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.
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.
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.
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.