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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY (20 items)
Readers (8 items)
Women's lives in medieval Europe: a sourcebook - Emilie Amt, 2010
Book | The most important source book for this module.
Woman defamed and woman defended: an anthology of medieval texts - Alcuin Blamires,
Karen Pratt, C. William Marx, 1992
Book
Women in England, c. 1275-1525: documentary sources - P. J. P Goldberg, 1995
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book. Interesting source book.
Women and writing in medieval Europe: a sourcebook - Carolyne Larrington, 1995
Book
Love, marriage, and family in the Middle Ages: a reader - Jacqueline Murray, 2010
Book
Ladies, whores, and holy women: a sourcebook in courtly, religious, and urban cultures of
late medieval Germany - Ann Marie Rasmussen, Sarah Westphal-Wihl, 2010
Book
Medieval writings on secular women - Patricia Skinner, Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts, 2011
Book
Women of the English nobility and gentry, 1066-1500 - Jennifer C. Ward, 1995
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.
Reference Books (12 items)
The Oxford handbook of women and gender in medieval Europe - Judith M. Bennett, Ruth
Mazo Karras, 2013
Book
Women in early medieval Europe, 400-1100 - Lisa M. Bitel, 2002
Book
Women in late medieval and Reformation Europe, 1200-1550 - Helen M. Jewell, 2007
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A history of women in the West: 2: Silences of the Middle Ages - Georges Duby, Michelle
Perrot, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, 1992
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Women in medieval life: a small sound of the trumpet - Margaret Wade Labarge, 1986
Book | Very good book. The 1990 edition was titled "A small sound of the trumpet:
Women in medieval life" and is available at the Medieval History Library. PREPARATORY
READING
Medieval women: a social history of women in England, 450-1500 - Henrietta Leyser, 1995
Book
Women in medieval Western European culture - Linda Elizabeth Mitchell, 1999
Book
A history of women in the West: Vol. 1: From ancient goddesses to Christian saints Georges Duby, Michelle Perrot, Pauline Schmitt Pantel, Arthur Goldhammer, 1992
Book
The fourth estate: a history of women in the Middle Ages - Shulamith Shahar, 2003
Book | Make sure you read this edition, not the previous one. PREPARATORY READING
Women in England in the Middle Ages - Jennifer C. Ward, 2006
Book
Women in medieval Europe, 1200-1500 - Jennifer C. Ward, 2002
Book
Women and gender in early modern Europe - Merry E. Wiesner, 2000
Book
Week 0, Introduction: WOMEN'S HISTORY AND GENDER HISTORY IN
MEDIEVALISM (10 items)
Required Reading (3 items)
Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis - Joan W. Scott, 1986
Article
The Three Ages of Joan Scott - Dyan Elliott, 2008
Article
Women, history & theory: the essays of Joan Kelly - Joan Kelly, 1984
Book | Essential | Read article "Did women have a Renaissance?", pp. 19-50.
Further Reading (7 items)
Medievalism and Feminism - Judith M. Bennett, 1993
Article
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Women's history: a study in continuity and change - Judith Bannett, 1993
Article
History matters: patriarchy and the challenge of feminism - Judith M. Bennett, 2006
Book
"Women's History" in Transition: The European Case - Natalie Zemon Davis, 1976
Article
The creation of patriarchy - Gerda Lerner, 1986
Book
The creation of feminist consciousness: from the Middle Ages to eighteen-seventy - Gerda
Lerner, 1993
Book
Theorising Feminist History: a thirty‐year retrospective - Sue Morgan, 2009
Article
Week 1: THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF WOMEN (18 items)
Required Reading (5 items)
Meanings of sex difference in the Middle Ages: medicine, science, and culture - Joan
Cadden, 1993
Book | Essential | Read chapter "Feminine and masculine types", pp. 169-227.
Famous women - Giovanni Boccaccio, Virginia Brown, 2003
Book | Read the "Dedication", the "Preface", plus chapters I, C-CVI and the
"Conclusion". Availabe in the Primary Sources Workbook. You can read a different edition.
The book of the city of ladies - Rosalind Brown-Grant, Christine, 1999
Book | Read chapters 1, 2, 3, 11, 27, 28, 33 and 43 of "Part I" (or "Book I"), chapters 13,
25, 28, 36, 37, 44, 53 and 54 of "Part II, and chapter 19 of "Part III". Available in the
Primary Sources Workbook. You can read a different edition of this book.
The Roman de la Rose, Christine de Pizan, and the querelle des femmes - David F. Hult
Chapter
Women, history & theory: the essays of Joan Kelly - Joan Kelly, 1984
Book | Read the article titled "Early feminist theory and the Querelle des femmes", pp.
65-109.
Further Reading (13 items)
The concept of woman: the Aristotelian revolution, 750 BC-AD 1250 - Prudence Allen, 1985
Book
The case for women in medieval culture - Alcuin Blamires, 1997
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Medieval misogyny and the invention of Western romantic love - R. Howard Bloch, c1991
Book
Christine de Pizan and the moral defence of women: reading beyond gender - Rosalind
Brown-Grant, 1999
Book
Medieval Medical and Scientific Views of Women - Vern L. Bullough, 1973
Article
Society and culture in early modern France: eight essays - Natalie Zemon Davis, 1975
Book | Check chapter "Women on top", pp. 124-151.
The Romance of the Rose - Frances Horgan, Guillaume, Jean, 2008
Book
Woman as image in medieval literature: from the twelfth century to Dante - Joan M.
Ferrante, 1975
Book
Sexuality and medicine in the Middle Ages - Danielle Jacquart, Claude Thomasset, 1988
Book
Religion and sexism; images of woman in the Jewish and Christian traditions - Rosemary
Radford Ruether, 1974
Book
Representing medieval genders and sexualities in Europe: construction, transformation,
and subversion, 600-1530 - Elizabeth L'Estrange, Alison More, 2011
Book
The ideas of man and woman in Renaissance France: print, rhetoric, and law - Lyndan
Warner, 2011
Book
Renaissance Florence: a social history - Roger J. Crum, John T. Paoletti, 2006
Book | Check Natalie Tomas's article, “Did women have a space?”, pp. 311-328.
Week 2: BIRTH, CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION (18 items)
Required Reading (3 items)
Practical medicine from Salerno to the Black Death - Luis Garcia Ballester, 1994
Book | Essential | Read the article "Documenting medieval women's medical practice"
by Monica H. Green, pp. 322-352. Digitized. Please, read this article first and then proceed
to Harris-Stoertz's.
Medicine and the law in the Middle Ages - Wendy J. Turner, Sara M. Butler, 2014
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| Read the article titled "Midwives in the Middle Ages? Birth Attendants, 600-1300"
by Fiona Harris-Stoertz, pp. 58-87. It is important that you read this article AFTER having
read Green's.
Book
Medieval maidens: young women and gender in England, 1270-1540 - Kim M. Phillips,
2003
Book | Read chapters "Attributes", pp. 23-60 (which is digitized), and "Upbringing", pp.
61-107.
Further Reading (15 items)
The Knowing of woman's kind in childing: a Middle English version of material derived from
the Trotula and other sources - Alexandra Barratt, University of Hull, 2001
Book
Medicine and society in later medieval England - Carole Rawcliffe, 1995
Book | Check chapters “Women and medicine: Conflicting attitudes”, pp. 170-193, and
“Women and medicine: The midwife and the nurse”, pp. 194-215 (especially, pp.
194-2014).
Not of woman born: representations of caesarean birth in medieval and Renaissance
culture - Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, 1990
Book
A Relic, Some Pictures and the Mothers of Florence in the Late Fourteenth Century Brendan Cassidy, 1991
Article
Childhood and Gender in Later Medieval England - P. J. P. Goldberg, 2008
Article
Making women's medicine masculine: the rise of male authority in pre-modern
gynaecology - Monica Helen Green, 2008
Book
The trial of Floreta d'Ays (1403): Jews, Christians, and obstetrics in later medieval Marseille
- Monica H. Green, Daniel Lord Smail, 2008
Article
The Episcopal Licensing of Physicians, Surgeons and Midwives - Guy, John R, Winter 1982
Article
Young medieval women - Katherine J Lewis, Kim M. Phillips, Noël James Menuge, 1999
Book
Medieval children - Nicholas Orme, 2001
Book
An Illustrated Mid-Fifteenth-Century Primer for a Flemish Girl: British Library, Harley MS
3828 - Kathryn M. Rudy, 2006
Article
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‘The light of my eyes’: medieval motherhood in the mediterranean [1] - Patricia Skinner,
1997
Article
The Trotula: an English translation of the medieval compendium of women's medicine Monica Helen Green, 2002
Book
Mother Knows Best: Reading Social Change in a Courtesy Text - Felicity Riddy, 1996
Article
Pope Innocent III and his world - John C Moore, Brenda Bolton, 1999
Book | Check the following chapter: Constance M. Rousseau, “Pregnant with meaning:
Pope Innocent III’s construction of motherhood”, pp. 101-112.
Week 3: SINGLE WOMEN, WIVES AND WIDOWS (35 items)
Required Reading (5 items)
Medieval single women: the politics of social classification in late medieval England Cordelia Beattie, 2007
Book | Read chapter "Classification in cultural context", pp. 13-38.
Medieval marriage: two models from twelfth-century France - Georges Duby, trans. Elborg
Forster, 1991
Book | Read at least chapter "The two models of marriage: The aristocratic and the
ecclesiastical", pp. 1-22.
Unmarriages: women, men, and sexual unions in the Middle Ages - Ruth Mazo Karras,
2012
Book | Essential | Read chapter "The Church and the regulation of unions between
women and men", pp. 25-67.
Women, family, and ritual in Renaissance Italy - Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, 1985
Book | Essential | Read chapter: “Zacharias, or the ousted father: Nuptial rites in
Tuscany between Giotto and the Council of Trent”, pp. 178-212.
The wealth of wives: women, law, and economy in late medieval London - Barbara
Hanawalt, 2007
Book | Essential | Read chapter "Inheritance, dowry, and dower", pp. 58-68.
Further Reading (30 items)
Widows in Anglo-Saxon and medieval Britain - Marie-Françoise Alamichel, 2008
Book
Woman is a worthy wight: women in English society c.1200- 1500 - P. J. P Goldberg, 1992
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Medieval London widows, 1300-1500 - Caroline M. Barron, Anne F. Sutton, 1994
Book
‘Living as a Single Person’: marital status, performance and the law in late medieval
England - Cordelia Beattie, 2008
Article
Medieval virginities - Anke Bernau, Sarah Salih, Ruth Evans, 2003
Book
Upon my husband's death: widows in the literature and histories of medieval Europe Louise Mirrer, 1992
Book
The medieval idea of marriage - Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke, 1994
Book
Papacy, monarchy and marriage, 860-1600 - D. L. D'Avray, 2015
Book
Sex, law, and marriage in the Middle Ages - James A. Brundage, 1993
Book
Constructions of widowhood and virginity in the Middle Ages - Cindy L. Carlson, Angela
Jane Weisl, 1999
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The medieval chastity belt: a myth-making process - Albrecht Classen, 2007
Book
The knight, the lady and the priest: the making of modern marriage in medieval France Georges Duby, Barbara Bray, 1984
Book
Clean maids, true wives, steadfast widows: Chaucer's women and medieval codes of
conduct - Margaret Hallissy, 1993
Book
Wife and widow in medieval England - Sue Sheridan Walker, 1993
Book
Marriage litigation in medieval England - R. H. Helmholz, 1986
Book
‘Like man and wife’: clerics’ concubines in the diocese of Barcelona - M.A. Kelleher, 2002
Article
The measure of woman: law and female identity in the crown of Aragon - Marie A. Kelleher,
2010
Book
Women of the medieval world: essays in honor of John H. Mundy - Julius Kirshner, Suzanne
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Fonay Wemple, John Hine Mundy, 1985
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Women, family, and ritual in Renaissance Italy - Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, 1985
Book
The conjugal debt and medieval canon law - Elizabeth M. Makowski, 1977
Article
Daughters, wives and widows after the Black Death: women in Sussex, 1350-1535 - Mavis
E Mate, 1998
Book
The medieval chastity belt: a myth-making process - Albrecht Classen, 2007
Book
The medieval chastity belt: a myth-making process - Albrecht Classen, 2007
Book
Medieval women and the law - Noël James Menuge, 2000
Book
The Lady is a Lord: Noble Widows and Land in Thirteenth-Century Britain - Linda E. Mitchell
, 1992
Article
Marriage alliance in late medieval Florence - Anthony Molho, 1994
Book
Power to Choose - John T. Noonan, 1973
Article
Patriarchy and families of privilege in fifteenth-century England - Joel Thomas Rosenthal,
1991
Book
Women's Property Rights under Customary Law: Some Developments in the Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Centuries - R. M. Smith, 1986
Article
Family Interests? Women’s Power: the absence of family in dowry restitution cases in
fifteenth‐century Valencia - Dana Justina Wessell, 2006
Article
Week 4: WOMEN AT WORK (I) (34 items)
Required Reading (5 items)
Women and work in preindustrial Europe - Barbara Hanawalt, 1986
Book | Read the article titled "Peasant women's contribution to the home economy in
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late medieval England" by Barbara A. Hanawalt, pp. 3-19.
Handbook of medieval sexuality - Vern L. Bullough, James A. Brundage, 1996
Book | Essential | Read chapter "Prostitution in medieval Europe" by Ruth Mazo Karras,
pp. 243-260.
Women and work in preindustrial Europe - Barbara Hanawalt, 1986
Book | Essential | Read the following article: Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, “Women
servants in Florence during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries”, pp. 56-80.
Women, family, and ritual in Renaissance Italy - Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, 1985
Book | Essential | Read the article "Blood parents and milk parents: Wet nursing in
Florence, 1300-1530", pp. 132-164. Digitized.
Singlewomen in the European past, 1250-1800 - Judith M. Bennett, Amy M. Froide, 1999
Book | Read the chapter: Susan Mosher Stuard, “Single by law and custom”, pp.
106-126 (on female slavery).
Further Reading (29 items)
Women's Work Reconsidered: Gender and Wage Differentiation in Late Medieval England Sandy Bardsley, 1999
Article
Women's Work Reconsidered: Gender and Wage Differentiation in Late Medieval England John Hatcher, 2001
Article
Women in the medieval English countryside: gender and household in Brigstock before the
plague - Judith M. Bennett, 1987
Book
Prostitution in the Medieval Canon Law - Brundage, James A, 1976
Article
Men and Women in Early Medieval Serfdom: The Ninth-Century North Frankish Evidence Jean-Pierre Devroey, 2000
Article
Tartars in Spain: renaissance slavery in the Catalan city of Manresa, c.1408 - Jeffrey
Fynn-Paul, 2008
Article
Female Labour, Service and Marriage in the Late Medieval Urban North - P. J. P. Goldberg,
1986
Article
Singlewomen in the European past, 1250-1800 - Judith M. Bennett, Amy M. Froide, 1999
Book | Check chapter chapter “From putte to puttane: Female foundlings and charitable
institutions in Florence”, pp. 160-195. It is on the 16th century, but could be useful for
essays.
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Opera muliebria: women and work in medieval Europe - David Herlihy, 1990
Book
The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England - Ruth Mazo Karras, 1989
Article
Common women: prostitution and sexuality in Medieval England - Ruth Mazo Karras, 1996
Book
Gender and Civic Authority: Sexual Control in a Medieval Italian Town - Carol Lansing, 1997
Article
Beyond Florence: the contours of medieval and early modern Italy - Paula Findlen, Michelle
Fontaine, Duane J. Osheim, 2003
Book | Read Carol Lansing's article, which is titled "Concubines, lovers, prostitutes.
Infamy and female identity in medieval Bologna", pp. 85-100. Digitized.
Gender and difference in the Middle Ages - Sharon A. Farmer, Carol Braun Pasternack,
2003
Book
Matrons and marginal women in medieval society - Robert R. Edwards, Vickie L. Ziegler,
1995
Book
Women, family, and ritual in Renaissance Italy - Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, 1985
Book
Working women in English society, 1300-1620 - Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, 2005
Book
The sultana and her sisters: black women in the British Isles before 1530 - Sue
Niebrzydowski, 2001
Article
Gender, honor, and charity in late Renaissance Florence - Philip Gavitt, 2011
Book | Check the chapter “From putte to puttane: Female foundlings and charitable
institutions in Florence”, pp. 160-195. [It is on the sixteenth century, but could be useful to
draw a comparison between late medieval and early modern prostitution.]
The Domestic Enemy: The Eastern Slaves in Tuscany in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Centuries - Iris Origo, 1955
Article
Beyond Florence: the contours of medieval and early modern Italy - Paula Findlen, Michelle
Fontaine, Duane J. Osheim, 2003
Book | Check the following chapter: Carol Lansing, “Concubines, lovers, prostitutes.
Infamy and female identity in medieval Bologna”, pp. 85-100. Digitized.
Women of the medieval world: essays in honor of John H. Mundy - Julius Kirshner, Suzanne
Fonay Wemple, John Hine Mundy, 1985
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Prostitution in medieval society: the history of an urban institution in Languedoc - Leah
Lydia Otis, 1985
Book
Ancillary Evidence for the Decline of Medieval Slavery - Susan Mosher Stuard, 1995
Article
From Prostitutes to Brides of Christ: The Avignonese Repenties in the Late Middle Ages. Rollo-Koster, Joëlle, 2002
Article
Women and work in preindustrial Europe - Barbara Hanawalt, 1986
Book
Considering medieval women and gender - Susan Mosher Stuard, 2010
Book
Housewives and Servants in Rural England, 1440-1650: Evidence of Women's Work from
Probate Documents - Jane Whittle, 2005
Article
Conscripting the breast: lactation, slavery and salvation in the realms of Aragon and
kingdom of Majorca, c. 1250–1300 - Rebecca Lynn Winer, 2008
Article
Week 5: WOMEN AT WORK (II) (23 items)
Required Reading (4 items)
Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages: Fifty Years after Marian K. Dale - Maryanne
Kowaleski and Judith M. Bennett, 1989
Article
"The 'Golden Age' of women in Medieval London", Reading medieval studies, 15, pp.
35-58. - Caroline M. Barron, 1989
Journal
Women in the Crafts in Sixteenth-Century Lyon - Natalie Zemon Davis, 1982
Article
Women in medieval English society - Mavis E. Mate, 1999
Book | Read pp. 27-60. Digitized.
Further Reading (19 items)
Women in Genoese commenda contracts, 1155–1216 - Mark Angelos, 1994
Article
Medieval single women: the politics of social classification in late medieval England -
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Cordelia Beattie, 2007
Book
Culture and history, 1350-1600: essays on English communities, identities and writing David Aers, 1992
Book
Practices of gender in late medieval and early modern Europe - Megan Cassidy-Welch,
Peter Sherlock, 2008
Book | Read the article titled "Women, work, and power in the female guilds of Rouen"
by Susan Broomhall, pp. 199-214. Digitized.
Ale, beer and brewsters in England: women's work in a changing world, 1300-1600 - Judith
M. Bennett, 1996
Book
Women, work, and life cycle in a Medieval economy: women in York and Yorkshire
c.1300-1520 - P. J. P. Goldberg, 1992
Book
Paltry Peddlers or Essential Merchants? Women in the Distributive Trades in Early Modern
Nuremberg - Merry Wiesner Wood, 1981
Article
Making women's medicine masculine: the rise of male authority in pre-modern
gynaecology - Monica Helen Green, 2008
Book
Women's history: a study in change, continuity or standing still? - Bridget Hill, 1993
Article
Women, production, and patriarchy in late medieval cities - Martha C. Howell, 1986
Book
The marriage exchange: property, social place, and gender in cities of the Low Countries,
1300-1550 - Martha C. Howell, 1998
Book
Women and economic activities in late medieval Ghent - Shennan Hutton, 2011
Book
Women and work in preindustrial Europe - Barbara Hanawalt, 1986
Book
Daughters, wives and widows after the Black Death: women in Sussex, 1350-1535 - Mavis
E Mate, 1998
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Working women in English society, 1300-1620 - Marjorie Keniston McIntosh, 2005
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Work in towns 850-1850 - P. J. Corfield, Derek Keene, 1990
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Women in the medieval town - Erika Uitz, 1990
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Women and the practice of medical care in early modern Europe, 1400-1800 - Leigh Ann
Whaley, 2011
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Working women in Renaissance Germany - Merry E. Wiesner, 1986
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Week 7: WOMEN AND POWER (32 items)
Required Reading (4 items)
Cultures of power: lordship, status, and process in twelfth-century Europe - Thomas N.
Bisson, 1995
Book | Read the article titled "Women and power" by Georges Duby, pp. 69-85.
Digitized.
Women, Gender and Lordship in France, c.1050–1250 - Kimberly A. LoPrete, 2007
Article | Essential
The Power of Women through the Family in Medieval Europe: 500-1100 - Jo Ann McNamara
and Suzanne Wemple, 1973
Article | Essential
Women in medieval Western European culture - Linda Elizabeth Mitchell, 1999
Book | Essential | Read the article titled "Medieval queenship", by Janet L. Nelson, pp.
179-207.
Further Reading (28 items)
Women and power in the Middle Ages - Maryanne Kowaleski, Mary Carpenter Erler, 1988
Book
The Queen's hand: power and authority in the reign of Berenguela of Castile - Janna
Bianchini, 2012
Book
The rule of women in early modern Europe - Anne J. Cruz, Mihoko Suzuki, 2009
Book
Dissolving royal marriages: a documentary history, 860-1600 - D. L. D'Avray, 2014
Book
Studies in medieval and Renaissance history - Arizona Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 1964-
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The Empress Matilda: queen consort, queen mother, and lady of the English - Marjorie
Chibnall, 1991
Book | Check the following article to see how the historiography on the topic has
evolved: -Marion F. FACINGER, “A study of medieval queenship: Capetian France,
987-1237”, pp. 3-47.
The King's mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby - Michael K.
Jones, Malcolm G. Underwood, 1992
Book
The Queen's Council in the Middle Ages - Anne Crawford, 2001
Article
Eleanor de Montfort: a rebel countess in medieval England - Louise J. Wilkinson, 2012
Book
Queens, concubines and dowagers: the king's wife in the early Middle Ages - Pauline
Stafford, 1998
Book
Maria of Castile, Ruler or Figurehead? A Preliminary Study in Aragónese Queenship Theresa Earenfight, 1994
Article
Queenship and political power in medieval and early modern Spain - Theresa Earenfight,
Robert Oresko, 2005
Book
Aristocratic women in medieval France - Theodore Evergates, Gordon Thompson, 1999
Book
Isabeau de Bavière and the Political Philosophy of Christine de Pizan - Karen Green, 2006
Article
Virtue, liberty, and toleration: political ideas of European women, 1400-1800 - Jacqueline
Broad, Karen Green, 2007
Book
Medieval queenship - John Carmi Parsons, 1994
Book
Power of the weak: studies on medieval women - Jennifer Carpenter, Sally-Beth MacLean,
1995
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Victims or viragos? - Christine Meek, Catherine Lawless, 2005
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'The fragility of her sex'?: medieval Irishwomen in their European context - Christine Meek,
Katharine Simms, 1996
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Gendering the master narrative: women and power in the Middle Ages - Mary Carpenter
Erler, Maryanne Kowaleski, 2003
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Saints, scholars, and politicians: gender as a tool in medieval studies : festschrift in honour
of Anneke Mulder-Bakker on the occasion of her sixty-fifth birthday - Mathilde van Dijk,
Renée Nip, Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, 2005
Book
The authority and charter usage of female rulers in medieval Silesia, c .1200–c .1330 Sébastien Rossignol, 2014
Article
Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and political women in the high middle ages - Miriam
Shadis, 2009
Book
Women and Power in the Late Medieval English Village: a reconsideration - Sally V. Smith,
2007
Article
Queen Emma and Queen Edith: queenship and women's power in eleventh-century
England - Pauline Stafford, 1997
Book
The Medici women: gender and power in Renaissance Florence - Natalie R. Tomas, 2002
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Queens, regents and potentates - Theresa M. Vann, Texas Medieval Association (TEMA),
1993
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English noblewomen in the later Middle Ages - Jennifer C. Ward, 1992
Book
Week 8: WOMEN AND THE ARTS (21 items)
Required reading (2 items)
To the glory of her sex: women's roles in the composition of medieval texts - Joan M.
Ferrante, 1997
Book | Especially chapters "Religious texts", "Women and the writing of history" and
"Courtly literature", pp. 39-135.
Women in medieval Western European culture - Linda Elizabeth Mitchell, 1999
Book | Read these two articles: Christine Havice, "Approaching medieval women
through medieval art", pp. 345-385, and Katharina M. Wilson and Glenda McLeod,
"Sounding trumpets, chords of light, and little knives: Medieval women writers", pp.
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331-344.
Further Reading (19 items)
Nuns' literacies in medieval Europe: the Hull dialogue - Virginia Blanton, V. M. O'Mara,
Patricia Stoop, 2013
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The women troubadours - Meg Bogin, 1976
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The queen's library: image-making at the court of Anne of Brittany, 1477-1514 - Cynthia
Jane Brown, 2011
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Women, art, and society - Whitney Chadwick, 2002
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Women, art, and society - Whitney Chadwick, 2002
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Women's writing in Italy, 1400-1650 - Virginia Cox, c2008
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Maistresse of my wit: medieval women, modern scholars - Louise D'Arcens, Juanita Feros
Ruys, 2004
Book
Art into life: collected papers from the Kresge Art Museum medieval symposia - Carol
Garrett Fisher, Kathleen L. Scott, 1995
Book
Women writers of the Middle Ages: a critical study of texts from Perpetua (+203) to
Marguerite Porete (+1310) - Peter Dronke, 1984
Book
The Widows' Might: Women's Identity and Devotion in the Brancacci Chapel - Nicholas A.
Eckstein, 2005
Article
Mencía de Mendoza, Marquesa de Zenete: an art collector in sixteenth‐century Spain Noelia García Pérez, 2009
Article
Nuns as artists: the visual culture of a medieval convent - Jeffrey F. Hamburger, 1997
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The Cultural patronage of medieval women - June Hall McCash, 1996
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Women, art, and architecture in northern Italy, 1520-1580: negotiating power - Katherine
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Women in Renaissance and early modern Europe - Christine Meek, 2000
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Nuns and Their Art: The Case of San Zaccaria in Renaissance Venice - Gary M. Radke, 2001
Article
Women Latin poets: language, gender, and authority, from antiquity to the eighteenth
century - Jane Stevenson, 2005
Book
Writing women in late Medieval and early modern Spain: the mothers of Saint Teresa of
Avila - Ronald E. Surtz, 1995
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Medieval women writers - Katharina M. Wilson, 1984
Book
Week 9: RELIGIOUS WOMEN (I): INSIDE THE CLOISTER (28 items)
Required Reading (3 items)
My sister for abbess: fifteenth-century disputes over the Abbey of Sainte-Croix, Poitiers Jennifer C. Edwards, 2014
Article
English nuns and the law in the Middle Ages: cloistered nuns and their lawyers, 1293-1540
- Elizabeth M. Makowski, 2012
Book | Essential | Read chapter "Cloistered spirituality and cloistered nuns", pp. 11-29.
Nuns and nunneries in Renaissance Florence - Sharon T. Strocchia, 2009
Book | Essential | Read chapters "Nuns, neighbors, and kinsmen", pp. 39-71 (digitized),
and "Contesting the boundaries of enclosure", pp. 152-190.
Further Reading (25 items)
‘Man Can be Subject to Woman’: Female Monastic Authority in Fifteenth-Century Poitiers Jennifer C. Edwards, 2013
Article
Women's monastic enclosures in early Ireland: a study of female spirituality and male
monastic mentalities - Lisa M. Bitel, 1986
Article
Immodest acts: the life of a lesbian nun in Renaissance Italy - Judith C. Brown, 1986
Book
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Women's Monastic Communities, 500-1100: Patterns of Expansion and Decline - Jane
Tibbetts Schulenburg, 1989
Article
Renaissance culture and the everyday - Patricia Fumerton, Simon Hunt, 1999
Book
Nuns: a history of convent life, 1450-1700 - Silvia Evangelisti, 2007
Book
Monastic Poverty and Material Culture in Early Modern Italian Convents - Silvia Evangelisti,
2004
Article
Monastic women and religious orders in late medieval Bologna - Sherri Franks Johnson,
2014
Book
Nuns behaving badly: tales of music, magic, art, and arson in the convents of Italy - Craig
Monson, 2010
Book
Christina of Markyate: a twelfth-century holy woman - Samuel Fanous, Henrietta Leyser,
2005
Book
Women and religion in medieval and Renaissance Italy - Daniel Ethan Bornstein, Roberto
Rusconi, Margery J. Schneider, 1996
Book
Gender and material culture: the archaeology of religious women - Roberta Gilchrist, 1997,
1994
Book
Christendom and its discontents: exclusion, persecution, and rebellion, 1000-1500 - Scott L
Waugh, Peter D. Diehl, 1996
Book
Women and the church in medieval Ireland, c.1140-1540 - Dianne Hall, 2001
Book
Equal in monastic profession: religious women in Medieval France - Penelope D. Johnson,
1991
Book
Religious life for women, c.1100-c.1350: Fontevraud in England - Berenice M. Kerr, 1999
Book
Creating Clare of Assisi: female Franciscan identities in later medieval Italy - Lezlie S. Knox
, 2008
Book
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Elections of Abbesses and Notions of Identity in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy,
with Special Reference to Venice - Kate Lowe, 2001
Article
Canon law and cloistered women: Periculoso and its commentators, 1298-1545 - Elizabeth
M. Makowski, 1997
Book
Leadership in medieval English nunneries - Valerie Spear, 2005
Book
The convent and the community in late medieval England: female monasteries in the
Diocese of Norwich, 1350-1540 - Marilyn Oliva, 1998
Book
Fornicating with nuns in fifteenth-century Bologna - Trevor Dean, 2008
Article
Inside and Outside the Convent Walls: The Norm and Practice of Enclosure in the Reformed
Nunneries of Late Medieval Germany - H. Uffmann, 2001
Article
Women's monasticism and medieval society: nunneries in France and England, 890-1215 Bruce L. Venarde, 1997
Book
Kings, Saints, and Nuns: Gender, Religion, and Authority in the Reign of Henry V - Nancy
Bradley Warren, 1999
Article
Week 10: RELIGIOUS WOMEN (II): OUTSIDE THE CLOISTER (26 items)
Required Reading (3 items)
Proving woman: female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the later Middle Ages - Dyan
Elliott, 2004
Book | Essential | Read chapter "The beguines: A sponsored emergence", pp. 47-84.
Mulieres Religiosae, Strictly Speaking: Some Fourteenth-Century Canonical Opinions Elizabeth Makowski, 1999
Article | Essential
Cities of ladies: Beguine communities in the medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 - Walter
Simons, 2001
Book | Essential | Read the chapter titled "Conflict and coexistence", pp. 118-137.
Digitized.
Further Reading (23 items)
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A companion to The book of Margery Kempe - John Arnold, Katherine J. Lewis, 2010
Book
The Beguines of medieval Paris: gender, patronage, and spiritual authority - Tanya Stabler
Miller, 2014
Book
Women and mystical experience in the Middle Ages - Frances Beer, 1992
Book
Women and religion in medieval and Renaissance Italy - Daniel Ethan Bornstein, Roberto
Rusconi, Margery J. Schneider, 1996
Book
Sisters and brothers of the common life: the Devotio Moderna and the world of the later
Middle Ages - John H. Van Engen, 2008
Book | Read at least the chapter titled "Inventing a communal household: Goods,
customs, labor, and 'Republican' harmony", pp. 162-199 (digitized). The chapter "Converts
in the Middle Ages", pp. 11-44, is strongly recommended.
Women mystics in medieval Europe - Sheila Hughes, Emilie Zum Brunn, Georgette
Epiney-Burgard, 1989
Book
New trends in feminine spirituality: the holy women of Liège and their impact - Juliette Dor,
Lesley Johnson, Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, 1999
Book
Mary of Oignies: mother of salvation - Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, 2006
Book
The Origins of the Beguines - Carol Neel, 1989
Article
Religious movements in the Middle Ages: the historical links between heresy, the
Mendicant Orders, and the women's religious movement in the twelfth and thirteenth
century, with the historical foundations of German mysticism - Herbert Grundmann,
Steven W. Rowan, 1995
Book
Catherine of Siena: the creation of a cult - Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Gabriela Signori, 2013
Book
The mystical journey of Angela of Foligno - Paul Lachance, 1990
Book
"A pernicious sort of woman": quasi-religious women and canon lawyers in the later Middle
Ages - Elizabeth M. Makowski, 2005
Book
Medieval anchoritisms: gender, space and the solitary life - Liz Herbert McAvoy, 2011
Book
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Uncovering the ‘saintly Anchoress’: myths of Medieval anchoritism and the reclusion of
Katharine de Audley - Liz Herbert McAvoy, 2013
Article
The Beguines and Beghards in medieval culture: with special emphasis on the Belgian
scene - Ernest W. McDonnell, 1954
Book
The flowering of mysticism: men and women in the new mysticism, (1200-1350) - Bernard
McGinn, 1998
Book
Meister Eckhart and the Beguine mystics: Hadewijch of Brabant, Mechthild of Magdeburg,
and Marguerite Porete - Bernard McGinn, 1997
Book
Medieval holy women in the Christian tradition c. 1100-c. 1500 - A. J. Minnis, Rosalynn
Voaden, 2010
Book
Living saints of the thirteenth century: the lives of Yvette, anchoress of Huy; Juliana of
Cornillon, author of the Corpus Christi feast; and Margaret the Lame, anchoress of
Magdeburg - Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker, Jo Ann McNamara, Barbara Newman, 2011
Book
Body and soul: essays on medieval women and mysticism - Elizabeth Alvilda Petroff, 1994
Book
Foundresses of the Franciscan Life: Umiliana Cerchi and Margaret of Cortona - Bernard
Schlager, 1998
Article
Images of sainthood in Medieval Europe - Timea Szell, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, 1991
Book
Week 11: JEWISH AND MUSLIM WOMEN (18 items)
Required Reading (4 items)
Late medieval Jewish identities: Iberia and beyond - Carmen Caballero-Navas, Esperanza
Alfonso, 2010
Book | Read the article titled "Queen for a day: The exclusion of Jewish women form
public life in the Middle Ages", by Asuncion Blasco Martinez, pp. 91-106.
Conversing with the minority: relations among Christian, Jewish, and Muslim women in the
high middle ages - Monica H. Green, 2008
Article
The care of women's health and beauty: an experience shared by medieval Jewish and
Christian women - Carmen Caballero-Navas, 2008
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Article
Christian, Muslim and Jewish Women in Late Medieval Iberia - María Jesús Fuente, 2009
Article
Further Reading (14 items)
Women in medieval Western European culture - Linda Elizabeth Mitchell, 1999
Book
Across the religious divide: women, property, and law in the wider Mediterranean (ca.
1300-1800) - Jutta Gisela Sperling, Shona Kelly Wray, 2010
Book
Jewish women in Europe in the Middle Ages: a quiet revolution - Simha Goldin, 2011
Book
A thirteenth-century Anglo-Jewish woman crossing boundaries: visible and invisible Charlotte Newman Goldy, 2008
Article
Charisma and religious authority: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim preaching, 1200-1500 Katherine Ludwig Jansen, Miri Rubin, 2010
Book
The Widow's Portion: Law, Custom, and Marital Property among Medieval Catalan Jews Elka Klein, 2000
Article
The bonds that bind: money lending between Anglo-Jewish and Christian women in the
plea rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, 1218–1280 - Victoria Hoyle, 2008
Article
Heretics or daughters of Israel?: the crypto-Jewish women of Castile - Renée Levine
Melammed, 1999
Book
The Medieval Mediterranean: cross-cultural contacts - Marilyn Joyce Segal Chiat, Kathryn
Reyerson, 1988
Book
Out of the Shadow and into the Light - the Impact and Implications of Recent Scholarship
on the Jews of Medieval England 1066-1290 - Robin R. Mundill, 2011
Article
Communities of violence: persecution of minorities in the Middle Ages - David Nirenberg,
1996
Book
Conversion, Sex, and Segregation: Jews and Christians in Medieval Spain - David Nirenberg
, 2002
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Article
Gentile tales: the narrative assault on late medieval Jews - Miri Rubin, 1999
Book
Upon my husband's death: widows in the literature and histories of medieval Europe Louise Mirrer, 1992
Book
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