Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 13676
Author(s): Healy, Patrick.
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Title : Merito nominetur virago: Matilda of Tuscany in the Polemics of the Investiture Contest [The author explores Matilda's importance as an armed protector of Pope Gregory VII and the reform movement as well as her role as an inspiration for Bible exegesis and other polemics in the Gregorian versus royalist struggle. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women 4: Victims or Viragos? Edited by Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless . Four Courts Press, 2005. Pages 49 - 56.
Year of Publication: 2005.

2. Record Number: 11531
Author(s): Doran, John.
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Title : Innocent III and the Uses of Spiritual Marriage [Medieval traditions divided over whether a bishop married his see or was Christ's groom's man in marrying a local church. Innocent III argued in a sermon that he, as Vicar of Christ, married the church. Other bishops were groom's men, friends of the bridegroom but not wedded to their own sees.Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Pope, Church and City: Essays in Honour of Brenda M. Bolton. Edited by Frances Andrews, Christoph Egger and Constance M. Rousseau Medieval Mediterranean . Brill, 2004. Pages 101 - 114.
Year of Publication: 2004.

3. Record Number: 11661
Author(s): Izbicki, Thomas M.
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Title : The Origins of the "De ornatu mulierum" of Antoninus of Florence [The author highlights the significance of a legal text on excess in clothing. Franciscan observants had petitioned the pope for an opinion, and he had charged a committe to respond. (Two versions of the report written in Latin are presented as appendices to the article.) The expert committee included Antoninus, archbishop of Florence, and his text, "De ornatu mulierum," Izbicki demonstrates, was originally written to accompany their opinion. In general the committe sought a moderate path and urged respect for individual cities' customs in dress. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: MLN: Modern Language Notes (Full Text via Project Muse) 119, 1 (January 2004): 142-161. Supplement. Studia Humanitatis: Essays in Honor of Salvatore Camporeale. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2004.

4. Record Number: 8285
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Title : Writing and Sodomy in the Inquisitorial Trial (1495- 496) of Tecla Servent [Tecla Servent was a Spanish visionary and married laywoman who, despite her humble birth and gender, criticized the Church hierarchy. Her neighbors and noble patrons valued her messages from God, but her letter to the pope drew the ire of theologians and the Inquisition. The Appendix presents the Catalan text and English translation of her letter to the pope. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Marriage and Sexuality in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia. Hispanic Issues, Volume 26. Edited by Eukene Lacarra Lanz . Routledge, 2002. Pages 197 - 213.
Year of Publication: 2002.

5. Record Number: 6735
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Title : Home Front and Battlefield: The Gendering of Papal Crusading Policy (1095-1221) [The author argues that Popes Gregory VIII, Clement III, and, especially, Innocent III brought women into the crusading movement by designating liturgical and fiscal efforts for them on the homefront as well as sanctioning active involvement in Palestine on special occasions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Gendering the Crusades. Edited by Susan B. Edgington and Sarah Lambert . University of Wales Press, 2001. Pages 31 - 44.
Year of Publication: 2001.

6. Record Number: 4670
Author(s): Pasztor, Edith.
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Title : I papi del duecento e trecento di fronte alla vita religiosa femminile [The popes of the thirteenth century paid less attention to female than to male religious. Innocent III promoted new forms of women's monasticism, but other popes were less bold. Papal protection was extended to women's monasteries, but this often involved the imposition of stricter enclosure. Nuns of this period frequently showed an intensified desire for union with God].

Source: Donne e sante: Studi sulla religiosità femminile nel Medio Evo. Edith Pasztor . Edizioni Studium, 2000. Church History , 69., 1 (March 2000): Pages 97 - 129. Originally published in Il movimento religioso femminile in Umbria nei secoli XIII- XIV. Firenze, 1984. Pages 29-65.
Year of Publication: 2000.

7. Record Number: 4869
Author(s): Natvig, Mary.
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Title : Rich Clares, Poor Clares: Celebrating the Divine Office ["The goal of this study is to trace the role of music in the Clarissan liturgy throughout the development of the order, from its origins in the early thirteenth century through its reform more than two hundred years later. Most of the extant evidence comes from the interpretation of numerous rules that governed the sisters." (Page. 60). Appendices include two extracts from the "Acta sanctorum" that describe how the Poor Clares celebrate the Divine Office, an extract from "Historiae seu vitae sanctorum" by Surius again describing the performance of the Office, and a list of polyphonic manuscripts with possible connections to the convents of St. Clare].

Source: Women and Music , 4., ( 2000): Pages 59 - 70.
Year of Publication: 2000.

8. Record Number: 4607
Author(s): Kay, Sarah.
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Title : Audacious Nuns: Institutionalizing the Franciscan Order of Saint Clare [The author analyzes the legal and political struggles between the Poor Clares and the male Franciscan order, with the women finally successful in ensuring that the Franciscans would provide them with spiritual care].

Source: Church History , 69., 1 (March 2000): Pages 41 - 62.
Year of Publication: 2000.

9. Record Number: 4714
Author(s): Lynn, Beth.
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Title : What Difference Does a Rule Make? Clare's "Poor Sisters" and Gregory IX's Nuns [The author examines the various rules used by communities of Poor Clares, seeking to determine the degree of faithfulness to the values of Clare and Francis of Assisi].

Source: Magistra , 5., 1 (Summer 1999): Pages 25 - 42.
Year of Publication: 1999.

10. Record Number: 7360
Author(s): Sansterre, Jean-Marie.
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Title : Mère du roi, épouse du Christ, et fille de Saint Pierre: les dernières années de l'impératrice Agnès de Poitou. Entre image et réalité [The author argues that Agnes, wife and regent for Holy Roman emperors, gave up the power and pomp of the world for holy widowhood. However, she was still active in supporting the reform popes against the anti-popes established by her son. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Femmes et pouvoirs des femmes à Byzance et en Occident (VIe -XIe siècles). Colloque international organisé les 28, 29 et 30 mars 1996 à Bruxelles et Villeneuve d'Ascq. Edited by Stéphane Lebecq, Alain Dierkens, Régine Le Jan, and Jean-Marie Sansterre . Centre de Recherche sur l'Histoire de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3, 1999. Magistra , 5., 1 (Summer 1999): Pages 163 - 174.
Year of Publication: 1999.

11. Record Number: 3848
Author(s): Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate.
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Title : Constance de Rabastens: Politics and Visionary Experience in the Time of the Great Schism [Constance, a laywoman from southern France, had dramatic visions between 1384 and 1386 that took strong political stands and criticized the church hierarchy].

Source: Mystics Quarterly , 25., 4 (December 1999): Pages 147 - 168.
Year of Publication: 1999.

12. Record Number: 13754
Author(s): Blumenthal, Uta-Renate.
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Title : Pope Gregory VII and the Prohibition of Nicolaitism [The author examines Gregory's efforts to eliminate nicolaitism, marriage by the clergy. Blumenthal also takes into consideration earlier legistlation and beliefs that valued clerical celibacy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Purity and Piety: Essays on Medieval Clerical Celibacy and Religious Reform. Edited by Michael Frassetto Garland Medieval Casebooks Series . Garland Publishing, 1998. Mystics Quarterly , 25., 4 (December 1999): Pages 239 - 267.
Year of Publication: 1998.

13. Record Number: 3142
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Title : Gender Difference and Indifference in the Writings of Pope Innocent III

Source: Gender and Christian religion: papers read at the 1996 Summer Meeting and the 1997 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Edited by R. N. Swanson Studies in Church History, 34. 1998. Mystics Quarterly , 25., 4 (December 1999): Pages 105 - 117.
Year of Publication: 1998.

14. Record Number: 13755
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Title : Pope Gregory VII and the Chastity of the Clergy [The author examines the activities of Pope Gregory with an emphasis on his efforts to enforce clerical celibacy, particularly in Germany and France. He brought a moral emphasis to the issue and communicated its importance to every level within the church and among the laiety. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

15. Record Number: 13753
Author(s): McLaughlin, Megan.
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Title : The Bishop as Bridegroom: Marital Imagery and Clerical Celibacy in the Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries [The author argues that reformers used the longstanding image of the bishop as a bridegroom of his church to combat problems of lay investiture, simony, and episcopal elections. In instances of clerical celibacy, the bridegroom allegory complicated matters. Nevertheless, it was not entirely eliminated from the debate. McLaughlin suggests this is an indication of the importance of the bridegroom metaphor to the reformist program. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

16. Record Number: 5000
Author(s): Medici, Maria Teresa Guerra.
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Title : Sulla giurisdizione temporale e spirituale della abbadessa First recorded in the West in the sixth century, abbesses had considerable power over their nuns and over any estates owned by the monastery. Beginning with the time of Charlemagne, legislators tried to prohibit abbesses from performing certain ritual acts, like vesting their new nuns, prohibitions that entered the canon law. Gregory IX did concede an abbess the power to censure critics who disobeyed them. Canonists described this as a customary power, involving a command to ordained clergy to censure the disobedient. Baldus de Ubaldus and other jurists defended the immunity of abbesses from imprisonment because of the debts of their monasteries].

17. Record Number: 5006
Author(s): Sensi, Mario.
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Title : Monachesimo femminile nell' Italia centrale (sec. xv) [New women's orders were limited by thirteenth-century conciliar decrees requiring that all monastics accept existing rules. Nevertheless, communities of penitent women grew up under episcopal supervision. Some adopted the Augustinian or the Benedictine rule and claustration. Only in the fifteenth century would the papacy give final approval to the Franciscan Third Order. More traditional women's houses tended to follow the Augustinian rule].

Source: Il monachesimo femminile in Italia dall' Alto Medioevo al secolo XVII a confronto con l' oggi. Edited by Gabriella Zarri . San Pietro in Cariano: Il Segno dei Gabrielli editori, 1997. Mystics Quarterly , 25., 4 (December 1999): Pages 135 - 168. Reprinted in "Mulieres in ecclesia": Storie di monache e bizzoche. Volume One. Mario Sensi. Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo, 2010. Pages 71-104.
Year of Publication: 1997.

18. Record Number: 14678
Author(s): Marano, Maria Cristina.
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Title : Le Clarisse nelle Marche gli insediamenti del XIII secolo [Houses of Poor Clares began appearing in the March of Ancona by the middle of the thirteenth century. Their early histories can be documented from privileges granted by popes, cardinals, and bishops. Among the most frequent grants were those for indulgences and immunity from episcopal juristiction. Houses of Clares spred in the March early on, often developing in larger towns that also had nearby convents of friars to provide for their spiritual care. Title note provided by Feminae.].

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 67., 40180 ( 1997): Pages 105 - 166.
Year of Publication: 1997.

19. Record Number: 14679
Author(s): Alberzoni, Maria Pia.
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Title : San Damiano nel 1228 Contributo alla "Questione Clariana" [The privilege of poverty supposedly granted to Clare of Assisi by Pope Innocent III has been doubted by recent scholars. Gregory IX pressed Clare and her sisters to become like traditional nuns, which Clare resisted as far as she could. We can discern this resistance behind papal documents and Franciscan hagiography, both of which emphasize the creation of an order of San Damiano under the aegis of Saint Francis. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 67., 40241 ( 1997): Pages 459 - 476.
Year of Publication: 1997.

20. Record Number: 2892
Author(s): Stroll, Mary.
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Title : Maria "Regina":"Papal Symbol

Source: Queens and Queenship in Medieval Europe: Proceedings of a Conference Held at King's College London, April 1995. Edited by Anne J. Duggan . Boydell Press, 1997. Mystics Quarterly , 25., 4 (December 1999): Pages 173 - 203.
Year of Publication: 1997.

21. Record Number: 5096
Author(s): Wemple, Suzanne Fonay.
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Title : Couvents de femmes en Italie, de l' époque du Pape Grégoire le Grand aux environs de 900

Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. . Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. Journal of Medieval History , 20., 2 (June 1994): Pages 73 - 90.
Year of Publication: 1994.

22. Record Number: 3400
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Title : Received in His Name: Rome's Busy Baby Box

Source: The church and childhood: papers read at the 1993 Summer Meeting and the 1994 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Edited by Diana Wood Studies in Church History, 31. Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1994. Journal of Medieval History , 20., 2 (June 1994): Pages 153 - 167.
Year of Publication: 1994.

23. Record Number: 1305
Author(s): Brundage, James A. and Elizabeth M. Makowski
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Title : Enclosure of Nuns: The Decretal "Periculoso" and Its Commentators [Benedict's decretal required strict enclosure for all nuns, regardless of the rule under which they lived or their rank; the authors include a translation of "Periculoso" in an appendix, pages 154-155].

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 20., 2 (June 1994): Pages 143 - 155.
Year of Publication: 1994.

24. Record Number: 9535
Author(s): Laiou, Angeliki E.
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Title : Consensus facit nuptias--Et non: Pope Nicholas I's "Responsa" to the Bulgarians as a Source for Byzantine Marriage Customs [The author examines Pope Nicholas I's response to questions from the newly converted czar of Bulgaria. Byzantine missionaries had told the czar about their beliefs and practices. The Latin papal text gives evidence for Byzantine marriage customs including a greater emphasis on a church ceremony than in the West and a discouragement of remarriage. The Appendix presents the Latin text of Chapter Three from the "Response to the Bulgarians" which deals with marriage. The article was originally published in Rechtshistorisches Journal 4 (1985): 189-201. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Gender, Society, and Economic Life in Byzantium. Angeliki E. Laiou Variorum Collected Studies Series . Ashgate, 1992. Journal of Medieval History , 20., 2 (June 1994): Pages 189 - 201. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication: 1992.

25. Record Number: 15866
Author(s): D'Alatri, Mariano.
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Title : Chiara e le Clarisse nella Cronaca di Fra Salimbene [Salimbene mentioned Clare of Assisi only once, but he wrote about her canonization four times to praise Pope Alexander IV. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 61., 40241 ( 1991): Pages 481 - 489.
Year of Publication: 1991.

26. Record Number: 7472
Author(s): Wilkins, Walter J.
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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.

27. Record Number: 15605
Author(s): McNamara, Jo Ann.
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Title : De quibusdam mulieribus: Reading Women's History from Hostile Sources [The author analyzes the cases of two women who testified about their religious beliefs to church authorities. In the Abruzzi Catania spoke in support of Celestine V during his canonization process. In Provence Na Prous Boneta testified to her devotion to Peter Olivi, a Franciscan spiritual. Documents like this indicate women's ingenuity and determination to lead meaningful spiritual lives even in cases like that of Prous Bonete where the church declared her a heritic. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History. Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal . University of Georgia Press, 1990. Collectanea Franciscana , 61., 40241 ( 1991): Pages 237 - 258.
Year of Publication: 1990.

28. Record Number: 28188
Author(s): Landau, Peter,
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Title : Hadrians IV. Decretale "Dignum est" (X.4.9.1) und die Eheschließung Unfreier in der Diskussion von Kanonisten und Theologen des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts

Source: Collectanea Stephan Kuttner. II. Edited by Giuseppe Forchielli and Alfons M. Stickler Studia Gratiana, 12. Institutum Gratianum, 1967. Collectanea Franciscana , 61., 40241 ( 1991): Pages 511 - 553.
Year of Publication: 1967.

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Title : Small Maesta

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 61., 40241 ( 1991):
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30. Record Number: 37357
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Title : Christ with Saints Peter, Paul, Agatha, Cecilia, Valerian, and Pope Paschal I

Source: Collectanea Franciscana , 61., 40241 ( 1991):
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