Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 43540
Author(s): Lawless, Catherine
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Title : ‘Make your house like a temple’: Gender, Space and Domestic Devotion in Medieval Florence
Source: Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020):  Pages [1] - [21]. Available open access on the MDPI website: https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11030120
Year of Publication: 2020.
2. Record Number: 44901
Author(s): Bernardino da Siena
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Title : Bernardino of Siena Preaches on Marriage
Source: The Intolerant Middle Ages: A Reader.   Edited by Eugene Smelyansky .   University of Toronto Press, 2020. Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020):  Pages 237 - 241.
Year of Publication: 2020.
3. Record Number: 3739
Author(s): Barone, Giulia.
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Title : Society and Women's Religiosity, 750-1450 [The author surveys women's religious activities in this historical period, briefly discussing topics including the Gregorian reform, heresy, the Virgin Mary, the mendicant orders, saints, mystics, family life, and sanctity and politics].
Source: Women and Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to the Present.   Edited by Lucetta Scaraffia and Gabriella Zarri .   Harvard University Press, 1999. Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020):  Pages 42 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1999.
4. Record Number: 3667
Author(s): Randolph, Adrian.
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Title : Regarding Women in Sacred Space [the author discusses the separation of women from men at public sermons and in church; religious writers warned women to keep their minds on God and their gaze lowered because their sexuality was a danger for all men especially the celibate; poets considered Church the place for romantic meetings because a shared gaze signaled sexual choice].
Source: Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy.   Edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Mathews Grieco .   Cambridge University Press, 1997. Religions , 11., 3 ( 2020):  Pages 17 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1997.
5. Record Number: 1955
Author(s): Linehan, Peter.
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Title : Zamora's Nuns in the Oven [Dominican Friars were accused of scandalous affairs with the nuns of Zamora; the Pope's efforts to curb the mendicant orders and force strict enclosure on nuns may have been in reaction to the well-known case at Zamora].
Source: History Today , 47., 3 (March 1997):  Pages 46 - 51.
Year of Publication: 1997.
6. Record Number: 752
Author(s): Benvenuti Papi, Anna.
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Title : Mendicant Friars and Female "Pinzochere" in Tuscany: From Social Marginality to Models of Sancity
Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy.   Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider .   University of Chicago Press, 1996. History Today , 47., 3 (March 1997):  Pages 85 - 106. Originally published as "Frati mendicanti e pinzochere in Toscana: dalla marginalità sociale a modello di santità" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 85-106.
Year of Publication: 1996.
7. Record Number: 264
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Title : Mary Magdalen and the Mendicants: The Preaching of Penance in the Late Middle Ages
Source: Journal of Medieval History , 21., 1 (March 1995):  Pages 1 - 25.
Year of Publication: 1995.
8. Record Number: 3559
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Title : Friars, Sanctity, and Gender: Mendicant Encounters with Saints, 1250-1325 [comparison and contrast of female and male saints supported by the mendicants; topics explored include renunciation of the world, religious confidants or confessors, the amount of interaction the saint had with her/his mendicant venerators, and the saints' inner life and interaction with God].
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. Journal of Medieval History , 21., 1 (March 1995):  Pages 91 - 110.
Year of Publication: 1994.
9. Record Number: 5022
Author(s): Klaniczay, Gábor
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Title : The Cinderella Effect: Late Medieval Female Sainthood in Central Europe and in Italy [The author examines the ideal of sainthood represented by pious princesses in Central Europe and how this aristocratic and mendicant movement fared in Italy where urban female sainthood embraced all social classes].
Source: East Central Europe , 20., 1 ( 1993- 1996):  Pages 51 - 68. Special issue title: Women and Power in East Central Europe - Medieval and Modern. Edited by Marianne Sághy.
Year of Publication: 1993- 1996.