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1. Record Number: 32635
Author(s): Thomas, Sarah,
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Title : Clerical Illegitimacy in the Diocese of Sodor: Exception or Rule in the Late Medieval Church?

Source: Heresy and the Making of European Culture: Medieval and Modern Perspectives. Edited by Andrew P. Roach and James R. Simpson . Ashgate , 2013. Pages 313 - 332.
Year of Publication: 2013.

2. Record Number: 24521
Author(s): Cooke, Jessica
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Title : Scottish Queenship in the Thirteenth Century [The author notes the lack of scholarship on queens in Scotland. Her article concentrates on the lives of five queens consort. Nelson looks at their political roles and their reputations among their contemporaries. She is interested in how gender came into play both in their marital and natal families. Contrasts with English queens are also instructive. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Thirteenth Century England , 11., ( 2007): Pages 61 - 80.
Year of Publication: 2007.

3. Record Number: 23593
Author(s): McDonald, Jennifer R
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Title : Illegitimate Scots in the Registers of Supplications and the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471- 1484) [The Papal Penitentiary was one source of dispensation for men of illegitimate birth seeking clerical livings. Suppliants of humble origins were more likely to petition the Penitentiary. Those of noble origins or well connected socially or politically petitioned the Datary successfully. University educated men of illegitimate birth also successfully petitioned the Datary for dispensations. These men could afford the Datary's higher fees, while the humbler suppliant had to petition the more affordable penitentiary. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: ... et usque ad ultimum terrae: The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts Edited by Gerhard Jaritz, Torstein Jørgensen, and Kirsi Salonen Ceu Medievalia . Central European University Press, 2007. Pages 33 - 42.
Year of Publication: 2007.

4. Record Number: 10983
Author(s): Milfull, Inge B.
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Title : War and Truce: Women in "The Wallace" [The author concentrates on the scenes of Wallace's courtship of his future wife and the diplomatic efforts of the English queen. Milfull argues that in both cases the poet regards the women as intrusive and potentially dangerous. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Woman and the Feminine in Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing. Edited by Sarah M. Dunnigan, C. Marie Harker, and Evelyn S. Newlyn . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Thirteenth Century England , 11., ( 2007): Pages 19 - 30.
Year of Publication: 2004.

5. Record Number: 10984
Author(s): Harker, C. Marie.
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Title : Chrystis Kirk on the Grene and "Peblis to the Ploy": The Economy of Gender [In these two Middle Scots satires female misbehavior is defined as sexual license, whether it be peasant girls who are available to every man or the lower-class woman who thinks that she can entice a well-off merchant. Harker argues that anxieties over class distinction and the instability of the urban burghs are transferred to unruly, lower class female bodies. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

6. Record Number: 10985
Author(s): McGinley, Kevin J.
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Title : The "Fenzeit" and the Feminine: Robert Henryson's "Orpheus and Eurydice" and the Gendering of Poetry [The author argues that the narrative in the poem is associated with the feminine while the concluding "moralitas" is identified as masculine. McGinley suggests that in this way the poet calls into question the traditional patriarchal values and presents the feminine more positively. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

7. Record Number: 10982
Author(s): Ewan, Elizabeth.
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Title : The Dangers of Manly Women: Late Medieval Perceptions of Female Heroism in Scotland's Second War of Independence [The author examines accounts of two noble women in Scottish histories. Lady Seton urged her husband to resist the English, even at the cost of her hostage son's life. Agnes, countess of Dunbar, held her castle and defied the English attackers repeatedly. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

8. Record Number: 6086
Author(s): Niebrzydowski, Sue.
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Title : The Sultana and Her Sisters: Black Women in the British Isles Before 1530

Source: Women's History Review , 10., 2 ( 2001): Pages 187 - 210.
Year of Publication: 2001.

9. Record Number: 4802
Author(s): Bawcutt, Priscilla.
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Title : My Bright Buke: Women and their Books in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland

Source: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays for Felicity Riddy. Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchison, Carol M. Meale, and Lesley Johnson Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts . Brepols, 2000. Women's History Review , 10., 2 ( 2001): Pages 17 - 34.
Year of Publication: 2000.

10. Record Number: 7069
Author(s): Downie, Fiona.
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Title : And They Lived Happily Ever After? Medieval Queenship and Marriage in Scotland, 1424-1449 [The author explores the training and roles of queens, both women married to Scottish kings and Scottish princesses married to foreign rulers. Women discussed include Joan Beaufort, Mary of Guelders, and the daughters of James I, Margaret, Isabella, Mary, Annabella, Eleanor, and Johanna. The author argues that political alliances were often a failure, but that marriage created a communications network based on family ties. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Gendering Scottish History: An International Approach. Edited by Terry Brotherstone, Deborah Simonton, and Oonagh Walsh Mackie Occasional Colloquia Series . Cruithne Press, 1999. Scottish Historical Review , 206., 2 (October 1999): Pages 129 - 141.
Year of Publication: 1999.

11. Record Number: 4708
Author(s): Phelpstead, Carl.
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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. Women's History Review , 10., 2 ( 2001): Pages 16 - 28.
Year of Publication: 1999.

12. Record Number: 4707
Author(s): McDonald, R. Andrew.
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Title : The Foundation and Patronage of Nunneries by Native Elites in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth-Century Scotland

Source: Women in Scotland c. 1100-c. 1750. Edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle . Tuckwell Press, 1999. Women's History Review , 10., 2 ( 2001): Pages 3 - 15.
Year of Publication: 1999.

13. Record Number: 4709
Author(s): Bawcutt, Priscilla and Bridget Henisch
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Title : Scots Abroad in the Fifteenth Century: The Princesses Margaret, Isabella, and Eleanor [The author traces the cultural activities of three daughters of James I; Margaret wrote verse, Isabella collected books, and Eleanor patronized literary translations].

Source: Women in Scotland c. 1100-c. 1750. Edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle . Tuckwell Press, 1999. Women's History Review , 10., 2 ( 2001): Pages 45 - 55.
Year of Publication: 1999.

14. Record Number: 4710
Author(s): Ewan, Elizabeth.
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Title : For Whatever Ales Ye: Women as Consumers and Producers in Late Medieval Scottish Towns [The author considers women's economic roles by concentrating on ale brewing, a flexible part-time occupation that grew out of women's work as purchasers of goods for the household].

Source: Women in Scotland c. 1100-c. 1750. Edited by Elizabeth Ewan and Maureen M. Meikle . Tuckwell Press, 1999. Women's History Review , 10., 2 ( 2001): Pages 125 - 135.
Year of Publication: 1999.

15. Record Number: 7067
Author(s): Ewan, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Realm of One's Own? The Place of Medieval and Early Modern Women in Scottish History [The author provides a brief overview of the historiography of medieval and early modern women's history from the nineteenth century onward. The author also notes methodologies and themes in current research as well. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Gendering Scottish History: An International Approach. Edited by Terry Brotherstone, Deborah Simonton, and Oonagh Walsh Mackie Occasional Colloquia Series . Cruithne Press, 1999. Women's History Review , 10., 2 ( 2001): Pages 19 - 36.
Year of Publication: 1999.

16. Record Number: 4881
Author(s): Downie, Fiona.
Contributor(s):
Title : La voie quelle menace tenir: Annabella Stewart, Scotland, and the European Marriage Market, 1444-1456 [the author examines Annabella's betrothal to Louis, Count of Geneva, which lasted from 1444 until it was dissolved in 1456; continental politics favored the alliance in 1444 but conditions had changed in the next decade; Annabella wanted to stay in Savoy at the court where she had lived since the age of nine, but personal feelings did not matter in marital politics].

Source: Scottish Historical Review , 206., 2 (October 1999): Pages 170 - 191.
Year of Publication: 1999.

17. Record Number: 3519
Author(s): Sharp, Michael D.
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Title : Remaking Medieval Heroism: Nationalism and Sexuality in "Braveheart" [The author argues that the film appeals to contemporary social values including nationalism and homophobia, by contrasting Wallace's masculinity and sexuality with the effete and homosexual English].

Source: Florilegium , 15., ( 1998): Pages 251 - 266.
Year of Publication: 1998.

18. Record Number: 2884
Author(s): Wall, Valerie.
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Title : Queen Margaret of Scotland (1070-93): Burying the Past, Enshrining the Future

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. Florilegium , 15., ( 1998): Pages 27 - 38.
Year of Publication: 1997.

19. Record Number: 1596
Author(s): Gameson, Richard.
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Title : The Gospels of Margaret of Scotland and the Literacy of an Eleventh-Century Queen [appendices include a trancription of the Latin text on the flyleaf that describes the miraculous survival of the manuscript after falling in a river, an English translation of the text, and variant readings in the gospel texts].

Source: Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor . British Library and University of Toronto Press, 1997. Florilegium , 15., ( 1998): Pages 148 - 171.
Year of Publication: 1997.

20. Record Number: 645
Author(s): Brockington, Mary.
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Title : The Separating Sword in the "Tristan" Romances: Possible Celtic Analogues Re- examined [author argues that the Irish tales of Diarmaid and Grainne do not provide a source for the chaste lovers discovered sleeping by King Marc].

Source: Modern Language Review , 91., 2 (Apr. 1996): Pages 281 - 300.
Year of Publication: 1996.

21. Record Number: 3592
Author(s): Chibnall, Marjorie M.
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Title : Public Lives, Private Ties: Royal Mothers in England and Scotland, 1070 -1204

Source: Medieval Mothering. Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler . Garland Publishing, 1996. Florilegium , 15., ( 1998): Pages 295 - 311.
Year of Publication: 1996.

22. Record Number: 3677
Author(s): Kay, Sarah.
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Title : Proclaiming Her Dignity Abroad: The Literary and Artistic Network of Matilda of Scotland, Queen of England 1100-1118 [The author argues that Matilda pursued extensive projects in poetry, music, art, architecture, and literature in part to increase her prestige and spread her fame].

Source: The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. Edited by June Hall McCash . University of Georgia Press, 1996. Florilegium , 15., ( 1998): Pages 155 - 174.
Year of Publication: 1996.

23. Record Number: 3617
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Title : An Eleventh-Century Account of the Foundation Legend of Laurence Kirk, and of Queen Margaret's Pilgrimage There [includes a Latin edition with English translation of the Scottish material from Goscelin's "Vita"].

Source: Innes Review , 47., 2 (Autumn 1996): Pages 95 - 109.
Year of Publication: 1996.

24. Record Number: 1571
Author(s): Wertheimer, Laura.
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Title : Adeliza of Louvain and Anglo- Norman Queenship

Source: The Haskins Society Journal , 7., ( 1995): Pages 101 - 115.
Year of Publication: 1995.

25. Record Number: 444
Author(s): Huneycutt, Lois L.
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Title : Intercession and the High- Medieval Queen: The Esther Topos [study of Queen Matilda, Consort of Henry I of England].

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. Modern Language Review , 91., 2 (Apr. 1996): Pages 126 - 146.
Year of Publication: 1995.

26. Record Number: 464
Author(s): McDonald, R. Andrew.
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Title : Matrimonial Politics and Core- Periphery Interactions in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth- Century Scotland

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 21., 3 (Sept. 1995): Pages 227 - 247.
Year of Publication: 1995.

27. Record Number: 11848
Author(s): Ronay, Gabriel.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Other St. Margaret [In this brief article without footnotes addressed to a popular audience, the author reflects on the celebrations surrounding the 900th anniversary of St. Margaret's death. She was the daughter of Edward Aetheling, the English prince in exile, and her mother's origins have sometimes wrongly been thought to be Hungarian. Historians and politicians in Hungary from the eighteenth century onward have sought to capitalize on this relationship with England. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: History Today , 43., (December 1993): Pages 7 - 10.
Year of Publication: 1993.

28. Record Number: 7186
Author(s): Higgins, Paula.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Other Minervas": Creative Women at the Court of Margaret of Scotland [The author examines the activities of the princess, Margaret of Scotland, and her ladies-in-waiting, both as authors of poetry and creators of music. She critiques recent scholarship because it dismisses women's artistic contributions and grants credence only to the well-documented like Christine de Pizan in the "discourse of the exceptional woman." Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Rediscovering the Muses: Women's Musical Traditions. Edited by Kimberly Marshall . Northeastern University Press, 1993. The Haskins Society Journal , 7., ( 1995): Pages 169 - 185.
Year of Publication: 1993.

29. Record Number: 8630
Author(s): Ewan, Elizabeth.
Contributor(s):
Title : Scottish Portias: Women in the Courts in Mediaeval Scottish Towns [The author considers the extent to which medieval Scottish women were able to use the court system to advance their own interests. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Journal of the Canadian Historical Association , 3., ( 1992): Pages 27 - 43.
Year of Publication: 1992.

30. Record Number: 9544
Author(s): Parkinson, David J.
Contributor(s):
Title : Henryson’s Scottish Tragedy [Henryson explores the quintessentially Scottish themes of disfigurement, loss, and exile through the spurned female protagonist of his fifteenth-century Middle Scots poem, “The Testament of Cresseid.” Henryson also uses the poem as an occasion to explore the moral objectives of poetry itself. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Chaucer Review , 25., 4 ( 1991): Pages 355 - 362.
Year of Publication: 1991.

31. Record Number: 12775
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Title : Introduction [The author provides a brief introduction to papers from a conference organized by the Societies of Antiquaries of Scotland, London, and Newcastle upon Tyne to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Margaret "Maid of Norway", queen of Scotland and daughter of Eric II Magnusson of Norway. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Scottish Historical Review , 69., 2 (October 1990): Pages 117 - 119.
Year of Publication: 1990.

32. Record Number: 12777
Author(s): Helle, Knut.
Contributor(s):
Title : Norwegian Foreign Policy and the Maid of Norway [The author claims that Margaret, Maid of Norway, Queen of Scotland, was essentially a product of years of Norwegian foreign policy. She also explores the ramifications of Margaret’s death in Norway, particularly the appearance of a “false Margaret” who was burned and then claimed as a martyr. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Scottish Historical Review , 69., 2 (October 1990): Pages 142 - 156.
Year of Publication: 1990.

33. Record Number: 12778
Author(s): Prestwich, Michael.
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Title : Edward I and the Maid of Norway [The author discusses the Maid of Norway episode in relation to English diplomacy and trade, with particular attention to Edward I’s role. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Scottish Historical Review , 69., 2 (October 1990): Pages 157 - 174.
Year of Publication: 1990.

34. Record Number: 12776
Author(s): Barrow, G.W.S.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Kingdom in Crisis: Scotland and the Maid of Norway [The article discusses the political climate of Scotland in the thirteenth century, and the conditions under which Margaret, daughter of king Eric II Magnusson of Norway, was promised to marry Edward, the future Prince of Wales. The article includes an Appendix, which gives the English translation of the treaty of Birgham-Northampton, in which the marriage is promised. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Scottish Historical Review , 69., 2 (October 1990): Pages 120 - 141.
Year of Publication: 1990.

35. Record Number: 12779
Author(s): Crawford, Barbara E.
Contributor(s):
Title : North Sea Kingdoms, North Sea Bureaucrat: A Royal Official Who Transcended National Boundaries [The author argues for an identification of Weland of Stiklaw (a Scottish royal officer) with the Weland recorded to have accompanied Margaret, Maid of Norway, on her voyage to Scotland. The article includes an Appendix, an inventory of Isabella Bruce’s Goods. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Scottish Historical Review , 69., 2 (October 1990): Pages 175 - 184.
Year of Publication: 1990.

36. Record Number: 37067
Author(s): Henryson, Robert,
Contributor(s): Riddy, Felicity, ed. and Bawcutt, Priscilla, ed.
Title : The Testament of Cresseid

Source: Longer Scottish Poems. Volume 1. Edited by Priscilla Bawcutt and Felicity Riddy . Scottish Academic Press, 1987. Scottish Historical Review , 69., 2 (October 1990): Pages 170 - 193.
Year of Publication: 1987.

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