Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 12853
Author(s): Minnis, Alastair.
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Title : Respondet Waltherus Byrth...: Walter Brut in Debate on Women Priests [John Wycliff's ideas on grace could be used to argue that any good Christian, male or female, was capable of preaching and administering the sacraments. The Welsh Lollard Walter Brut is represented in episcopal records as arguing that women could administer baptism and other sacraments, but he was ambivalent about women celebrating the eucharist. The bishop of Hereford's theologians turned Walter's comments into a discussion of the ordination of women, defending the ability of any priest, even one fallen from grace, to confect the sacrament; but a woman in a state of grace could not. A man's soul was supposed to be different from a woman's and, therefore, able to receive the priestly character in ordination. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson.   Edited by Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchison. Medieval Church Studies Series, 4 .   Brepols, 2005.  Pages 229 - 249.
Year of Publication: 2005.
2. 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.  Pages 37 - 54.
Year of Publication: 2005.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Record Number: 11093
Author(s): von Nolcken, Christina.
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Title : The "Recluse" and Its Readers: Some Observations on a Lollard Interpolated Version of "Ancrene Wisse"
Source: A Companion to "Ancrene Wisse."   Edited by Yoko Wada .   D. S. Brewer, 2003. Mystics Quarterly , 29., 40180 (March-June 2003):  Pages 175 - 196.
Year of Publication: 2003.
6. 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.
7. Record Number: 5575
Author(s): Peikola, Matti.
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Title : And After All, Myn Aue-Marie Almost to the Ende: "Pierce the Ploughman's Crede" and Lolland Expositions of the "Ave Maria" [the author uses two Lollard commentaries to explain the objections to the "Ave Maria" prayer presented in "Pierce the Ploughman;" not only did Lollards object to the additions of words to the Bible text, but they were also opposed to the indulgences promised for reciting the prayer and their connections with the Pope; in an Appendix the author reproduces an indulgence on the "Ave Maria" in Middle English from Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.3.21, fol. 216v].
Source: English Studies , 81., 4 ( 2000):  Pages 273 - 292.
Year of Publication: 2000.
8. 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.
9. Record Number: 2464
Author(s): Warner, Lawrence.
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Title : Woman is Man's Babylon: Chaucer's "Nembrot" and the Tyranny of Enclosure in the "Nun's Priest's Tale" [gendered analysis of "wandering" (sexual, narrative, and linguistic) discusses several themes including woman as tyrant, transgressive sexuality, and the dangerous influence of Biblical translations on women].
Source: Chaucer Review , 32., 1 ( 1997):  Pages 82 - 107.
Year of Publication: 1997.
10. Record Number: 1565
Author(s): Tarvers, Josephine K.
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Title : The Alleged Illiteracy of Margery Kempe: A Reconsideration of the Evidence
Source: Medieval Perspectives , 11., ( 1996):  Pages 113 - 124. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
Year of Publication: 1996.
11. 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.
12. 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. Chaucer Review , 32., 1 ( 1997):  Pages 288 - 305.
Year of Publication: 1996.
13. Record Number: 398
Author(s): McSheffrey, Shannon.
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Title : Literacy and the Gender Gap in the Late Middle Ages: Women and Reading in Lollard Communities
Source: Women, the Book and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 1 [Volume 2: Women, the Book and the Worldly].   Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor .   D.S. Brewer, 1995. Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996):  Pages 157 - 170.
Year of Publication: 1995.
14. 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.
15. Record Number: 462
Author(s): Dillon, Janette.
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Title : The Making of Desire in "The Book of Margery Kempe" [relations between laywomen and male clergy that defined sexuality].
Source: Leeds Studies in English , ( 1995):  Pages 113 - 144.
Year of Publication: 1995.
16. 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.
17. 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. Philological Quarterly , 73., 1 (Winter 1994):  Pages 253 - 286.
Year of Publication: 1994.
18. Record Number: 2727
Author(s): Hunt, Alison M.
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Title : Maculating Mary: The Detractors of the N-Town Cycle's "Trial of Joseph and Mary" [suggests two literary traditions that give resonance to the characters Bakbytere and Reyse Sclaundyr: slanderers in romance whose envy reveals the hero's true worth and dissenters in anti-Lollard Church writings who threaten communal peace].
Source: Philological Quarterly , 73., 1 (Winter 1994):  Pages 11 - 29.
Year of Publication: 1994.
19. 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.
20. 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.