Medieval Feminist Newsletter Bibliography

Fall 1997

 

 

 

  1. 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

     

  2. Archibald, Elizabeth, "God in the dungheap: incest stories and family values in the Middle Ages, " Journal of Family History 22 (1997), 133-149.

     

  3. 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.

     

  4. 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).

     

  5. Blamires, Alcuin, The case for women in medieval culture (Oxford University Press, 1997)

     

  6. 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).

     

  7. 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).

     

  8. 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).

     

  9. 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).

     

  10. 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.

     

  11. Earenfight, Theresa, "Maria of Castile, ruler or figurehead? A preliminary study in Aragonese queenship," Mediterranean Studies IV, 45-59.

     

  12. 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.

     

  13. '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".

     

  14. Freeman, Elizabeth, "The public and private functions of Heloise's letters," Journal of Medieval History 23 (1997): 15-28.

     

  15. Gilbert, Jane, "Boys will be . . . what?: Gender, sexuality, and childhood in Floire et Blancheflor and Floris et Lyriope," Exemplaria 9 (1997), 39-61.

     

  16. Jacobs, Fredrika Herman, Defining the Renaisance virtuosa: women artists and the language of art history and criticism (Cambridge University Press, 1997).

     

  17. Jansen, Sharon L., Dangerous talk and strange behavior: women and popular resistance to the reforms of Henry VIII (St. Martin's, 1996).

     

  18. Jeffrey, Jane E., "Virginal allegories of self knowledge in Hrotsvit's Sapientia," Arachne 4 (1997): 160-181.

     

  19. Kay, Sarah, "The birth of Venus in the Roman de la rose," Exemplaria 9 (1997), 7-37.

     

  20. Klein, Lisa M., "Your humble handmaid: Elizabethan gifts of needlework," Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 459-493.

     

  21. 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".

     

  22. 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).

     

  23. Mikhailova, Milena, "L'espace cans les Lais de Marie de France: lieux, structure, rhetorique," Cahiers de civilisation medievale 40 (avril-juin 1997), 145-157.

     

  24. Nash, Jerry C., "Renaissance misogyny, biblical feminism, and Helisenne de Crenne's Epistres familieres et invectives," Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 379-410.

     

  25. Noffke, Suzanne, Catherine of Siena: vision through a distant eye (Liturgical Press, 1996).

     

  26. Otter, Monika, "The temptation of St. Aethelthryth," Exemplaria 9 (1997), 140-163.

     

  27. 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).

     

  28. 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".

     

  29. 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.

     

  30. Randall, Catherine, "Shouting down Abraham: how sixteenth century Huguenot women found their voice," Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 411-442.

     

  31. Rasmussen, Ann Marie, Mothers and daughters in medieval German literature (Syracuse University Press, 1997).

     

  32. Real, I., "Vie et Vita de Sainte Segolene, abbesse du Troclar au VIIe siecle," Revue d'histoire et philologie 3, 385-406.

     

  33. 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.

     

  34. 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).

     

  35. 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).

     

  36. 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".

     

  37. Snyder, Susan, "Guilty sisters: Marguerite de Navarre, Elizabeth of England, and the Miroir de l'ame pecheresse," Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 443-458.

     

  38. 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.

     

  39. 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).

     

  40. Venarde, Bruce L., Women's monasticism and medieval society: nunneries in France and England, 890-1215 (Cornell University Press, 1997).

     

  41. Wisman, Josette A., "Christine de Pizan and Arachne's Metamorphoses," Fifteenth-century Studies 23 (1997), 138-151.

     

  42. 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".

     

  43. 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?".

     

  44. Wright, Rosemary Muir, "The Great Whore in the illuminated Apocalypse cycles," Journal of Medieval History 23 (1997), 191-210.

     

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  45. Coon, Lynda L., Sacred fictions: holy women and hagiography in late antiquity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997).

     

  46. 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).]

     

  47. Kahn, Victoria, "Margaret Cavendish and the romance of contract," Renaissance Quarterly 50 (1997): 526-566.

     

  48. Riddle, John , Eve's herbs: a history of contraception and abortion in the west (Harvard University Press, 1997).

     

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  49. Hildegard von Bingen, "O Jerusalem": a dedication ceremony of symphoniae, performed by Sequentia, DHM: deutsche harmonia mundi CD 05472-77353-2.