Christine McWebb

BIBLIOGRAPHY



I BIBLIOGRAPHY (sorted by topic)

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Etude de la langue française
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Resource Guide for French Studies:

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Medieval Popular Culture
Aulotte, Robert. Le XVIe siècle. Littérature française. Nancy: Presses universitaires de Nancy, 1991.

Bakhtine, M.M. L'oeuvre de François Rabelais et la culture populaire au Moyen Age et sous la Renaissance. Paris: Gallimard: 1972.

Dinzelbacher, Peter. "Animal Trials: A Multidisciplinary Approach." Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 32:3 (Winter, 2002) 405-21.

Evans, E.P. The Medieval Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals. London, 1988.

Freedman, Paul. Images of the Medieval Peasant. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1995.

Gennep, Arnold van. Coutumes et croyances populaires en France. Paris: Chemin vert, 1980.

- - -. Manuel de folklore français contemporain. Paris: Picard, 1980-.

Gurevich, Aron. Categories of Medieval Culture. London: Routledge, 1985.

Harty, Kevin.The reel Middle Ages.


Heers, Jacques. Fêtes, jeux et joutes dans les sociétés d'Occident à la fin du Moyen Age. Montréal: Institut d'études médiévales, 1971.

Huizinga, Johan. Le déclin du Moyen Age. Paris : Payot, 1967.

McWebb, Christine. "Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan: The Symbiosis of Two Warriors in the Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc." Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc. New York: Routledge, 1996. 133-44.

Muchembled, Robert. Culture populaire et culture des élites dans la France moderne (Xve-XVIIIe siècles). Paris: Flammarion.

Park, Katharine. "Medicine and Magic: The Healing Arts." Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy. Eds. Judith C. Brown and Robert C. Davis. Longman, 1998. 129-49.

Pocs, Eva. Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age. Budapest: Central European UP, 1999.

Schmitt, Jean Claude. The Holy Greyhound: Guinefort, Healer of Children Since the Thirteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.

Steele, Ross. La civilisation en évolution. Toronto: Heinle +Heinle Publication, 1996/97 Vol 1. Institutions et culture avant la Ve République.

Vartier, Jean. Sabbat, juges et sorciers, quatre siècles de superstitions dans la France de l'Est. Paris: Hachette, 1968.

Wheeler, Bonnie and Charles T. Wood. Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Les fêtes: http://www.citadelle.org
La Guerre de Cent Ans: http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/tx2_02.htm
Le moyen âge: http://www.cssh.qc.ca/projets/carnetsma/Contenu.html
Medieval Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
Medieval Feminist Index: http://smfs.uoregon.edu
(cliquez sur "Medieval Feminist Index" en bas de la page)
La cuisine médiévale: http://www.drafkar.cjb.net/
La cathédrale de Notre-Dame de Paris: http://www.elore.com/elore04c.html

Contemporary French Culture
Flandrin, Jean-Louis and Massimo Montanari eds. Food: A Culinary History. New York: Penguin, 2000.

Forbes, Jill and Michael Kelly, eds. French Cultural Studies. An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1996.

Harty, Kevin. "Jeanne au cinéma." Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc. New York: Routledge, 1996.

Margolis, Nadia. Joan of Arc in History, Literature and Film: a Select, Annotated Bibliography. New York: Routledge, 1990

Maurin, Louis. Les Français. Toulouse: Milan, 1995..

Mennell, Stephen. All Manners of Food: Eating and Taste in England and France from the Middle Ages to the Present. Urbana: U of Illinois P, 1996.

Nadeau, Jean-Benoît. Les Français aussi ont un accent. Payot, 2002.

Storey, John, ed. What is Cultural Studies. A Reader. London: Arnold, 1996.

From Manuscript to the Printed Page to Hypertext
Allan, Graham. Intertextuality. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Aulotte, Robert. Le XVIe siècle. Littérature française. Nancy: Presses universitaires de Nancy, 1991.

Barsky, Robert. Introduction à la théorie littéraire. Québec: PU de Québec, 1997.

Bolter, J. David. Writing Space : The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing. Hillsdale, N.J. : Erlbaum Associates, c1991.

- - -. Writing Space: Computers, Hypertext, and the Remediation of Print. 2nd ed. Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum Associates, c2001.

Bourgain, Pascale. "L'édition des manuscrits." Histoire de l'édition française - Le livre conquérant. Tome 1: Du moyen âge au milieu du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Promodis, 1982, 48-75.

Cavallo, Guglielmo and Roger Chartier eds. A History of Reading in the West. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1999.

Charon-Parent, Annie. "Le monde l'imprimerie humaniste: Paris." Histoire de l'édition française - Le livre conquérant. Tome 1: Du moyen âge au milieu du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Promodis, 1982. 237-54.

Clément, Jean. "L'hypertexte de fiction: naissance d'un nouveau genre?" http://hypermedia.univ-paris8.fr/jean/articles/allc.htm.

De la Motte, Dean and Jeannene M. Przyblyski. Making the News. Modernity and the Mass Press in Nineteenth-Century France. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1999.

Delany, Paul and George P. Landow. Hypermedia and Literary Studies. Cambridge, Mass: MIT P, 1990.

Ezio Ornato. "Les conditions de production et de diffusion du livre médiéval (XIIIe-XVe siècles)." ed. J.P. Genet. Culture et idéologie dans la genèse de l'Etat moderne. Rome: Ecole française de Rome, 1985. 953-88.

Foucault, Michel. "Qu'est-ce qu'un auteur?" Bulletin de la Société française de Philosophie: Séance du samedi 22 février 1969.

Hall, David D. Cultures of Print. Essays in the History of the Book. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1996.

Higman, Francis. "Le levain de l'évangile." Histoire de l'édition française - Le livre conquérant. Tome 1: Du moyen âge au milieu du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Promodis, 1982. 305-26.

Hindmann, Sandra. Printing the Written Word : The Social History of Books, circa 1450-1520. Ithaca : Cornell UP, 1991.

- - -. Christine de Pizan's "Epistre Othea" : Painting and Politics at the Court of Charles VI. Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1986.

Histoire de l'édition française. Tome 1 Le livre conquérant. Paris: Promodis, 1982.

Hoffmann, George. "The Montaigne Monopoly: Revising the Essais under the French Privilege System," PMLA 108:2 (1993) : 308-19.

Labarre, Albert. "Les incunables: la présentation du livre." Histoire de l'édition française - Le livre conquérant. Tome 1: Du moyen âge au milieu du XVIIe siècle. Paris: Promodis, 1982.

Landow, George P. Hypertext 2.0. The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology. Baltimore, MA, 1997.

Martin, Henri-Jean. The History and Power of Writing. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1994.

McWebb, Christine. "Christine de Pizan's Lady Reason and the Book in Beinecke MS 427." Florilegium. 18.1 (2001) : 83-96.

Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry; the Limbourgs and Their contemporaries. New York: Braziller, 1974.

- - -. French Painting in the Time of Jean De Berry; the late Fourteenth century and the patronage of the Duke. London: Phaidon, 1967.

Meiss, Millard et Elizabeth H. Beatson, éds. The Belles Heures of Jean, Duke of Berry. New York: Braziller, 1974.

Minnis, Alistair J. Medieval Theory of Authorship: Scholastic Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages. Philadelphia : U of Pennsylvania P, 1987, c1988.

Nash, Susie. Between France and Flanders. Manuscript Illumination in Amiens in the Fifteenth Century. London: The British Library, 1999.

Richard Regosin. "Montaigne between the Lines: Reading the Interstices (1580, 1588, 1595)." Le Parcours des essais. Montaigne, 1588-1988.

- - -. Montaigne's Unruly Brood : Textual Engendering and the Challenge to Paternal Authority. Berkeley : U of California P, c1996.

Rouse, Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse. Manuscripts and Their Makers: Commercial Book Producers in Medieval Paris 1200-1500. 2 vols. Turnhut, Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2000.

Saenger, Paul. "Books of Hours and Reading Habits of the Later Middle Ages." The Culture of Print. Ed. R. Chartier. Princeton, 1989.

Tyson, Lois. Critical Theory Today. NewYork: Garland, 1999.

Michel de Montaigne: http://www.orst.edu/instruct/phl302/philosophers/montaigne.html
Gutenberg Bible: http://prodigi.bl.uk/gutenbg/default.asp
Johannes Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.de/english/
History of Print: http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/print.html

Courtly Love/ Troubadours/ Trobairitz/ Chrétien de Troyes
Amtower, Laurel. "Courtly Code and Conjointure: The Rhetoric of Identity in Erec et Enide." Neophilologus. 77.2 (1993) : 179-89.

Baumgartner, Emmanuele. Chrétien de Troyes: Yvain, Lancelot, la charrete et le lion. Paris: PU de France, 1992.

Barthes, Roland. Mythologies. Paris: Seuil, 1970.

Bloch, Marc. La société féodale. Paris: Albin Michel, 1968.

Bruckner, Matilda T. "Debatable Fictions: The Tensos of the Trobairitz." Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture. Eds. Donald Maddox, Sara Maddox-Sturm. Rochester, NY: Boydel and Brewer, 1994.

Cotilla-Foley, Nora. Songs of the Women Troubadours. New York: Garland, 1995.

Duby, Georges. Mâle moyen âge: de l'amour et autres essais. Paris: Flammarion, 1988.

Dulac, Liliane. "Peut-on comprendre les relations entre Erec et Enide?" Le Moyen Age. 100.1 (1994) : 37-50.

Finke, Laurie. "The Rhetoric of Desire in the Courtly Lyric." Feminist Theory, Women's Writing. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.

Fraser, Veronica. "Two Contrasting Views of Love in the Songs of the Troubadours and the Trobairitz." TENSO: Bulletin of the Société Guilhelm IX. 13.1 (1997): 24-47.

Gaunt, Simon et Sarah Kay. The Troubadours: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999.

Germain, Ellen. "Lunete, Women, and Power in Chrétien's Yvain." Romance Quarterly. 38.1 (1991) : 15-25.

Grinnell, Natalie. "The Other Woman in Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain." Critical Matrix. 10.1-2 (1996) : 36-57.

Kelly, Douglas. The Art of Medieval French Romance. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1992.

- - -. Medieval French Romance. New York: Twayne, 1993.

Krueger, Roberta. Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993.

- - -. "Love, Honor, and the Exchange of Women in Yvain: Some Remarks on the Female Reader." Arthurian Women: A Casebook. Ed. Thelma Fenster. New York, NY: Garland, 1996.

Lacy, Norris J. The New Arthurian Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1996.

Lacy, Norris J. and Geoffrey Ashe, eds. The Arthurian Handbook. New York: Garland, 1997.

Le Rider, Paule. "L'épisode de l'épervier dans Erec et Enide." Romania 116.3-4 (1998) : 368-93.

Macdonald, Aileen A. "The Female Tenso: Alamanda's Response to Guiraut de Bornelh." The World and its Rival: Essays on Literary Imagination in Honor of Per Nykrog. Eds. Karczewska, Kathryn and Tom Conley. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999.

Maddox, Donald and Sara Maddox-Sturm. Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture. Rochester, NY: Boydel and Brewer, 1994.

- - -. The Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: Once and Future Fictions. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.

- - -. Fictions of Identity in Medieval France. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.

McGuire, James. "L'onguent et l'initiative féminine dans Yvain." Romania. 112.1-2 (1991) : 65-82.

Middleton, Roger. "Structure and Chronology in Erec et Enide." Nottingham French Studies. 30.2 (1991) : 43-80.

Neufeld, Christine M. "Coconuts in Camelot: Monty Python and the Holy Grail in the Arthurian Literature Course." Florilegium 19 (2002) : 127-48.

Nicholson, Peter. "The Adventures at Laudine's Castle in Chrétien de Troyes's Yvain." Allegorica. 9 (1988-87) : 195-219.

Norris J. Lacy and Geoffrey Ashe, eds. The Arthurian Handbook. New York: Garland, 1997.

Paden, William. The Voice of the Trobairitz. Philadelphia: U of Philadelphia P, 1989.

Ramey, Lynn. "Representations of Women in Chrétien's Erec et Enide: Courtly Literature or Misogyny?" Romanic Review. 83.4 (1993) : 377-86.

Rieger, Angelica. "Alamanda de Castelnau: Une trobairitz dans l'entourage des comtes de Toulouse?" Les troubadours et l'état toulousain avant la Croisade (1209). Bordeaux: Bordes, 1995.

Spampinato-Beretta, Margherita. "Les trobairitz: la voix féminine au moyen âge." Revue des langues romanes. 100.1 (1996): 17-48.

Steele, Stephen. "Rape in the Eye of the Reader: Sexual Violence in Chrétien's Yvain." Dalhousie French Studies. 30 (1995) : 11-16.

Taylor, Karen J. Gender Transgressions: Crossing the Normative Boundary in Old French Literature. New York, NY: Garland, 1998.

http://www.cssh.qc.ca/projets/carnetsma/Troubadours.html

http://panther.bsc.edu/~arthur/

Secondary Literature on Women and on Texts Written by Women in the Middle Ages
Amt, Emilie. Women's Lives in Medieval Europe. New York: Routledge, 1993.

Carlson, Cindy, J. and Angela J. Weisl. Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages. New York, NY: St. Martin's, 1999.

Caviness, Madeline H. Visualizing Women in the Middle Ages: Sight, Spectacle, and Scopic Economy. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2001.

Chance, Jane. Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996.

Cherawatuk, Karen and Ulrike Withaus, eds. Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 1993.

Classen, Albrecht. Frauen in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte. Die ersten 800 Jahre. Ein Lesebuch. New York: Peter Lang, 2000

Duby, Georges and Michelle Perrot. Histoire des femmes. Le moyen âge. Paris: Plon, 1991.

Ferrante, Joan M. "The Education of Women in the Middle Ages in Theory, Fact, and Fantasy." Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past. 9-42.

- - -. To the Glory of her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1997.

Finke, Laurie. Feminist Theory, Women's Writing. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1992.

Furst, Lilian R. Women Healers and Physicians: Climbing a Long Hill. Lexington, KY: UP of Kentucky, 1997.

Green, Monica, ed. and trans. The "Trotula": A Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2001

Kelly, Joan. "Did Women have a Renaissance?" Women, History, and Theory. The Essays of Joan Kelly. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1984.

Labalme, Patricia. i. New York: New York UP, 1980.

Lafont, Robert. "La voix des dames." Revue des langues romanes. 5 (1997): 185-205.

Park, Katharine. "Medicine and Magic: The Healing Arts." Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy. Eds. Judith C. Brown and Robert C. Davis. Longman, 1998. 129-49.

Partner, Nancy F. "No Sex, No Gender." Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies 68 (1993) : 419-43.

Pocs, Eva. Between the Living and the Dead: A Perspective on Witches and Seers in the Early Modern Age. Budapest: Central European UP, 1999.

Shahar, Shulamith. The Fourth Estate. A History of Women in the Middle Ages. London: Routledge, 1983.

Showalter, Elaine. Speaking of Gender. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Smith, Lesley, Jane H.M. Taylor, eds. Women, the Book and the Godly. Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993.

- - -. Women, the Book and the Wordly.

- - -. Women and the Book : Assessing the Visual Evidence. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1996.

Solterer, Helen. The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.

Thiébaux, Marcelle. The Writings of Medieval Women. An Anthology. New York: Garland, 1994.

Wilson, Katharina, ed. Medieval Women Writers. Athens: The U of Georgia P, 1984.

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarschip: http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/proj/smfs/
Medieval Women: http://www.georgetown.edu/labyrinth/subjects/women/women.html
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/womenbib.html

Hrotsvith von Gandersheim
Gold, Barbara K. "Hrotswitha Writes Herself: ‘Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis." Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition. Eds. Barbara K. Gold, Paul Allen Miller, and Charles Platter. New York: State U of New York P, 1997. 41-70.

Sperberg-McQueen, M.R. "Whose Body Is it? Chaste Strategies and the Reinforcement of Patriarchy in Three Plays by Hrotswitha of Gandersheim." Women in German Yearbook 8 (1992) : 47-71.

Tamerl, Alfred. Hrotsvith von Gandersheim. Eine Entmystifizierung. Gräfelfing: Mantis, 1999.

Wilson, Katharina. Hrotsvit of Gandersheim. A Florilegium of her Works.

- - -. Hrotsvitha, ca. 935-ca. 975. Plays. New York: Garland, 1989.

- - -. "Medieval Literary Genre Mixing: The Plays of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim." Magistra 1.2 (1995) : 322-332.

Héloise
Brown, Catherine. "Muliebriter: Doing Gender in the Letters of Heloise." Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996.

Duby, Georges. Dames du XIIe siècle. Paris: Gallimard, 1995.

Newman, Barbara. "Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise." Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies. 22.2 (1992): 121-57.

Solterer, Helen. The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.

Marie de France
Bruckner, Matilda T. "Conteur oral/recueil écrit: Marie de France et la clôture des Lais." Op.Cit.: Revue de littératures française et comparée. 5 (1995): 5-13.

- - -. "Strategies of Naming in Marie de France's Lais: At the Crossroads of Gender and Genre." Neophilologus 75.1 (1991): 31-40.

Burgess, Glyn S. The ‘lais' of Marie de France: Text and Context. Athens, Georgia: U of Georgia P, 1987.

Cotilla-Foley, Nora. "The Structuring of Feminine Empowerment: Gender and Triangular Relationships in Marie de France." Gender Transgressions: Crossing the Normative Boundary in Old French Literature. Ed. Karen Taylor. New York, NY: Garland, 1998.

Dufournet, Jean, ed. Amour et merveille: Les Lais de Marie de France. Paris: Champion, 1995.

Guidot, Bernard. "Pouvoirs et séductions dans les Lais de Marie de France." Romanische Forschungen. 102.4 (1990): 425-33.

Loriot-Raymer, Gisele. "Femme et fin'amors dans les Lais de Marie de France." Cincinnati Romance Review. 6 (1987): 88-101.

Pickens, Rupert. "The Poetics of Androgyny in the Lais of Marie de France: Yonec, Milun, and the General Prologue." Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture. Eds. Donald Maddox, Sara Maddox-Sturm. Rochester, NY: Boydel and Brewer, 1994.

- - -. "Marie de France and the Body Poetic." Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Ed. Jane Chance. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1996.

Le Mesnager de Paris
Ferrier, J.M. "Seulement pour vous endoctriner: The Author's Use of exempla in Le Ménagier de Paris". Medium Aevum. 48 (1979) : 77-89.

http://www.pbm.com/%7Elindahl/menagier/

Christine de Pizan
Arden, Heather. "Women's History and the Rhetoric of Persuasion in Christine de Pizan's Cité des dames." Moyen Français. (1997): 7-17.

Blamires, Alcuin. A Case for Women in Medieval Culture. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1997.

Brook, Leslie. "Christine de Pisan, Heloise, and Abelard's Holy Women." Zeitschrift für Romanische Philologie. 109.5-6 (1993): 556-63.

Brown-Grant, Rosalind. Christine de Pizan and the Moral Decadence of Women: Reading beyond Gender. Cambridge: Studies in Medieval Literature, 1999.

Brownlee, Kevin et Walter Stephens. Discourses of Authority in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. Hanover, NH: UP of New England, 1989.

Case, Mary-Anne. "Christine de Pizan and the Authority of Experience." Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. Ed. Marilynn Desmond. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998.

Cerquiglini, Jacqueline. "L'étrangère." Revue des langues modernes. 2 (1988): 239-51.

Desmond, Marilynn. Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1998.

Hicks, Eric. Au champ des escriptures. IIIe Colloque international sur Christine de Pizan. Paris: Champion, 2000.

McWebb, Christine. "Joan of Arc and Christine de Pizan: The Symbiosis of Two Warriors in the Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc." Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc. Eds. Bonnie Wheeler, Charles T. Wood. New York, NY: Garland, 1996.

- - -. "Lyrical Conventions and the Creation of Female Subjectivity in Christine de Pizan's Cent ballades d'amant et de dame." Christine de Pizan and Medieval French Lyric. Ed. Earl Jeffrey Richards. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1998.

Ostriker, Alicia. "The Thieves of Language: Women, Poets and Revisionist Mythmaking." Signs. A Journal of Women in Culture and Society 8 (1982) : 68-90.

Quilligan, Maureen. The Allegory of Female Authority. Christine de Pizan's Cité des dames. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991.

- - -. "The Name of the Author: Self-Representation in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames." Exemplaria. 4 (1992): 201-89.

- - -. "Allegory and the Textual Body: Female Authority in Christine de Pizan's Livre de la cité des dames." Romanic Review 79 (1988) : 222-48.

Richards, Earl Jeffrey, ed. Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1992.

Schibanoff, Susan. "Taking the Gold out of Egypt: The Art of Reading as a Woman." Gender and Reading: Essays on Readers, Texts and Contexts. 3 (1986): 83-106.

Solterer, Helen. The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture. Berkeley: U of California P, 1995.

Willard, Charity Cannon. Christine de Pizan. Her Life and Works. A Biography. New York: Persea Books, 1982.

Female Mysticism
Andersen, Elizebeth. A. "Mechthild von Magdeburg: Her Creativity and Her Audience." Women, the Book and the Godly. Eds. Lesley Smith and Jane H.M. Taylor. D.S. Brewer, 1995. 77-88.

Beer, Frances. Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press, 1992.

Bynum, Caroline Walker. Holy Feast and Holy Fast : the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley : U of California P, c1987.

- - -. Jesus as Mother. Studies in the Spirituality in the High Middle Ages. Berkeley, LA: U of California P, 1982.

Davidson, Audrey Ekdahl, ed. The "Ordo Virtutum" of Hildegard von Bingen. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1992.

Dinzelbacher, Peter. Mittelalterliche Frauenmystik. Paderborn: Schöningh: 1993.

- - -. Frauenmystik im Mittelalter. Weingarten: Schwabenverlag, 1984.

- - -. Mittelalterliche Visionsliteratur. Eine Anthologie. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft.

Dor, Juliette, Lesley Johnson and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, eds. New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and Their Impact. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999.

Dreyer, Elizabeth. Passionate Women: Two Medieval Mystics. New York: Paulist P, 1989.

Finnegan, Mary Jeremy. The Women of Helfta: Scholars and Mystics. Athen, GA: U of Georgia P, 1991.

Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Fox, Matthew. Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen. Sante Fe, NM: Bear and Co., 1985.

Galloway, Penelope. " ‘Discreet and Devout Maidens. Women's Involvement in Beguine Communities in Northern France, 1200-1500." Medieval Women in Their Communities. Ed. Diane Watt. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1997. 92-115.

Harline, Craig. "Actives and Contemplatives: The Female Religious of the Low Countries Before and After Trent." Catholic Historical Review 81.4 (1995) : 541-67.

Jaron Lewis, Gertrud. "Christus als Frau. Eine Vision Elisabeths von Schönau." Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik 15.1-2 (1983) : 70-80.

Kerner, Charlotte. Alle Schönheit des Himmels. Die Lebensgeschichte der Hildegard von Bingen. Weinheim: Beltz, 1993.

Lerner, Robert. The Heresy of the Free Spirit in the Later Middle Ages. Berkeley: U of California P, 1972.

Lewis, Gertrud Jaron. Bibliographie zur deutchen Frauenmystik des Mittelalters. Berlin: Schmidt, 1989.

Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B. "Lame Margaret of Magdeburg: The Social Function of a Medieval Recluse." Journal of Medieval History. 22.2 (1996) : 155-69.

Newman, Barbara. Sister of Wisdom. St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine. Berkeley: U of California P, 1987.

Petroff, Elizabeth Alvilda, ed. Medieval Women's Visionary Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Strehlow, Wighard. Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine. Santa Fe, NM: Bear and Co., 1988.

Tobin, Frank. "Audience, Authorship, and Authority in Mechthild von Magdeburg's ‘Flowing Light of the Godhead'." Mystics Quarterly. 23.1 (1997) : 8-17.

Von Bingen, Hildegard. Nun höre und lerne, damit du errötest. . . Briefwechsel. Herder/Spektrum, 1997.

http://tweedledee.ucsb.edu/%7Ekris/music/Hildegard.html
http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/hildegar.htm
The Beguines:
1. http://www2.kenyon.edu/projects/margin/beguines.htm
2. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02389c.htm
4. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/bernardgui-inq.html
5. http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/xpxx/beguines.html

General Studies on Medieval Literature
Bumke, Joachim. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im hohen Mittelalter. München: dtv, 1990.

Cramer, Thomas: Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im späten Mittelalter. München: dtv, 1990.

Kartoschke, Dieter. Geschichte der deutschen Literatur im frühen Mittelalter. München: dtv, 1990.

Zumthor, Paul. Essai de la poétique médiévale. Paris: Seuil, 1972.

Films:

"In the Symphony of the World: A Portrait of Hildegard of Bingen" Jo Francis and John Fuegi, 1999.
"The Burning Times" National Film Board of Canada

For a catalogue and descriptions of films about the Middle Ages, see:

Harty, Kevin J. The Reel Middle Ages : American, Western and Eastern European, Middle Eastern and Asian Films about Medieval Europe. Jefferson, NC : McFarland, c1999.

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