Medieval Feminist Forum Bibliography
Winter 2005
Anchorites, wombs, and tombs: intersections of gender and enclosure in the Middle Ages, edited
by Liz Herbert McAvoy and Mari Hughes-Evans. Religion and culture in the Middle Ages.
University of Wales Press, 2005.
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, “Foreword”; Liz Herbert McAvoy and Mari Hughes-Evans,
“Introduction: intersections of time and space in gender and enclosure”; Alexandra
Barratt, “Context: some reflections on wombs and tombs and inclusive language”;
Santha Bhattarcharji, “Guthlac A and Guthlac B: changing metaphors”; Rebecca
Hayward, “Representations of the anchoritic life in Goscelin of Saint-Bertin’s Liber
confortatorius”; Elizabeth Freeman, “Male and female Cistercians and their gendered
experiences of the margins, the wilderness and the periphery”; Johan Bergström-Allen,
“The Whitefriars’ return to Carmel”; Kristen McQuinn, “’Crepe into that blessed syde’:
enclosure imagery in Aelred of Rievaulx’s De institutione inclusarum”; Susannah Mary
Chewning, “Gladly alone, gladly silent: isolation and exile in the anchoritic mystical
experience”; Ulrike Wiethus, “Dionysius of Ryckel: masculinity and historical memory”;
Mari Hughes-Edwards, “’Wrapt as if to the third heaven’: gender and contemplation in
late medieval anchoritic guidance writing”; Robert Hasenfratz, “’Efter hire euene’: lay
audiences and the variable asceticism of Ancrene wisse”; Gate Gunn, “Beyond the tomb:
Ancrene wisse and lay piety”; Catherine Innes-Parker, “The anchoritic elements of
Holkham misc. 41”; Liz Herbert McAvoy, “’Closyd in an hows of ston’: discourses of
anchoritism and The book of Margery Kempe.”
Andenna, Giancarlo. Sanctimoniales Cluniacenses: studi sui
monasteri femminili di Cluny e
sulla loro legislazione in Lombardia (XI-XV secolo). Vita regularis. Abhandlungern:
Ordnungen un Deutungen religiosen Lebens im Mittelalter; bd. 20. Lit, 2004.
Ankarloo, Bengt. “Postface: saints and witches,” in Procès de canonisation au Moyen Âge:
aspects
juridiques et religieux/Medieval canonization processes: legal and religious
aspects, sous la direction de Gábor Klaniczay. Collection de l’ Êcole française de Rome;
340. Êcole française de Rome, 2004.
Aram, Bethany. Juana the Mad: sovereignty & dynasty in Renaissance Europe. The Johns
Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 123rd series. The Johns
Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Archer, Robert. The problem of woman in late-medieval Hispanic literature. Colección Támesis,
serie A, Monografias; 214. Tamesis, 2005.
Ben no Naishi [13th cent.]. Sacred rites in moonlight: Ben no Naishi nikki [The memoir of Ben no
Naishi], introduced, translated, and annotated by S. Yumiko Hulvey. Cornell East Asia
series; 122. Cornell University Press, 2005.
Benedict, Kimberley M. Empowering
collaborations: writing partnerships between religious
women and scribes in the Middle Ages. Studies in medieval history and culture; 27.
Routledge, 2004.
Bennett, Judith M. “Medieval women in modern perspective,” in Women’s history in global
perspective, v. 2, edited by Bonnie G. Smith. American Historical Association/University
of Illinois Press, 2005.
Blair, Sheila S. “Islamic art as a source for the study of women in premodern societies,” in
Beyond the exotic: women’s histories in Islamic societies, edited by Almira El-Azhary
Sonbol. Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Brownlee, Kevin. “Christine de Pizan: gender and the new vernacular canon,” in Strong voices,
weak history: early women writers & canons in England, France, & Italy, edited by
Pamela Joseph Benson and Victoria Kirkham. University of Michigan Press, 2005.
Bryce, Judith. “Les livres des Florentines: reconsidering women’s literacy in quattrocento
Florence,” in At the margins: minority groups in premodern Italy, edited by Stephen J.
Milner. Medieval cultures; v. 39. University of Minnesota Press, 2005.
Buettner, Brigitte. “Le système des objets dans le testament de Blanche de Navarre.” CLIO,
histoire, femmes et sociétés 19/2004. Presses Universitaires du Mirail, 2004.
Calkin, Sibhain Bly. “Saracens and she-wolves: foreign consorts and group identity,” [Chap.
2] of Saracens and the making of English identity: the Auchinleck manuscript.
Studies in medieval history and culture. Routledge, 2005.
Le château au féminin:
actes des Rencontres d’ Archéologie et d’ Histoire en Périgord les 26, 27
et 28 septembre 2003, textes réunis par Anne-Marie Cocula & Michel Combet. Scripta
Varia 8. Boccard, 2004.
Thérèse Vinyoles, Mireia Comas, Elena Cantarell, “Présence des femmes dans les
châteaux de frontière, Catalogne, XIe-XII siècles”; María Elena Díez Jorge, “L’ Alhambra
au féminin”; Hervé Mouillebouche, “le rôle des dames dans les maisons fortes de
Bourgogne du XIIIe au XVIe siècle”; Philippe Bon, “’Bordée comme la collerette d’ une
dame de la Renaissance’; Jean-Paul Desaive, “’Beaucoup de place et peu de traces: les
femmes au manoir. Quelques exemples en Bourgogne sous l’ ancien Régime”; Michel
Nassiet, “Les rôles féminins dans les manoirs de l’ Ouest au XVIe siècle”; Henry de la
Tour-du-:in Chambly, “Le château de Jumilhac: un château au féminin. Témoignage”;
Anne-Marie Cocula, “Catherine, la sacrifiée, gardienne des châteaux et du trésor des
Albret”; Thomas Fouilleron, “Entrées de princesses et politique au féminin à Monaco aux
XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles”; Jean-Marie Constant, “Les héroïnes baroques entre cour et
château”; Roger Baury, “Figures et representations de la châtelaine dans le légendaire
castral”; Beatrix Basti, “Le rôle de la femme du seigneur dans la vie religieuse et sa
représentation en Autriche du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle.”
Christina of Markyate: a twelfth-century holy woman, edited by Samuel Fanous and
Henrietta Leyser. Routledge, 2004.
Henrietta Leyser, “Christina of Markyate: the introduction”; Douglas Gray,
“Christina of Markyate: the literary background”; Stephanie Hollis and Jocelyn
Wogan-Browne, “St. Albans and women’s monasticism: lives and their foundations in
Christina’s world”; Samuel Fanous, “Christina of Markyate and the double crown’;
Neil Cartlidge, “The unknown pilgrim: drama and romance in the Life of Christina of
Markyate”; C. Stephen Jaeger, “The loves of Christina of Markyate”; Thomas Head,
“The marriages of Christina of Markyate”; R. I. Moore, “Ranulf Flambard and Christina
of Markyate”; Rachel Koopmans, “Dining at Markyate with Lady Christina”; Dyan
Elliott, “Alternative intimacies: men, women and spiritual direction in the twelfth
century”; Kathryn Kelsey Staples and Ruth Mazo Karras, “Christina’s tempting:
sexual desire and women’s sanctity”; Jane Geddes, “The St. Albans Psalter: the abbot
and the anchoress’; Tony Hunt, “The Life of St. Alexis, 475-1125”; E. A. Jones,
“Christina of Markyate and the hermits and anchorites of England: list of of sites and
hermits.”
The church of Santa
Maria Donna Regina: art, iconography and patronage in fourteenth-
century Naples, edited by Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr. Ashgate, 2005.
Janis Elliott and Cordelia Warr, “Introduction”; Rosa Anaa Genovese, “Prologue:
history of the building and restoration of the trecento church”; Samantha Kelly,
“Religious patronage and royal propaganda in Angevin Naples: Santa Maria Donna
Regina in context”; Matthew J. Clear, “Maria of Hungary as queen, patron and
exemplar”; Tanja Michalsky, “MATER SERENISSIMI PRINCIPIS: the tomb of
Maria of Hungary”; Caroline Bruzelius, “The architectural context of Santa Maria
Donna Regina’: Hisashi Yakou, “Contemplating angels and the Madonna of the
Apocalypse”; Cathleen A. Fleck, “’To exercise yourself in these things by continued
contemplation’: visual and textual literacy in the frescoes at Santa Maria Donna
Regina’; Adrian S. Hoch, The ‘Passion’ cycle: images to contemplate and imitate amid
Clarissan clausura”; Cordelia Warr, “The Golden legend and the cycle of the ‘Life of
Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia-Hungary’”; Janis Elliott, “The ‘Last Judgement’: the cult of
sacral kingship and dynastic hopes for the afterlife’; Julian Gardner, “Conclusion: Santa
Maria Donna Regina in its European context.”
Clark, Elizabeth A. “Dissuading from marriage: Jerome and the asceticization of satire,” in
Satiric advice on women and marriage from Plautus to Chaucer, edited by William G.
Smith. University of Michigan Press, 2005.
Dietrich, Julia. “Women and authority in the rhetorical economy of the late Middle Ages,” in
Rhetorical women: roles and representations, edited by Hildy Miller and Lillian
Bridwell-Bowles. University of Alabama Press, 2005.
Discourses on love, marriage, and transgression in medieval and early modern literature, edited
by Albrecht Classen. Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies; v. 278. Arizona Center
for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.
Albrecht Classen, “Love, marriage, and transgression in medieval and early modern
literature”; Virginie Greene, “The knight, the woman, and the historian: Georges Duby
and courtly love”; Michelle Boldu, “Transgressive troubadours and lawless lovers? Matre
Ermengaud’s Breviari d’amor as a courtly apologia”; Lynn Shutters, “Christian love or
pagan transgression? Marriage and conversion in Floire et Blancheflor”; Karen K.
Jambeck, “’Femmes et tere”: Marie de France and the discourses of ‘Lanval’”; Sharon
Kinoshita, “Colonial possessions: Wales and the Anglo-Norman imaginary in the Lais of
Marie de France”; James A. Rushing, “Erec’s uxoriousness”; Ulrich Müller, “’L’auteur est
mort, vive l’auteur’: love in poetry and fiction”; Suzanne Kocher, “Accusations of gay and
straight sexual transgression in the Roman de la Violette”; Anna Kukułka-Wojtasik,
“Littérature courtoise ou le libertinage avant la lettre: d’apres les Chansons de Guillaume
de Poitiers et Joufroi, roman du XIIIe siècle”; Penny Simons, “Love, marraige, and
transgression in Joufroi de Poitiers: a case of literary anarchism?” ; Joanne Charvonneau,
“Transgressive fathers in Sir Eglamour of Artois and Torrent of Portyngale”; Jean E. Jost,
“Chaucer’s vows and how they break: transgression in The manciple’s tale”; Albrecht
Classen, “Love, marriage, and sexual transgressions in Heinrich Kaufringer’s verse
narratives (ca. 1400)”; Louise O. Vasvári, “’Buon cavallo e mal cavallo vuole sprone, e
buona femina e mala femina vuol bastone’: medieval cultural fictions of wife-battering”;
Marilyn Sandidge, “Constructing new women in early modern English literature”;
Elizabeth C. Zegura, “True stories and alternative discourses: the game of love in
Marguerite
de Navarre’s Heptaméron.”
Excavating the
medieval image: manuscripts, artists, audiences: essays in honor of Sandra
Hindman, edited by David S. Areford and Nina A.Rowe. Ashgate, 2004.
Part 2: Women and Power: Jean C. Wilson, “’Ricehement et pompeusement parée’:
the collier of Margaret of York and the politics of love in late medieval Burgundy”;
Ann M. Roberts, “The horse and the hawk: representations of Mary of Burgundy as
sovereign”; Véronique P. Day, “Recycling Radegund: identity and ambition in the
Breviary of Anne de Prye”; Rowan Watson, “Manual of dynastic history or devotional
aid? Eleanor of Toledo’s Book of Hours”; Sherry C. M. Lindquist, “’Parlant de moy’:
manuscripts of La coche by Marguerite of Navarre.”
Feichtinger, Barbara. “Change and continuity in pagan and Christian (invective) thought on
woman and marriage from antiquity to the Middle Ages,” in Satiric advice.
Fenster, Thelma S. “Strong voices, weak minds?: the defenses of Eve by Isotta Nogarola and
Christine de Pizan, who found themselves in Simone de Beauvoir’s situation,” in Strong
voices, weak history.
Framing the family: narrative and representation in the medieval and early modern family,
edited by Rosalynn Voaden and Diane Wolfthal. Medieval and Renaissance texts and
studies; v. 280. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.
Diane Wolfthal, “Introduction”; Felicity Riddy, “Fathers and daughters in Holbein’s
sketch of Thomas More’s family”; Carol Mejia-LaPerle, “Domestic rhetors of an early
modern family: female persuasions in A woman killed with kindness”; Robert S.
Sturges, “Purgatory in the marriage bed: conjugal sodomy in The gast of Gy”; Sharon
Farmer, “The leper in the master bedroom: thinking through a thirteenth-century
exemplum”; Rosalynn Voaden, “A marriage made for heaven: the Vies occitanes of
Elzear of Sabran and Delphine of Puimichel”; Micheline White, “Power couples and
women writers in Elizabethan England: the public voices of Dorcas and Richard Martin
and Anne and Hugh Dowriche”; Frima Fox Hofrichter, “An intimate look at Baroque
women artists: births, babies and biography”; Pamela Sheingorn, “Constructing the
patriarchal parent: fragments of the biography of Joseph the carpenter”; Julianne
Vitullo, “Fatherhood, citizenship, and children’s games in fifteenth-century Florence”;
Karen Bollermann, “In the belly, in the bower: divine maternal practice in Patience”;
Eva Frojmovic, “Reframing gender in medieval Jewish images of circumcision”; Diane
Wolfthal, “Marriage and memory: images of marriage rituals in early Yiddish books of
customs”; Bryan Curd, “Constructing family memory: three English funeral monuments of
the early modern period.”
Fürstin und Fürst:
Familienbeziehungen und Handlungsmöglichkeiten von hochadeligen Frauen
im Mittelalter, hrg. von Jörg Rogge. Mittelalter-Forschungen; bd. 15. Jan Thorbecke
Verlag, 2004.
Jörg Rogge, “Einleitung”; Christine Kleinjung, “Geistliche Töchter – abgeschoben oder
unterstütz? Überlegungen zum Verhältnis hochadeliger Nonnen zu ihren Familien im
13. und 14. Jahrhundert”; Cordula Nolte, “der leib der hochst schatz – Zu fürstlicher
Körperlichkeit, Gesunderhaltung und Lebensscihering (1450-1550). Familien- und
alltagsgeschichteliche Perspektiven”; Ilona Fendrich, “Die Beziehung von Fürstin und
Fürst: zum hochadligen Ehealltag im 15. Jahrhundert”; Bernadett Asztalos, “Zum
Alltagsleben adeliger Frauen in der Frühen Neuzeit in Ungarn”; Bettina Elpers,
“Während sie die Markgrafschaft leitete, erzog sie ihren kleinen Sohn. Mütterliche
Regentschaften als Phänomen adeliger Herrschaftspraxis”; Diana Zunker, “Familie,
Herrschaft, Reich: die Herforder Äbtissen Gertrud II von der Lippe”; Sigrid Schmitt,
“Die Herrschaft der geistlichen Fürstin. Handlungsmöglichkeiten von Äbtissinnen im
Spätmittelalter”; Regina Schäfer, “Handlungsspielräume hochadeliger Regentinnen im
Spätmittelalter”; Andreas Rüther, “Königsmacher und Kammerfrau im weiblichen Blick.
Der Kampf um die ungarische Krone (1439/40) in der Wahrnehmung von Helene
Kottanner”; Pauline Puppel, “Der Kampf um die vormundschaftliche Regentschaft
zwischen Landgräfinwitwe Anna von Hessen un der hessischen Ritterschaft
1509/14-1518”; Katherine Walsh, “Die Fürstin and der Zeitenwende zwischen
Repräsentationsverpflichtung und politischer Verantwortung”; Regine Birkmeyer,
“Aspekte fürstlicher Witwenschaft im 15. jahrhundert. Die Versorgung der Witwe im
Spannungsfeld der Territorialpolitk am Beispiel der Margarethe von Savoyen
(1420-1479)”; Cornell Babendererde, “Das Begängnis einer Fürstin als öffentliches
Ereignis: zum Tod der Gräfin Margarete von Henneberg († 13 Februar 1509).”
Ghirardo, Diane. “Marginal spaces of prostitution in
Renaissance Ferrara,” in Phaethon’s
children:
the Este court and its culture in early modern Ferrara, edited by Dennis Looney and
Deanna Shemek. Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies; v. 286. Arizona Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.
Haluska-Rausch, Elizabeth. “Transformations in the powers of wives and widows near
Montpellier, 985-1213,” in The experience of power in medieval Europe, 950-1350,
edited by Robert F. Berkhofer, Alan Cooper, and Adam J. Kosto. Ashgate, 2005.
Hanna, Ralph, III and Smith, Warren G. “Walter as Valerius: classical and Christian in the
Dissuasio,” in Satiric advice.
Healing the body politic: the political thought of Christine de Pizan, edited by Karen Green and
Constant J. Mews. Disputatio; v. 7. Brepols, 2005.
Karen Green, “Introduction”; Barry Collett, “The three mirrors of Christine de Pizan”;
Cary J. Nederman, “The living body politic: the diversification of organic metaphors in
Nicole de Oresme and Christine de Pizan”; Susan J. Dudash, “Christinian politics, the
tavern, and urban revolt in late medieval France”; Constant J. Mews, “Latin learning in
Christine de Pizan’s Livre de paix”; Earl Jeffrey Richards, “Bartolo de Sassaferrato as a
possible source for Christine de Pizan’s Livre de paix”; Michael Richarz, “Prudence and
wisdom in Christine de Pizan’s Le livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V”;
Karen Green, “On translating Christine de Pizan as a philosopher”; Glynnis M. Cropp,
“Philosophy,
the liberal arts, and theology in Le
livre de la mutacion de Fortune and Le
livre de l’ advision Cristine”; Julia Simms Holderness, “Castles in the air? The prince as
conceptual artist”; Tracy Adams, “Moyennerresse de traictié de paix: Christine de Pizan’s
mediators”; Lousie d’ Arcens, “Petit estat vesval: Christine de Pizan’s grieving body
politic”; Tsae Lan Lee Dow, “Christine de Pizan and the body politic”.
Henry, Philippa A. “Who produced the textiles? Changing gender roles in late Saxon textile
production:
the archaeological and documentary evidence,” in Northern archaeological
textiles: NESAT VII: textile symposium in Edinburgh, 5th-7th May 1999, edited by
Frances Pritchard and John Peter Wild. Oxbow Books, 2005.
Klaniczay, Gábor. “Proving sanctity in the canonization processes (Saint Elizabeth and Saint
Margaret of Hungary),” in Procès de canonisation au Moyen Âge.
Koch, Armin. Kaiserin Judith: eine politische Biographie. Historische Studien; bd. 486. Matthiesen
Verlag, 2005.
Kolsky, Stephen. The ghost of Boccaccio: writings on famous women in Renaissance Italy. Late
medieval and early modern studies; 7. Brepols, 2005.
Krag, Anne Hedeager. .”Denmark – Europe: dressan fashion in Denmark’s Viking age,” in
Northern archaeological textiles.
Lundt, Bea. “Der Mythos vom Kaiser Karl: die narrative Konstrucktion europäischer Männlichkeit
im Spätmittelalter am Beispiel von Karl dem Großen,” in Männer – Macht – Körper:
Hegemoniale Männlichkeiten vom Mittelalter bis heute, Martin Dinges (Hg.). Reihe
“Geschichte und Geschlechter”; bd. 49. Campus Verlag, 2005.
Matter, E. Ann. “The canon of religious life: Maria Domitilla Galluzzi and the Rule of St. Clare of
Assissi,”in Strong voices, weak history.
Moshövel, Andrea. “’Der hât aine weibischen muot ...’: Männlichkeitskonstruktionen bei Konrad
von Megenberg und Hildegard von Bingen,” in Männer – Macht – Körper.
Nyberg, Tore. “The canonization process of St. Birgitta of
Sweden,” in Procès de canonisation au
Moyen Âge.
Owen-Crocker, Gale R. “Pomp, piety, and keeping the woman in her place: the dress of Cnut and
Ælfigifu-Emma,” in Medieval clothing and textiles I, edited by Robin Netherton and Gale
R. Owen-Crocker.
Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century, edited by Norman Davis, parts I and II. Oxford
University Press for the Early English Text Society, 2004. [Republication, with minor
typographical and editorial corrections, of the 1971 and 1976 editions.]
Pearson, Andrea. Envisioning
gender in Burgundian devotional art, 1350-1530: experience,
authority, resistance. Women and gender in the early modern world. Ashgate, 2005.
The prime of their lives: wise old women in pre-industrial Europe, edited by Anneke B. Mulder-
Bakker and Renée Nip. Groningen studies in cultural change; v. 10. Peeters, 2004.
Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, “Introduction”; Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, “The
compensations of aging: sexuality and writing in Christine de Pizan, with an
epilogue on Colette”; Liz Herbert McAvoy, “’[A] péler of Holy Cherch’: holiness,
authority and the wise woman in The book of Margery Kempe”; Renée Nip,
“Family care: Ludeke Jarges (†1469) and Beetke of Raskwerd (†1554): two
strong women from Groningen”; Helen Wilcox, “’A wife and lady oneself’:
maturity and memory in the Diaries of Lady Anne Clifford (1590-1676)”; Geert
Warner, “Ruusbroec’s letters: mytical maturity and age in medieval Dutch
writing for women”; Brian Patrick McGuire, “Visionary women who did what they
wanted and men who helped them”; Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, “Women as
keepers of the common interest”; Ariadne Schmidt, “The winter of her life?:
widowhood and the lives of Dutch women in the Early Modern era”; Marja
van Tilburg, “Where has ‘the Wise, Old Woman’ gone ...?: gender and age
in Early Modern and Modern advice literature.”
Queenship and political power in medieval and early modern Spain, edited by Theresa Earenfight.
Women and gender in the early modern world. Ashgate, 2005.
Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch, “Unwilling partners: conflict and ambition in the marriage of
Peter II of Aragon and Marie de Montpellier”; Joseph F. O’Callaghan, “The many roles of
the medieval queen: some examples from Castile”; Theresa Earenfight, “Absent kings:
queens as political partners in the medieval crown of Aragon”; Mark Meyerson,
“Defending their Jewish subjects: Elionor of Sicily, Maria de Luna, and the Jews of
Moredre”; Núria Silleras-Fernández, “Spirit and force: politics, public and private in the
reign of Maria de Luna (1396-1406)”; Ana Echevarria-Arsuaga, “The queen and the
master: Catalina of Lancaster and the military orders”; Marta VanLandingham, “Royal
portraits: representations of queenship in the 13th-century Catalan chronicles”; Peggy
Liss, “Isabel of Castile (1451-1504): her self-representation and its context”; Jorge
Sebastián Lozano, “Choices and consequences: the construction of Isabel de Portugal’s
image”; Eleanor Goodman, “Conspicuous in her absence: Mariana of Austria, Juan
José of Austria, and the representation of her power.
Rapoport, Yossef. Marriage, money and divorce in medieval Islamic society. Cambridge studies in
Islamic civilization. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Reid, Charles J. Power over the body, equality in the family: rights and domestic relations in
medieval canon law. Eerdmans, 2004.
The representation of women’s emotions in medieval and early modern culture, edited by Lisa
Perfetti. University Press of Florida, 2005.
Lisa Perfetti, “Introduction”; E. Ann Matter, “Theories of the passions and the ecstasies of
late medieval religious women”; James J. Paxson, “The allegorical construction of female
feeling and forma: gender, diabolism, and personification in Hildegard of
Bingen’s Ordo
virtutum”; Elena Carrera, “The spiritual role of the emotions in Mechthild of Magdeburg,
Angela of Foligno, and Teresa of Avila”; Katharine Goodland, “’Us for to wepe no man
may lett’: resistant female grief in the medieval English Lazarus plays”; Wedny Pfeffer,
“Constant sorrow: emotions and the women trouvères”; Kristi Gourlay, “A pugnacious
pagan princess: aggressive female anger and violence in Fierabras”; Sarah Westphal,
“Calefurnia’s rage: emotions and gender in late medeival law and literature”; Valerie
Allen, “Waxing red: shame and the body, shame and the soul.”
Sex and sexuality in Anglo-Saxon England: essays in memory of Daniel Gillmore Calder, edited by
Carol Braun Pasternack and Lisa M. C. Weston. Medieval and Renaissance texts and
studies; v. 277. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.
Carol Braun Pasternack and Lisa M. C. Weston, “Introduction”; R. D. Fulk, “Male
homoeroticism in the Old English Canons of Theodore”; Lisa M. C. Weston,
“Sanctimoniales cum sanctimoniale: particular friendships and female commiunity in
Anglo-Saxon England”; Kathy Lavezzo, “Gregory’s boys: the homoerotic production of
English whiteness’: Carol Braun Pasternack, “The sexual practices of virginity and chastity
in Aldhelm’s De virginitate”; Mary Dockray-Miller, “Maternal sexuality on the Ruthwell
Cross”; Shari Horner, “The language of rape in Old English literature and law: views from
the Anglo-Saxon(ist)s”; Andrea Rossi-Reder, “Embodying Christ, embodying nation:
Ælfric’s accounts of Saints Agatha and Lucy”; Dolores Warwick Frese, “Sexing political
tropes of conquest: ‘The wife’s lament’ and Laʒamon’s Brut.”
Shemek, Deanna. “In continuous expectaton: Isabella d’Este’s epistolary desire,” in
Phaethon’s children: the Este court and its culture in early modern Ferrara, edited by
Dennis Looney and Deanna Shemek. Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies; v. 286.
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.
Smith, Warren S. “The wife of Bath and Dorigen debate Jerome,” in Satiric advice.
Spear, Valerie G. Leadership in medieval English nunneries. Studies in the history of medieval
religion; v. XXIV. Boydell Press, 2005.
Spellberg, Denise A. “History then, history now: the role of medieval Islamic religio-political
sources in shaping the modern debate on gender,” in Beyond the exotic.
Stowasser, Barbera Freyer. “The Qur’ an and history,” in Beyond the exotic.
Thiellet, Claire. Femmes, reines et saintes (Ve – XIe siècles). Cultures et civilisations
médievales; no. 28. Presses de l’Université Paris – Sorbonne, 2004.
Walsh, P.G. “Antifeminism in the High Middle Ages,” in Satiric advice.
Weiss, Bardo. Die deutschen Mystikerinnen und ihr Gottesbild. Schöningh, 2004. 3 vols.
Women’s space: patronage, place, and gender in the medieval church, edited by Virginia Chieffo
Raguin and Sarah Stanbury. SUNY series in medieval studies. State University of New
York Press, 2005.
Sarah Stanbury and Virginia Chieffo Raguin, “Introduction”; Ruth Evans, “Signs of the
body: gender, sexuality, and space in York and the York cycle”; Virginia Blanton, “Ely’s
St. Æthelthryth: the shrine’s enclosure of the female body as symbol for the inviolability
of monastic space”; Sarah Stanbury, “Margery Kempe and the arts of self-patronage”;
Virginia Chieffo Raguin, “Real and imagined bodies in architectural space: the setting for
Margery Kempe’s Book”; Katherine L. French, “The seat under Our Lady: gender and
seating in late medieval English parish churces”; Ena Giurescu Heller, “Access to
salvation: the place (and space) of women patrons in fourteenth-century Florence”;
Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg, “Gender, celibacy, and proscriptions of sacred space: symbol
and practice”; Corine Schleif, “Men on the right – women on the left: (a)symmetrical
spaces and gendered places.”
On the borders of the Middle Ages
Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A. Religious women in golden age Spain: the permeable cloister. Women and
gender in the early modern world. Ashgate, 2005.
Leonard, Amy. Nails in the wall: Catholic nuns in Reformation Germany. Women in culture and
society series. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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