Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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SEE ALSO: anchoresses

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1. Record Number: 37292
Author(s): McAvoy, Liz Herbert.
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Title : Writing the Self: Regulating Sex, Body, and Soul

Source: A Companion to British Literature, Vol. 1: Medieval Literature 700-1450. Edited by Robert Demaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher . Wiley Blackwell, 2014. Pages 114 - 129.
Year of Publication: 2014.

2. Record Number: 12852
Author(s): Bernardi, Simonetta.
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Title : Testimoni di santita: I notai nel codicetto dei miracoli di Santa Sperandia (1276-1278) [A 14th-century manuscript records miracles of the Umbrian hermit Sperandia in a legalistic format signed by notaries. All the stories date to the period after the saint's death in the 13th century and relate to the part of Cingoli in which she was buried. The monastery honoring Sperandia was absorbed by San Marco, a nearby house of nuns,in the 14th century. The documents, besides honoring the saint, indicate the development of the region of Cingoli surrounding San Marco. Appendix: Archive of the Monastery of Santa Sperandia.Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Notai, miracoli e culto dei santi: pubblicita e autenticazione del sacro tra XII e XV secolo, Atti del Seminario internazionale, Roma, 5-7 dicembre 2002. Edited by Raimondo Michetti . Dott. A. Giuffre editore, 2004. Pages 561 - 585.
Year of Publication: 2004.

3. Record Number: 6716
Author(s): Hotchin, Julie.
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Title : Female Religious Life and the "Cura Monialium" in Hirsau Monasticism, 1080 to 1150

Source: Listen, Daughter: The "Speculum virginum" and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages. Edited by Constant J. Mews . The New Middle Ages Series. Palgrave, 2001. Pages 59 - 83.
Year of Publication: 2001.

4. Record Number: 4378
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Title : Thirteenth-Century Religious Women: Further Reflections on the Low Countries "Special Case" [The author compares the beguines of the Low Countries with the recluses of England].

Source: New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and Their Impact. Edited by Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts, 2. Brepols, 1999. Pages 129 - 157.
Year of Publication: 1999.

5. Record Number: 4382
Author(s): Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B.
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Title : The Prime of Their Lives: Women and Age, Wisdom, and Religious Careers in Northern Europe [The author argues that older women took on leadership roles in religion, with prophecy, visions, teaching, and life as anchoresses].

6. Record Number: 2845
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Title : De stichtige punten van Kreupele Margriet

Source: Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik , 47., ( 1997): Pages 131 - 142.
Year of Publication: 1997.

7. Record Number: 2643
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Title : Late Medieval Care and Control of Women: Jean Gerson and His Sisters [Gerson wrote a series of letters and treatises for his six sisters in which he outlined a life devoted to virginity and to prayer in the family home; he specifically told them not to join a religious house for women; texts by Gerson discussed in the article are: "Sept enseignements et autres extraits du Traité sur l'excellence de la virginité" (after 1395), "Neuf considerations" (late 1390s), "Montaigne de contemplation" (1399 or 1400), "Onze ordonnances" (after June 1401), and "Dialogue spirituel" (1407 or 1408)].

Source: Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique , 92., 1 (janvier-mars 1997): Pages 5 - 37.
Year of Publication: 1997.

8. Record Number: 1225
Author(s): Hotchin, Julie.
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Title : Enclosure and Containment: Jutta and Hildegard at the Abbey of St. Disibod [concerns Jutta's role among the female recluses associated with the monks at Disibodenberg and details about Hildegard found in Jutta's "Vita"].

Source: Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 103 - 123.
Year of Publication: 1996.

9. Record Number: 1563
Author(s): Brumbaugh- Walter, Lynnea.
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Title : The Grace of That Mutual Glance: Reciprocal Gazing and Unholy Voyeurism in "The Life of Christina of Markyate" [analyzes the nurturing, mutual gazes Christina shares with her rescuer, the hermit Roger, and the Virgin Mary ; these gazes are contrasted with the public voyeuristic gazes that Christina's Mother Beatrix arranges to destroy her daughter's chastity]

Source: Medieval Perspectives , 11., ( 1996): Pages 74 - 95. Proceedings of the Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Southeastern Medieval Association
Year of Publication: 1996.

10. Record Number: 394
Author(s): Zimmermann, Margarete.
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Title : Sharpen Your Mind with the Whetstone of Books: The Female Recluse as Reader in Goscelin's "Liber Confortatorius," Aelred of Rievaulx's "De Institutione Inclusarum," and the "Ancrene Wisse"

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 113 - 122.
Year of Publication: 1995.

11. Record Number: 443
Author(s): Carpenter, Jennifer.
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Title : Juette of Huy, Recluse and Mother (1158-1228): Children and Mothering in the Saintly Life

Source: Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women. A selection of a papers presented at the annual conference of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Feb. 1990. Edited by Jennifer Carpenter and Sally- Beth MacLean . University of Illinois Press, 1995. Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 57 - 93.
Year of Publication: 1995.

12. Record Number: 5099
Author(s): Oudart, Hervé.
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Title : Le Landais, un exemple original de vie religieuse féminine dans le diocèse de Bourges au début du XIIe siècle [The author examines a document, reproduced in the Appendix, in which two men grant land in the forest of Landais to a group of holy women who live as hermits].

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. Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 125 - 129.
Year of Publication: 1994.

13. Record Number: 5092
Author(s): Rouche, Michel.
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Title : Les religieuses des origines au XIIIe sieclè: premières expériences

14. Record Number: 10986
Author(s): Gill, Katherine.
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Title : Open Monasteries for Women in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: Two Roman Examples [The author examines the cases of the oblates of Tor de' Specchi (a community of religious lay women gathered around Francesca Bussa dei Ponziani in Rome) and the "pinzochere" associated with the church of Sant'Agostino in Rome. Gill argues that the success of these informal religious communities in Italy was associated in part with the opportunities they offered women to play a variety of social roles. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: The Crannied Wall: Women, Religion, and the Arts in Early Modern Europe. Edited by Craig A. Monson . University of Michigan Press, 1992. Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 15 - 47.
Year of Publication: 1992.

15. Record Number: 8650
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Alibech el il deserto [Boccaccio’s tale of Alibech apes exempla about holy hermits. Human nature leads the pious Alibech and the holy hermit into sin. This tale was told when Italy was full of urban recluses like Margaret of Cortona, but it is set in a woodland. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 403 - 414. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication: 1990.

16. Record Number: 8652
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Donne religiose nella Firenze del Due-Trecento [The calling of Florentine recluses was grounded in the hermit tradition, but their lives came to be regulated according to monastic norms. The hermit ideal was rural, but these women were urban. Communities of recluses could come into conflict with local ecclesiastical authorities, but they often had important lay patrons. Marginal women, including widows and ex-prostitutes, often found homes in communities of penitents. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Magistra , 2., 2 (Winter 1996): Pages 593 - 634. Originally printed as "Donne religiose nella Firenze del Due-Trecento: Appunti per una ricerca in corso," in Le mouvement confraternel au Moyen Âge: France, Suisse, Italie: Actes de la table ronde, Lausanne 9-11 mai 1985 (Droz, 1987). Pages 41-82.
Year of Publication: 1990.