Medieval Feminist Newsletter Bibliography

Spring 1997

 

  1. Adelman, Howard, "Custom, law, and gender: levirate union among Ashkenazim and Sephardim in Italy after the Expulsion from Spain," in The Expulsion of the Jews: 1492 and after, edited by Raymond B. Waddington, Arthur H. Williamson (Garland, 1994).

     

  2. Bhrolchain, Muireann Ni, "The Banshenchas [The lore of women] revisited," in Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in chruch, state, and society, edited by Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, 70-81, Historical Studies XIX (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1995).

     

  3. Cohn, Samuel K., Jr., Women in the streets: essays on sex and power in Renaissance Italy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
     
    Contents: "The social history of women in the Renaissance"; "Women in the streets, women in the courts, in early Renaissance Florence"; Last wills: family, women, and the Black Death in central Italy"; "Women and the Counter Reformation in Siena: authority and property in the family"; "Nuns and dowry funds: women's choices in the Renaissance"; "Sex and violence on the periphery: the territorial state in early Renaissance Florence"; "Prosperity in the countryside: the price women paid".

     

  4. Desire and discipline: sex and sexuality in the premodern west, edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler (University of Toronto Press, 1996).
     

    Contents: Jacqueline Murray, "Introduction"; Vern L. Bullough, "Sex in history: a redux"; James A Brundage, "Playing by the rules: sexual behaviour and legal norms in medieval Europe"; Roberto J. Gonzalez-Casanovas, "Gender models in Alfonso X's Siete partidas: the sexual politics of 'nature' and 'society'"; Ivana Elbl, "'Men without wives': sexual arrangements in the early Portuguese expansion in West Africa"; Carol Kazmierczak Manzione, "Sex in Tudor London: abusing their bodies with each other"; Robert Shephard, "Sexual romours in English politics: the cases of Elizabeth I and James I"; Joseph Cady, "The 'masculine love' of the 'princes of Sodom' 'practising the art of Ganymede' at Henry III's court: the homosexuality of Henry III and his mignons in Pierre de L'Estoile's Memoires-Journaux"; Guy Poirier, "Masculinities and homosexualities in French Renaissance accounts of travel to the Middle East and North Africa"; Dyan Elliott, "Bernardino of Siena versus the marriage debt"; Ruth Mazo Karras, "Sex, money, and prostitution in medieval English culture"; Rona Goffen, "Wives and mothers: adultery, madness, and maritial miserty in Titian's Padual frescoes"; Barrie Ruth Straus, "Freedom through renunciation? Women's voices, women's bodies, and the phallic order"; Garrett P.J. Epp, "Learning to write with Venus's pen: sexual regulation in Matthew of Vendome's Ars versificatoria"; Andrew Taylor, "Reading the dirty bits"; Nancy F. Partner, "Did mystics have sex?"

     
  5. Disputatio, vol. 1: "The late medieval epistle" (Northwestern University Press, 1996-)
     

    Selected contents: Nadia Margolis, "The cry of the chameleon: evolving voices in the epistles of Christine de Pisan"; Yvonne LeBlanc, "Queen Anne in the lonely, tear-soaked bed of Penelope: rewriting the Heroides in the sixteenth century"; Albrecht Classen, "Female explorations of literacy: epistolary challenges to the literary canon in the late Middle Ages"; Malcolm Richardson, "Women, commerce, and writing in late medieval England"; J. Luehring and R. Utz, "Letter writing in the late Middle Ages (c. 1250-1600): an introductory bibliography of critical studies".

     
  6. Dhonnchadha, Mairin Ni, "The Lex Innocentium: Adomnan's Law for women, clerics and youths, 697 A.D.", in Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in chruch, state, and society, edited by Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, 58-69, Historical Studies XIX (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1995).

     

  7. Edwards, John H., "Male and female religious experience among Spanish New Christians, 1450-1500," in The Expulsion of the Jews: 1492 and after, edited by Raymond B. Waddington, Arthur H. Williamson (Garland, 1994).

     

  8. Erler, Mary C., "English vowed women at the end of the Middle Ages," Mediaeval Studies 57 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1995), 155-203.

     

    Appendix lists 254 women vowed between 1231 and 1537.

     

  9. Une femme de lettres au Moyen Age: etudes autour de Christine de Pizan, edited by L. Dulac and B. Ribemont, Medievalia 16 (Paradigme 1995).

     

    Contents: Susan Groag Bell, "Preface"; Liliane Dulac, "L'autorite dans les traites en prose de Christine de Pizan: discours d'ecrivain, parole de prince"; Christine Reno, "Le Livre de Prudence/Live de la Prod'hommie de l'homme: nouvelles perspective"; Simone Pagot, "Du bon usage de la compilation et du discours Christine de Pizan"; Eric Hicks, "Situation du debat didactique: analyse du theme 'guerre et paix' chez sur le Roman de la Rose"; Kevin Brownlee, "Hector and Penthesilea in the Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune: Christine de Pizan and the politics of myth"; Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, "Sexualite et politique: le mythe d'Acteon chez Christine de Pizan"; Francoise Autrand, "Memoire et ceremonial: la visite de l'empereur Charles IV a Paris en 1378 d'apres les Grandes Chroniques de France et Christine de Pizan"; Claude Gauvard, "Christine de Pizan et ses contemporains: l'engagement politique des ecrivains dans le royaume de France aux XIVe et Xve siecles"; Christine Moneera Laennec, "Prophetie, interpretation et ecriture dans L'Avision-Christine"; Marie-Therese Lorcin, "Le Livre de Trois Vertus et le sermo ad status"; Andrea Tarnowski, "Autobiography and advice in the Livre des Trois Vertus"; Kenneth Varty, "Autour du Livre des Trois Vertus ou si rayson, droicture et justice faiisaient des cours d'introduction a la civilisation francaise du moyen age?"; Monique Closson, "Plaidoyer pour Christine et le Livre des Trs Vertus"; Christine Clark-Evans, "Christine de Pizan's feminist strategies: the defense of the African and Asian ladies in the Book of the City of Ladies"; Glynnis M. Cropp, "Les personnages feminins tires de l'histoire de la France dans le Livre de la Cite des Dames"; Jean-Claude Muhlethaler, "Problemes de recriture: amour et mort de la princesse de Salerne dans le Decameron (IV,1) et dans la Cite des Dames (II,59)"; Anna Slerca, "Dante, Boccace, et le Livre de la Cite des Dames de Christine de Pizan"; Jean-Louis G. Picherit, "Les references pathologiques et therapeutiques dans l'oeuvre de Christine de Pizan"; Bernard Ribemont, "Christine de Pizan: entre espace scientifique et espace imagine (le Livre du Chemin de long estude)"; Ch. Brucker, "Le monde, la foi et le savoir dans quelques oeuvres de Christine de Pizan: une quete"; Earl Jeffrey Richards, "In search of a feminist patrology: Christine de Pizan and 'Les glorieux dotteurs'"; Nadia Margolis, "La progression polemique, spirituelle et personelle dans les ecrits religieux de Christine de Pizan"; Charity Cannon Willard, "Christine de Pizan's allegorized psalms"; Barbara K. Altmann, "L'art de l'autoportrait litteraire dans les Cent Ballades de Christine de Pizan"; Margarete Zimmermann, "Les Cent Balades d'Amant et de Dame une reecriture de L'Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta de Boccace?"; Jeanette M.S. Beer, "Christine et les conventions dans le Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune: 'abriger en parolles voires'"; Armand Strubel, "Le style allegorique de Christine"; Michele Weil, "'Je suis comme toy': dialogie de Christine de Pizan"; Gaston Zink, "La phrase de Christine de Pizan dans le Livre du Corps de Policie"; James C. Laidlaw, "Un manuscrit original du Livre des Trois Vertus: Londres, British Library, Ms Additonal 31841"; Jacques Lemaire, "Manuscrits proches parents ou manuscrits simplement semblables" Reflexions codicologiques et philologiques a propos de deux temoins du Livre des Trois Vertus de Christine de Pizan"; Gabriella Parussa, "Arbitraires, systematiques, accidentelles? A propos des variantes entre deux familles de manuscrits de l'Epistre d'Othea"; Susan Groag Bell, "A lost tapestry: Margaret of Austria's Cite des Dames"; Rosalind Brown-Grant, "Des hommes et des femmes illustres: modalites narratives et transformations generiques chez Petrarque, Boccace et Christine de Pizan"; Thelma Fenster, "Simplece et sagesse: Christine de Pizan et Isotta Nogarola sur la culpabilite d'Eve"; Angus J. Kennedy and James Steel, "L'esprit et l'epee ou la resistance au feminin: Christine de Pizan, Jeanne d'Arc et Edith Thomas"; Anna Slerca, "Le Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune, source du Labyrinth de Fortune de Jean Bouchet".

     

  10. Les femmes ecrivains en Italie au Moyen Age et a la Renaissance: Actes du colloque international Aix-en-Provence, 12,13,14 novembre 1992, Centre Aixois de Recherches Italiennes (Publications de l'Universite de Provence, 1994).

     

    Contents: George Ulysse, "Preface"; Ottavia Niccoli, "Forme di cultura e condizioni di vita in due epistolari femminili de Rinascimento"; Olga-Silvana Casale, "Le scritture femminili tra strumenti di recerca e edizioni"; Mario Martelli, "Lucrezia Tornabuoni"; Mario Pozzi, "'Andrem di pari all'amorosa face': appunti sulle lettere di Maria Savorgnan"; Maria-Luisa Doglio, "Scrittura e 'Offizio di parole' nelle 'lettere familiari' di Vernonica Franco"; Thea Picquet, "Profession: courtisane"; Giulio Ferroni, "L'io e gli altri nelle lettere di Caterina da Siena"; Cesare Vasoli, "Caterina de'Ricci, una mistica savonaroliana del Cinquecento"; Georges Ulysse, "Un couple d'ecrivains: les 'Sacre Rappresentazioni' di Bernardo et Antonia Pulci"; Elissa Weaver, "Una cultura marginale al teatro"; Carlo Vecce, "Vittoria Colonna: il codice epistolare della poesia femminile"; Jose Guidi, "Vittoria Colonna: les poesies funeraires en l'honneur du Marquis de la Pescara"; Maurice Javion, "Chiara Matraini: un 'tombeau' pour Petrarque"; Matteo Palumbo, "Lo 'stil ruvido e frale' di Isabella di Morra"; Francesco Bausi, "Le rime di e per Tullia d'Aragona"; Carla-Chiara Perrone, "'So che donna amo donna': 'la Calisa'di Maddelena Campiglia"; Marie-Francoise Piejus, "Les poetesses siennoises entre le jeu et l'ecriture".

     

  11. Fradenburg, Louise O., "Sacrificial desire in Chaucer's Knight's Tale," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (Winter 1997): 47-75.

     

  12. French, Katherine L., "'To free them from binding': women in the late medieval English parish," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 27 (Winter 1997): 387-412.

     

  13. Gouguenheim, Sylvain, La sibylle du Rhin: Hildegarde de Bingen, abbesse et prophetesse rhenan e, Histoire ancienne et medievale; 38 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1996).

     

  14. Green, Monica, "A handlist of the Latin and vernacular manuscripts of the so-called Trotula texts," Scriptorium 50 (1996): 137-175.

     

  15. Hildegard of Bingen, The letters of Hildegard of Bingen, translated by Joseph L. Baird, Radd K. Ehrman (Oxford University Press, 1994-).

     

  16. "Hommes et femmes: leur role respectif dans la perpetuation de l'identite juive au sein de la societe conversa," in Memoires juives d'Espagne et du Portugal, edited by Esther Benbassa, 39-50 (Editions du Cerf, 1996).
    Citation sent by Melammed Uri.

     

  17. Hutchison, Ann M., "What the nuns read: literary evidence from the English Bridgettine House, Syon Abbey," Mediaeval Studies 57 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1995), 205-222. ["Bulletin codicologique," Scriptorium 50 (1996), p. 50]

     

  18. Jacquart, Danielle, "La morphologie du corps feminin selon les medecins de la fin du Moyen Age," Micrologus 1 (1993): 81-98. ["Bulletin codicologique," Scriptorium 50 (1996), p. 51]

     

  19. Jochens, Jenny, Old Norse images of women, Middle Ages Series (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996).

     

  20. "Judaizing women in Castile: a look at their lives before and after 1492," in Religions in the ages of exploration, edited by M. Mor and B. Le Beau, 15-37 (Creighton University, 1996).
    Citation sent by Melammed Uri.

     

  21. Karras, Ruth Mazo, Common women: prostitution and sexuality in medieval England (Oxford University Press, 1996).

     

  22. Kendrick, Robert L., Celestial sirens: nuns and their music in early modern Milan (Oxford University Press, 1996).

     

  23. Le Jan, Regine, Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siecle): essai d'anthropologie sociale, Histoire ancienne et medievale; 33 (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995).

     

  24. Lees, Claire, "Engendering religious desire: sex, knowledge, and Christian identity in Anglo-Saxon England," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (Winter 1997): 17-45.

     

  25. Lochrie, Karma, "Desiring Foucault," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (Winter 1997): 3-16.

     

  26. Meek, Christine, "Women, the Church and the law: matrimonial litigation in Lucca under Bishop Nicolao Guinigi (1394-1435)," in Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in chruch, state, and society, edited by Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, 82-90, Historical Studies XIX (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1995).

     

  27. Melammed, Renee Levine, "A sixteenth-century Castilian midwife and her encounter with the Inquisition," in The Expulsion of the Jews: 1492 and after, edited by Raymond B. Waddington, Arthur H. Williamson (Garland, 1994).

     

  28. Minkowski, William L. "Physician motives in banning medieval traditional healers," Women & Health 21 (1994): 83-96.

     

  29. Mirrer, Louise, Women, Jews, and Muslims in the texts of reconquest Castile (University of Michigan Press, 1996.

     

  30. Moulinier, Laurence, "Elisaabeth, ursule et les onze mille vierges: un cas d'invention de reliques a Cologne au XIIe siecle," Medievales 22-23 (1992): 173-186. ["Bulletin codicologique," Scriptorium 50 (1996): 70]

     

  31. Mulder-Bakker, Annecke B., "Lame Margaret of Magdeburg: the social function of a medieval recluse," Journal of Medieval History 22 (1996): 155-169.

     

  32. Muller, Daniela, Frauen vor der Inquistion: Lebensform, Glaubenzeugnis und Aburteilung der deutschen und franzosischen Katharerinnen, Veroffentlichungen des Instituts fur Europaische Geschichte Mainz; Bd. 166: Abteilung abendlandische Religionsgeschichte (von Zabern, 1996).

     

  33. Newman, Jane O., "Sons and mothers: Agrippina, Semiramis, and the philological construction of gender roles in early modern Germany (Lohenstein's Agrippina, 1665)," Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996): 77-113.

     

  34. O Corrain, Donnchadh, "Women and the law in early Ireland," in Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in chruch, state, and society, edited by Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, 45-57, Historical Studies XIX (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1995).

     

  35. Oliver, Judith, "'Gothic' women and Merovingain desert mothers," Gesta 32 (1993): 124-134, 5 ill. ["Bulletin codicologique," Scriptorium 50 (1996), p. 74-75]

     

  36. Parker, Deborah, "Women in the book trade in Italy, 1475-1620," Renaissance Quarterly 49 (1996): 509-541.

     

  37. Pedersen, Frederik, "Did the medieval laity know the canon law rules on marriage? Some evidence from fourteenth-century York Cause Papers," Mediaeval Studies 56 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1994), 111-152.

     

  38. Representations of the feminine in the Middle Ages, , edited by Bonnie Wheeler, Feminea Medievalia I (Academia Press, 1993).
    Contents: Deborah Everhart, "Criseyde through her own eyes"; Stephen Stallcup, "With the 'Poynte of Remembraunce'; re-viewing the complaint in Anelida and Arcite"; Jennifer Goodman, "Dorigen and the falcon: the element of despair in Chaucer's Squire's and Franklin's Tale"; Bonnie Wheeler, "Trouthe without consequences: rhetoric and gender in the Franklin's Tale"; Jean E. Jost, "May's mismarriage of youth an delde: the poetics of sexual desire in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale"; Jo Goyne, "Pleasing virtue: the problem of word and will in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale"; Renee Justice Standley, "The role of the empress Theodora in the imperial panels at the church of San Vitale in Ravenna"; Derek Baker, "Politics, precedence and intention: aspects of the imperial mosaics at San Vitale, Ravenna"; Samuel Lyndon Gladden, "Hildegard's awakening: a self-portrait of disruptive excess"; Paula Martin, "A brightness of purple lightning: Hildegard of Bingen's self-perception"; Patricia Stirnemann, "Women and books in France: 1170-1220"; Donna J. Oestreich, "Christine de Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies: paradigmatic participation and eschewal"; Marianne Sinram, "Faith and bondage: the spiritual and political meaning of chains at the church of Ste Foy de Conques"; Elizabeth Nightlinger, "The female Imitatio Christi and medieval popular religion: the case of St. Wilgefortis"; Ann Hutchison, "Eyes cast down, but self revealed: letters of a recusant nun"; Michael Holahan, "Eve's eyes: places for beauty and equality in Paradise Lost".

     

  39. Rousseau, Constance M., "The spousal relationship: marital society and sexuality in the letters of Pope Innocent III," Mediaeval Studies 56 (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1994), 89-109.

     

  40. Sex and gender in medieval and Renaissance texts: the Latin tradition, edited by Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter (State University of New York Press, 1997.
    Contents: Editors, "Introduction"; Nancy A. Jones, "By woman's tears redeemed: female lament in St. Augustine's Confessions and the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise"; Barbara K. Gold, "Hrotswitha writes herself: Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis"; Phyllis Culham, "Gender and negotiating discourse: mediated autobiography and female mystics of medieval Italy"; St. John E. Flynn, "The saint of the womanly body: Raimon de Cornet's Fourteenth-century male poetics"; Donald Gilman, "Petrarch's Sophonisba: seduction, sacrifice, and patriarchal politics"; Paul Allen Miller, "Laurel as the sign of sin: Laura's textual body in Petrarch's Secretum"; Diana Robin, "Woman, space, and Renaissance discourse"; Diane S. Wood, "In praise of woman's superiority: Henrich Cornelius Agrippa's De nobilitate (1529)"; Charles Platter, "The artificial whore: George Buchanan's Apologia pro Lena"; Elizabeth Garza-Richmond, "'She never recovered her senses': Roxana and dramatic representations of women at Oxbridge in the Elizabethan age"; Holt Parker, Latin and Greek poetry by five Renaissance Italian women humanists".

     

  41. Sheingorn, Pamela, "'The wise mother': the image of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary," Gesta 32 (1993): 69-80, 9 ill. ["Bulletin codicologique," Scriptorium 50 (1996), p. 94]

     

  42. Suydam, Mary A., "The touch of satisfaction: visions and the religious experience according to Hadewijch of Antwerp," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion 12 (1996): 5-27.

     

  43. Tobin, Frank, Mechthild von Magdeburg: a medieval mystic in modern eyes, Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture: Literary Criticism in Perspective (Camden House, 1995).

     

  44. Viguera, Maria J., "Asluhu li' l-ma ali: on the social status of Andalusi women," in The legacy of Muslim Spain, edited by Salma Khadra Jayyusi (Brill, 1992).

     

  45. Wittern, Susanne, Frauen, Heiligkeit und Macht: Lateinische Frauenviten aus dem 4. bis 7. Jahrhundert, Ergebnisse der Frauenforschung; 33 (Metzler, 1994).

     

  46. Women and religion in medieval and Renaissance Italy, edited by Daniel Bornstein and Roberto Rusconi (University of Chicago Press, 1996).
    Contents: Daniel Bornstein, "Women and religion in late medieval Italy: history and historiography"; Antonio Rigon, "A community of female pentitents in thirteenth-century Padua"; Clara Gennaro, "Clare, Agnes, and their earliest followers: from the poor ladies of San Damiano to the Poor Clares"; Mario Sensi, "Anchoresses and pentitents in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Umbria"; Anna Benvenui Papi, "Mendicant friars and female pinzochere in Tuscany: from social marginality to models of sanctity"; Enrico Menesto, "The apostolic canonization proceedings of Clare of Montefalco, 1318-1319"; Chiara Frugoni, "Female, mystics, visions, and iconography"; Fernanda Sorelli, "Imitable sanctity: the legend of Maria of Venice"; Roberto Rusconi, "St. Bernadino of Siena, the wife, and possessions"; Anna Esposito, "St. Francesca and the female religious communities of fifteenth-century Rome"; Gabriella Zarri, "Living saints: a typology of female sanctity in the early sixteenth century"; Roberto Rusconi, "Afterward: women religious in late medieval Italy: new sources and directions".

     

  47. Women patrons of Renaissance art, 1300-1600, Renaissance Studies 10:2 (June 1966).
    Contents: Jaynie Anderson, "Rewriting the history of art patronage"; Cordelia Warr, "Painting in late fourteenth-century Padua: the patronage of Fina Buzzacarini"; Rupert Shepherd, "Francesca Venusta, the Battle of San Ruffillo and Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti"; Catherine King, "Margarita Pellegini and the Pellegrini chapel at San Bernardino Verona, 1528-1557"; Caroline P. Murphy, "Lavinia Fontana and Le Dame della Citta: understanding female artistic patronage in late sixteenth-century Bologna"; Anne Marie Legare, "Reassessing women's libraries in late medieval France: the case of Jeanne de Laval"; Thomas Tolley, "States of independence: women regents as patrons of the visual arts in Renaissance France"; Dagmar Eichberger, "Margaret of Austria's portrait collection: female patronage in the light of dynastic ambitions and artistic quality"; Margaret Ellis, "The Hardwick wall hangings: un unusual collaboration in English sixteenth-century embroidery".

     

  48. Women physicians and healers: climbing a long hill, edited by Lilian R. Furst (University Press of Kentucky, 1997).
    Partial contents: Debra L. Stoudt, "Medieval German women and the power of healing"; Nancy P. Nenno, "Between magic and medicine: medieval images of the woman healer"; Esther Zago, "Women, medicine, and the law in Boccaccio's Decameron"; Michael Solomon, "Women healers and the power to disease in late medieval spain"; William Kerwin, "Where have you gone, Margaret Kennix? Seeking the tradition of healing women in English Renaissance drama"; Holt T. Parker, "Women doctors in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire".

     

  49. Women, the Book and the Worldly: selected proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, 1993, vol. II, edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor.
    Contents: Editors' Introduction; Patricia Skinner, "Women, literacy, and invisibility in southern Italy, 900-1200"; Philip E. Bennett, "Female readers in Froissart: implied, fictive and other"; Jennifer R. Goodman, "'That wommen holde in ful greet reverence': mothers and daughters reading chivalric romances"; Charity Cannon Willard, "Pilfering Vegetius? Christine de Pizan's Faits d'armes et de chevalerie"; Benjamin Semple, "The consolation of a woman writer: Christine de Pizan's use of Boethius in Lavision-Christine"; Anne Birrell, "In the voice of women: Chinese love poetry in the early Middle Ages"; Jeanette Beer, "Women, authority and the book in the Middle Ages"; Mark Balfour, "Francesca da Rimini and Dante's women readers"; Beverly Kennedy, "The variant passages in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the textual transmission of The Canterbury Tales: the 'Great Tradition' revisited"; Carol J. Harvey, "Philippe de Remi's Manekine: joie and pain"; Heather Arden, "Women as readers, women as text in the Roman de la Rose"; Karen K. Jambeck, "Reclaiming the woman in the book: Marie de France and the Fables"; Jula Boffey, "Lydgate's lyrics and women readers"; Jennifer Summit, "William Caxton, Margaret Beaufort and the romance of female patronage"; Margarita Stocker, "Apcryphal entries: Judith and the politics of Caxton's Golden Legend"; Index of manuscripts.

     

  50. Wood Jeryldene, Women, art, and spirituality: the Poor Clares of early modern Italy (Cambridge University Press, 1996).

Also of interest:

  1. Berg, Maxine, "A women in history: Eileen Power and the early years of social history and women's history," in Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in chruch, state, and society, edited by Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, 12-21, Historical Studies XIX (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1995).

     

  2. Brooten, Bernadette J., Love between women: early Christian responses to female homoeroticism (University of Chicago Press, 1996).

     

  3. Gera, Deborah Levine, Warrior women: the anonymous Tractatus de mulieribus, Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum; 162 (Brill, 1997).

     

  4. Grever, Maria, "'Scolding old bags and whining hags': women's history and the myth of compatible paradigms in history," in Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in chruch, state, and society, edited by Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, 22-33, Historical Studies XIX (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1995).

     

  5. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 27 (Winter 1997). Special issue, "Desire: its subjects, objects and historians."
    In addition to articles by Fradenburg, Lees, and Lochrie, Lisa Schnell, "Breaking 'the rule of Cortezia': Aemilia Lanyer's dedications to Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum," pp. 77-101 and Diane Purkiss, "Desire and its deformities: fantasies of witchcraft in the English Civil War," pp. 103-132.

     

  6. Purkiss, Diane, The witch in history: early modern and twentieth-century representations (Routledge, 1996).

     

  7. Thirsk, Joan, "The history women," in Chattel, servant or citizen: women's status in chruch, state, and society, edited by Mary O'Dowd and Sabine Wichert, 1-11, Historical Studies XIX (Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast, 1995)

 

 

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