Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 24045
Author(s): Schuchman, Anne M.
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Title : "Within the Walls of Paradise": Space and Community in the "Vita" of Umiliana de' Cerchi [Umiliata dei Cerchi was a 13th century Florentine laywoman who, as a widow, lived a religious life in her family’s tower house. Franciscan friar Vito da Cortona wrote her “vita” shortly after her death in 1246. Schuchman focuses on the text's description of Umiliata’s life in the tower as a substitute for joining a monastery. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom.   Edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells Studies in the History of Christian Traditions .   Brill, 2009.  Pages 49 - 64.
Year of Publication: 2009.
2. Record Number: 10924
Author(s): Mengel, David C.
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Title : From Venice to Jerusalem and Beyond: Milíc of Kromeríz and the Topography of Prostitution in Fourteenth Century Prague [Milíc, a preacher and reformer, established a complex of buildings for a community of repentant prostitutes and preaching clerics in an area known as Venice that had formerly included the city's leading public brothel. The community, named Jerusalem, did not have a long life with Pope Gregory XI condemming Milíc in July 1374 and the emperor Charles IV signing Jerusalem over to the Cistercians in December of that year. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Speculum , 79., 2 (April 2004):  Pages 407 - 442.
Year of Publication: 2004.
3. Record Number: 16588
Author(s): McSheffrey, Shannon.
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Title : Place, Space, and Situation: Public and Private in the Making of Marriage in Late Medieval London [The author argues that marriage in fourteenth century London was a process that moved through a series of well-recognized steps with increasing publicity. Situations that we moderns would characterize as private (e.g. exchange of consent in the bride's h
Source: Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004):  Pages 960 - 990.
Year of Publication: 2004.
4. Record Number: 4339
Author(s): Beaucamp, Joëlle
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Title : Les Femmes et l'espace public à Byzance: Le cas des tribunaux
Source: Dumbarton Oaks Papers (Full Text via JSTOR) 52 (1998): 129-145. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1998.
5. Record Number: 3183
Author(s): Martines, Lauro.
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Title : Séduction, espace familial et autorité dans la renaissance Italienne
Source: Annales : Histoire, Sciences Sociales , 53., 2 (mars-avril 1998):  Pages 255 - 290.
Year of Publication: 1998.
6. Record Number: 2970
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Title : The Geography of Gender in the Renaissance
Source: Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy.   Edited by Judith C. Brown and Robert C. Davis .   Longman, 1998. Annales : Histoire, Sciences Sociales , 53., 2 (mars-avril 1998):  Pages 19 - 38.
Year of Publication: 1998.
7. Record Number: 3430
Author(s): Kittell, Ellen E.
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Title : Women, Audience, and Public Acts in Medieval Flanders
Source: Journal of Women's History , 10., 3 (Autumn 1998):  Pages 74 - 96.
Year of Publication: 1998.
8. Record Number: 4335
Author(s): Hanawalt, Barbara A.
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Title : Medieval English Women in Rural and Urban Domestic Space [The author argues that women's space was strictly regulated; if they ventured outside it (especially into fields and taverns), they risked their honor and their persons].
Source: Dumbarton Oaks Papers (Full Text via JSTOR) 52 (1998): 19-26. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1998.
9. Record Number: 3671
Author(s): Johnson, Geraldine A.
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Title : Idol or Ideal? The Power and Potency of Female Public Sculpture [The author argues that by the late sixteenth century female statuary in Florence had been removed or moved to less prominent locations; the author suggests that there is a correlation with the patriarchal attitudes of the male art patrons].
Source: Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy.   Edited by Geraldine A. Johnson and Sara F. Mathews Grieco .   Cambridge University Press, 1997.  Pages 222 - 245.
Year of Publication: 1997.
10. 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.  Pages 17 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1997.
11. Record Number: 2984
Author(s): Robin, Diana.
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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].
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 165 - 187.
Year of Publication: 1997.
12. Record Number: 1629
Author(s): Hovland, Deborah.
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Title : A Woman's Place is in the Home: Gender and Staging in the Early French Trickster Farce
Source: Romance Languages Annual , 8., ( 1996):  Pages 41 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1996.
13. Record Number: 1081
Author(s): Freeman, Elizabeth.
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Title : Nuns in the Public Sphere: Aelred of Rievaulx's "De Sanctimoniali De Wattun" and the Gendering of Authority [how the Gilbertine nuns of Watton punished a sister who had sexual relations with a man belonging to the double house].
Source: Comitatus , 27., ( 1996):  Pages 55 - 80. [contributions are accepted from graduate students and those who have received their doctorates within the last three years]
Year of Publication: 1996.
14. Record Number: 1
Author(s): Hanawalt, Barbara A.
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Title : At the Margin of Women's Space in Medieval Europe [regulation of women's space with an emphasis on prostitutes and religious women].
Source: Matrons and Marginal Women in Medieval Society.   Edited by Robert R. Edwards and Vickie Ziegler .   Boydell Press, 1995. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 38., 2 (May 1995):  Pages 1 - 17. Also reprinted in "Of Good and Ill Repute": Gender and Social Control in Medieval England. Barbara A. Hanawalt. Oxford University Press, 1998. Pages 70-87.
Year of Publication: 1995.
15. Record Number: 3008
Author(s): Graña Cid, Maria del Mar and Ángela Muõz Fernández
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Title : Mujeres y no ciudadanía. La relación de las mujeres con los espacios públicos en el bajo medievo castellano
Source: Arenal: Revista de Historia de las Mujeres , 2., 1 (January-June 1995):  Pages 41 - 52.
Year of Publication: 1995.
16. Record Number: 391
Author(s): Chapoutot- Remadi, Mounira.
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Title : Femmes dans la Ville Mamluke
Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 38., 2 (May 1995):  Pages 145 - 164.
Year of Publication: 1995.
17. Record Number: 3515
Author(s): Scott, Karen.
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Title : Urban Spaces, Women's Networks, and the Lay Apostolate in the Siena of Catherine Benincasa
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. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient , 38., 2 (May 1995):  Pages 105 - 119.
Year of Publication: 1994.
18. Record Number: 10889
Author(s): Massip, J. Francesc
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Title : The Staging of the Assumption in Europe [The death and Assumption of the Virgin Mary was one of the most widely enacted sequences in late medieval religious dramas. Various staging solutions were used across Europe: horizontal staging in churches; urban staging on fixed, horizontal stages; church staging with a vertical arrangement; urban staging on a moveable stage; and urban staging on a fixed vertical stage. While performances in the North often featured demons and devils, displays in the South featured sets that depicted the heavens and made use of aerial machines. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Comparative Drama , 25., 1 ( 1991):  Pages 17 - 28.
Year of Publication: 1991.
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Title : St. Bernadino Preaching in the Campo
Source: Comparative Drama , 25., 1 ( 1991):
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