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1. Record Number: 42499 Author(s): Moerman, Nelly Contributor(s): Title : Lidwina of Schiedam and the Oldest Skating Image in the Netherlands Source: 2019.  Pages Not available. This article is available on the Schaatshistorie.nl website: https://www.schaatshistorie.nl/english/the-history-of-skating/skating-early-text/lidwina-skating-image/. Year of Publication: 2019.

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2. Record Number: 42500 Author(s): Moerman, Nelly Contributor(s): Title : Why does Lidwina of Schiedam Lie on the Ice in Such an Odd Pose? Source: 2018.  Pages Not available. This article is available on the Schaatshistorie.nl website: https://www.schaatshistorie.nl/english/skating-images/articles/lidwina-on-the-ice/. Year of Publication: 2018.

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3. Record Number: 11024 Author(s): Bodden, M. C. Contributor(s): Title : Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale": Interrogating "Virtue" through Violence [The author argues that the tale of Griselda should not be read as an allegory of humanity's relationship to God but as Chaucer's critique of hagiography's docile, virtuous heroines. Bodden cites the Envoy as clear evidence of Chaucer's condemnation of violence and in particular the torture of women. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: A Great Effusion of Blood? Interpreting Medieval Violence.   Edited by Mark D. Meyerson, Daniel Thiery, and Oren Falk .   University of Toronto Press, 2004.  Pages 216 - 240. Year of Publication: 2004.

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4. Record Number: 10894 Author(s): Fusco, Roberto. Contributor(s): Title : The Contemplation of Christ Crucified in Julian of Norwich Source: Studies in Spirituality , 13., ( 2003):  Pages 119 - 139. Year of Publication: 2003.

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5. Record Number: 10571 Author(s): Caspers, Charles. Contributor(s): Title : Liduina, the Virgin of Schiedam: Rise, Flourishing, and Waning of a Saint Cult, c. 1400-c. 2000 [As a child, Liduina was injured and spent the rest of her life confined to bed. The author traces the shifting meaning of her acceptance of suffering and devotion to the Eucharist across time. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Spirituality renewed: studies on significant representatives of the Modern Devotion.   Edited by Hein Blommestijn, Charles Caspers, and Rijcklof Hofman Studies in spirituality. Supplement .  10 2003. Studies in Spirituality , 13., ( 2003):  Pages 193 - 207. Year of Publication: 2003.

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6. Record Number: 8074 Author(s): Salisbury, Eve, Georgiana Donavin and Merrall Llewelyn Price Contributor(s): Title : Introduction [In this introductory essay the authors briefly survey the historiography and surviving evidence for domestic violence in the Middle Ages. They argue for the importance of the essays in this collection because they consider issues of domestic violence more broadly than much of the previous scholarship on the topic. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts.   Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price .   University Press of Florida, 2002. Studies in Spirituality , 13., ( 2003):  Pages 1 - 27. Year of Publication: 2002.

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7. Record Number: 6402 Author(s): Curtis, Liane. Contributor(s): Title : Christine de Pizan and "Dueil Angoisseux" [When Christine de Pizan began her literary carrier, writing the "Cent Ballades," she exploited her widow's status, writing in terms of lamentation and long suffering; these were supposed to come naturally to women, especially to widows, removed by misfortune from contamination though sexual activity; "Dueil Angoisseux" was one of these ballades; the poem, an expressions of a widow's grief, was set to music by Binchois (Gilles); both Christine's text and Binchois' music exploit effectively a topic, suffering, in which women were believed to be superior to men; the Appendix presents the French text of "Dueil Angoisseux" along with an English translation]. Source: Gender, Sexuality, and Early Music.   Edited by Todd M. Borgerding .   Routledge, 2002. Studies in Spirituality , 13., ( 2003):  Pages 265 - 282. Year of Publication: 2002.

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8. Record Number: 6636 Author(s): Easton, Martha. Contributor(s): Title : Pain, Torture, and Death in the Huntington Library "Legenda aurea" [The author analyzes the manuscript illuminations representing the torture and executions of male and female martyrs, arguing that the binary system of gender was frequently transcended]. Source: Gender and Holiness: Men, Women, and Saints in Late Medieval Europe.   Edited by Samantha J. E. Riches and Sarah Salih .   Routledge, 2002. Studies in Spirituality , 13., ( 2003):  Pages 49 - 64. Year of Publication: 2002.

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9. Record Number: 10836 Author(s): Maynard, Jane F. Contributor(s): Title : Purgatory: Place or Process? Women's Views on Purgatory in 14th-15th Century (Britain) Source: Studies in Spirituality , 12., ( 2002):  Pages 105 - 125. Year of Publication: 2002.

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10. Record Number: 8311 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Suffering, Sacrifice, and Stability: "The Life of Aleydis of Schaerbeek" in a Contemporary Context [The author meditates on the meaning of Alice of Schaarbeek's "Vita" for her own troubles in an abusive marriage. Krahmer maintains that the themes of redemptive suffering and the virtue of stability proved dangerous when she applied them to her own situation. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Magistra , 8., 2 (Winter 2002):  Pages 25 - 44. Year of Publication: 2002.

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11. Record Number: 11035 Author(s): McAvoy, Liz Herbert. Contributor(s): Title : Ant Nes He Him Seolf Reclus i Maries Wombe?: Julian of Norwich, the Anchorhold, and Redemption of the Monstrous Female Body [The author explores the themes of suffering and enclosure as characteristically feminine phenomena which gave anchoresses access to the divine. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Consuming Narrative: Gender and Monstrous Appetite in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.   Edited by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Teresa Walters .   University of Wales Press, 2002. Magistra , 8., 2 (Winter 2002):  Pages 128 - 143. Year of Publication: 2002.

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12. Record Number: 5960 Author(s): Kienzle, Beverly Mayne and Nancy Nienhuis Contributor(s): Title : Battered Women and the Construction of Sanctity [the authors explore written accounts of the lives of Monica, the mother of Augustine, Godelieve of Gistel, whose husband had her murdered, Dorothy of Montau, and Catherine of Genoa, all of whom suffered psychological and physical abuse at the hands of their husbands; they demonstrate a "complex theological internplay between holiness, patience, and suffering in the eyes of these women's hagiographers" (p. 59)]. Source: Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 17., 1 (Spring 2001):  Pages 33 - 61. Year of Publication: 2001.

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13. Record Number: 5373 Author(s): Passenier, Anke E. Contributor(s): Title : The Life of Christina Mirabilis: Miracles and the Construction of Marginality Source: Women and Miracle Stories: A Multidisciplinary Exploration.   Edited by Anne-Marie Korte Studies in the History of Religions, 88.   Brill, 2001. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 17., 1 (Spring 2001):  Pages 145 - 178. Year of Publication: 2001.

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14. Record Number: 4839 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : Textualizing and Contextualizing Hildegard's Body in Theoderic's "Vita" Source: Magistra , 6., 1 (Summer 2000):  Pages 89 - 103. Year of Publication: 2000.

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15. Record Number: 4642 Author(s): Polinska, Wioleta. Contributor(s): Title : Bodies Under Siege: Eating Disorders and Self-Mutilation Among Women [The author compares and contrasts present-day eating disorders with medieval holy women's behaviors and suggests that in both cases women are seeking self-determination and autonomy]. Source: Journal of the American Academy of Religion , 68., 3 (September 2000):  Pages 569 - 589. Year of Publication: 2000.

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16. Record Number: 10652 Author(s): Heene, Katrien. Contributor(s): Title : Deliberate Self-Harm and Gender in Medieval Saints' Lives [The author argues that both women and lower status men use self-inflicted harm as a means of atonement, self-discipline, and devotion to Christ. However, in cases where women sought to avoid marriage, self-mutilation could play a special role. Also in some cases, self-harm served as a didactic example, allowing women the unusual opportunity to act as teachers and preachers. Title note supplied by Feminae.] Source: Hagiographica: Rivista di agiografia e biografia della società internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino/ Journal of Hagiography and Biography of Società Internazionale per lo studio del Medioevo Latino , 6., ( 1999):  Pages 213 - 231. Year of Publication: 1999.

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17. Record Number: 4708 Author(s): Phelpstead, Carl. Contributor(s): Title : Power Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women's Salvation in Pre-Reformation Scotland Source: Women in Scotland c. 1100-c. 1750.   Edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle .   Tuckwell Press, 1999. Journal of the American Academy of Religion , 68., 3 (September 2000):  Pages 16 - 28. Year of Publication: 1999.

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18. Record Number: 3951 Author(s): Miller, Julie B. Contributor(s): Title : Eroticized Violence in Medieval Women's Mystical Literature: A Call for a Feminist Critique Source: Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion , 15., 2 (Fall 1999):  Pages 25 - 49. Year of Publication: 1999.

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19. Record Number: 4059 Author(s): Leyser, Conrad. Contributor(s): Title : Vulnerability and Power: The Early Christian Rhetoric of Masculine Authority ["Well before the twelfth century, Christian men in positions of public power had developed a language with which to express and, if possible, turn to their advantage, the precariousness of their position. Trading on already established notions of moral masculinity, these men were unafraid to depict themselves as weak, inadequate, and continuously suffering rulers--because they knew that their political survival depended on their demonstrating their absolute disinterest in personal gain from their office." Pages 172- 173]. Source: Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester , 80., 3 (Autumn 1998):  Pages 159 - 173. Year of Publication: 1998.

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20. Record Number: 2214 Author(s): Burrows, Mark S. Contributor(s): Title : Yett He Sufferyth With Vs: Divine Asceticism in Julian of Norwich's "Revelation of Love" Source: Studies in Spirituality , 7., ( 1997):  Pages 99 - 112. Year of Publication: 1997.

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21. Record Number: 789 Author(s): Brandolino, Gina. Contributor(s): Title : The "Chiefe and Principal Mene": Julian of Norwich's Redefining of the Body in "A Revelation of Love" [Julian recognizes the body's essential goodness, but not for what it can endure; it is Christ's suffering that offers true comfort]. Source: Mystics Quarterly , 22., 3 (Sept. 1996):  Pages 102 - 110. Year of Publication: 1996.

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22. Record Number: 5473 Author(s): Bornstein, Daniel E. Contributor(s): Title : Violenza al corpo di una santa: Fra agiographica e pornografia- A proposito di Douceline di Digne [Mortification of the flesh, including punishment of sexual organs, features prominently in the lives of holy women; Douceline of Digne is an extreme example of the phenomenon, becoming insensible to stimuli when in a trance; she became the presiding spirit of a beguinage in Marseille, and the community preserved her memory and developed her cult; during her lifetime, her body, when insensible, was subjected to tortures to gratify the curiosity of men; this served both as a test of her sanctity and as a kind of counter-pornography, intended to produce revulsion against the flesh; often, however, trial was made by the merely curious, like Charles of Anjou and his entourage]. Source: Quaderni Medievali , 39., (giugno 1995):  Pages 31 - 46. Year of Publication: 1995.

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23. Record Number: 6778 Author(s): Cowgill, Jane. Contributor(s): Title : Chaucer's Missing Children ["In the lyrics, the drama, and in Chaucer's religious tales, then, the sufferings of mothers and children are made analogous to those of Mary and Christ. Children are appropriate, even essential, to this genre because, in their relationships to their mothers, they embody one of the central mysteries of the faith. Conversely, the relationships between fathers and suffering children, while presented as significant in the tales of tragedy and morality, hint at but cannot carry the same spiritual valence. Further, to recapitulate my introductory remarks, children are largely absent from the romances and fabliaux because they would be a hindrance to the internal necessities of those forms. Children are depicted in 'The Canterbury Tales' not according to any principles of realism, but according to their appropriateness to particular literary genres." p. 5 of the electronic version available through Project Muse]. Source: Essays in Medieval Studies , 12., ( 1995):  Pages 1 - 5. and 1-2 (notes) [in the electronic version available through Project Muse]. Issue title: Children and the Family in the Middle Ages. Year of Publication: 1995.

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24. Record Number: 1122 Author(s): Tinsley, David F. Contributor(s): Title : The Spirituality of Suffering in the Revelations of Elsbeth von Oye Source: Mystics Quarterly , 21., 4 (December 1995):  Pages 121 - 147. Year of Publication: 1995.

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25. Record Number: 5516 Author(s): Hollywood, Amy. Contributor(s): Title : Suffering Transformed: Marguerite Porete, Meister Eckhart, and the Problem of Women's Spirituality [the author argues that both Porete and Eckhart questioned the value of asceticism, mystical phenomena, and visionary experiences, all associated with women's spirituality; they favored instead a move toward detachment and sought to relieve religious women's suffering]. Source: Meister Eckhart and the Beguine Mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Marguerite Porete.   Edited by Bernard McGinn .   Continuum, 1994. Essays in Medieval Studies , 12., ( 1995):  Pages 87 - 113. Year of Publication: 1994.

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26. Record Number: 10007 Author(s): Kinkade, Richard P. Contributor(s): Title : Alfonso X, "Cantiga 235," and the Events of 1269-1278 ["Cantiga 235," one of hundreds of lyrics Alfonso wrote in praise of the Virgin Mary, gives a broad historical perspective on the poet’s reign as King of Castile. While the poem praises Mary throughout, it also chronicles a series of personal betrayals and gives insight into the king’s own ill health and suffering. The article includes a detailed account of the major events in Alfonso’s reign, including the execution of his own brother on the charge of sodomy. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Speculum , 67., 2 (April 1992):  Pages 284 - 323. Year of Publication: 1992.

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27. Record Number: 10009 Author(s): Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn. Contributor(s): Title : Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours [Trobairitz (female troubadours) experimented with literary and cultural definitions of sex and gender in their poetry. They manipulated a very conventional form (a male speaker addressing a distant, silent lady) and invented their own distinctive literary versions of the female voice. Even though it is hard to define, the notion of voice in literary texts is a powerful concept for feminist writers. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Speculum , 67., 4 (October 1992):  Pages 865 - 891. Year of Publication: 1992.

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28. Record Number: 10244 Author(s): Szell, Timea K. Contributor(s): Title : From Woe to Weal and Weal to Woe: Notes on the Structure of "The Book of Margery Kempe" [The complicated narrative structure of Margery’s “Book” reflects the author’s attempt to reconcile two contradictory psychological impulses: one is the need to gain social acceptance and legitimacy; the other is the desire to be publicly shunned and perceived as outside of societal norms. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Sandra J. McEntire .   Garland Publishing, 1992. Essays in Medieval Studies , 12., ( 1995):  Pages 73 - 91. Year of Publication: 1992.

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29. Record Number: 9489 Author(s): Phelpstead, Carl. Contributor(s): Title : The “Man of Law's Tale” as a philosophical narrative [The author argues that certain of Chaucer’s tales which are usually considered mainly exemplary in fact explore Boethian philosophical problems of suffering that apply to everyone. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Yearbook of English Studies , 22., ( 1992):  Pages 181 - 189. Year of Publication: 1992.

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30. Record Number: 10249 Author(s): Barratt, Alexandra. Contributor(s): Title : Margery Kempe and the King’s Daughter of Hungary [In her “Book,” English mystic Margery Kempe adapts the text of another woman visionary, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary. Instances of devotional suffering, weeping, and self-martyrdom in Kempe’s book could be modeled on selected incidents in Elizabeth’s writings. Title note supplied by Feminae.]. Source: Margery Kempe: A Book of Essays.   Edited by Sandra J. McEntire .   Garland Publishing, 1992. Yearbook of English Studies , 22., ( 1992):  Pages 189 - 201. Year of Publication: 1992.

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31. Record Number: 30537 Author(s): Contributor(s): Title : St. Liduina of Schiedam Falls on the Ice Source: Speculum , 67., 4 (October 1992): Year of Publication:

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