Medieval Feminist Newsletter Bibliography
Fall 1997
- Adamson, Melitta Weiss, "A reevaluation of Saint Hildegard's
Physica in light of the latest manuscript finds," in Manuscript
sources of medieval medicine, edited by Margaret R. Schleissner ,
Garland Medieval Casebooks (Garland, 1995), 55-80.
Citation posted to Medfem-l by Faye M. Getz, History of
Medicine, University of Wisconsin
- Archibald, Elizabeth, "God in the dungheap: incest stories and
family values in the Middle Ages, " Journal of Family History 22
(1997), 133-149.
- Bauerschmidt, Frederick Christian, "Seeing Jesus: Julian of
Norwich and the text of Christ's body," The Journal of Medieval
and Early Modern Studies 27 (Spring 1997): 189-214.
- Biglieri, Anibal A., "Godos, hunos y amazonas y los extremos
del mundo en la obra de Alfonso X," in Caballeros, monjas y
maestros en la Edad Media, edited by Lillian von der Walde,
Concepcion Company, and Aurelio Gonzalez, 455-465, Publicaciones
de Medievalia 13 (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996).
- Blamires, Alcuin, The case for women in medieval culture
(Oxford University Press, 1997)
- Bravo, Elia Nathan, "Inquisicion, confesion y tortura en la
persecucion de brujas," in Caballeros, monjas y maestros en la
Edad Media, edited by Lillian von der Walde, Concepcion Company,
and Aurelio Gonzalez, 433-441, Publicaciones de Medievalia 13
(Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996).
- Bubnova, Tatiana, "Estado, iglesia, universidad: prostitucion
y proxenetismo como problema de conciencia en la vida cotidiana y
en la expresion literaria," in Caballeros, monjas y maestros en la
Edad Media, edited by Lillian von der Walde, Concepcion Company,
and Aurelio Gonzalez, 415-431, Publicaciones de Medievalia 13
(Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996).
- Chuaqui, Carmen, "El heroe y la amazona en una epica
bizantina," in Caballeros, monjas y maestros en la Edad Media,
edited by Lillian von der Walde, Concepcion Company, and Aurelio
Gonzalez, 253-262, Publicaciones de Medievalia 13 (Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996).
- Corti, Francisco, "Imagenes acerca de la procreacion y del
sexo en el matrimonio segun las miniaturas de las Cantigas de
Santa Maria," Caballeros, monjas y maestros en la Edad Media,
edited by Lillian von der Walde, Concepcion Company, and Aurelio
Gonzalez, 467-491, Publicaciones de Medievalia 13 (Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996).
- De Gendt, Anne Marie, "'Plusieurs manieres d'amours': le debat
dans Le Livre du Chevalier de la Tour Landry et ses echos dans
l'oeuvre de Christine de Pizan," Fifteenth-century Studies 23
(1997), 121-137.
- Earenfight, Theresa, "Maria of Castile, ruler or figurehead? A
preliminary study in Aragonese queenship," Mediterranean Studies
IV, 45-59.
- Finucci, Valeria, "In the name of the brother: male rivalry
and social order in Baldasarre Castiglione's Il libro del
cortegiano," Exemplaria 9 (1997), 91-116.
- 'The fragility of her sex'?: medieval Irishwomen in their
European context, edited by Christine Meek and Katharine Simms
(Four Courts Press, 1996).
Contents: Christine Meek and Katharine Simms,
"Introduction"; Bart Jaski, "Marriage laws in Ireland and on the
Continent in the early Middle Ages"; Thomas Owen Clancy, "Women
poets in medival Ireland: stating the case"; Bernadette Williams,
"'Cursed be my parents': a view of marriage from the Lais of Marie
de France"; Grace Neville, "Short shrouds and sharp shrews:
echoes of Jacques de Vitry in the Danta Gradha"; Cormac O
Cleirigh, "The absentee landlady and the sturdy robbers: Agnes de
Valance"; Jennifer C. Ward, "The English noblewoman and her
family"; Christine E. Meek, "Women, dowries and the family in late
medieval Italian cities"; Mary McAuliffe, "The lady in the tower:
the social and political role of women in tower houses"; Elizabeth
McKenna, "Was there a political role for women in medieval
Ireland?: Lady Margaret Butler and Lady Eleanor MacCarthy".
- Freeman, Elizabeth, "The public and private functions of
Heloise's letters," Journal of Medieval History 23 (1997): 15-28.
- Gilbert, Jane, "Boys will be . . . what?: Gender, sexuality,
and childhood in Floire et Blancheflor and Floris et Lyriope,"
Exemplaria 9 (1997), 39-61.
- Jacobs, Fredrika Herman, Defining the Renaisance virtuosa:
women artists and the language of art history and criticism
(Cambridge University Press, 1997).
- Jansen, Sharon L., Dangerous talk and strange behavior: women
and popular resistance to the reforms of Henry VIII (St.
Martin's, 1996).
- Jeffrey, Jane E., "Virginal allegories of self knowledge in
Hrotsvit's Sapientia," Arachne 4 (1997): 160-181.
- Kay, Sarah, "The birth of Venus in the Roman de la rose,"
Exemplaria 9 (1997), 7-37.
- Klein, Lisa M., "Your humble handmaid: Elizabethan gifts of
needlework," Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 459-493.
- Medieval women in their communities, edited by Diane Watt
(University of Toronto Press, 1997).
Contents: Diane Watt, "Introduction: medieval women in
their communities"; Jane Cartwright, "The desire to corrupt:
convent and community in medieval Wales"; Marie-Luise
Ehrenschwendtner, "Puellae litteratae: the use of the vernacular
in the Dominican convents of southern Germany"; Rosalynn Voaden,
"All girls together: community, gender, and vision at Helfta";
Penelope Galloway, "'Discreet and devout maidens': women's
involvement in Beguine communities in northern France, 1200-1500";
Susannah Mary Chewning, "Mysticism and the anchoritic community:
'A Time . . . of Veiled Infinity'"; Cynthia Kraman, "Communities
of otherness in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale"; Janet Wilson,
"Communities of dissent: the secular and ecclesiatical communities
of Margery Kempe's Book"; Jennifer C. Ward, "English noblewomen
and the local community in the later Middle Ages"; Patricia
Skinner, "Gender and poverty in the medieval community"; J.A.
Tasioulas, "Between gender and domesticity: the portrayal of Mary
in the N-Town plays".
- Miaja, Maria Teresa, "Hildegarda de Bingen y el arte de
vivir," in Caballeros, monjas y maestros en la Edad Media, edited
by Lillian von der Walde, Concepcion Company, and Aurelio
Gonzalez, 221-230, Publicaciones de Medievalia 13 (Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996).
- Mikhailova, Milena, "L'espace cans les Lais de Marie de
France: lieux, structure, rhetorique," Cahiers de civilisation
medievale 40 (avril-juin 1997), 145-157.
- Nash, Jerry C., "Renaissance misogyny, biblical feminism, and
Helisenne de Crenne's Epistres familieres et invectives,"
Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 379-410.
- Noffke, Suzanne, Catherine of Siena: vision through a distant
eye (Liturgical Press, 1996).
- Otter, Monika, "The temptation of St. Aethelthryth,"
Exemplaria 9 (1997), 140-163.
- Potkay, Monica Brzenzinski and Regula Meyer Evitt, Minding the
body: women and literature in the Middle Ages, 800-1500, Twayne's
Women and Literature Series (Twayne, 1997).
- Prophets abroad: the reception of continental holy women in
late medieval England, edited by Rosalynn Voaden (Boydell &
Brewer, 1996).
Contents: Rosalynn Voaden, "Introduction"; Kathryn
Kerby-Fulton, "Hildegard and the male reader: a study in insular
reception"; Nicholas Watson, "Melting into God the English way:
deification in the Middle English version of Marguerite Porete's
Mirouer des simples ames anienties"; Rosalynn Voaden, "The
company she keeps: Mechtild of Hackeborn in late-medieval
devotional compilations"; Roger Ellis, "The visionary and the
canon lawyers: papal and other revisions to the Regula salvatoris
of St Bridget of Sweden"; Jean Isobel Friedman, "Ms Cotton
Claudius B.I.: a Middle English editon of St Bridget of Sweden's
Liber Celestis"; Janette Dillon, "Holy women and their confessors
or confessors and their holy women? Margery Kempe and continental
tradition"; Denise L. Despres, "Ecstatic reading and missionary
mysticism: The Orcherd of Syon"; Diane Watt, "The prophet at
home: Elizabeth Barton and the influence of Bridget of Sweden and
Catherine of Siena"; Ian Johnson, "Auctricitas? Holy women and
their Middle English texts".
- Pushkareva, Natalia, "Warriors, regents, and scholars: the
tenth to fifteenth centuries," in Women in Russian history: from
the tenth to the twentieth century, translated by Eve Levin (M.E.
Sharpe, 1997), 7-60.
- Randall, Catherine, "Shouting down Abraham: how sixteenth
century Huguenot women found their voice," Renaissance Quarterly
50 (1997): 411-442.
- Rasmussen, Ann Marie, Mothers and daughters in medieval German
literature (Syracuse University Press, 1997).
- Real, I., "Vie et Vita de Sainte Segolene, abbesse du Troclar
au VIIe siecle," Revue d'histoire et philologie 3, 385-406.
- Riddle, John M., "Manuscript sources for birth control," in
Manuscript sources of medieval medicine, edited by Margaret R.
Schleissner, Garland Medieval Casebooks (Garland, 1995), 145-158.
- Saranyana, Josep-Ignasi, "La teologia sobre la mujer en la
Universidad de Paris (1215-1245)," in Caballeros, monjas y
maestros en la Edad Media, edited by Lillian von der Walde,
Concepcion Company, and Aurelio Gonzalez, 313-322, Publicaciones
de Medievalia 13 (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996).
- Shifting frontiers in late antiquity: papers from the First
Interdisciplinary Conference on Late Antiquity, the University of
Kansas, March 1995, edited by Ralph W. Mathisen and Hagith S.
Sivan (Variorum, 1996).
- Part II, Reconceptualizing Metaphorical Frontiers, Section
A, Reshaping the Frontiers of Person and Gender: Gillian Clark,
"'The bright frontier of friendship': Augustine and the Christian
body as frontier"; Fannie J. LeMoine, "Jerome's gift to women
readers"; Lisa M. Bitel, "Tir inna mBan: domestic space and the
frontiers of gender in early medieval Ireland"; James A.
Brundage, "The paradox of sexual equality in the early Middle
Ages".
- Snyder, Susan, "Guilty sisters: Marguerite de Navarre,
Elizabeth of England, and the Miroir de l'ame pecheresse,"
Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 443-458.
- Suranyi, Anna, "A fifteenth-century woman's pathway to fame:
The Querelle de la Rose and the literary career of Christine de
Pizan, Fifteenth-century Studies 23 (1997), 204-221.
- Surtz, Ronald E., "Las Oras de los clavos de Constanza de
Castilla," in Caballeros, monjas y maestros en la Edad Media,
edited by Lillian von der Walde, Concepcion Company, and Aurelio
Gonzalez, 157-167, Publicaciones de Medievalia 13 (Universidad
Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1996).
- Venarde, Bruce L., Women's monasticism and medieval society:
nunneries in France and England, 890-1215 (Cornell University
Press, 1997).
- Wisman, Josette A., "Christine de Pizan and Arachne's
Metamorphoses," Fifteenth-century Studies 23 (1997), 138-151.
- Women and the book: assessing the visual evidence, edited by
Jane H.M. Taylor and Lesley Smith (The British Library/University
of Toronto Press, 1997).
Contents: Lesley Smith, "Scriba, femina: medieval depictions
of women writing"; Sandra Hindman, "Aesop's cock and Marie's hen:
gendered authorship in text and image in manuscripts of Marie de
France's Fables"; Wendy Armstead, "Interpreting images of women
with books in Misericords"; Martha W. Driver, "Mirrors of a
collective past: reconsidering images of medieval women"; Therese
McGuire, "Two twelfth-century women and their books"; Judith
Oliver, "Worship of the word: some gothic Nonnenbucher in their
devotional context"; Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner, "A library
collected for the use of nuns: St. Catherine's convent,
Nuremberg"; Kate Lowe, "Women's work at the Benedictine convent of
Le Murate in Florence: Suora Battista Carducci's Roman missal of
1509"; Richard Gameson, "The Gospels of Margaret of Scotland and
the literacy of an eleventh-century queen"; Anne Rudloff Stanton,
"From Eve to Bathsheba and beyond: motherhood in the Queen Mary
Psalter"; Susan L. Ward, "Fables for the court: illustrations of
Marie de France's Fables in Paris, BN, ms Arsenal 3142"; Flora
Lewis, "The wound in Christ's side and the instruments of the
Passion: gendered experience and response"; Anne F. Sutton and
Livia Visser-Fuchs, "The cult of angels in late fifteenth-century
England: an Hours of the Guardian Angel presented to Queen
Elizabeth Woodville"; Sandra Penketh, "Women and Books of Hours".
- Women, men and eunuchs: gender in Byzantium, edited by Liz
James (Routledge, 1997).
Contents: "Introduction: women's studies, gender studies,
Byzantine studies; Averil Cameron, "Sacred and profane love:
thoughts on Byzantine gender"; Robin Cormack, "Women and icons,
and women in icons"; Leslie Brubaker, "Memories of Helena:
patterns in imperial female matronage in the fourth and fifth
centuries"; Barbara Hill, "Imperial women and the ideology of
womanhood in the eleventh and twelfth centuries"; Antony Eastmond,
"Gender and orientalism in Georgia in the age of Queen Tamar";
Ruth Webb, "Salome's sisters; the rhetoric and realities of dance
in late antiquity and Byzantium"; Dion Smith, "Women as
outsiders"; Shaun F. Tougher, "Byzantine eunuchs: an overview,
with special reference to their creation and origin"; Charles
Barber, "HOMO BYZANTINIUS?".
- Wright, Rosemary Muir, "The Great Whore in the illuminated
Apocalypse cycles," Journal of Medieval History 23 (1997),
191-210.
Also of interest:
- Coon, Lynda L., Sacred fictions: holy women and hagiography
in late antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997).
- Jensen, Anne, God's self-confident daughters: early
Christianity and the liberation of women (Westminster John Knox
Press, 1996). [Translation from the German Gottes selbstbewusste
Tochter: Frauenemanzipation im fruhen Christentum? (Verlag Herder
Freiburg im Breisgau, 1992).]
- Kahn, Victoria, "Margaret Cavendish and the romance of
contract," Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 526-566.
- Riddle, John , Eve's herbs: a history of contraception and
abortion in the west (Harvard University Press, 1997).
Other:
- Hildegard von Bingen, "O Jerusalem": a dedication ceremony of
symphoniae, performed by Sequentia, DHM: deutsche harmonia mundi
CD 05472-77353-2.