Geoffrey Chaucer: Feminist Or Not? By Michael Carosone Published Online (2011) Introduction: Her name is Alisoun, but she is better known as “The Wife of Bath.” An excellent weaver and better wife, she has had five husbands— the fifth was half her age. She is a large woman with a gap between her front teeth and […]
Breaking Through the Stained Glass Barrier: The Voices of Etheldreda,
September 9, 2011 By
Breaking Through the Stained Glass Barrier: The Voices of Etheldreda, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret of Antioch Delsigne, Jill Scripps College (2004) Abstract Saint Etheldreda, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and Saint Margaret of Antioch seem frozen and silenced in their stained glass images; however, the stories of strong women, whether fantastical or real, spoke to […]
“Her Book Not His”: Women and Their Book Collections in Medieval And Early Modern Europe
September 8, 2011 By
“Her Book Not His”: Women and Their Book Collections in Medieval And Early Modern Europe Ellison, Melinda (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Master of Science in Library Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, July (2001) Abstract In a surviving copy of the seventeenth century English publication, Culpepper’s Directory for Midwives, the phrase “Elizabeth […]
An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy
September 8, 2011 By
An Introduction to Olympia Morata, a Forgotten, Feminist Voice from Sixteenth Century Italy Webb, Val (Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN) Sea Changes, Vol.1 (2001) Abstract I met Olympia Morata in the British Library while searching for women lost from history. My search word ‘heroine’ uncovered an 1864 inspirational collection Heroines of the Household. Olympia was the […]
Madonna Bellina, ‘astounding’ Jewish musician in mid-sixteenth-century Venice
September 7, 2011 By
Madonna Bellina, ‘astounding’ Jewish musician in mid-sixteenth-century Venice Harran, Don Renaissance Studies Vol. 22 No. 1(2007) Abstract Around 1550, the Venetian playwright and satirist Andrea Calmo (d. 1571) wrote a love letter to a certain Madonna Bellina, a Jewess, commending her for her skills as singer and instrumentalist. There were doubtless other Jewish women who […]
Bridging the Gap: Finding a Valkyrie in a Riddle
September 7, 2011 By
Bridging the Gap: Finding a Valkyrie in a Riddle Culver, Jennifer (University of North Texas) M.A. Thesis, University of North Texas, May (2007) Abstract While many riddles exist in the Anglo-Saxon Exeter Book containing female characters, both as actual human females and personified objects and aspects of nature, few scholars have discussed how the anthropomorphized […]
Sofonisba Anguissola: Marvel of Nature
September 6, 2011 By
Sofonisba Anguissola: Marvel of Nature Fulmer, Betsy Academic Forum, No.23 (2005-6) Abstract Born in Italy during the Renaissance, Sofonisba Anguissola was the first internationally recognized female artist. This paper examines the events that advanced her career and the cultural situation in which she found herself competing as an artist. Uniquely, during the Italian Renaissance arose […]
Masolino’s Saint Catherine of Alexandria: Mystic Saint or Female Role Model?
September 3, 2011 By
Masolino’s Saint Catherine of Alexandria: Mystic Saint or Female Role Model? Macdonald, Una (Published Online, 2007) Abstract In 1860 Jacob Burckhardt in his seminal book The civilization of the Renaissance in Italy argued that Renaissance women ‘stood on a footing of perfect equality with men’ and put forward the idea that the Renaissance represented a period […]
Fama et Memoria: Portraits of Female Patrons in Mosaic Pavements of Churches in Byzantine Palestine and Arabia
September 2, 2011 By
Fama et Memoria: Portraits of Female Patrons in Mosaic Pavements of Churches in ByzantinePalestine and Arabia Britt, Karen C. Medieval Feminist Forum, 44, no. 2 (2008) Abstract When we think of portraits that memorialize the contributions of female donors to the construction and adornment of Byzantine churches, or to support their liturgical functions, the images that […]
Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies: A Monumental (Re)construction of, by, and for Women of All Time
September 2, 2011 By
Christine de Pizan’s City of Ladies: A Monumental (Re)construction of, by, and for Women ofAll Time Wagner, Jill E. Medieval Feminist Forum, 44, no. 1 (2008) Abstract Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies, written over six centuries ago, is neither simple nor simplistic. As the first known history of women in Western civilization from […]
Gender, religion and society : a study of women and convent life in coptic orthodox Egypt
August 31, 2011 By
Gender, religion and society : a study of women and convent life in coptic orthodox Egypt Jeppson, Karolina M.A. Cultural Anthropology Thesis,Uppsala University, May (2003) Abstract This study deals with the interrelations between gender, religion and society in the context of contemporary Coptic Orthodox Egypt, with a focus on Coptic nuns and convent life. In the […]
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