Medieval Feminist Forum Bibliography
Spring 2002
Amer, Sahar, Esope au féminin: Marie de France et la politque de l'interculturalité (Rodopi, 1999).
Anna Komnene and her times, edited by Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Garland reference library of the
humanities; vol. 2201/Garland medieval casebooks, vol. 29 (Garland Publishing, 2000).
Contents: Angeliki Laiou, "Introduction: why Anna Komnene?," 1-14; Paul Magdalino,
"The pen of the aunt: echoes of the mid-twelfth century in the Alexiad," 15-43; Barbara
Hill, "Actions speak louder than words: Anna Komnene's attempted usurpation," 45-62;
Ruth Macrides, "The pen and the sword: who wrote the Alexiad?," 63-81; Diether R.
Reinsch, "Women's literature in Byzantium?--the case of Anna Komnene," 83-105; Thalia
Gouma-Peterson, "Gender and power: passages to the maternal in Anna Komnene's
Alexiad," 107-124; Jeffrey C. Anderson, "Anna Komnene, learned women, and the book
in Byzantine art," 125-156; Emily Albu, "Bohemond and the rooster: Byzantines,
Normans, and the artful ruse," 157-168; Jakov Ljubarskij, "Why is the Alexiad a
masterpiece of Byzantine literature?," 169-185.
Bennet, Michael, "Isabelle of France, Anglo-French diplomacy and cultural exchange in the late
1350s," in The age of Edward III, edited by J.S. Bothwell (York Medieval Press, 2001),
215-225
.
Beyond Isabella:secular women patrons of art in Renaissance Italy, edited by Sheryl E. Reiss and
David G. Wilkins, Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies series (Truman State University
Press, 2001).
Contents: David G. Wilkins, "Introduction: recognizing new patrons, posing new
questions," 1-17; Benjamin G. Kohl, "Fina da Carrara, née Buzzacarini: consort, mother,
and patron of art in trecento Padua," 19-35; Roger J. Crum, "Controlling women or
women controlled? Suggestions for gender roles and visual culture in the Italian
Renaissance palace," 37-50; Rosi Prieto Gilday, "The women patrons of Neri di Bicci,"
51-75; A. Lawrence Jenkens, "Catarina Piccolomini and the Palazzo delle Papesse in
Siena," 77-91; Molly Bourne, "Renaissance husbands and wives as patrons of art: the
camerini of Isabella d'Este and Francesco II Gonzaga," 93-123; Sheryl E. Reiss, "Widow,
mother, patron of art; Alfonsina Orsini de'Medici," 125-157; Katherine A. McIver,
"Two Emilian noblewomen and patronage networks in the Cinquecento," 159-176; Mary
Vaccaro, “Dutiful widows: female patronage and two Marian altarpieces by
Parmigianino,” 177-192; Marjorie Ochs, “Vittoria Colonna and the commission for a
Mary Magdalene by Titian,” 193-223; Bruce L. Edelstein, “Bronzino in the service of
Eleonora di Toledo and Cosimo I de’ Medici: conjugal patronage and the
painter-courtier,: 225-261; Gabrielle Langdon, “A Medici miniature: Juno and a woman
with ‘eyes in her head like two stars in their beauty’,” 263-299; Elizabeth Pilliod, “A
widow’s choice: Alessandro Allori’s Christ and the adulteress in the Church of San
Spirito at Florence,” 301-315; Carolyn Valone, “Matrons and motives: why women built
in early modern Rome,” 317-335.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Famous women, edited and translated by
Virginia Brown. I Tatti
Renaissance Library; 1 (Harvard University Press, 2001).
in Feminist poetics of the sacred: creative suspicions, edited by Frances Devlin-Glass
and Lyn McCredden, American Academy of Religion cultural criticism series (Oxford
University Press, 2001), 165-181.
Catherine of Siena, Letters, v. 2, edited and translated by
Suzanne Noffke, O.P., Medieval and
Renaissance Texts and Studies; v. 203 (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance
Studies, 2001).
Christensen, Kirsten M., "The
conciliatory rhetoric of mysticism in the correspondence of
Heinrich von Nördlingen and Margaretha Ebner," in Peace and negotiation:
strategies for coexistence in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, edited by Diane
Wolfthal, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Reniassance, v. 4 (Brepols,
2000), 125-143.
Classen,
Albrecht, ‘Mein Seel fang an zu singen’: Religiöse Frauenlieder des
15.-16.
Jahrhunderts. Kritische Studien und Textedition, Studies in Spirituality
Supplement 6 (Peeters, 2002).
D’Avray,
D. L., Medieval marriage sermons: mass communication in a culture without
print
(Oxford University Press, 2001).
First of 2 volumes; vol. 1 contains mss descriptions, texts, and translations; vol. 2 will
elaborate arguments based on the texts.
Dalrymple, Roger, “Reaction, consolation and redress in the letter of the Paston women,”
in Early modern women’s letter writing, 1450-1700, edited by James Daybell, Early
modern literature in history (Palgrave, 2001), 16-28.
de Jong,
Mayke, "Exegesis for an empress [Hrabanus Maurus/Empress Judith]," in Medieval
transformations: texts, power, and gifts in context, editec by Esther Cohen and Mayke
de Jong, Cultures, beliefs and traditions; vol. 11, (Brill, 2001), 69-100.
Domestic violence in medieval
texts, edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall
Llewelyn Price (University Press of Florida, 2002).
Contents: Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price,
“Introduction”; Philippa Maddern, “Interpreting silence: domestic violence in
the King’s Courts in East Anglia, 1422-1442,” 31-56; Emma Hawkes, “The
‘reasonable’ laws of domestic violence in late medieval England,” 57-70; Eve
Salisbury, “Chaucer’s ‘wife,’ the law and the Middle English Breton lays,”
73-93; Georgiana Donavin, “Taboo and transgression in Gower’s ‘Appolonius of
Tyre,’” 94-121; Barrie Ruth Straus, “Reframing the violence of the father: reverse
oedipal fantasies in Chaucer’s Clerk’s Man of Law’s and Prioress’s tales,” 122-138;
Graham N. Drake, “Not safe even in their own castles: reading domestic violence
against children in four Middle English romances,” 139-163; Marilyn Migiel, “Domestic
violence in the Decameron,” 164-179; Christopher G. Nugent, “Reading Riannon: the
problematics of motherhood in Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet,” 180-202; Anna Roberts, “The
‘homicidal women’ stories in the Roman de Thèbes, the Brut Chronicles, and
Deschamps’s ‘Ballade 285’,” 205-222; Garrett P. J. Epp, “Noah’s wife: the shaming of
the ‘trew’,” 223-241; Robert Stanton, “Marriage, socialization, and domestic violence
in the Life of Christina of Markyate,” 242-271; Merrall Llewelyn Price, “Imperial
violence and the monstrous mother: cannibalism at the siege of Jerusalem,”
272-298; Anne Laskaya, “The feminized world and divine violence: texts and
images of the Apocalypse,” 299-341.
Ellington,
Donna Spivey, From sacred body to angelic soul: understanding Mary in
late
medieval and early modern Europe (Catholic University of American Press, 2001).
Eshleman, Lori, "Weavers of peace, weavers of war," in Peace and negotiation, 15-37.
Foot, Sarah. Veiled women: I, The disappearance of nuns from Anglo-Saxon England; II,
Female religious communities in England, 871-1066, Studies in Early Medieval
Britain (Ashgate, 2000).
Fößel, Amalie. Die Königin im mittelalterlichen Reich:
Herrschaftsausübung, Herrschaftsrechte,
Handlungsspielräume, Mittelalter-Forschungen; Bd. 4 (Thorbecke, 2000).
Galloway, Penelope, "'Life, learning and wisdom': the forms and functions of beguine education,"
in Medieval monastic education, edited by George Ferzoco and Carolyn Muessig,153-167
(Leicester University Press, 2000).
Gender in debate from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance, edited by Thelma Fenster and
Clare A. Lees, New Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2002).
Contents: Thelma S. Fenster and Clare A. Lees, “Introduction,” 1-18; Clare A. Lees and
Gillian R. Overing, “The clerics and the critics: misogyny and the social symbolic in Anglo-
Saxon England,” 19-39; E. Ann Matter, “The undebated debate: gender and the image of
God in medieval theology,” 41-55; Alcuin Blamires, “Refiguring the ‘scandalous excess’ of
medieval women: the Wife of Bath and liberality,” 57-78; Roberta L. Krueger, “Beyond
debate: gender play in Old French courtly fiction,” 79-95; Ann Marie Rasmussen,
“Thinking through gender in late medieval German literature,” 97-111; Karen Pratt,
“The strains of defense: the many voices in Jean Lefèvre’s Livre de leesce,” 113-133;
Helen Solterer, “The freedoms of fiction for gender in premodern France,” 135-163;
Pamela Benson, “Debate about women in trecento Florence,” 165-187; Margaret
Franklin, “A woman’s place: visualizing the feminine ideal in the courts and communes of
Renaissance Italy,” 189-205; Barbara F. Weissberger, “’Deceitful sects’: the debate
about women in the age of Isabel the Catholic,” 207-235; Julian Weiss, “’Qué
demandamos de las mugeres?’: forming the debate about women in late medieval and
early modern Spain (with a Baroque response),” 237-274; Bibliography of primary
texts in Spanish, 275-281.
Giladi, Avner, Infants, parents and wet nurses: medieval Islamic views on breastfeeding and their
social implications, Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts; v. 25 (Brill, 1999).
Herrin, Judith, Women in purple: rulers of medieval Byzantium (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001).
Ingham, Patricia Clare, Sovereign fantasies: Arthurian romance and the making of Britain, Middle
Ages series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Kienzle, Beverly Mayne, "Hildegard of Bingen's teaching in her Expositiones evangeliorum and
Ordo virtutum," in Medieval monastic education, 72-86.
Kline, Barbara. "The discourse of heaven in Mechtild of Hackeborn's Booke of gostlye grace," in
Imagining heaven in the Middle Ages: a book of essays, edited by Jan Swango Emerson
and Hugh Feiss, O.S.B., Garland reference library of the humanities; vol. 2096/Garland
medieval casebooks; vol. 27 (Garland Publishing, 2000), 83-99.
Krause,
Kathy M., "The material erotic: the clothed and unclothed female body in the Roman de
la violette," in Material
culture and cultural materialism in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, edited by Curtis Perry, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the
Renaissance; v. 5 (Brepols, 2001), 17-39.
Le Jan, Régine, “Convents, violence, and competition for power in seventh-century Francia,” in
Topographies of power in the early Middle Ages, edited by Mayke de Jong and Frans
Theuws, The transformation of the Roman world; v. 6 (Brill, 2001), 243-269.
Lee, Paul. Nunneries, learning and spirituality in late medieval English society: the Dominican
priory of Dartford (York Medieval Press, 2001).
Lees, Clare and Gillian R. Overing. Double agents: woman and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon
England, Middle Ages series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
The life
of Saint Doucelin, a Beguine of Provence, translated with introduction, notes
and
interpretive essay by Kathleen Garay and Madeleine Jeay, Library of medieval women
(D.S. Brewer, 2001).
Listen,
daughter: the Speculum virginum and the formation of religious women in the
Middle Ages, edited by Constant J. Mews. The New Middle Ages (Palgrave, 2001).
Contents: Constant J. Mews, “Introduction,” 1-14, and “Virginity, theology, and
pedagogy in the Speculum virginum,” 15-40; Jutta Seyfarth, “The Speculum virginum:
the testimony of the manuscripts,” 41-57; Julie Hotchin, “Female religious life and the
Cura monialium in Hirsau monasticism, 1080-1150,” 59-83; Kim E. Power, “From
ecclesiology to mariology: patristic traces and innovation in the Speculum virginum,”
85-110; Morgan Powell, “The Speculum virginum and the audio-visual poetics of
women’s religious instruction,” 111-135; Catherine Jeffreys, “’Listen, daughters of
light’: the Epithalamium and musical innovation in twelfth-century Germany,” 137-157;
Janice M. Pinder, “The cloister and the garden: gendered images of religious life from
the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries,” 159-179; Sabina Flanagan, “The Speculum
virginum and traditions of medieval dialogue,” 181-200; Elisabeth Bos, “The literature
of spiritual formation for women in France and England, 1080-1180,” 201-220; Fiona
Griffiths, “Herrad of Hohenbourg: a synthesis of learning in The garden of delights,”
221-243; Urban Küsters, “The second blossoming of a text: the Spieghel der Maechen
and the Modern Devotion,” 245-261; Illustrations, 263-268; Barbara Newman, trans.,
Speculum virginum: selected excerpts, 269-296.
Marshall, Claire. "The politics of self-mutilation: forms of female devotion in the late Middle
Ages," in The body in late medieval and early modern culture, edited by Darryll
Grantley and Nina Taunton (Ashgate, 2000), 11-21.
Matarasso,
Pauline Maud. Queen's mate: three women
of power in France on the eve of
the Renaissance [Anne of France, Anne of Brittany, Louise of Savoy] (Ashgate,
2001).
Muessig, Carolyn, "Learning and mentoring in the twelfth century: Hildegard of Bingen and
Herrad of Landsberg," in Medieval monastic education, 87-104.
Neuman de
Vegvar, Neuman, "A paean for a queen: the frontispiece to the Encomium Emmae
Reginae," in Anglo-Saxon history: basic readings, edited by David A. E. Pelteret, Basic
readings in Anglo-Saxon England; vol. 6 (Garland Publishing, 2000), 317-321.
Newman, Barbara, “God and the goddesses: vision, poetry, and belief in the Middle Ages,” in
Poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages: a festschrift for Peter Dronke, edited by
John Marenbon, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte; Bd. 29 (Brill, 2001), 173-196.
Offenstadt, Nicolas, “Les femmes et la paix à la fin du Moyen Âge: genre, discours, rites,” in
Le règlement des conflits au Moyen Âge. Série histoire ancienne et médiéval; 62
(Publications de la Sorbonne, 2001), 317-333.
Park, Katharine, “Relics of a fertile heart: the ‘autopsy’ of Clare of Montefalco,” in
The material culture of sex, procreation, and marriage in premodern Europe, edited by
Anne L. McClanan and Karen Rosoff Encarnacion (Palgrave/St. Martin’s, 2002), 115-133.
Psaki, F.
Regina, "The sexual body in Dante's celestial paradise," in Imagining heaven in the
Middle Age., 47-61.
Representing rape in medieval and early modern literature, edited by Elizabeth Robertson and
Christine M. Rose. The new Middle Ages series (Palgrave, 2001).
Contents: Elizabeth Robertson and Christine M. Rose, “Introduction,” 1-17; Christine M.
Rose, “Reading Chaucer reading rape,” 21-60; Mark Amsler, “Ovid’s mythography and
medieval readers,” 61-96; Monica Brzezinski Potkay, “The violence of courtly exegesis in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,” 97-124; E. Jane Burns, “Raping men: what’s
motherhood got to do with it?” [adapted from Bodytalk], 127-160; Nancy A. Jones,
“The daughter’s text and the thread of lineage in the Old French Philomena,” 161-187;
Robin L. Bott, “’O, keep me from their worse than killing lust’: ideologies of rape and
mutiliation in Chaucer’s Physician’s Tale and Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus,” 189-211;
Karen Robertson, “Rape and the appropriation of Progne’s revenge in Shakespeare’s
Titus Andronicus, or ‘Who cooks the Thyestean banquet?,” 213-237; Anne Howland
Schotter, “Rape in medieval Latin comedies,” 241-253; Christopher Cannon, “Chaucer
and rape” [rpt., adaptation], 255-279; Elizabeth Robertson, “Public bodies and psychic
domains: rape, consent, and female subjectivity in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and
Criseyde,” 281-310; Amy Greenstadt, “’Rapt from himself’: rape and the poetics of
corporeality in Sidney’s Old Arcadia,: 311-349; Susan Frye, “Of chastity and rape:
Edmund Spenser confronts Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene” [rpt., adaptation],
353-379; Katherine Eggert, “Spenser’s ravishment: rape and rapture in The Faerie
Queene” [rpt., adaptation], 381-409; Christopher Cannon, “Afterword,” 411-416.
Rieder, Paula M., “Insecure borders: symbols of clerical privilege and gender ambiguity in the
liturgy of churching,” in The
material culture of sex, procreation, and marriage
Ross,
Margaret Clunies, "Concubinage in Anglo-Saxon England," in Anglo-Saxon history:
basic
readings, edited by David A.E. Pelteret, 251-287.
Rubin, Miri, “An English anchorite: the making, unmaking and remaking of Christine Carpenter,”
in Pragmatic utopias: ideals and communities, 1200-1630, edited by Rosemary Horrox
and Sarah Rees Jones (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 204-223.
Sahlin, Claire L., Birgitta of Sweden and the voice of prophecy, Studies in medieval mysticism; 3
(Boydell Press, 2001).
Same sex love and desire among women in the Middle Ages, edited by Francesca Canade
Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn. The new Middle Ages series (Palgrave, 2001).
Contents: Francesca Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn, “Introduction: charting the
field”; Susan Schibanoff, “Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis of Stade: the discourse
of desire”; Lisa Weston, “Elegiac desire and female community in Baudonivia’s Life of
Saint Radegund”; Edith Benkov, “The erased lesbian: sodomy and the legal tradition
in medieval Europe”; Fedwa Malti-Douglas, “Tribadism/lesbianism and the sexualized
body in medieval Arabo-Islamic narratives”; Robert L. A. Clark, “Jousting without a lance:
the condemnation of female homoeroticism in the Livre des manieres”; Sahar Amer,
“Lesbian sex and the military: from the medieval Arabic tradition to French literature”;
Francesca Canade Sautman, “What can they possibly do together? Queer epic
performances in Tristan de Nanteuil”; Ruth Vanita, “’At all times near’: love between
women in two medieval Indian devotional texts”; Gregory S. Hutcheson, “Leonor Lopez
de Cordoba and the configuration of female-female desire”; Konrad Eisenbichler,
“’Laudomia Froteguerri loves Margaret of Austria’”.
Sekules, Veronica, “Spinning yarns: clean linen and domestic values in late medieval French
culture,” in The material culture of sex, procreation, and marriage in premodern
Europe, 79-91.
Stanbury, Sarah, “The vivacity of images: St. Katherine, Knighton’s Lollards, and the breaking
of idols,” in Images, idolatry, and iconoclasm in late medieval
England: textuality and
the visual image, edited by Jeremy Dimmock, James Simpson, and Nicolette Zeeman
(Oxford University Press, 2002), 131-150.
Suydam,
Mary. "Hadewijch of Antwerp's dark visions of heaven," in Imagining heaven in the
Middle Ages, 119-141.
Taglia, Kathryn, "Delivering a Christian identity: midwives in northern French synodal legislation,
c. 1200-1500," in Religion and medicine in the Middle Ages, edited by Peter Biller and
Joseph Ziegler, York studies in medieval theology; 3 (York Medieval Press, 2001), 77-90.
Truelove, Alison, “Commanding communications: the fifteenth-century letters of the Stonor
women,” in Early modern women’s letter writing, 1450-1700, 42-58.
Ward, Jennifer C., “Letter-writing by English noblewomen in the early fifteenth century,” in
Early modern women’s letter writing, 1450-1700.
Weissberger, Barbara F., “The critics and Florencia Pinar: the problem with assigning feminism
to a medieval court poet,” in Recovering Spain’s feminist tradition, edited by Lisa
Vollendorf (Modern Language Association, 2001), 31-49.
Other:
Flemming, Rebecca, Medicine and the making of Roman women: gender, nature, and
authority from Celsus to Galen (Oxford University Press, 2000).
Schildgen,
Brenda Deen. Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer’s
Canterbury
Tales (University Press of Florida, 2001).
Thompson,
John L. Writing the wrongs: women of the
Old Testament among Biblical
commentators from Philo through the Reformation, Oxford studies in historical
theology (Oxford University Press, 2001).
Woodall, Natalie Joy, "Women are knights-errant to the last": nineteenth-century women
writers reinvent the medieval literary damsel," in Reinventing the Middle Ages &
the
Renaissance: constructions of the medieval and early modern periods, edited by William
F. Gentrup, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; v. 1 (Brepols, 1998),
201-221.