Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 38263
Author(s): Troup, Cynthia
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Title : 'With Open Doors' in the Tor de' Specchi: The Chiesa Vecchia Frescoes and the Monks of Santa Maria Nova

Source: Studies on Florence and the Italian Renaissance in Honour of F. W. Kent. Edited by Peter Howard and Cecilia Hewlett . Brepols , 2016. Pages 405 - 427.
Year of Publication: 2016.

2. 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.

3. Record Number: 11529
Author(s): Barclay-Lloyd, Joan E.
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Title : The Church and Monastery of S. Pancrazio, Rome [In 1204 Innocent III crowned Peter II of Aragon at San Pancrazio outside Rome. San Pancrazio had been a Benedictine monastery since the late 6th century, but the monks were replaced by a group of penitent women in 1255. These women became Cistercians shortly thereafter, remaining until Ambrosian Friars replaced them in 1438. The 13th-century reduction of the church to a single nave without side aisles and divided by a screen wall may represent adaptation to the need of these nuns for more privacy. 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. Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004): Pages 245 - 266.
Year of Publication: 2004.

4. Record Number: 10934
Author(s): Lehmijoki-Gardner, Maiju.
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Title : Writing Religious Rules as an Interactive Process: Dominican Penitent Women and the Making of Their "Regula" [In the fifteenth century, when the Dominican Order adopted their affiliated groups of penitent women officially, Thomas Caffarini rewrote the history of that association to make it appear more coherent. In fact, the relationship was informal; and these women and their patrons needed to lobby the friars for attention. Thus the original rule granted by Munio of Zamora was informal, given in response to these women. Once the order adopted the penitents more formally, they lost much of their initiative to the friars, whose histories of the movement buried traces of women's activities. Appendicies present the Latin text of Munio's "Ordinationes" written in 1286 for penitent women in Orvieto and a listing that compares the chapter headings in the "Ordinationes" with those in the "Tractatus," the Dominican penitent rule circa 1402-1405. Title note supplied by Feminae]

Source: Speculum , 79., 3 (July 2004): Pages 660 - 687.
Year of Publication: 2004.

5. Record Number: 10834
Author(s): Peterson, Ingrid, O.S.F.
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Title : Thirteenth-Century Penitential Women: Franciscan Life in the Secular World

Source: Studies in Spirituality , 12., ( 2002): Pages 43 - 60.
Year of Publication: 2002.

6. Record Number: 5907
Author(s): Schmidt, Victor M.
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Title : Painting and Individual Devotion in Late Medieval Italy: The Case of Saint Catherine of Alexandria because Catherine of Alexandria is ill-documented, possibly even legendary, ample room was left for invention by hagiographers; the tale of Catherine's conversion and mystical marriage to Christ is not in the earliest Latin or Greek sources; these stories are documented first in Italy, and they soon had an influence on artistic depictions of this popular saint; the same motif of mystical marriage appears in the lives of Italian women saints beginning in the fourteenth century; it is difficult to tell whether the Catherine story influenced these women or their mystical piety influenced the hagiographers who wrote about Catherine].

Source: Visions of Holiness: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Italy. Edited by Andrew Ladis and Shelley E. Zuraw . Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2001. Magistra , 7., 2 (Winter 2001): Pages 21 - 36.
Year of Publication: 2001.

7. Record Number: 6082
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Title : Literary Collaboration in the "Life of Umiliana dei Cerchi" [The author explores the role of the narrator in Vito da Cortona's "Life" of Umiliana, an affluent Florentine widow who lived a religious life in her father's house].

Source: Magistra , 7., 2 (Winter 2001): Pages 5 - 22.
Year of Publication: 2001.

8. Record Number: 4671
Author(s): Pasztor, Edith.
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Title : Esperienza di povertà al femminile in Italia tra XII e XIV secolo [Beginning in the thirteenth century, women not born into poverty increasingly embraced that state voluntarily. Some of the noted religious women were born into poverty, but others abandoned comfortable lives to follow the poor Christ and share the lot of His poor. Religious women who depended on alms were expected to repay these offerings with their prayers].

Source: Donne e sante: Studi sulla religiosità femminile nel Medio Evo. Edith Pasztor . Edizioni Studium, 2000. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome , 45., ( 2000): Pages 131 - 149. Originally published in La conversione alla povertà nell'Italia dei secoli XII- XIV. Spoleto, 1991. Pages 369-389.
Year of Publication: 2000.

9. Record Number: 8327
Author(s): Jansen, Katherine L.
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Title : Like a Virgin: The Meaning of the Magdalen for Female Penitents of Later Medieval Italy [The author argues that the image of Mary Magdalene as a sinner restored to virginity through penance held special meaning for uncloistered religious women. These penitent women, frequently widows, sought the full rewards of virgins in paradise. Among the

Source: Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome , 45., ( 2000): Pages 131 - 152.
Year of Publication: 2000.

10. Record Number: 3176
Author(s): Schlager, Bernard.
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Title : Foundresses of the Franciscan Life: Umiliana Cerchi and Margaret of Cortona [models of sanctity for lay women from the order of penitents which became the Franciscan Third Order].

Source: Viator , 29., ( 1998): Pages 141 - 166.
Year of Publication: 1998.

11. Record Number: 5004
Author(s): Sebastiani, Lucia.
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Title : Da bizzocche a monache [Many penitent women, individual or in community, can be traced in northern Italy during the later Middle Ages. Some communities of these bizzoche were authorized by the local bishop rather than by the papacy. Most of these houses were pressured into adopting an existing monastic rule, claustration, and distinctive garb].

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. Viator , 29., ( 1998): Pages 193 - 218.
Year of Publication: 1997.

12. Record Number: 749
Author(s): Rigon, Antonio.
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Title : A Community of Female Penitents in Thirteenth- Century Padua [group of female penitents evolved into a Benedictine monastery].

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider . University of Chicago Press, 1996. Viator , 29., ( 1998): Pages 28 - 38. Originally published as "Una comunità femminile di penitenti a Padova agli inizi del secolo XIII" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 25-35.
Year of Publication: 1996.

13. Record Number: 751
Author(s): Sensi, Mario.
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Title : Anchoresses and Penitents in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth Century Umbria

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider . University of Chicago Press, 1996. Viator , 29., ( 1998): Pages 56 - 83. Originally published as "Incarcerate e recluse in Umbria nei secoli XIII e XIV: un bizzocaggio centro-italiano" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 57-84.
Year of Publication: 1996.

14. Record Number: 752
Author(s): Benvenuti Papi, Anna.
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Title : Mendicant Friars and Female "Pinzochere" in Tuscany: From Social Marginality to Models of Sancity

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider . University of Chicago Press, 1996. Viator , 29., ( 1998): Pages 85 - 106. Originally published as "Frati mendicanti e pinzochere in Toscana: dalla marginalità sociale a modello di santità" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 85-106.
Year of Publication: 1996.

15. Record Number: 755
Author(s): Sorelli, Fernanda.
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Title : Imitable Sanctity: The Legend of Maria of Venice [a young wife who became a Dominican penitent].

16. Record Number: 757
Author(s): Esposito, Anna.
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Title : St. Francesca and the Female Religious Communities of Fifteenth- Century Rome [the sociopolitical environment of Saint Francesca and the penitent noble women who formed the community of Tor de' Specchi].

Source: Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi. Trans. by Margery J. Schneider . University of Chicago Press, 1996. Viator , 29., ( 1998): Pages 197 - 218. Originally published as "S. Francesca Bussa dei Ponziani e le comunità religiose femminili a Roma nel secolo XV" in Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (Liguori Editore, 1992). Pages 187-208.
Year of Publication: 1996.

17. Record Number: 6620
Author(s): Storini, Monica Cristina.
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Title : Umiliana e il suo biografo. Construzione di un' agiografia femminile fra XIII e XIV secolo [Umiliata dei Cerchi no longer is believed to have founded the Franciscan third order, but she was among its first members; her biography, Vito da Cortona, had to adapt hagiographic models since she had been married and widowed; Umiliata is described as preaching but by example rather than by words].

Source: Annali d'Italianistica , 13., ( 1995): Pages 19 - 39. Women Mystic Writers. Edited by Dino S. Cervigni
Year of Publication: 1995.

18. Record Number: 1549
Author(s): Anderson, J. C. and M. J. Jeffreys
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Title : The Decoration of the Sevastokratorissa's Tent [Greek text, English translation, and commentary on two poems describing Eirene's tent; the authors see parallels in the secular motifs of muses and peacocks with decorations found on ivory boxes].

Source: Byzantion , 64., 1 ( 1994): Pages 8 - 18.
Year of Publication: 1994.

19. Record Number: 6606
Author(s): Merlo, Grado G.
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Title : Note su santità e condizione femminile nella Toscana medievale [the study of all aspects of saints and their cult has flourished in recent years; one question of great importance is why so many women saints lived in Tuscany and Umbria in the 13th and 14th centuries; these women found acceptance and support from the f

Source: Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 219 - 237.
Year of Publication: 1993.

20. Record Number: 10002
Author(s): Rusconi, Roberto.
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Title : Pietà, povertà e potere. Donne e religione nell'Umbria tardomedievale [Beginning in the thirteenth century, new religious movements flourished in Umbria. Women found spiritual opportunities as penitents or in the mendicant orders. The penitent life was open to women who were not from the ruling classes. Some of these women became prophets or were involved in politics. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Mistiche e devote nell'Italia tardomedievale. Edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi . Liguori Editore, 1992. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 11 - 24.
Year of Publication: 1992.

21. Record Number: 10003
Author(s): Sorelli, Fernanda.
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Title : La produzione agiografica del domenicano Tommaso d'Antonio da Siena: esempi di santità ed intenti di propaganda [Many late-medieval saints' lives were composed by persons who knew their subjects, and chose to individualize them. Tommaso Caffarini's works personalize Catherine of Siena, presenting a spritual profile, not just recounting miracles. His work on Vanna of Orvieto and Margaret of Citta di Castello, however, is less rich in personal detail. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

22. 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. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 15 - 47.
Year of Publication: 1992.

23. Record Number: 8645
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Una santa vedova [Left a young widow with children, Umiliata declined remarriage. She passed the remainder of her life in her father’s house treated like a servant and distracted from prayer by male relatives. After her death, Umiliata’s cult was promoted by the Franciscans. Her children later favored the Franciscan convent of Santa Croce. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 59 - 98. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication: 1990.

24. Record Number: 8647
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : I frati e le donne [Many of the holy women of late-medieval Italy were affiliated with the mendicant orders. These women included widows and penitents, as well as nuns. These ties inspired hagiographic works written by the friars, presenting these women in an acceptable man

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 119 - 140. Originally published as "Frati mendicanti e pinzochere in Toscana: dalla marginalità sociale a modello di santità," in Temi i problemi della mistica femminile trecentesca: XX convegno del Centro di studi sulla spiritualità medievale, Todi 14-17 ottobre 19
Year of Publication: 1990.

25. Record Number: 8648
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : La serva padrona Verdiana da Castelfiorentino is one of the few servants among the revered Tuscan holy women of the later Middle Ages. She, like Saint Zita, was part of a wave of migration from rural areas to the cities in Tuscany. These servant-saints displayed domestic virtues, like generosity; but they also went on pilgrimage. Some experienced local hostility, but Verdiana was supported locally and became known as a wonder worker. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 263 - 303. Originally printed as "Santità femminile nel territorio fiorentino e lucchese: considerazioni intorno alla caso di Verdiana da Castelfiorentino," in Religiosità e società in Valdelsa (Società storica della Valdelsa, 1980). Pages 113-144.
Year of Publication: 1990.

26. Record Number: 8649
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Cellane e recluse [The documentation is scarce for Italian recluses until the 13th century. The earliest of these penitent women adopted the life styles of male hermits, including the Vallombrosans and Camaldolese. These women usually were situated in towns or cities, and they might have cells attached to churches. Some were affiliated with established orders, but others wore the habits of the newly-created orders of friars. Originally printed as "Velut in sepulchro: cellane e recluse nella tradizione agiografica italiana," in Culto dei santi e classi sociali in età preindustriale, edited by S. Boesch-Gajano and L. Sebastiani (L.U. Japadre Editore,1984). Pages 367-455. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 305 - 402. Originally printed as "Velut in sepulchro: cellane e recluse nella tradizione agiografica italiana," in Culto dei santi e classi sociali in età preindustriale, edited by S. Boesch-Gajano and L. Sebastiani (L.U. Japadre Editore,1984). Pages 367-455.
Year of Publication: 1990.

27. Record Number: 8651
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Forme comunitarie [The Franciscan third order originated as a para-monastic status for penitent women. It became, in the fifteenth century, assimilated to a monastic model. The popes permitted common dwellings and conceded privileges, but they expected strict monastic enclosure. Some of the Tuscan houses of tertiaries were tied to convents of the Franciscan observant movement. Appendix: pp. 589-592 Rule of the Third Order, from MS Palatino 118 in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence. Originally printed as "Le forme comunitarie della penitenza femminile francescana: Schede per un censimento toscano," in Prime manifestazioni di vita comunitaria maschile e femminile nel movimento francescano della penitenza: Atti del convegno di studi francescani, Assisi 30 giugno-2 luglio 1981, edited by R. Pazzelli and L. Temperini (Commissione Storica Internazionale T.O.R., 1982). Pages 389-449. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 531 - 592. Originally printed as "Le forme comunitarie della penitenza femminile francescana: Schede per un censimento toscano," in Prime manifestazioni di vita comunitaria maschile e femminile nel movimento francescano della penitenza: Atti del convegno di studi fr
Year of Publication: 1990.

28. 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. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): 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.

29. Record Number: 8654
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Secolo e chiostro [The penitent movement extended the monastic ideal to women living in the world. It was accessible not just to virgins, like Catherine of Siena, but to wives and widows. Originally published as "Penitenza e santità femminile in ambiente cateriniano e bernardiniano," in Atti del simposio internazionale cateriniano-bernardiniano, Siena 17-20 aprile 1980, edited by Domenico Maffei and Paolo Nardi (Accademia Senese degli Intronati, 1982). Pages 865-875. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 247 - 259. Originally published as "Penitenza e santità femminile in ambiente cateriniano e bernardiniano," in Atti del simposio internazionale cateriniano-bernardiniano, Siena 17-20 aprile 1980, edited by Domenico Maffei and Paolo Nardi (Accademia Senese degli Intr
Year of Publication: 1990.

30. Record Number: 8655
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Cristomimesi al femminile [The crusade ideal could be lived out externally in action or internalized. Devout women, including tertiaries, supported the crusades and saw themselves as combating the enemies of Christ. Margaret of Cortona thought all these foes, except the Jews, could be converted. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 141 - 168. Originally printed as "Margarita filia Jerusalem: Santa Margherita da Cortona e il superamento mistica della crociata," in Toscana e Terrasanta nel medioevo,
Year of Publication: 1990.

31. Record Number: 8656
Author(s): Papi, Anna Benvenuti.
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Title : Padri spirituali [The mendicant movement coincided with an increase in the number of penitent women living in the world. Friars frequently became confessors and spiritual guides for these women. Friars advised them how to lead a spiritual life outside the cloister without yielding to temptation or becoming suspected of heresy. Writers like Francesco da Barberino were critical of these close ties between religious and uncloistered. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: In castro poenitentiae: santità e società femminile nell’Italia medievali. Anna Benvenuti Papi . Herder, 1990. Archivio Storico Italiano , 151., 555 ( 1993): Pages 205 - 246. Earlier published in Studies in Church History 27 (1990): 53-78.
Year of Publication: 1990.

32. Record Number: 28831
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Title : Madonna del Parto

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33. Record Number: 32357
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Title : Madonna of the Earthquakes

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34. Record Number: 40971
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Title : Francesca Romana heals a young man who had lost the use of his leg

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