Contents of Magistra Issues

Volume 1, No. 1 - SUMMER 1995
FEMINIZING THE RULE OF BENEDICT IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Frank Henderson
A POET ABBESS FROM NOTRE-DAME DE SAINTES
Hugh Feiss, OSB
THE ANDROGYNOUS MYSTICISM OF JULIAN OF NORWICH
Roger Corless
INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS AT LA RAMEE AS REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF IDA THE GENTLE
Martinus Cawley, OCSO

SHE WHO IS: BLESSED BE SHE
Ellen Oak
THE NUN OF WATTON
Jo Ann McNamara, translator
ANGLO-SAXON MONASTIC WOMEN
Roger Schoenbechler, OSB
BENEDICT IN BERLIN: ANOTHER FEMININE VOICE
John Crean, Jr.St. Scholastica

Volume 1, No. 2 - WINTER 1995
BRIDES OF CHRIST, DAUGHTERS OF MEN: NUREMBERG POOR CLARES IN DEFENSE OF THEIR IDENTITY (1524-1529)
Ulrike Strasser
A MEDITATION ON THE MAGNIFICAT ATTRIBUTED TO GUIGO II
Michael Birkel, translator
FEMININE EXPERIENCE IN THE NORTHERN METRICAL VERSION OF THE BENEDICTINE RULE
Antha Spreckelmeyer
MARGERY KEMPE'S INARTICULATE NARRATION
Joseph D. Parry
WOMEN RELIGIOUS AND THE NINETEENTH CENTURY TRANSFORMATION OF IRISH CULTURE
Mary L. Peckham
MEDIEVAL LITERARY GENRE MIXING: THE PLAYS OF HROTSVIT OF GANDERSHEIM
Katharina Wilson
MEROVINGIAN MONASTIC WOMEN
Roger Schoenbechler, O.S.B.

Volume 2, No. 1 - SUMMER 1996
EDITING WOMEN'S VISIONS: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE TRANSMISSION OF FEMALE MYSTICS' TEXTS
Barbara Kline
TO HER WHO IS HALF OF HER SOUL: CLARE AND THE MEDIEVAL EPISTOLARY TRADITION
Timothy Johnson
RECLAIMING THE "WAYWARD NUN:" THEMATIC SIMILARITIES IN THREE MIDDLE ENGLISH VERSIONS OF THE BENEDICTINE RULE
Antha Spreckelmeyer
CARNALITY AND WiTCHCRAFT: THE SALACIOUSNESS OF WOMEN AS A FOUNDATION FOR THE MALLEUS MALEFICARUM
Anita Lundy

SCRIPTURE AND THE RULE: LUTHER AND A GERMAN WOMEN'S VERSION
John Crean, Jr.
ATTENTIVE TO TRANSCENDENCE: THE LIFE OF ETTY HILLESUM
Joan Penzenstadler
WRITING BEGUINES: ECSTATIC PERFORMANCES
Mary A. Suydam

Volume 2, No. 2 - WINTER 1996
A MYSTIC PURSUES NARRATIVE THEOLOGY
Michael Bangert
THE AUTHORITY OF CONFESSION: GERTRUD'S LEGATUS, BOOK II
Laura Grimes

MARGERY KEMPE AND LOLLARDY
Rosanne Gasse
WEIBLICHE STIMMEN
IN EARLY GERMAN TRANSLATIONS OF REGULI BENEDICTI
Patricia Giangrosso
TANGLED THREAD OF CREATION: EVE AND MARY IN THE ADVERSUS HAERESES
Sean Edward Kinsella

ENCLOSURE & CONTAINMENT: JUTTA & HILDEGARD AT ST. DISIBOD
Julie Hotchin
MYSTICISM & SOCIAL COMMITMENT: UNDERHILL & MERTON ON PEACE
Susan Rakoczy

Volume 3, No. 1 - SUMMER 1997
"TO SEE AND TO KNOW": FEMALE GAZING IN JULIAN OF NORWICH'S SHOWINGS
Collette Morrow

SERVICE AS SACRAMENT: SISTERS AND THE MEANING OF AMERICAN CATHOLICISM
Margaret S. Thompson
WOMEN AND THE CULT OF THE EUCHARIST IN THE EARLY IRISH CHURCH
Jill Anderson
SYMBOLIC GRAIN AND SYMBOLIC BREAD: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE ANCIENT GRAIN GODDESS AND THE VIRGIN MARY IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
Naoe Kukita Yoshikawa
WHAT WE HAVE TOUCHED AND SEEN: WOMAN, PRIEST AND SACRAMENTAL PERSON
Ellen Barrett

Volume 3, No. 2 - WINTER 1997
GERTRUD OF HELFTA'S HERALD OF DIVINE LOVE: REVELATIONS THROUGH LECTIO DIVINA
Mary Foreman, OSB

TWO WOMEN SCHOLARS LOOK AT MEDIEVAL NUNS: LINA ECKENSTEIN AND JO ANN MCNAMARA
Penelope Johnson
SISTERS IN ARMS:
RESHAPING THE RESEARCH AGENDA FOR THE FUTURE
Constance Berman
CLARE OF ASSISI AND ISABELLE OF LONGCHAMP: FURTHER LIGHT ON THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF THE FRANCISCAN CHARISM
Beth Lynn, OSC
SPIRITUAL FRIENDSHIP IN THE VITA OF BEATRICE OF NAZARETH
Joy Schroeder

Volume 4, No. 1 - SUMMER 1998
MY SISTER, BRIDE AND MOTHER: ASPECTS OF FEMALE PIETY IN SOME IMAGES OF THE VIRGO INTER VIRGINES
Stanley Weed
A COMMUNITY'S VOICE: OMISSIONS AND ADDITIONS IN THE FRIEDENSPRING RULE OF ST. BENEDICT
Patricia Giangrosso

MEANING, CONTEXT AND CONSENSUS IN BECOMING AND REMAINING BENEDICTINE
Mary Ann Reidhead
"I LEAVE MY BEST GOWN AS A VESTMENT:" WOMEN'S SPIRITUAL INTERESTS IN THE LATE MEDIEVAL ENGLISH PARISH
Katherine L. French
THE PARADOX OF UNLIKENESS IN ACHARD OF ST. VICTOR AND MARGUERITE PORETE
Joanne Maguire

Volume 4, No. 2 - WINTER 1998
MARY MAGDALEN AND THE PROVENCAL SAINTS: A PICTORIAL ESSAY
David W. Leinweber
ST. MONICA AND THE GIFT OF TEARS
Rebecca Moore
THE MANY FACES IN DHUODA'S MIRROR: THE LIBER MANUALIS AND A CENTURY OF SCHOLARSHIP
Steven A. Stoffenihn

Volume 5, No. 1 - SUMMER 1999
BENEDICTINE SPIRITUALITY IN THE LIFE AND WORKS OF HILDEGARD OF BINGEN
Judith Sutera, OSB
WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES A RULE MAKE? CLARE'S "POOR SISTERS" AND GREGORY IX'S NUNS
Beth Lynn, OSC
PREACHING BY HILDEGARD AND AELRED ON THE PURIFICATION OF MARY
Carlos Parra-Pirela
MARGERY KEMPE AS A COMIC PERFORMER
Nanda Hopenwasser
MEDIEVAL WOMEN AND THE CARE OF THE SICK: SOME EVIDENCE FROM HAGIOGRAPHY
Elizabeth Jensen Bauer

Volume 5, No. 2 - WINTER 1999
RATIONALITAS IN THE GOSPEL HOMILIES OF HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
Sarah Castricum
I WILL MAKE THE INQUISITION BURN YOU AND YOUR SISTERS: THE ROLE OF GENDER AND KINSHIP IN ACCUSATIONS AGAINST CONVERSAS
Doris Dirks
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN AND RAMON LULL: TWO APPROACHES TO MEDIEVAL SPIRITUALITY
Claudia Nolte
FEATURE REVIEW: "THE MYSTIC OF TUNJA"
Jane Tar

Volume 6, No. 1 - SUMMER 2000
THE MEDIEVAL NUNS AT WATTON: READING FEMALE AGENCY FROM MALE-AUTHORIZED DIDACTIC TEXTS
Elizabeth Freeman
FRENCH ABBESSES IN ACTION: STRUCTURING CAROLINGIAN AND CLUNIAC COMMUNITIES
Mary Skinner
FROM MONASTIC TO INDIVIDUAL SPIRITUALITY: ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE ON JEAN GERSON'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS WOMEN
Yelena Matusevich
TEXTUALIZING AND CONTEXTUALIZING HILDEGARD'S BODY IN THEODORIC'S VITA
Jessica Weinstein

Volume 6, No. 2 - WINTER 2000
INFANCY AND EDUCATION IN THE WRITINGS OF GERTRUD THE GREAT OF HELFTA
Alexandra Barratt
ARE BUDDHIST NUNS MEN AT HEART?
Hillary Crane
FLANNERY O'CONNOR'S VIEW OF ALIENATION FROM SACRAMENTAL FAITH WITHIN CATHOLICISM
Inger Thornqvist
LITURGIA HORARUM FEMININA: THE OFFICE IN GERMAN FOR WOMEN
John E. Crean, Jr.

Volume 7, No. 1 - SUMMER 2001
AN ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG WOMAN'S PILGRIMAGE: THE 1918 JOURNEY OF TAKAMURE ITSUE
Susan Tennant
TEACHING, LEARNING, READING, WRITING: EDUCATIONAL TOOLS FROM WOMEN FOR WOMEN IN 15th CENTURY SPAIN
Rocio Quispe-Agnoli
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN'S SPIRITUAL INTERCESSIONS FOR HER SISTERS IN CHRIST
Steven Taylor
THE WORD TRANSLATED: INCARNATION & CARNALITY IN GERTRUD THE GREAT
Rebecca Stevens
THE CASTLE OF TERESA OF AVILA: THE INWARD AND OUTWARD JOURNEY
Shirley Sullivan
THE TRANSFORMATION OF VISION IN THE REVELATIONS OF JULIAN OF NORWICH
Kevin Magill

Winter 2001, Volume 7, Number 2
Literary Collaboration In The Life Of Umlliana Del Cerchl
Anne Schuchman
Love And Beauty Ln The Presence Of God: Pathways Through Beguine And Tantric Mystlclsms
Paul Martin
False Positives: The "Katherine Group" Saints
K. A. Laity
Three Models Of Self-Governance: Medieval English Translattons Of Latin Rules For Nuns
David Parker


Summer 2002, Volume 8, No. 1
“Ancrene Wisse” A Modern Lay Person’s Guide To A Medieval Religious Text
Cate Gunn
The Role Of Mary Knatchbull In The English Benedictine Foundations Of The Seventeenth Century
Caroline Bowden
Widows, Consecrated Virgins And Deaconesses In Ancient Gaul
Matthew Brendan Smyth
"I Am You": Medieval Love Mysticism As A Post-Modern Theology Of Relation
Ann-Marie Priest
Christina Rossetti: A Premillennialist...Of Sorts
Sarah Turner Waddle


Winter 2002, Volume 8, No. 2
Problematizing Women And Holy Land Pilgrilmage In Late Antiquituity
Bernadette Mcnary-Zak
Suffering, Sacrifice And Stability: The Life Of Aleydis Of Schaerbeek In A Contemporary Context
Shawn Madison Krahmer
Seeking God: Julian Of Norwich And Saint Benedict
Anna Minore
The Rule Of St. Benedict And Envisioning Jesus
Jennifer N. Brown

Bible And Rule In The Clarissan Tradition
E. Ann Matter
Authoritative Noise: Margery Kempe's Appropriation Of Unique Ritual And Authority
Zina Petersen


Summer 2003, Volume 9, No. 1
Models Of Apostolic Speech By Nuns In The Later Sixteenth-Century Catholic World
Susan Broomhall
Female City Builders: Hildegard Of Bingen's Scivlas And Christine De Pizan's Livre De La Cité Des Dames
Christine Mcwebb
Eve And Goscelin: The Nature Of Their Relationship
Kenneth C. Russell

Down And Dirty With God: Sex And Grace In Margery Kempe’s Mystical Marriage
Margaret Toscano


Winter 2003, Volume 9, No. 2
"Unnamed In The Press But Known Of God": Women And Gender During Dwight Moody's Revivals
Edward J. Blum
The Role Of The “Cell Of Self-Knowledge” In The Authority Of Catherine Of Siena
Meredith Secomb
Imitatio Chrlsti In The Writings Of Teresa De Cartagena
Clara Castro-Ponce
The Influence Of Teresa Of Avila On The Spirituality Of Port Royal
Susan Ramsey
The Feminine Nature Of Aelfric's Works
Carmen Acevedo Butcher


Summer 2004, Volume 10, No. 1
The Stigmata Of Elisabeth Of Spalbeek: A Study In The Construction Of A Religious Experlence
Sandra L. Zimdars-Swartz
Hrotsvit The Dramatist As Teacher
Deanna Evans
The Blessed Virgin Mary As Rhetorical Device In The Book Of The City Of Ladies
Christine Mitchell
Women's Heretical Spirituality: Marguerite Porete And The Guglielmites
Emily A. Holmes
Teresa Of Avila And Angela Of Foligno: Ecstatic Sisters
Gillian T.W. Ahlgren


Winter 2004, Volume 10, No. 2
Hrotsvit’s Abraham And Pafnutius: Two Whores, Two Hermits And Two Lessons In Redemption
Karina Marie Ash
A Mystic Who Dared The Church: Mechthild Of Magdeburg
Kathleen M. Hahn
Christ's Body In The Visions Of Angela Of Foligno
Molly Morrison
Women Martyrs And Edward Vi’s Protestant Reformation: Female Martyrdom As Evidence Of The Growing Popular Conversion To Protestantism
Imogen Goold
Helen Turrell’s Dilemma: Pride And Humility In Rudyard Kipling And Michael Casey
James Flint
Painful Initiation To Mystic Inwardness: Asceticism And The Birth Of The Homo Interior
Gabriele Sorgo
Clare Of Assisi: Her Life Of Prayer
Joan Mueller


Summer 2005, Volume 11, Number 1
Specialiter: The Language Of The Body And Bodies In The Letters Of Heloise
Carmel Posa
Not Enough: Ascetic Excess And The Quantity Of Pleasure
Karmen Mackendrick
Stab At Mother: Self-Made Messiahs, Maternal Suffering, And The Cost Of Co-Redemption In Flannery O’connor’s Everything That Rises Must Converge
Olivia Gatti Taylor
Finding The Feminine In The Divine: St. Anselm’s Prayers And Meditations And Women
Kristi Keuhn
Angela Of Foligno As A Model For Franciscan Women Mystics And Visionaries In Early Modern Spain
Jane Tar


Vol. 12, no. 1 Summer, 2006
CLIMACTIC SPIRITUALITY: MYSTIC SELF-BLAZONING AND FEMALE AGENCY
Michelle Sauer

FINDING GEMMA GALGANI IN LUCCA:
A SAINT IN HER PLACE
Cristina Mazzoni

IN MEMORY OF MYRIAD SELVES: THE BARONNE MATHILDE DE MACKAU (1837–1886)
Elizabeth Chalmers MacKnight

WITH PATERNAL CONCERN: “FATHERS” THEODULF AND ALCUIN AND THE SPIRITUALITY OF CAROLINGIAN WOMEN
June-Ann Greeley

LIVING RELICS: ON CONSTRUCTING MYSTIC INWARDNESS THROUGH BODILY SUFFERING
Gabrielle Sorgo


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Vol. 12, no. 2 Winter, 2006
HOC EST QUOD CUPIO: APPROACHING THE RELIGIOUS GOALS OF CLARE OF ASSISI, AGNES OF BOHEMIA, AND ISABELLE OF FRANCE
Christian-Frederik Felskau

THE ENDURING STRENGTH OF TRADITIONAL AND RECOVERED STORIES
Violet Dutcher

ST. CATHERINE OF GENOA; LIFE IN THE SPIRITUAL BORDERLANDS
J. Stephen Pearson

JUDGE WISDOM, QUEEN CHARITY: THE FEMININE DIVINE IN GERTRUD OF HELFTA’S SPIRITUAL EXERCISES
Laura Grimes

MARIA, NIECE OF ABBA ABRAHAM:TWICE-TOLD TALE
Mary Forman, OSB

FIRST CONTEMPLATIVES OF THE LEAST-CHURCHED STATE
Martinus Cawley, OCSO

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Volume 13, Number 1 Summer 2007
BEYOND THE RULE OF SAINT BENEDICT: IMPOSITION OF CISTERCIAN CUSTOMS AND ENCLOSURE ON NUNS IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
Constance Berman

WISDOM'S VOICE AND WOMEN’S SPEECH: HROTSWITHA OF GANDERSHEIM, HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, AND REBECCA COX JACKSON
Joy Schroeder

CLARE OF ASSISI AND THE POWER OF THE CROSS
Eileen Flanagan

CLARE, HUMAN EMBODIMENT, AND ESPOUSAL OF THE POOR CHRIST
Michael Blastic, OFM

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Volume 13, Number 2 Winter 2007
SEQ CHAPTER \H \R 1ATTENTIVE TO THE VOICE OF THE BELOVED: SAINT CLARE AND THE SONG OF SONGS
Madge Karecki

ONLY THE LONELY: THE SOLITARY LIFE IN RICHARD ROLLE’S THE FORM OF LIVING AND JULIAN OF NORWICH’S A VISION SHOWED TO A DEVOUT WOMAN AND A REVELATION OF LOVE
Claire Elizabeth McIlroy

FEMININE RHETORIC IN THE PRAYERS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ANSELM AND BERNARD: VARIATIONS IN THE LANGUAGE OF REFORM
Kristi L. Keuhn

TERESA OF AVILA AS STUDENT AND TEACHER OF THE DIONYSIAN TRADITION
Juan Miguel Marín

“AND MY SOUL GREW THROUGH CONTACT WITH HOLY THINGS”: THÉRÈSE OF LISIEUX IN ROME
Cristina Mazzoni

A FEATURE IN BENEDICTINE LIFE: AN 1896 ESSAY ON THE ENCLOSURE OF NUNS
Anonymous

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SUMMER 2008 Vol. 14, no. 1
SPIRITUAL COUNSEL AND THE BONDS OF AFFECTION: A STUDY AND TRANSLATION OF FOUR LETTERS BY A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY FRANCISCAN WOMAN MYSTIC
Jane Tar

SOMATIC PATHWAYS TO CHRIST: PASSION, TRAVAIL, AND JULIAN OF NORWICH’S CHALLENGE TO CHRISTIAN NEOPLATONISM
Bradley Herzog

SOURCES OF SPIRITUALITY IN THE LIBER MANUALIS OF DHUODA
James F. LePree

READING THE TEXTUAL SHADOWS OF ANGLO-SAXON MONASTIC WOMEN’S FRIENDSHIPS
Lisa Weston

BODILY LANGUAGE IN THE SPIRITUAL EXERCISES OF GERTRUD THE GREAT OF HELFTA
Ella Johnson

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