Medieval Feminist Forum Bibliography

Spring 2006

Approaching medieval English anchoritic and mystical texts, edited by Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden,
and Roger Ellis. Christianity and culture: issues in teaching and research. Boydell &
Brewer, 2005.

E. A. Jones, “Anchorites and hermits in historical context”; Dee Dyas, “’Wildernesse is
anlich lif of ancre wununge’: the wilderness and medieval anchoritic spiritual authority”;
Valerie Edden, “The devotional life of the laity in the late Middle Ages”; Santha
Bhattacharji, “Medieval contemplation and mystical experience”; Denis Renevey, “Richard
Rolle”; A. C. Spearing, “Language and its limits: The cloud of unknowing and Pearl”;
Thomas H. Bestul, “Walter Hilton”; Liz Herbert McAvoy, “’And thou, to whom this booke
shall come’: Julian of Norwich and her audience, past, present and future”;
Barry Windeatt, “’I use but comownycacyone and good wordys’: teaching and The book
of Margery Kempe”; Alexandra Barratt, “Teaching anchoritic texts: the shock of the old”
with appendix, Ch. 14 of The rule of a recluse, from MS Bodley 423; R. S. Allen,
“Introducing the mystics”; Roger Ellis, “Holy fictions: another approach to the Middle
English mystics”; Ann M. Hutchison, “Approaching medieval women mystics in the
twenty-first century”; Marion Glasscoe, “Contexts for teaching Julian of Norwich” with
appendix, ‘Stond wel, moder, under rode”; Catherine Innes-Parker, “Learning by doing:
Margery Kempe and students today”; Dee Dyas, Roger Ellis, Ann M. Hutchison, “Useful
terms for students.”

Bandlien, Bjørn. Strategies of passion: love and marriage in medieval Iceland and

Norway, Betsy van der Hoek, trans. Medieval texts and cultures of northern
Europe; 6. Brepols, 2005.

Bennati, Giulia, “Matrimoni a Livorno all fine del Duecento e ne Trecento,” in Sul filo della
scrittura: fonti e temi per la storia delle donne a Livorno, a cura di Lucia Frattarelli
Fischer, Olimpia Vaccari. PLUS-Pisa University Press, 2005.

Bertelsmeier-Kierst, Christa. “Beten und Betrachten – Schreiben und Malen.
Zisterzienserinnen und ihr Beitrag zum Buch im 13. Jahrhundert,” in Zisterziensisches
Schrieben im Mittelalter – Das Skriptorium der Reiner Mönche. Beiträge der
Internationalen Tagung im Zisterzienserstift Rein, Mai 2003, hrsg. Anton Schwob und
Karin Kranich-Hofbauer. Jahburh für Internationale Gemanistik Reihe A:
Kongressberichte; 71. Peter Lang, 2005.

Bertrand, Paul. “Réformes ecclésiatiques, luttes d’influence et hagiographie à l’
abbaye de Maubeuge (IXe-Xie s.),” in Medieval narrative sources: a gateway
into the medieval mind, edited by Werner Verbeke, Ludo Milis, and Jean
Goossens. Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, ser. I/ studia XXXIV. Leuven University
Press, 2005.

Includes description and guide to the internet database Narrative sources from
the medieval Low Countries online database http://www.narrative-sources.be.

Bezzel, Anne. “Der gesegnete Leib. Die Schwangerschaft Mariens als Gegenstand der
Devotion im Kontext einer somatischen Religiosität des ausgehenden Mittelalter,”
in Frömmigkeit – Theologie – Frömmigkeitstheologie: contributions to European
church history: Festschrift für Berndt Hamm zum 60. Gebutstag, hrsg. von
Gudrn Litz, Heidrun Munzert und Roland Liebenberg. Studies in the history of
Christian traditions; v. CXXIV. Brill, 2005.

Bilinkoff, Jodi. Related lives: confessors and their female penitents, 1450-1750. Cornell
University Press, 2005.

Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate. Poets, saints, and visionaries of the Great Schism, 1378-1417.
Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006.

Bodarwé, Katrinette. “Frühmittelalterliche Urkunden als frauengeschichtliche Quelle --
Schenkerrinnen und Zeuginnen in Fulda,” in Vielfalt der Geschichte: Lernen,
Lehren und Erforschen vergangener Zeiten: Festgabe für Ingrid Heidrich zum 65.
Geburtstag, heraus. von Sabine Happ und Ulrich Nonn. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag
Berlin, 2004.

Böhringer, Letha. “Beginen als Konkurrentinnen von Zunftgenossen? Kritische
Bemerkungen am Beispiel Kölner Quellen des späten Mittelalters,” in Vielfalt der
Geschichte.

Bollmann, Anne. “Apostolinne van Gode gegeven”: die Schwestern vom gemeinsamen Leben als
geistliche Reformerrinen in der Devotio moderna,” in Frömmigkeit – Theologie –
Frömmigkeitstheologie.

The Boswell thesis: essays on Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality, edited by Mathew
Kuefler. University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Mathew Kuefler, “The Boswell thesis”; Ralph Hexter, “John Boswell’s gay science:
prolegomenon to a re-reading”; Carolyn Dinshaw, “Touching on the past”;
Bernard Schlager, “Reading CSTH to a call to action: Boswell and gay-affirming
movements in American Christianity”; Mark D. Jordan, “’Both as a Christian and as a
historian’: on Boswell’s ministry”; Amy Richlin, “Fronto + Marcus: love, friendship,
letters”; Dale B. Martin, “Heterosexism and the interpretation of Romans 1:18-32”;
E. Ann Matter, “My sister, my spouse: woman-identified women in medieval
Christianity”; Bruce O’Brien, “R.W. Southern, John Boswell, and the sexuality of
Anselm”; Mathew Keufler, “Male friendship and the suspicion of sodomy in twelfth-
century France”; Mark Masterson, “Impossible translation: Antony and Paul the Simple in
the Historia Monachorum”; Jeffrey A. Bowman, “Beauty and passion in tenth-century
Cordoba”; Jacqueline Murray, “Sexual mutilation and castration anxiety: a medieval
perspective”; Penelope D. Johnson, “The body of Gerardesca of Pisa reclothed and
resexed”; Catherine M. Mooney, “Francis of Assissi as mother, father, and
androgynous figure.”

Burton, Janet. “The convent and the community: cause papers as a source for monastic
history,” in The foundations of medieval English ecclesiastical history: studies
presented to David Smith, edited by Philippa Hoskin, Christopher Brooke, and
Barrie Dobson. Studies in the history of medieval religion; XXVII. Boydell Press,
2005.

Butler, Rex D. The new prophecy and new visions: evidence of Montanism in The passion of
Perpetua and Felicitas. Patristic monograph series; v. 18. Catholic University of America
Press, 2006.

Butler, Sara M. “Maintenance agreements and male responsibility in later medieval
England,” in Boundaries of the law: geography, gender and jurisdiction in
medieval and early modern Europe, edited by A.J. Musson. Ashgate, 2005.

Christensen, Kirsten. “Unsichtbare Visionen sichtbarer Frauen. Visualisierungsstrategien in den
Texten mittelalterlicher Mystikerinnen nach 1200,” in Visualisierungsstrategien in
mittelalterlichen Bildern und Texten, Horst Wenzel und C. Stephen Jaeger, hgs.
Philologische Studien und Quellen; 195. Erich Schmidt Verlag, 2006.

Christian and Islamic gender models, edited by Kari Elisabeth Børresen. Studi e testi
tardoantichi; 2. Herder, 2004.

Patrology and eschatology: Turid Karlsen Seim, “In heaven as on earth? resurrection,
body, gender and heavenly rehearsals in Luke-Acts”; Emanuela Prinzivalli, “Early
Christian anthropology: gender models in creation and resurrection”; Kari Elisabeth
Børresen, “La féminologie d’Augustin: création, chute et résurrection”; Biancamaria
Scarcia Amoretti, “La création de l’humanité dans le Coran: quelques remarques
partiales”: Gender models and gender roles: Franca Ela Consolino, “Christianising
barbarian kingdoms: queens and conversion to Catholicism (476-604)”; Judith Herrin,
“Political power and Christian faith in Byzantium: the case of Irene (regent 780-790,
emperor 797-802)”; Manuela Marin, “Exemplary women in early islam”; Kari Vogt,
“Gender metaphors in Fariduddin Attar’s Memoirs of the saints”: Ritual impurity and
cultic exclusion: Eva Maria Synek, “The reception of Old Testament purity
prescriptions by Byzantine canon law’: Else Mundal, “Female impurity and cultic
incapability: the influence of Christianisation on Nordic gender models.”

Coletti, Theresa. “Social contexts of the East Anglian Saint play: the Digby Mary Magdalene and
the late medieval hospital?,” in Medieval East Anglia, edited by Christopher Harper-Bill.
Boydell Press, 2005.

Connon, Anne. “A prosopography of the early queens of Tara,” in The kingship and
landscape of Tara, edited by Edel Bhreathnach. Four Courts Press, 2005.

Elizabeth, of Schönau, Saint. Werke, eingeleitet, kommentiert und überstetz von Peter
Dinzelbacher. Schöningh, 2006.

Garton, Stephen. Histories of sexuality: antiquity to sexual revolution.
Routledge, 2004.

Hill, Carole. “’Leave my virginity alone’: the cult of St Margaret of Antioch in Norwich. In
pursuit of a pragmatic piety,” in Medieval East Anglia.

Household, women, and christianities in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, edited by Anneke B.
Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Medieval women: texts and contexts; 14.
Brepols, 2005.

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, “Introduction part I: household,
women, and lived christianity”; Kate Cooper, “The household and the desert: monastic
and biological communities in the Lives of Melania the Younger”; Eva M. Synek,
“’Oikos-ecclesiology’ and ‘church order’ in eastern Christianity”; Judith Herrin, “The icon
corner in medieval Byzantium”; Kate Cooper, “Household and empire: the materfamilias
as Miles christi in the anonymous Handbook for Gregoria”; Birgit Sawyer, “Faith, family,
and fortune: the effect of conversion on women in Scandinavia”; Anneke B.
Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne,”Introduction part II: medieval households”;
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, “’Our steward, St. Jerome’: theology and the Anglo-Nomran
hoiusehold”; Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen, “The monastery as a household within the
universal household”; Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, “The household as a site of civic and
religious instruction: two household books from late medieval Brabant”: Sarah Rees
Jones and Felicity Riddy, “The Bolton Hours of York: female domestic piety and the
public sphere.”

Hurlburt, Holly S. The dogaressa of Venice, 1200-1500: wife and icon. The new Middle Ages.
Palgrave, 2006.

James, Carolyn. “An insatiable appetite for news: Isabella d’ Este and a Bolognese
correspondent,” in Rituals, images, and words: varieties of cultureal expression in late
medieval and early modern Europe, edited by F. W. Kent and Charles Zika. Late medieval
early modern studies; 3. Brepols, 2005.

Keil, Martha. “Public roles of Jewish women in fourteenth and fifteenth-century

Ashkenaz: business, community, and ritual,” in The Jews of Europe in the

Middle Ages (tenth to fifteenth centuries): proceedings of the International

Symposium held at Speyer, 20-25 October 2002, edited by Christoph Cluse.

Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages; v. 4. Brepols, 2004.

Keller, Hildegard Elisabeth. “Segreti. Uno studio semantico sulla mistica femminile medievale,”
Storia delle donne 1: Concepire, generare, nascere (2005). Firenze University Press.

Kolsky, Stephen. The ghost of Boccaccio: writings on famous women in Renaissance Italy.
Late medieval and early modern studies; 7. Brepols, 2005.

Le Franc, Martin. The trial of womankind: a rhyming translation of Book IV of the

fifteenth-century Le champion des dames, edited and translated by Steven

Millen Taylor. McFarland, 2005.

Lionarons, Joyce Tally. “Dísir, valkyries, völur, and norns: the weise Frauen of the Deutsche
mythologie,” in The shadow-walkers: Jacob Grimm’s mythology of the monstrous,
edited by Tom Shippey. Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies; 291. Arizona
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.

Luongo, F. Thomas. The saintly politics of Catherine of Siena. Cornell University Press,

2006.

Matter, E. Ann. “Religious dissidence and the Bible in sixteenth-century Italy: the
idiosyncratic Bible of Lucia Brocadelli da Narni,” in Scripture and pluralism:
reading the Bible in the religiously plural worlds of the Middle Ages and
Renaissance, edited by Thomas J. Heffernan and Thomas E. Burman.
Studies in the history of Christian traditions; CXXIII. Brill, 2005.

The medieval marriage scene: prudence, passion, policy, edited by Sherry Roush and
Cristelle L. Baskins. Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies; v. 299/Penn

State Medieval studies; 1. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.

Prudence: definitions of marriage and widowhood: Judith R. Baskin, “Medieval Jewish models of marriage”; Konrad Eisenbichler, “At marriage end: Girolamo Savanarola and
the question of widows in late fifteenth-century Florence”; Dyan Elliott, “Lollardy and the
integrity of marriage and the family’: Jenny Jochens, “Germanic marriage: the case of
medieval Iceland”; Passion: sexuality and fantasy: John W. Baldwin, “The many loves of

Philip Augustus”; Cristelle L. Baskins, “Scenes from a marriage: hospitality and commerce
in Boccaccio’s Tale of Saladin and Torello”; Priscilla Bawcutt, “Women talking about marriage in William Dunbar and Hans Sachs”; Elizabeth W. Poe, “The old and the
feckless: fabliau husbands”; Policy: property, propriety, and legislation: Barbara A.
Hanawalt, “The dilemma of a widow of property for late medieval London”; Frederik
Pedersen, “Counsel and consent: preparing for marriage litigation according to the
fourteenth-century York cause papers’: Susan Mosher Stuard, “Marriage gifts and
fashion mischief”; Ronald E. Sturtz, “Tecla Servent and her two husbands.”

Menstruation: a cultural history, edited by Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie. Palgrave
Macmillan, 2005.

Andrew Shail and Gillian Howie, “Introduction: ‘Talking your body’s language’:
the menstrual materialisations of sexed ontology”; Luigi Arata, “Menses in the
Corpus Hipposcraticum”; Gabrielle Hiltmann, “Menstruation in Aristotle’s concept
of the person”; Sabine Wilms, “The art and science of menstrual balancing in early
medieval China”; Monica H. Green, “Flowers, poisons and men: menstruation in
medieval western Europe”; Bettina Bildhauer, “The Secrets of women (c. 1300): a
medieval perspective on menstruation.”

Mills, Robert. Suspended animation: pain, pleasure & punishment in medieval culture. Reaktion
Books, 2005.

Nelson, Janet. “The queen in ninth-century Wessex,” in Anglo-Saxons: studies presented to Cyril
Roy Hart, edited by Simon Keynes and Alfred P. Smyth. Four Courts Press, 2006.

Raymond, of Peñafort, Saint. Summa on marriage, translated with an introduction by Pierre
Payer. Mediaeval sources in translation; 41. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies,
2005.

Saints, scholars, and politicians: gender as a tool in medieval studies: festschrift in
honour of Anneke Mulder-Bakker on the occasion of her sixty-fifth birthday,
edited by Mathilde van Dijk and Renee Nip. Medieval church studies; 15.
Brepols, 2005.

Mathilde van Dijk, “Introduction”; Kate Cooper, “The virgin as social icon:
perspectives from late antiquity”; Geert Warnar, “Tleven ons heren Jhesu
Christi: female readers and Dutch devotional literature in the fifteenth
century”; Gabriela Signori, “Johannes Hertenstain’s translation (1425) of
Grimlaicus’s rule for the anchoresses at Steinertobel near St. Gallen”;
Bert Roest, “Ignorantia est mater omnium malorum: the validation of
knowledge and the office of preaching in late medieval female
Franciscan communities”; Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, “Women’s formal and
informal traditions of biblical knowledge in Anglo-Norman England”;
Katrinette Bodarwe, “Gender and the archive: the preservation of
charters in early medieval communities of religious women”; Mathilde van
Dijk, “Henry Mande: the making of a male visionary in Devotio moderna”;
Pauline Stafford, “The meanings of hair in the Anglo-Norman world:
masculinity, reform, and national identity”; Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski,
“Visions and schism politics in the twelfth century: Hildegard of Bingen,
John of Salisbury, and Elisabeth of Schonau”; Renee Nip, “Conflicting
roles: Jacqueline of Bavaria (d. 1436), countess and wife”; Helen Wilcox,
The metamorphosis of women?: autobiography from Margery Kempe to
Martha Moulsworth”; Gabriella Zarri, “Gender and religious autobiography
between the reformation and the counter-reformation: typologies and
examples”; Selected bibliography of Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker.

Schlotheuber, Eva. “Die Wahl der Priorin,” in Frömmigkeit – Theologie – Frömmigkeitstheologie.

Simons, Patricia. “Separating the men from the boys: masculinities in early quattrocento
Florence and Donatello’s Saint George,” in Rituals, images, and words.

Stafford, Pauline. “Chronicle D, 1067 and women: gendering conquest in eleventh-
century England,” in Anglo-Saxons.

Starkey, Kathryn. “Das unfeste Geschlecht: Überlegungen zur Entwicklung einer
volkssprachlichen Ikonographie am Beispiel des Welschen Gasts,” in
Visualisierungsstrategien in mittelalterlichen Bildern und Texten.

Stein-Kecks, Heidrun. “’Gratiam habere desideras’: die ‘mystische Kelter’ im Kapitelsaal der
Zisterzienserinnen von Sonnefeld,” in Frömmigkeit – Theologie – Frömmigkeitstheologie.

Stimmen aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklöstern: ein Hörbuch mit geistlichen Texten auf

Altsächsisch, Mittelhochdeutsch und Mittelniederdeutsch, von Jeffrey F. Hamburger,
Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Susan Marti, und Hedwig Röckelein [CD]. DeGruyter, 2005.

Storm, Monika. “Beobachtungen zum Verhältnis der Kölner Erzbischöfe zu den
weiblichen Gemeinschaften ihrer Diözese,” in Vielfalt der Geschichte.

Stahuljak, Zrinka. Bloodless genealogies of the French Middle Ages: translatio, kinship,
and metaphor. University Press of Florida, 2005.

Translating desire in medieval and early modern literature, edited by Craig A. Berry and Heather
Richardson Hayton. Medieval and Renaissance texts and studies; 294. Arizona Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2005.

“Translating desires: an introduction”; Daniel T. Kline, “Resisting the father in Pearl”;
Kathleen Long, “Victim of love: the poetics and politics of violence in ‘Le printemps’
of Theodore Agrippa D’Aubigne”; Albert Russell Ascoli, “Body politics in Ariosto’s Orlando
furioso”; Suzanne Wayne, “Desire in language and form: Heloise’s challenge to Abelard”;
V. Stanley Benfell, “Translating Petrarchan desire in Vittoria Colonna and Gaspara
Stampa”; Mary Trull, “’Odious ballads’: fallen women’s laments and All’s well that ends
well”; Heather Richardson Hayton, “Teaching how to translate: love and citizenship in
Brunetto Latini’s Tesoretto”; Craig A. Berry, “What silence desires: female inheritance
and the romance of property in the Roman de Silence”; Harry Berger Jr., “Resisting
translation: Britomart in Book 3 of Spenser’s Faerie Queene.”

Uge, Karine. Creating the monastic past in medieval Flanders. [Part II: The hagiographic cycle of
St Rictrude.] York Medieval Press, 2005.

van Houts, Elisabeth. “Gender, memories and prophecies in medieval Europe,” in
Medieval narrative sources.

Wailes, Stephen L. Spirituality and politics in the works of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim.
Susquehanna University Press, 2006.

Warren, Nancy Bradley. Women of God and arms: female spirituality and political
conflict, 1380-1600. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.

Winer, Rebecca Lynn. Women, wealth, and community in Perpignan, c. 1250-1300: Christians,
Jews, and enslaved Muslims in a medieval Mediterranean town. Ashgate, 2006.