WOMEN WRITERS OF THE MIDDLE AGES

A Bibliography of Books
ABOUT Women Writers of the Middle Ages
in the
University of Calgary Library

 

Caterina de Genova, 1447-1510

Mystical Element of Religion: as studied in Saint Catherine of Genoa and her friends / Friedrich Hügel. London: Dent, 1961, (c1908). 2 v.
BX4700 .C36 H9

Catherine of Siena, Saint, 1347-1380

Catharine of Siena: a biography / Josephine E. Butler.  London: Dyer Brothers, 1878. 338 p.
BX4700 .C4 B86 1878

Catherine of Siena: vision through a distant eye / Suzanne Noffke.  Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, c1996. 267 p.
BX4700 .C4 N64 1996

Catherine of Siena's way / Mary Ann Fatula.  Wilmington, Del.: Glazier, 1987. 219 p. (Way of the Christian mystics; v.4).
BX4700 .C4 F37 1987

Identity as Text in Context: the life of St. Catherine of Siena / Scheelar Husby.  Ottawa: National Library of Canada, c1994. 3 microfiche.
BX4700 .C4 H87 1994

Life of Saint Catharine of Sienna, : by the Blessed Raymond of Capua, her confessor. Philadelphia: P.F. Cunningham, 1859. 432 p.
BX4700 .C4 R391 1859

Saint Catherine of Siena; : a study in the religion, literature and history of the fourteenth century in Italy / Edmund G. Gardner.  London: J.M. Dent, 1907. 439 p.
BX4700 .C4 G35 1907

Sainte Catherine de Sienne: essai de critique des sources; Les oeuvres de Sainte Catherine de Siene / Robert Fawtier.  sn. sl., 1920.
BX4700 .C4 F38 1930

Laura Cereta, 1469-1499

Laura Cereta, quattrocento humanist / Alberta Rabil.  Binghamton, N.Y.: State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1981. 179 p.
PA85 .C4 R323 1981

Christine de Pisan, 1364-1431

The Allegory of Female Authority: Christine de Pizan's Cite des dames / Maureen Quilligan.  Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991.  290 .
PQ1575 .L56 Q55 1991

Christine de Pisan: a bibliography.  2nd ed.  Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1989. 185 p.
PQ1575 .Z5 Y44 1989

Christine de Pizan: a bibliographical guide.  London: Grant & Cutler, 1984. 131 p.
PQ1575 .Z5 K44 1984

Le Débat sur le Roman de la Rose: Christine de Pisan, Jean Gerson, Jean de Montreuil, Gontier et Pierre Col / edition critique, introduction, traductions, notes par Eric Hicks. Paris: Champion, 1977. 236 p.
PQ1528 .H52 1977

The Order of the Rose: the life and ideas of Christine de Pisan / Enid McLeod.  London: Chatto & Windus, 1976.  185 p.
PQ1575 .Z5 M22 1976

Reinterpreting Christine de Pisan / edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards.  Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1992. 310 p.
PQ1575 .Z5 R48 1992

Comnena, Anna, b.1083

Anna Comnena, a study / Georgina Grenfell Buckler.
DF605.3 .B82 1929

Eudoria, d.460

Athenaïs: imperatrice de Byzance / I. Tsatsou.  Paris: Belles lettres, 1976. 183 p.
DF562.6 .T712 1976

Gertrude the Great, Saint, 1256-1302

The Women of Helfta: scholars and mystics / Mary Jeremy Finnegan.  Rev. ed. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Presss, 1991. 171 p.
BX4667 .F56 1991

Hadewijch, 13th century

Hadewijch and her Sisters: other ways of loving and knowing / John Giles Milhaven.  Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. 171 p.
B765 .H334 M55 1993

The Measure of Mystic Thought: a study of Hadewijch's Mengeldichten / S.M. Murk Jansen.  Göppingen, West Germany: Kümmerle, 1991. 252 p.
PF3003 .G64 N4.536

Passionate women: two medieval myths / Elizabeth Dreyer.  New York: Paulist Press, 1989. 89 p.
BV5095 .A1 D73 1989

Some Aspects of Hadewijch's Poetic Form in the "Strofische gedichten" / Tanis M. Guest.  The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1975. 288 p.
PT5559 .H32 S834 1975

Heloise, 1101-1164

Abelard and Heloise / Durant Waite Robertson.  New York: Dial Press, 1972. 238 p.
B765 .A24 R64 1972

Abelard and Heloise in Medieval Testimonies / Peter Dronke.  [Glasgow]: University of Glasgow Press, 1975. 63 p.
BX4705 .H463 D74 1976

The Education of Heloise: methods, content, and purpose of learning in the twelfth century / Elizabeth Mary McNamer.  Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, c1991. 188 p.
LA2375 .F72 H45 1991

Fictions of Feminine Desire: disclosures of Heloise / Peggy Kamuf.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, c1982. 170 p.
PQ645 .K34 1982

Héloïse and Abélard /  Étienne Gilson. Chicago: Regnery, 1951. 194 p.
BX4705 .A14 G4E

Héloïse et Abélard / Étienne Gilson.  3rd ed. Paris: Vrin, 1964. 212 p.
BX4705 .A14 G4 1964

Plus Jamais l'amour Éternel: Heloise sans Abelard / Marcelle Brisson.  [Montreal]: Nouvelle optique, 1981. 176 p.
PA8201 .A9 B7 1981

Hildegard, of Bingen Saint, 1098-1179

From Magic to Science: essays on the scientific twilight / Charles Joseph Singer.  New York: Dover Publications [1958]. 253 p.
Q125 .S53 1958

Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: a visionary life / Sabina Flanagan.  London: Routledge, 1989. 229 p.
BX4700 .H5 F52 1989

Hildegard of Bingen: the woman of her age / Fiona Maddocks.  New York; Toronto: Doubleday, 2001.  332 p.
BX4700 .H5 M33 2001

The "Ordo Virtutum" of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies / Audrey Ekdahl Davidson.  Kalamazoo, Mich.: Western Michigan University, Medieval Institute Publications, 1992.  128 p.
BX4700 .H5 O73 1992

Passionate Women: two medieval myths. New York: Paulist Press, 1989. 89 p.
BV5095 .A1 D73 1989

Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's theology of the feminine. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1987. 289 p.
BX4700 .H5 N48 1987

Visionary Women: three medieval myths / Rosemary Radford Ruether.  Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, c2002.  81 p.
BV5095 .A1 R84 2002

Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and her world / Barbara Newman. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, c1998. 278 p.
BX4700 .H5 V65 1998

Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages / Frances Beer.  Woodbridge, England: Boydell, 1992. 174 p.
BV5095 .H55 B44 1992

Hrotsvitha, 935-975

Herrscher-und Märtyrerauffassung bei Hrotsvit von Gandersheim / Marianne Schütze-Pflugk.  Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner, 1972. 129 p.
BR1602 .S45 1972

Hroswitha of Gandersheim: her life, times, and works, and a comprehensive bibliography / Anne (Lyon) Haight.  New York: Hroswitha Club, 1965. 129 p.
PA8340 .H33 1965

Hroswitha of Gandersheim: rara avis in Saxonia?: a colection of essays / compiled and edited by Katharina M. Wilson.  Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, c1987.  285 p.
PA8340 .H77 1987

Hrotsvit von Gandersheim / Bert Nagel.  Stuttgart: Metzler. 1965. 89 p.
PA8340 .N33 1965

Julian of Norwich, 1343-1416/1423

Christ Our Mother: Julian of Norwich / Brant Pelphrey.  London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1989. 271 p. (The Way of the Christian mystics; v.7).
BV5095 .J84 P44 1989

"God is our mother": Julian of Norwich and the medieval image of Christian feminine divinity / Jennifer P. Heimmel.  Salzburg, Austria: Universität Salzburg. Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1982. 111 p. (Salzburg studies in English literature. Elizabethan & Renaissance studies; 92:5).
BT153 .M6 H44 1982

The Influence of Richard Rolle and of Julian of Norwich on the Middle English Lyrics / Mary Arthur Knowlton.  The Hague, Mouton, 1973 c1972. 208 p.
PR2136 .K6 1972

Julian of Norwich: mystic and theologian / Grace Jantzen.  New York: Paulist Press, 1988. 230 p.
BV5095 .J84 J36 1988

Love was His Meaning: the theology and mysticism of Julian of Norwich / Brant Pelphrey.  Salzburg, Austria: Universität Salzburg. Institut füt Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 1982. (Salzburg studies in English literature. Elizabethan & Renaissance studies; 92:4).
BV4831 .J85 P44 1982

Middle English Prose Style: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich / Robert Karl Stone.  The Hague: Mouton, 1970. 216 p..
PR2007 .K4 Z87 1970

On Julian of Norwich: and, In defence of Margery Kempe / Edward Ingram Watkin.  Exeter, England: University of Exeter, 1979. 65 p. (Exeter medieval English texts and studies).
BV4831 .J85 W36 1979

Wisdom's Daughter: the theology of Julian of Norwich / Joan M. Nuth.  New York: Crossroad, 1991. 217 p.
BV5095 .J84 N88 1991

Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages / Frances Beer. Woodbridge, England: Boydell, 1992. 174 p.
BV5095 .H55 B44 1992

The Women of Helfta: scholars and mystics / Mary Jeremy Finnegan.  Rev. ed. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Presss, 1991. 171 p.
BX4667 .F56 1991

Kempe, Margery, 1373-ca.1438

Margery Kempe: a book of essays / Sandra J. McEntire.  New York: Garland, 1992. 258 p. (Garland reference library of the humanities. Garland medieval casebooks; v.4.)
PR2007 .K4 Z78 1992

Margery Kempe: an example in the English pastoral tradition / Martin Thornton.  London: S.P.C.K., 1960. 120 p.
BV5095 .K4 T45 1960

Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh / Karma Lochrie.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 991. 253 p.
PR2007 .K4 Z72 1991

Margery Kempe of Lynn and Medieval England / Margaret Gallyon.  Norwich: Canterbury Press, c1995. 226 p.
PR2007 .K4 Z67 1995

Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: the life and times of Margery Kempe / Louise Collis.  New York: HarperColophon, 1983. 269 p.
PR2007 .K4 Z62 1983

Middle English Prose Style: Margery Kempe and Julian of Norwich / Robert Karl Stone.  The Hague: Mouton, 1970. 216 p.
PR2007 .K4 Z87 1970

Mystic and Pilgrim: the Book and the world of Margery Kempe / Clarissa W. Atkinson.  Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1983. 241 p.
PR2007 .K4 Z54 1983

On Julian of Norwich: and, In Defence of Margery Kempe  / Edward Ingram Watkin.  Exeter, England: University of Exeter, 1979. 65 p.
BV4831 .J85 W36 1979

The Revelations of Margery Kempe: paramystical practices in late medieval England / John C. Hirsh.  Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 1989. 127 p. (Medieval and Renaissance authors; v.10).
PR2007 .K4 Z685 1989

Marguerite of Anjou, 1430-1482

Margaret of Anjou, Queen of England / Philippe Erlanger.  Coral Gables, Fla.: University of Miami Press, [1971, c1970]. 251 p.
DA247 .M3 E741 1971

Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

Celestial ladders: readings in Marguerite de Navarre's poetry of spiritual ascent  / Paula Sommers.  Droz: Geneva, 1989.  118 p.
PQ1632 .S65 1989

The Grammar of Silence: a reading of Marguerite de Navarre's poetry / Robert D. Cottrell.  Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1986.  338 p.
PQ1632 .C67 1986

Marguerite de Navarre: an annotated bibliography  / H.P. Clive.  London: Grant & Cutler, 1983.  170 p.
PQ1632 .C56 1983

The Storytellers in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron / Betty J. Davis.  Lexington, Ky.: French Forum, 1978.  203 p.
PQ1631 .H4 D3 1978

World of many loves: the Heptameron of Marguerite de Navarre  / Jules Gelernt.  
PQ1631 .H4 G4 1966

Marie de France

In quest of Marie de France, a twelfth-century poet / edited with an introduction by Chantal E. Marechal.  Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1992.  294 p.
PQ1495 .I58 1992

The Lais of Marie de France: text and context / Glyn S. Burgess. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1987.  245 p.
PQ1494 .L7 B87 1987

Le vocabulaire des Lais de Marie de France / Denise McClelland.  Ottawa: Editions de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 1977.  203 p.
PQ1494 .L7 M33 1977

Marie de France / Emanuel J. Mickel.  New York: Twayne, 1974.  189 p.
PQ1495 .M54 1974

Marie de France: an analytical bibliography / Glyn S. Burgess.  London: Grant & Cutler, 1977.  133 p.
PQ1495 .B85 1977

Marie de France: an analytical bibliography; supplement no. 1 / Glyn S. Burgess.  London: Grant & Cutler, 1986.  76 p.
PQ1495 .B85 1986

Mechtild of Hackeborn, 1241-1245

The Women of Helfta: scholars and mystics / Mary Jeremy Finnegan.  Rev. ed. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Presss, 1991. 171 p.
BX4667 .F56 1991

Mechtild of Magdeburg, 1212-1282

Visionary women: three medieval mystics / Rosemary Radford Ruether.  Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, c2002.  81 p.
BV5095 .A1 R84 2002

Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages / Frances Beer.  Woodbridge, England: Boydell, 1992. 174 p.
BV5095 .H55 B44 1992

The Women of Helfta: scholars and mystics / Mary Jeremy Finnegan.  Rev. ed. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Presss, 1991. 171 p.
BX4667 .F56 1991

The Pastons

A Medieval Family: the Pastons of fifteenth-century England / Frances and Joseph Gies. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. 340 p.
DA240 .G54 1998

The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: the first phase / Colin Richard.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. 269 p.
DA240 .R53 1990

The Pastons: a family in the War of the Roses / Richard Barber.  Woodbridge, England: Boydell, 1993. 208 p.
DA240 .P37 1992

The Pastons and their England: studies in an age of transition / Henry Stanley Bennett.  Cambridge: University Press, 1922. 289 p. (Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought).
DA240 .B44

 

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