Author(s): Chauvin, Benoît.
Contributor(s):
Title : Hildegarde de Bingen et les Cisterciens. Note sur les "Epistolae LXX" et "LXXR" [the author analyzes a letter sent to Hildegard by five Cistercian abbots who ask that she help a noble woman who has been unable to have children ; the author examines the tenures of each of the abbots, arriving at a new date for the letter, between the summer of 1159 and January 1162].

Source: Cîteaux: Revue d'Histoire Cistercienne , 46., 40180 ( 1995): Pages 159 - 165.
Year of Publication: 1995.

69. Record Number: 8644
Author(s): Del Pozzo, Joan P.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Apotheosis of Niccolò Toldo: An Execution "Love Story": Appendix A Translation of Saint Catherine of Siena's Most Celebrated Letter

Source: MLN: Modern Language Notes (Full Text via Project Muse) 110, 1 (January 1995): 164-177. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.

70. Record Number: 6623
Author(s): Scott, Karen.
Contributor(s):
Title : Candied Oranges, Vinegar, and Dawn: The Imagery of Conversion in the Letters of Caterina of Siena [The author examines three letters that Catherine wrote in 1378 to Monna Costanza Soderini, wife of one of the Guelph leaders of Florence, to Stefano Maconi, one of her disciples in Siena, and to Pope Urban; all three of her correspondents were having dif

Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995): Pages 91 - 107. Women Mystic Writers. Edited by Dino S. Cervigni
Year of Publication: 1995.

71. Record Number: 1193
Author(s): Wallace, D. Patricia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Feminine Rhetoric and the Epistolary Tradition: The Boniface Correspondence [discusses letters written by Eangyth and Bugga and Abbess Ecgburg to Boniface and letters from the nun Berhtgyth to her brother Balthard].

Source: Women's Studies , 24., 3 ( 1995): Pages 229 - 246. Special Issue: Issues in Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship
Year of Publication: 1995.

72. Record Number: 549
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Responses to MFN 18: Letters to the Editor

Source: Medieval Feminist Newsletter , 19., (Spring 1995): Pages 6
Year of Publication: 1995.

73. Record Number: 1984
Author(s): Classen, Albrecht and Peter Dinzelbacher
Contributor(s):
Title : Weltliche Literatur von Frauen des Mittelalters. Bemerkungen zur jüngeren Forschung

Source: Mediaevistik , 8., ( 1995): Pages 56 - 73.
Year of Publication: 1995.

74. Record Number: 6626
Author(s): Zancan, Marina.
Contributor(s):
Title : Lettere di Caterina da Siena. Il testo, la tradizione, l'interpretazione [the letters of Catherine of Siena were gathered in private collections after her death and then in the Caffarini Collection, circa 1400; this was the version that passed into print; Catherine was careful to present herself as humble and unlearned, but her individual voice is heard through the letters even those revised in transmission to be more literary].

Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995): Pages 151 - 161. Women Mystic Writers. Edited by Dino S. Cervigni
Year of Publication: 1995.

75. Record Number: 356
Author(s): Mechthild von Hackeborn
Contributor(s): King, Margot H, trans.
Title : Letters from Mechthild of Hackeborn to a Friend, a Laywoman in the World Taken from the Book of Special Grace Book IV, Chapter 59

Source: Vox Mystica: Essays on Medieval Mysticism in Honor of Professor Valerie M Lagorio. Edited by Anne Clark Bartlett, Thomas H. Bestul, Janet Goebel, and William F. Pollard . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Mediaevistik , 8., ( 1995): Pages 173 - 176.
Year of Publication: 1995.

76. Record Number: 307
Author(s):
Contributor(s): Gibbons, Rachel, reviewer
Title : Medieval Queenship: An Overview [review of three recent titles, Women and Sovereignty, Medieval Queenship, and Letters of the Queens of England] [book reviews][review of three recent titles, Women and Sovereignty, Medieval Queenship, and Letters of the Queens of England].

Source: Reading Medieval Studies , 21., ( 1995): Pages 97 - 107.
Year of Publication: 1995.

77. Record Number: 1950
Author(s): Negredo, Navas A. and Elisa Cifuentes Pérez
Contributor(s):
Title : The Paston Letters: Marriage and Family

Source: Papers from the VII International Conference of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language & Literature. . 1994. Pages 207 - 215.
Year of Publication: 1994.

78. Record Number: 2057
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : The Spousal Relationship: Marital Society and Sexuality in the Letters of Pope Innocent III

Source: Mediaeval Studies , 56., ( 1994): Pages 89 - 109.
Year of Publication: 1994.

79. Record Number: 1542
Author(s): Klassen, John M.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Challenge of Marriage through the Eyes of a Fifteenth Century Noble Woman

Source: Husitství-Reformace-Renesance. Sborník K 60. narozeninám Frantis?ka S?mahela. Edited by Jaroslav Pánek, Miloslav Polívka, and Noemi Rejchrtová in collaboration with Jaroslav Boubín and Jaroslav Láník Práce Historického Ústavu Cav Opera Instituti Historici Pragae . Historicky ustav, 1994. Mediaeval Studies , 56., ( 1994): Pages 649 - 660.
Year of Publication: 1994.

80. Record Number: 3522
Author(s): Fumagalli Beonio-Brocchieri, Mariateresa.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Feminine Mind in Medieval Mysticism [The author examines the writing of three thirteenth century Italian mystics and finds a commonality: the metaphors and topoi that the women use revolve around love, both amorous and maternal].

Source: Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance. Edited by E. Ann Matter and John Coakley . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. Mediaeval Studies , 56., ( 1994): Pages 19 - 33.
Year of Publication: 1994.

81. Record Number: 6260
Author(s): Ferroni, Giulio.
Contributor(s):
Title : L'Io e gli altri nelle "Lettere" di Caterina da Siena [Catherine of Siena can be described as the first woman author in the Italian vernacular, because we can hear her distinctive voice; however, in the transmission of her letters, most of them dictated to men, we have numerous problems of mediation to resol

Source: Les Femmes écrivains en Italie au moyen âge et à la renaissance. Actes du colloque international Aix-en-Provence, 12, 13, 14 novembre 1992. . Université de Provence, 1994. Mediaeval Studies , 56., ( 1994): Pages 139 - 156.
Year of Publication: 1994.

82. Record Number: 2726
Author(s): Heinrichs, Katherine.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Language of Love: Overstatement and Ironic Humor in Machaut's "Voir dit"

Source: Philological Quarterly , 73., 1 (Winter 1994): Pages 1 - 9.
Year of Publication: 1994.

83. Record Number: 14768
Author(s): Johnson, Timothy J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Visual Imagery and Contemplation in Clare od Assisi's "Letters to Agnes of Prague"

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 19., 4 (December 1993): Pages 161 - 172.
Year of Publication: 1993.

84. Record Number: 9494
Author(s): Nye, Andrea.
Contributor(s):
Title : A woman's thought or a man's discipline? The letters of Abelard andHeloise [The author recounts the debates between Abelard and Heloise in their love letters, suggesting that Heloise offers an alternative to Abelard’s philosophical methods. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy , 7., 3 ( 1992): Pages 1 - 22.
Year of Publication: 1992.

85. Record Number: 9529
Author(s): Brownlee, Kevin.
Contributor(s):
Title : Commentary and the Rhetoric of Exemplarity: Griseldis in Petrarch, Philippe de Mezieres, and the "Estoire" [The story of patient Griselda was retold throughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in different languages; in each treatment of the story, authors see Griselda as an exemplary figure, but they disagree on what exactly she exemplifies. Petrarch portrays Griselda’s submission to her husband figuratively (she represents a Christian’s submission to God). For Philippe, Griselda’s story has both figurative and literal meanings. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: South Atlantic Quarterly , 91., 4 (Fall 1992): Pages 865 - 890.
Year of Publication: 1992.

86. Record Number: 10005
Author(s): Morse, Charlotte Cook.
Contributor(s):
Title : What to Call Petrarch’s Griselda [The story about Griselda appears in many medieval manuscripts and early printed editions, but each version is unique, with different introductory and concluding rubrics (headings and titles). These rubrics provide insights into the variety of ways early scribes and readers read the story: it could be read as a myth, history, fable, or exemplum. A bibliography lists 188 manuscripts containing Petrarch’s Latin Griselda story. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Uses of manuscripts in literary studies: essays in memory of Judson Boyce Allen. Edited by Charlotte Cook Morse, Penelope Reed Doob, and Marjorie Curry Woods Studies in medieval culture . Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992. South Atlantic Quarterly , 91., 4 (Fall 1992): Pages 263 - 303.
Year of Publication: 1992.

87. Record Number: 10006
Author(s): Tarvers, Josephine Koster.
Contributor(s):
Title : “Thys ys my mystrys boke”: English Women and Readers and Writers in Late Medieval England [Women actively participated in manuscript culture and literary production in fourteenth and fifteenth century England. Manuscript evidence shows they could be owners of books as well as translators and scribes. The author provides many examples of manuscripts that were written by and for (and circulated among) women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

88. Record Number: 10304
Author(s): Krahmer, Shawn Madison.
Contributor(s):
Title : Interpreting the Letters of Bernard of Clairvaux to Ermengarde, Countess of Brittany: the Twelfth-Century Context and the Language of Friendship [The article studies the letters of friendship and spiritual guidance written by Bernard of Clairvaux to women in general, and to Ermengarde in particular. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Cistercian Studies Quarterly , 27., 3 ( 1992): Pages 217 - 250.
Year of Publication: 1992.

89. Record Number: 10969
Author(s): Troncarelli, Fabio.
Contributor(s):
Title : Immoderatus amor: Abelardo, Eloisa e Andrea Cappellano [The letters of Abelard and Heloise, in their final form, share ideas and vocabulary with the "De amore" of Andreas Capellanus. In part they draw on common sources, including Ovid, Aristotle, Augustine, and Jerome in an eclectic mix. The idea that lovers

Source: Quaderni Medievali , 34., ( 1992): Pages 6 - 58.
Year of Publication: 1992.

90. Record Number: 10213
Author(s): Kianka, Frances.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Letters of Demetrios Kydones to Empress Helena Kantakouzene Palaiologina [The author explores the relationship between the career government official and the empress as reflected in his letters. She was his literary patron and gave him good political advice when he was out of favor at court. Includes translations and commentaries on six letters from Kydones. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Dumbarton Oaks Papers (Full Text via JSTOR) 46 (1992): 155-164. Homo Byzantinus: Papers in Honor of Alexander Kazhdan. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1992.

91. Record Number: 9497
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Authority, authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise [The writer argues for the authenticity of Heloise’s letters, and suggests that the same questions about authority and repression that trouble Heloise scholars today plagued Heloise herself. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 22., 2 (Spring 1992): Pages 121 - 157. Reprinted in From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature. By Barbara Newman. Middle Ages Series. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995. Pages 46-75.
Reprinted in Women in the Medieval World. Edited by Cordelia Beattie. Routledge, 2017. Volume 1, pages 69-97.
Year of Publication: 1992.

92. Record Number: 8574
Author(s): Crabb, Ann Morton.
Contributor(s):
Title : How Typical Was Alessandra Macinghi Strozzi of Fifteenth-Century Florentine Widows? [The author studies a Florentine widow who became an agent and representative of her family (a role normally unavailable to patrician women, but one that carried many hardships) after her husband's death in exile. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Upon My Husband's Death: Widows in the Literature and Histories of Medieval Europe. Edited by Louise Mirrer Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Civilization . University of Michigan Press, 1992. Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 22., 2 (Spring 1992): Pages 47 - 68.
Year of Publication: 1992.

93. Record Number: 12288
Author(s): Kazhdan, A. P. and A.-M. Talbot
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and Iconoclasm [The authors briefly survey women's activities in support of icons, including those individuals who were later honored as saints, women who wrote hymns, and female correspondents of Abbot Theodore of Stoudios. Although iconoclasm was defeated, many of its principles triumphed including anti-feminism. Women's public roles were curtailedand their efforts to defend icons were obscured in the historic record. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Byzantinische Zeitschrift , 84., ( 1991): Pages 391 - 408. Reprinted in Women and Religious Life in Byzantium. By Alice-Mary Talbot. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Ashgate, 2001. Article 3
Year of Publication: 1991.

94. Record Number: 10974
Author(s): Brook, Leslie C.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Translator and His Reader: Jean de Meun and the Abelard-Heloise Correspondence [The author discusses Jean de Meun's role as a translator of Latin texts into French prose, focusing in particular on the translation strategies he used in approaching the Abelard-Heloise Correspondence. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Translator , 2., ( 1991): Pages 99 - 122.
Year of Publication: 1991.

95. Record Number: 13348
Author(s): Laurie, Helen C. R
Contributor(s):
Title : Cligés and the Legend of Abelard and Heloise [The author argues that Chrétien was inspired by Heloise's letters to represent the emotions of love. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie , 107., 40241 ( 1991): Pages 324 - 342.
Year of Publication: 1991.

96. Record Number: 11209
Author(s): McNamer, Sarah
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Authors, Provincial Setting: The Re-versing of Courtly Love in the Findern Manuscript [The article includes an appendix with transcriptions of Middle English poems believed to be written by women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Viator , 22., ( 1991): Pages 279 - 310.
Year of Publication: 1991.

97. Record Number: 12287
Author(s): Cowdrey, H. E. J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Pope Victor and the Empress A [The author argues that a letter from a pope to a Byzantine empress should be identified as Pope Victor III writing to Anna Dalassena in 1086/1087 concerning mistreatment of Western pilgrims by Byzantine imperial officials. The Latin text of the letter is presented in an appendix. The manuscript source is lost but the text is printed in Mabillon, "Annales OSB" and in Migne, "Patrologia Latina" 149. 961-2. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Byzantinische Zeitschrift , 84., ( 1991): Pages 43 - 48.
Year of Publication: 1991.

98. Record Number: 10680
Author(s): Stoudt, Debra L.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Production and Preservation of Letters by Fourteenth-Century Dominican Nuns [Dominican priests often advised members of female religious houses on both practical and spiritual matters, and at times they aided women writers like Margaretha Ebner and Elsbeth Stagel as scribes or editors of their work. Letters by priests to nuns are more likely to be preserved than correspondence written by nuns themselves. The author gives two major reasons for the discrepancy: the letters were pereived to have historical and instructional values for the convent community, and priests held higher rank in the church hierarchy than nuns. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mediaeval Studies , 53., ( 1991): Pages 309 - 326.
Year of Publication: 1991.

99. Record Number: 7472
Author(s): Wilkins, Walter J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Submitting the Neck of Your Mind: Gregory the Great and Women of Power [The author argues that in his letters, Gregory, both as bishop and pope, identified with women's experiences, encouraged them in their spiritual development, and recognized their rational competence. When dealing with queens and empresses, Gregory recogn

Source: Catholic Historical Review , 77., 4 (October 1991): Pages 583 - 594.
Year of Publication: 1991.

100. Record Number: 12800
Author(s): Vaughn, Sally N.
Contributor(s):
Title : St. Anselm and Women [The author argues that St. Anselm's letters reveal that he admired women who were wives and mothers, and that he had many friendships with women, in particular, with Countess Ida of Boulogne. The author also discusses Anselm's relationship with his own m

Source: The Haskins Society Journal , 2., ( 1990): Pages 83 - 93.
Year of Publication: 1990.

101. Record Number:
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Title : Patronage Letter for Fogdo Abbey

Source: The Haskins Society Journal , 2., ( 1990):
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102. Record Number: 43021
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Laodamia writes to Protesilaus

Source: The Haskins Society Journal , 2., ( 1990):
Year of Publication: