A few articles

A few articles to talk about sometime:

Education and Pornography
Should teachers discuss pornography as part of a child’s sex education? (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20042508.)

Do we need more ways to measure HE?

Why is everyone so annoyed with me?
A recent opinion piece by a Nottingham academic in the New York Times on whether literature can help us to become better human beings has sparked fierce debate across the internet. Professor Gregory Currie, of the Department of Philosophy, looks at the arguments for and against and why his editorial has caused passions to run high.
~~ fiction has taught me emotive responses

The Political Power of the Idea
Because they can contain ideas, the tyrant will always fear the power of words and images. It may be force that ultimately topples them, but it is always an idea that motivates people to threaten such force. Ideas may be vague or mean many different things – freedom, equality, fairness, change – but if enough of the people can unite around them, the unjust ruler knows there is everything to fear.

Self-Doubt

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by." 

~ Douglas Adams (Simpson, 2003)

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Or perhaps I ought to quote Britney with “Oops, I did it again!” but that’s a shuddersome thought, so I shall NOT go there *fingers in ears, whistling*

I am good at talking myself out of doing things because I doubt myself to the point where I convince myself it’s pointless trying. It is something about myself I am trying my hardest to stop now that I’ve caught myself doing it, and I’m realising it’s a fault I’ve been guilty of over most of my life so it’s going to be a hard habit to break, but ultimately one I NEED to fix.

So far this year I have not done many things I wanted to do. This is pathetic and I must fix it.
To self shame, here is my list of things I've not done because I've talked myself out of it. Some are retrievable and I WILL do so.

• Applied to Manchester (MA / MRes) 
• Applied to Leeds (MRes) 
• Applied to Trinity St. David’s (MA) 
• Contacted Birmingham (MRes) 
• Applied for an awesome Institutional Repository job 
• Applied for another half dozen jobs

It’s June, that means 6 months of this year gone. I need to be realistic and pragmatic, but I also need to take some risks. Not bad risks, just to try things that might fail. I’ve made a small start – I have applied to some jobs which are probably beyond my reach (Hi there Oxbridge), which would be dream opportunities for me. Not all of this has been self-doubt and procrastination though – I’ve lost the last two weekends to in-law deaths and big figure family birthdays, which I things I have to acknowledge as being beyond my control.

I will say though, that more and more jobs are fibbing about what is Essential vs. Desirable. It used to be (or at least it seemed that way), that if you met all the essentials, you would get a call to interview, but now it seems that unless you also meet ALL the desirables, you’re not really in with a chance. Either that or every single job I’ve applied for over the last year or so has had someone already in mind, which I doubt!

My plan to stop dithering:

1. Complete MRes draft by Next weekend – all the background is done, the reading that isn’t complete can be done after I’ve passed it to Potential Supervisor #1 for commentary
   Problems to solve – “I’m not good enough!” “My research idea is poor!” “They’ll laugh at me” and “But it’s not perfect!” 
2. Apply for a job per week – if I don’t get interviews, I don’t get interviews, but it’s practice at selling myself
   Problems to solve – “I’m not good enough!” “My experience is insufficient!” “I don’t know how to describe how I know it” 
3. Fill in applications for Manchester(s) and TSD
   Problems – Pretty much as for #1 
4. Contact Potential Supervisor #2 – while doing background reading I noticed that two people who are/have been researching related aspects had both had the same PhD supervisor in the last couple of years. I will send Draft to her and ask whether they feels this is an area they could supervise.
   Problems to solve – All of #1 PLUS “They won’t want to talk to someone like me!” and “They won’t even bother to reply”

Initial responses to my internal wibblings:

“I’m not good enough!”
I have a good (2:1) undergraduate degree from a perfectly good university and an MA from prestigious one. I am passionate and interested.

“My research idea is poor!”
That is what the submission of the first draft to supervisor will challenge (either me or the idea!)

“They’ll laugh at me” / “They won’t want to talk to someone like me!”
If they do, I won’t go there, but most academics I have spoken to have been positive and encouraging. The only knockbacks have actually been from administrators at a general level, or from other faculties (i.e. ones I wasn’t interested in anyway!)

“They won’t even bother to reply”
That has only happened once, and I probably didn’t approach the situation in the correct way. This time I have spoken to Academic #1 in person (who asked me to send a draft), and I will contact #2 with draft so that there is something to discuss rather than a vague “I’d like to study with you”.

“But it’s not perfect!”
It won’t be – I have to just deal with that fact!

“I’m not good enough!”
Try, learn, try again, learn more

“My experience is insufficient!”
13 years post graduation is NOT insufficient (in general)! Work with The Ginger One to practice elaborating on what I have done so that I bring out the skills I’ve learnt.

“I don’t know how to describe how I know it”
Practice. Work with TGO to sell myself more positively. Keep a running list of “things wot I ‘ave done”, especially for vague concepts like Project Management, Working through Change, etc.

Added bonus one:

“It’s too late in the year”
Then the application will be for NEXT September or a January start. Get it in, get sorted out, get the place secured as early as possible instead of rushing.

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Simpson, M.J. (2003) Hitchhiker : a biography of Douglas Adams

Busy busy

Lots of radio silence while writing up an MRes proposal. Bloody frustrating trying to track down things you "know" but now can't cite for the life of you...

Currently trying to track down the source of a memory regarding mediaeval widows. My memory is of a statement that it was not uncommon for mediaeval women to take vows of chastity in widowhood to avoid forced remarriage before the were ready. Google searching leads me to suspect that my memory is drawn from Henrietta Leyser's Mediaeval Women but since my copy is still packed away I'm a little stuck. Since this isn't central to my proposal I'm working around it, but its going to bug the hell out of me until I track it down again!

I have also 'found' Twitter. Awesome, another way to procrastinate... *rolls eyes at self *

Have promised myself that I will complete the draft proposal this weekend and send it to my hoped-to-be-tutor(s) next week. Had a mad panic when an article seemed to be exactly what I want to do, but since it wasn't her thesis I think I will be OK, and I may even have found a possible supervisor in the supervisor of the author. We will see...

Role models and Women

An article in the BBC Sports section this morning set me off thinking about role models past and present... Who did girls look up to? Why? Who do we remember and why?

Two things stuck out to me:

1. The women the general public remember from the wider medieval period are the sensational, not the politically active (or at least not primarily FOR being politically active), not the religious nor the wholesome...
2. Plus ça change - looks remain important...

Who are key medieval women?

How does the fact that they were female affect how they are viewed in their own time and historically?

Giovanna di Napoli / Giovanna d'Angiò - was a Queen in her own right, yet her reign seems frequently to be analysed in the light of her femininity (or lack), her alleged sexual indescretions and whether she was complicit in the murder of her first husband.

And it's not just medieval women either. Ask many lay persons about Catherine the Great of Russia, and they will talk of her as the woman who allegedly died having intercourse with a horse (she didn't), or who had innumerable lovers.

To Be Continued

(Publishing as part of a push to stop leaving stuff eternally in draft)

Old but funny...

This happened a fair few years ago, but I just remembered it.

Location: Well established, multi-group cross period re-enactment event in the South East of England.

Man walks up to friend in medieval encampment and asks various sensible questions.
Friend explains answers.
Man asks if he can take a photo.
Friend agrees.
Man asks "So how did they take photos in your time?".
Friend just was too thrown to do more than stare.
Man shocked that Medievals didn't have cameras

;)

It was people like this gentleman though that set me off studying history formally. How? Well both re-enactors and audiences have this sort of perception of the Middle Ages, and would ask questions which I could only answer with research. Biggest example of this was "But wasn't everyone dirty in the medieval period?"... cue 8 year (and counting) project on personal hygiene and the perception and interpretation of cleanliness in the past.

2012 PG Fair, Manchester Central

This Wednesday just gone I bundled myself up* and headed over to Manchester Central (the venue formerly known as the GMEX) to visit the 2012 Postgrad Fair. For me this turned out to be utterly petrifying to begin with, but I felt that I soon got into the swing of things. I wasn't precisely sure what to expect, but figured it would be something like the Graduate Recruitment Fair I attended many moons ago. I wasn't far wrong.

* I'd been off work with flu and it was a typical Mancunian day weather-wise

Good things:
Being able to discuss options with representatives from specific universities
The great information on funding - realistic yet not unhopeful
Finding out that MMU was holding a PG open day down the road at the same time, but until 6pm with departmental reps
The really positive reactions from MMU and Huddersfield, and to some extent Leeds regarding whether I would be able to go straight for a research Masters given that I already have an MA, but in a different subject.
Finding out some yummy funding information from one of my dream universities due to their upcoming anniversary which means I can apply to them too, something I didn't think would be possible

Negatives
Not all the universities I was interested in were at the fair, so didn't get to speak to them (most were however)
Universities who barely knew any more about their courses than I'd already researched about them on their websites.
Universities who had brought insufficient bumf with them to give out - however some universities, e.g. St. Andrews, had backups in place - in their case, the lady had an ipad with the prospectuses preloaded and set up to email to enquirers
The people who were there not knowing much or anything about departments other than their own - even if it's just a quick overview for the reps so they know how it differs from their own department! Too many stalls that I went away from feeling that I knew little more than when I had arrived.
Reps who didn't know anything about the distance or Part Time options to their courses - even just a 'we teach 9-5' or 'most courses have xx contact hours per week' would be really helpful.

Two other points:
If there is someone there from the department the candidate is interested in, don't be so unenthusiastic that you kill their interest or that they have to keep at you to get the information you need (Rep: Your best bet is to email the person you think would be best to supervise you. Me: *explains area of interest*. Rep.: *looks bored and repeats himself*, Me: Gets out notes and specifies who she is thinking about approaching. Rep. *reluctantly expands on the basic bios on prospectus/website to say which of the three people I felt was relevant was best* [Why not tell me from the outset that Obvious Person 1 is on study leave abroad at the moment?! I was then gobsmacked that the person unbent enough then to say that x who I will be writing to was his former supervisor and is 'really good'])
There were certain personnel who gave me the impression of 'why are you bothering me?', and also came across that they weren't really interested in an Arts student especially not one going the conventional route from a very prestigious university. And then I asked some basic questions about how their part time courses work - (50-50 split, day-release style, etc.), and her face was rather funny, if incredibly exasperating - if I'd have just come in I'd have wondered if I had something on my shoe... :P There is now at least one university which if I wasn't so interested in the work of certain specific academics I would not be even considering now. As it is, they have an open day shortly which I will go to if I can get out of work early enough that day. Whether I apply now will depend on how the department themselves are - if as standoffish as the rep on Wednesday, I know I will not be happy there and will instead be paranoid about whether I deserve to be there, blah blah blah... This wasn't an Oxbridge place either, just one of the local universities...
Leading on from that - reps learn about the part time options your institution offers . More students are having to do PG work part time now as funding is few and far between in the arts, so students need to work even more than before. By the same token, know if specific departments are likely to offer studentships of any sort - if you don't know, the potential student hears 'No' and walks away wth a negative for that institution on that point. No need to be unrealistic - "We offer one scholarship which usually only goes to a student with a First and a publication history" still lets the potential student have a better idea of where they stand. Ideally I'd like to know the proportion of part to full time students, and how they are funded - I don't want to take time off work, spend a lot of money on travel to an open day, to find out that I've wasted both our time because the options I need are not available... "Contact the department" you say? In my personal experience, some won't reply to emails and most that do will respond with the same generalisations that are on their websites - it's not until you meet face to face that you find out what is actually the situation, but that is another issue.

What did I take away from this?:

I may be OK with only one recent academic reference, but to contact one of my old UG tutors on the offchance that he will be willing to write one (12 years? I seriously doubt it, but if he does then that's AWESOME!)
I gained some universities I am interested in.
I have at least 4 or 5 universities to contact directly to discuss options with potential supervisors - MMU, Huddersfield, Birmingham and Liverpool definitely. Possibly Sheffield, York, Reading & Nottingham.
I have 2 universities to try and arrange to speak with someone at Open Days (Manchester is next week, and Leeds in Feb.)
Just apply now damnit to St Andrews and TSD!

Journals search

I really miss having access to current scholarly journals as they come out. I know some lovely people who help me get hold of things I REALLY want, but I loathe having to self censor what I want to get hold of. Anyways, today I am just making a note of articles I would love to see but won't ask for at present, either because they are not directly related to writing up a PhD/MPhil/MRes/MA application, or because they're in a language that I can't (yet?) read... The list also contains some articles I'm fairly sure I've read, but think I probably will need to re-read while writing up so that I have their facts straight in my head (nothing like not fact checking to get you a swift kick into the NO pile!). What set this off? Well a post from Magistra about one of the sessions I attended at the IMC led me to wondering whether Elizabeth Archibald had published anything on the subject of her talk since I last checked. I couldn't find anything, unfortunately.

Hygiene / Cleanliness / Bathing / Washing + "Middle Ages" / Medieval / Mediaeval

Author(s):	Sura, A.
Article Title:	Women's hygiene I Woman's care of her body in the late middle ages
Journal title:	CASOPIS LEKARU CESKYCH
ISSN:	0008-7335
Year:	2011
Volume/Issue:	VOL 150, PART 7
Page(s):	405-406
Publication frequency:	Monthly: 9-14 issues per year
Publisher:	Czechoslovakia: , 2011
Dewey Class:	610
LC Class:	K3
BLDSC shelfmark:	3061.400000

In Czech

Author(s):	Rawcliffe, C.
Article Title:	A Marginal Occupation? The Medieval Laundress and her Work
Journal title:	GENDER AND HISTORY
ISSN:	0953-5233
Year:	2009
Volume/Issue:	VOL 21, NUMB 1
Page(s):	147-169
Publication frequency:	Thrice yearly: 3 issues per year
Publisher:	United Kingdom: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	305.3
LC Class:	TD881
BLDSC shelfmark:	4096.401350
Abstract:	Drawing upon a wide range of primary sources, this article argues that a study of the medieval laundress can illuminate wider social attitudes to hygiene as well as to low status women. Having considered the many types of laundry workers active in England and northern France between c.1300 and 1550, it examines the techniques they used, as well as the hazards encountered through exposure to difficult conditions. Such factors, along with the freedom of movement enjoyed by many laundresses, often harmed their collective reputation. That responses to those who dealt with the community's dirty clothing were highly ambivalent is reflected in contemporary writing about laundresses, and in the measures taken to regulate them. Finally, we turn to remuneration. The sporadic survival of financial evidence means that our knowledge of wage rates remains impressionistic. But some laundry workers were surprisingly well rewarded. This confirms the value placed, in elite households at least, upon the cleanliness of personal linen.
Author(s):	Ewert, U.C.
Article Title:	Water, Public Hygiene and Fire Control in Medieval Towns : Facing Collective Goods Problems while Ensuring the Quality of Life
Journal title:	HISTORICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH
ISSN:	0172-6404
Year:	2007
Volume/Issue:	VOL 32; NUMB 4; ISSU 122
Page(s):	222-251
Publication frequency:	Quarterly: 4 issues per year
Publisher:	Germany: UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE, 2007
Language:	German
Dewey Class:	940; 301
LC Class:	HM1
BLDSC shelfmark:	4316.845000
Author(s):	Eckart, W. U.
Article Title:	Hospitals and their Critiques in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Journal title:	ZENTRALBLATT FUR HYGIENE UND UMWELTMEDIZIN
ISSN:	0934-8859
Year:	1994
Volume/Issue:	VOL 195, NUMB 4
Page(s):	267
Publication frequency:	Monthly: 9-14 issues per year
Publisher:	Germany: GUSTAV FISCHER VERLAG, 1994
Dewey Class:	616.98
LC Class:	QR46
BLDSC shelfmark:	9508.530000
Article Title:	Public hygiene and sanitary engineering in the history of the city (part two : Medieval town)
Journal title:	INGEGNERIA AMBIENTALE
ISSN:	0394-5871
Year:	1998
Volume/Issue:	VOL 27, NUMB 9
Page(s):	394-400
Publication frequency:	Monthly: 9-14 issues per year
Publisher:	Italy: CIPA SRL - CENTRO DI INGEGNERIA PER LA, 1998
Dewey Class:	628
LC Class:	QC457
BLDSC shelfmark:	4500.650000
Author(s):	Rugani, B. ; Pulselli, R. M. ; Niccolucci, V. ; Bastianoni, S.
Article Title:	Environmental performance of a XIV Century water management system : An emergy evaluation of cultural heritage
Journal title:	RESOURCES CONSERVATION AND RECYCLING
ISSN:	0921-3449
Year:	2011
Volume/Issue:	VOL 56, NUMB 1
Page(s):	117-125
Publication frequency:	Monthly: 9-14 issues per year
Publisher:	Netherlands: Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2011
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	363.7282
LC Class:	TD794
BLDSC shelfmark:	7777.606950
Abstract:	In the late Middle Ages, the city of Siena (Italy) had a high population density and had to face the problem of supplying water within the city walls for housing, crafts, economic and commercial activities, as well as for the risk of fire. A network of underground drifts, namely ''Bottini'', was then built, achieving a total length of about 25km in the late XIV Century. The Bottini have been capturing and conducting rain water from the countryside to the fountains in the city centre for centuries, and still provide an average 9.5Ls^-^1 of clean water, though it is not drinkable nowadays. Currently, water provided by the ancient aqueduct is only used to fill a set of monumental fountains, and is then wasted. In this paper, we have investigated the environmental performance of the water supply in Siena, comparing results from the analysis of the historical Bottini and the contemporary water supply system. In particular, an emergy evaluation was developed in order to account for the environmental resource use of the water management system, considering both the historical and the modern aqueducts, and providing information on their ''sustainability''. Specific emergy, measured in units of equivalent solar energy (solar emergy Joules - seJ) per liter of water provided, as well as the Environmental Loading Ratio and the Emergy Investment Ratio, were used as indices of environmental performance. Results have shown that the Bottini have a lower environmental impact in terms of rate of renewability with respect to the contemporary system. Based on statistics on water use in urban centres (drinking, washing, gardening, etc.), we argued that keeping the Bottini alive is not only a good practice for the conservation of a precious cultural heritage, but could be a potential opportunity for improving urban ecology.
Author(s):	Caskey, J.
Article Title:	Stean and Santeas in the Domestic Realm : Baths and Bathing in Southern Italy in the Middle Ages
Journal title:	JOURNAL- SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
ISSN:	0037-9808
Year:	1999
Volume/Issue:	VOL 58, NUMB 2
Page(s):	170-195
Publication frequency:	Quarterly: 4 issues per year
Publisher:	United States: SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS, 1999
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	722
LC Class:	NA1
BLDSC shelfmark:	4880.770000
Author(s):	Cuffel, A.
Article Title:	Polemicizing Women's Bathing Among Medieval and Early Modern Muslims and Christians
Journal title:	TECHNOLOGY AND CHANGE IN HISTORY : The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance
ISSN:	1385-920X
Year:	2009
Volume/Issue:	VOL 11
Page(s):	171-190
Editors(s):	Kosso, C. ; Scott, A.
Publication frequency:	Annual: 1 issue per year
Publisher:	Netherlands: unknown, 2009
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	609
BLDSC shelfmark:	8758.548000
Author(s):	Butler, L.
Article Title:	"Washing Off the Dust" : Baths and Bathing in Late Medieval Japan
Journal title:	MONUMENTA NIPPONICA
ISSN:	0027-0741
Year:	2005
Volume/Issue:	VOL 60, NUMB 1
Page(s):	1-42
Publication frequency:	Quarterly: 4 issues per year
Publisher:	Japan: MONUMENTA NIPPONICA, 2005
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	952; 390
LC Class:	DS821.A1
BLDSC shelfmark:	5966.230000

Not Europe but could be useful cross comparison?

Author(s):	Pettitt, T.
Article Title:	`Skreaming like a pigge halfe stickt' : vernacular topoi in the carnivalesque martyrdom of Edward II
Journal title:	ORBIS LITTERARUM
ISSN:	0105-7510
Year:	2005
Volume/Issue:	VOL 60, NUMB 2
Page(s):	79-108
Publication frequency:	Bi-monthly: 5-8 issues per year
Publisher:	Denmark: Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2005
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	809
LC Class:	D839
BLDSC shelfmark:	6277.865000
Abstract:	Matching the literary and rhetorical topoi of medieval Latin and neoclassical literature, early European traditional culture deployed narrative, iconographic and dramatic formulas which effectively functioned as `vernacular' topoi. Through repeated occurrence each acquired distinctive resonances which then did not need to be expressed more elaborately in a given work, so leaving modern scholarship the task of reconstructing them. At least three such vernacular topoi - mock shaving, consignment to a cesspit, and impaling on a spit - occur in the sufferings Marlowe associates with the death of the King in Edward II, either by adapting his historical sources, or by choosing between alternatives. Exploration of their occurrences in medieval and folkloristic sources reveals that these topoi invoke liminality by subjecting ambivalent creatures (fools, pigs, babewyns) to transgressive experience (cooking, `washing' in filth) in interstitial environments (carnival, sewers, manuscript margins). Their presence reinforces, even as it is triggered by, Edward's own liminality in relation to a number of categories, and is compatible with recent suggestions linking Marlowe's play to the sufferings of Christ developed in Baroque religiosity.

"bathing in filth" - interesting tangent

Author(s):	Harris, A. ; Henig, M.
Article Title:	Hand-washing and Foot-washing, Sacred and Secular, in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval Period
Journal title:	BAR BRITISH SERIES : Intersections: The Archaeology and History of Christianity in England, 400-1200 Papers in Honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjolbye-Biddle
ISSN:	0143-3032
Year:	2010
Volume/Issue:	505
Page(s):	25-38
Editors(s):	Henig, M. ; Ramsay, N.
Publication frequency:	Annual: 1 issue per year
Publisher:	United Kingdom: HOLYWELL PRESS - OXFORD, 2010
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	930.1
LC Class:	BX6276.A1
BLDSC shelfmark:	1863.185600
Author(s):	Strocchia, S.T.
Article Title:	Biow, Douglas, The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy
Journal title:	SPECULUM -MASSACHUSETTS-
ISSN:	0038-7134
Year:	2008
Volume/Issue:	VOL 83, NUMB 1
Page(s):	172-173
Publication frequency:	Quarterly: 4 issues per year
Publisher:	United States: MEDIEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA, 2008
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	909.07
LC Class:	PN661
BLDSC shelfmark:	8411.178000

Slightly late, but still useful I hope

Women on the Welsh Borders:

Wales + Marches | Women / Marriage / Families [Nothing for Corbet or Le Strange]

Author(s):	Richards, G.
Paper Title:	Medieval Welsh women : the daughters of Llywelyn Fawr (Llywelyn the Great - 1173-1240)
Keywords:	Celts ; Civilization, Celtic ; Celtic studies
Conference:	Australian Conference of Celtic Studies; Nation and federation in the Celtic world
Conference description:	4th
Conference venue:	Sydney, Australia
Conference date:	2001; Jun
Additional info:	Includes bibliographical references
Journal title:	SYDNEY SERIES IN CELTIC STUDIES
ISBN:	9781864875157 ; 1864875151
Year:	2003
Volume/Issue:	6
Page(s):	22-34
Editors(s):	O'Neill, P.
Publisher:	Sydney; University of Sydney, 2003
Date published:	2003
Language:	English
Material type:	Papers
BLDSC shelfmark:	8578.026000
Author(s):	Winward, F.
Article Title:	Some Aspects of the Women in The Four Branches
Journal title:	CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIES
ISSN:	0260-5600
Year:	1997
Volume/Issue:	34
Page(s):	77-106
Publication frequency:	Semi-annual: 2 issues per year
Publisher:	United Kingdom: CMCS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF WELSH, 1997
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	942
BLDSC shelfmark:	3015.935400
Author(s):	Lloyd-Morgan, C.
Article Title:	More written about than writing? Welsh women and the written word
Journal title:	CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
ISSN:	0959-5767
Year:	1998
Volume/Issue:	VOL 33
Page(s):	149-165
Publication frequency:	Irregular: Frequency variable
Publisher:	United Kingdom: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1998
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	820.1
BLDSC shelfmark:	3015.995100
Author(s):	Wales, S. K.
Article Title:	A Trilogy of Medieval Women Warriors
Journal title:	SOCIAL EDUCATION
ISSN:	0037-7724
Year:	1994
Volume/Issue:	VOL 58, NUMB 2
Page(s):	74
Publication frequency:	Monthly: 9-14 issues per year
Publisher:	United States: NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES, 1994
Dewey Class:	370.115
LC Class:	H62.A1
BLDSC shelfmark:	8318.087000
Author(s):	Griffiths, R. A.
Paper Title:	Wales and the Marches
Keywords:	fifteenth century England ; politics
Conference:	Fifteenth century England 1399-1509: studies in politics and society
Conference description:	Colloquium
Conference venue:	Cardiff
Conference date:	1970; Sep
Additional info:	See also 75/5207 for 1st ed
ISBN:	0750911980 ; 9780750911986
Page(s):	145-172
Editors(s):	Chrimes, S. B. ; Ross, C. ; Griffiths, R. A.
Publisher:	Stroud; Alan Sutton, 1995
Date published:	1995
Language:	English
Material type:	Papers
BLDSC shelfmark:	96/23892; Fifteenth
Author(s):	Lieberman, M.
Article Title:	The Medieval `Marches' of Normandy and Wales
Journal title:	ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW
ISSN:	0013-8266
Year:	2010
Volume/Issue:	VOL 125, NUMB 517
Page(s):	1357-1381
Publication frequency:	Bi-monthly: 5-8 issues per year
Publisher:	United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2010
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	942
LC Class:	DA20
BLDSC shelfmark:	3774.700000
Abstract:	This article explores the striking links and parallels which existed between the frontiers of Normandy and of Wales, particularly between 1066 and 1204. It takes its cue from the fact that both frontiers were identified as `marches' at that time. It argues that while the frontier of Normandy was not a precursor of the March of Wales, experiences made by the Normans on their `home frontier' did help shape their contribution to the making of the Welsh March. Moreover, this essay contends that during the twelfth century, the borders of Normandy and of Wales evolved, in important respects, along similar lines. Thus, both `marches' came to be characterized by an exceptional density of castles and uniquely long-established castellan dynasties controlling compact lordships (to the best of their ability). By 1204, these features had helped foster the notion that the marches of Normandy and Wales were similar kinds of frontiers, despite the differences that undeniably existed between them. By implication, the famous liberties of the Welsh Marcher lords were, at first, irrelevant to the concept of the `march' of Wales. This supports Professor Sir Rees Davies's view that the Welsh Marcher liberties only became an issue in the thirteenth century. Finally, therefore, this article argues that it was the very features shared by the Norman and Welsh `marches', rather than claims to immunity, which first paved the way for the inclusion of the conquest lordships of southern Wales within the region identified as Marchia Wallie.
Author(s):	Suppe, F.
Paper Title:	Interpreter Families and Anglo-Welsh Relations in the Shropshire-Powys Marches in the Twelfth Century
Keywords:	Normans ; Anglo-Saxons ; Anglo-Norman studies ; Battle
Conference:	Battle conference on Anglo-Norman studies
Conference description:	30th
Conference venue:	Gregynog, Wales
Conference date:	2007; Aug
Additional info:	Includes bibliographical references
Journal title:	ANGLONORMAN STUDIES
ISSN:	0954-9927
ISBN:	9781843833796 ; 1843833794
Year:	2008
Volume/Issue:	VOL 30
Page(s):	196-212
Editors(s):	Lewis, C.P.
Publisher:	Woodbridge; Boydell & Brewer, 2008
Date published:	2008
Language:	English
Material type:	Papers
BLDSC shelfmark:	0902.847000

Paternoster beads / Lay devotional items

Paternoster* / Rosar* || M/M/"MA"

Author(s):	Hoskin, P. M.
Article Title:	The Accounts of the Medieval Paternoster Gild of York
Journal title:	NORTHERN HISTORY
ISSN:	0078-172X
Year:	2007
Volume/Issue:	VOL 44, PART 1
Page(s):	7-34
Publication frequency:	Semi-annual: 2 issues per year
Publisher:	United Kingdom: THE UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, 2007
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	942
LC Class:	DA20
BLDSC shelfmark:	6151.004000
Author(s):	Winston-Allen, A.
Paper Title:	Exempla in German Rosary Handbooks : Spirituality and Self-Help in Late Medieval Popular Piety
Keywords:	patristic studies ; mediaeval studies ; renaissance studies ; PMR
Conference:	Patristic, mediaeval and renaissance studies
Conference description:	Annual international conference
Conference venue:	Villanova; PA [unconfirmed]
Conference date:	1994
Sponsor(s):	Villanova University; Augustinian Historical Institute
Additional info:	Includes papers from the 1993 PMR conference
Journal title:	PROCEEDINGS OF THE PMR CONFERENCE
ISSN:	0272-8710
Year:	1993
Volume/Issue:	VOL 18
Page(s):	25-34
Editors(s):	Gersbach, K. A. ; Van Fleteren, F. ; Schnaubelt, J. C.
Publisher:	Villanova University, 1993
Date published:	1996
Language:	English
Material type:	Papers
BLDSC shelfmark:	6848.810000

Various reviews of Anne Winston-Allen's Stories of the the Rose : The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages (1998/89)

(Lay Piety)

Author(s):	Clarke, P. D.
Article Title:	New evidence of noble and gentry piety in fifteenth-century England and Wales
Journal title:	JOURNAL OF MEDIEVAL HISTORY
ISSN:	0304-4181
Year:	2008
Volume/Issue:	VOL 34, NUMB 1
Page(s):	23-35
Publication frequency:	Quarterly: 4 issues per year
Publisher:	Netherlands: Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam., 2008
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	909.07
LC Class:	D111
BLDSC shelfmark:	5017.570000
Abstract:	There has been much recent examination of late medieval lay piety in order to understand the background to Henry VIII's reformation, notably Colin Richmond's studies of the `privatised' religion of the English gentry. Such work has largely over-looked papal sources and the associated issue of relations between English and Welsh society and the papacy. This article seeks to remedy this neglect by presenting new evidence from the registers of the papal penitentiary. In the late middle ages the papal penitentiary was the highest office in the western Church concerned with matters of conscience and the principal source of papal absolutions, dispensations and licences. Petitions seeking such favours were copied in its registers, and this article especially concerns petitions from English and Welsh gentry seeking licences to have a portable altar or to appoint a personal confessor (littere confessionales). It also examines their requests for various other favours that illustrate their piety, notably regarding fasting, chastity and pilgrimage. The article contests Richmond's notion of `privatised' gentry religion and similar distinctions between elite and popular or personal and collective religion. It appends translations of three significant documents from the penitentiary registers and a statistical table concerning requests for littere confessionales.
Author(s):	Mecham, J. L.
Article Title:	Teaching &Learning Guide for : Breaking Old Habits: Recent Research on Women, Spirituality and the Arts in the Middle Ages
Journal title:	HISTORY COMPASS
ISSN:	1478-0542
Year:	2007
Volume/Issue:	VOL 5, NUMB 4
Page(s):	1447-1454
Publication frequency:	Bi-monthly: 5-8 issues per year
Publisher:	United Kingdom: BLACKWELL PUBLISHING LTD, 2007
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	900
LC Class:	D1
BLDSC shelfmark:	4317.961600
Author(s):	Duffy, E.
Article Title:	Elite and Popular Religion : the Book of Hours and Lay Piety in the Later Middle Ages (presidential address)
Journal title:	STUDIES IN CHURCH HISTORY -LONDON- : ELITE AND POPULAR RELIGION
ISSN:	0424-2084
Year:	2006
Volume/Issue:	VOL 42
Page(s):	140-161
Editors(s):	Cooper, K. ; Gregory, J.
Publication frequency:	Annual: 1 issue per year
Publisher:	United Kingdom: , 2006
Language:	English
Dewey Class:	270
LC Class:	PR9180
BLDSC shelfmark:	8489.930000
Author(s):	Wasyliw, P. H.
Paper Title:	The Pious Infant : Developments in Popular Piety during the High Middle Ages
Keywords:	lay spirituality ; postmodern era ; medieval ; modern lay sanctity
Conference:	Toward a lay spirituality for the postmodern era; Lay sanctity, medieval and modern a search for models
Conference description:	Conference
Conference date:	1992; Oct
Additional info:	Held at the International Schoenstatt Center in Wisconsin; See also 99/22160 for further papers from the conference
ISBN:	0268013306 ; 9780268013301
Page(s):	105-116
Editors(s):	Astell, A. W.
Publisher:	Notre Dame, Ind.; University of Notre Dome Press, 2000
Date published:	2000
Language:	English
Material type:	Papers
BLDSC shelfmark:	m00/19373

Snippets from Mecham (above):

Pitarakis, B., ‘Female Piety in Context: Understanding Developments in Private Devotional Practices’, in Maria Vassilaki (ed.), Images of the Mother of God: Perceptions of the Theotokos in Byzantium (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005), 153–166.

Smith, M. F., R. Fleming, and P. Halpin, ‘Court and Piety in Late Anglo-Saxon England’, Catholic Historical Review, 87/4 (2001): 569–602.

Lay Piety & Patronage: Women & Books of Hours

Inglis, E., The Hours of Mary of Burgundy: Codex Vindobonensis 1857, Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (London: H. Miller, 1995).

Reading:

Penketh, S., ‘Women and Books of Hours’, in Jane H. M. Taylor and Lesley Smith (eds.), Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1996), 266–280.

Stanton, A. R., ‘From Eve to Bathsheba and Beyond: Motherhood in the Queen Mary Psalter’, in Jane H. M. Taylor and Lesley Smith (eds.),Women and the Book: Assessing the Visual Evidence (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1996), 172–189.

Lay Piety & Patronage: Women & the Parish

French, K. L., ‘I Leave My Best Gown as a Vestment’: Women’s Spiritual Interests in the Late Medieval English Parish’, Magistra: A Journal of Women’s Spirituality in History, 4/1 (1998): 57–77.

French, K. L., ‘Maidens’ Lights and Wives’ Stories: Women’s Parish Guilds in Late Medieval England’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 29/2 (1998): 399–425.

Lay Piety & Pilgrimage

Schein, S., ‘Bridget of Sweden, Margery Kempe and Women’s Jerusalem Pilgrimages in the Middle Ages’, Mediterranean Historical Review, 14/1 (1999): 44–58.

Webb, D., ‘Freedom of Movement? Women Travelers in the Middle Ages’, in Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless (eds.), Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), 75–89.

Domestic Spirituality

Petroff, E., Medieval Women’s Visionary Literature, ch. 8.

Webb, D. M., ‘Woman and Home: The Domestic Setting of Late Medieval Spirituality’, in W. J. Sheils and Diana Wood (eds.), Women in the Church: Papers Read at the 1989 Summer Meeting and the 1990 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society (Oxford: Blackwell, 1990), 159–174.

New Developments: Women & the Devotio Moderna

Feminae:

·         Record Number: 21337

·         Author(s)/Creator(s): As-Vijvers , Anne Margreet W.

·         Title: Weaving Mary's Chaplet: The Representation of the Rosary in Late Medieval Flemish Manuscript Illumination

·         Source: Weaving, Veiling, and Dressing: Textiles and Their Metaphors in the Late Middle Ages.  Edited by Kathryn M. Rudy and Barbara Baert.  Brepols, 2007.  Pages 41 - 79.

·         Article Type: Essay

·         Year of Publication: 2007.

·         Language: English

·         ISSN/ISBN: 2503515274

·         Record Number: 21096

·         Author(s)/Creator(s): Härdelin , Alf.

·         Title: In the Sign of the Rosary: Swedish Brigittines and Carthusians in Co-operation

·         Source: Medieval Spirituality in Scandinavia and Europe: A Collection of Essays in Honour of Tore Nyberg.  Edited by Lars Bisgaard, Carsten Selch Jensen, Kurt Villads Jensen, and John Lind.  Odense University Press, 2001.  Pages 285 - 293.

·         Article Type: Essay

·         Year of Publication: 2001.

·         Language: English

·         ISSN/ISBN: 8778385881

·         Record Number: 17474

·         Author(s)/Creator(s): King , Catherine.

·         Title: Medieval and Renaissance Matrons, Italian-style [Women were able to commission art and architecture in fourteenth and fifteenth century Italy in a variety of ways, even if their involvement in the production of images and construction of buildings wasn’t as widespread as men’s. For instance, wealthy widows could control the making of large, public images such as funerary altarpieces, while nuns could commission artwork and buildings through convent endowments. Through their acts of patronage, these “matrons” challenged conventional expectations that women inhabit a small, private sphere. The author also analyzes how women chose to represent themselves visually within the works they commissioned. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

·         Source: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 55, ( 1992): Pages 372 - 393.

·         Article Type: Journal Article

·         Subject (See Also): Altarpieces Architecture- Religious Art History- General Commemoration Iconography Isabella d'Este, Wife of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua Monasticism Nuns Patronage, Artistic Portraits Private Sphere and Public Sphere Widows Women in Active Role

·         Geographic Area: Italy

·         Century: 14- 15

·         Primary Evidence: Painting; Guariento, “Crucifixion witih donatrix, Maria Bovolina, Kneeling,” circa 1360, tempura on panel (Bassano del Grappa, Museo Civico). Painting;“Coronation of Mary with attendant saints,” 1370-1, wood panel (London, National Gallery). Commissioned by Benedic

·         Illustrations: Thirteen Figures. Figure One Guariento, “Crucifixion with donatrix, Maria Bovolina, Kneeling,” circa 1360, tempera on panel (Bassano del Grappa, Museo Civico). This large crucifix features its patroness Maria de’ Bovolini holding a rosary while kneeling at the right hand of Christ; she occupies the space in the image conventionally reserved for a male donor or spectator. Figure Two Guariento, “Crucifixion with donatrix, Maria Bovolina, Kneeling,” circa 1360, tempera on (Bassano del Grappa, Museo Civico). Detail of Maria Bovolina. Her family’s coat of arms is at the base of the cross opposite her. Figure Three “Coronation of Mary with attendant saints,” 1370-1, wood panel (London, National Gallery). Commissioned by Benedictine nuns of San Pier Maggiore in Florence for their high altar. Center panel depicts the Coronation of Mary with saints, and above in the upper tier are panels depicting the Adoration of the Shepherds and Kings, the Resurrection, the Three Marys at the Sepulchre, Ascension and Pentecost; the Trinity is at the apex. Figure Four “Fina Buzzacarina presented to the Virgin and Child by Saint John the Baptist and other saints,” late fourteenth century, tomb arch (Baptistry, Padua). Painting depicts Fina kneeling before the seated Virgin and Child; Fina takes the place of honor at the right hand of Christ, to the viewer’s left. She is surrounded by both male and female saints. Figure Five Main dome, late fourteenth century (Padua, Baptistry). Altar-chapel dome depicts Christ surrounded by the Apostles; main dome depicts Christ as Creator, surrounded by angels and saints. Figure Six Carlo Crivelli, “Virgin and Child with Saints Sebastian, Francis, and the donatrix, Oradea Becchetti,” 1491, wood (London, National Gallery). The patroness wears a widow’s dress and holds a rosary while kneeling before the Virgin and Child; although she is a small figure in the painting, the patroness is acknowledged by a large inscription at the base of the painting. Figure Seven Francesco Bonsignori, “Virgin and Child with Saints Zeno, Christopher, Jerome, and Onofrio, and the donatrix Altabella Avogaro,” 1484, tempera on canvas (Verona, Museo Civico). Instead of being placed next to the Virgin and Child within the frame of the painting itself, the patroness is portrayed as if standing in front of the frame of the painting. Figure Eight Chapel of the Annunciation, by the Church of San Michele in Isola, Venice. The chapel commissioned by Margareta Vitturi is on the left-hand corner of the church’s facade. Figure Nine Fra Angelico, “Deposition with Saints Dominic, Catherine, and the Beata Villana,” 1436, panel (Florence, Museo di San Marco,). Figure Ten San Zaccaria, Venice. Photograph shows the Church of San Zaccaria as it appears today. Figure Eleven “Design for statue of Virgil,” circa 1499, ink and paper (Paris, Louvre, Cabinet des Dessins). Drawing depicts Isabella d’Este’s plan for a sculpted monument for the poet Virgil. Figure Twelve Andrea Mantegna, “Minerva chases the Vices from the garden of Virtue,” 1502 (Paris, Louvre). On the right is the prison of the mother of Virtue; in foreground the vices stand in a pond while Minerva (holding a shield) and Diana drive them from the garden. Fortitude, Justice, and Temperance are depicted as female personifications looking down on the scene from heaven. Figure Thirteen San Paolo alle Monache, Parma. Photograph gives an aerial view of the church.

·         Year of Publication: 1992.

·         Language: English

·         ISSN/ISBN: 00442992