Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 28929
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Title : Life of St. Zita of Lucca [Available online in Kenneth Baxter Wolf's series, Texts in Translation. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: http://sites.google.com/site/canilup/lifeofzita
Year of Publication: 2008.
2. Record Number: 7222
Author(s): Frankis, John.
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Title : St. Zita, St. Sythe, and St. Osyth [The author presents some evidence for the cult of St. Zita in England. She was believed to help in recovering lost items. Because of similarities in sound, St. Zita or Sitha/Sythe was sometimes confused with St. Ositha. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Nottingham Medieval Studies , 36., ( 1992):  Pages 148 - 150.
Year of Publication: 1992.
3. Record Number: 10658
Author(s): Turville-Petre, Thorlac.
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Title : A Middle English Life of St. Zita [The author briefly notes a fragment of the Middle English translation of the "Life" of Saint Zitra, a thirteenth century servant in Lucca, Italy. The article includes a transcription of the surviving text. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Nottingham Medieval Studies , 35., ( 1991):  Pages 102 - 105.
Year of Publication: 1991.
4. 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. Nottingham Medieval Studies , 35., ( 1991):  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.