A
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: WOMEN AND GENDER IN THE MEDIEVAL
AND
EARLY MODERN EUROPE
(* = LOCATED IN SMC
DURICK LIBRARY)/GEORGE DAMERON (WINTER 2002)
*Bonnie
Anderson and Judith Zinsser, A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from
Prehistory to the Present,Vol. 1, revised edition (Oxford 2000).
*A
Select Chronological, Geographical, and Topical Bibliography from Antiquity to
the French Revolution,
eds. Linda Frey, Marsha Frey, Joanne Schneider (Greenwood, Supplement published
in 1986).
*Renate
Bridenthal and Claudia Koontz, Becoming Visible: Women in European History
(Boston 1977).
*Olwen
Hufton, "Women in History: Early Modern Europe," Past and Present
101 (November 1983)
Medieval
Feminist Newsletter
(also sponsors a listserv, medfem-l@u.washington.edu)
Rubin,
Miri. “A Decade of Studying
Medieval Women, 1987-1997,” History Workshop Journal 46 (1998):
213-239.
*Schaus,
Margaret and Susan Mosher Stuard, "Citizens of No Mean City: Medieval
Women's History," in Journal of Women's History 6 (3) Fall 1994, pp.
170-198.
Women
in Medieval Times: An Annotated Bibliography (Wiener Publishers 1988).
Yenal,
Edith. Christine de Pizan: A Bibliography
THEORY AND
METHODOLOGY/WOMEN AND GENDER/HISTORIOGRAPHY
*Mary
Field Belenky et al, Women's Ways of Knowing: The Development of Self, Voice,
and Mind (New York 1986).
Judith
Bennett, “Medievalism and Feminism,” Speculum 68 (1993):
309-331.
-----.
Medieval Women in Modern Perspective (Women’s and Gender History
in Global Perspective, American Historical Association, 2000).
*R.
Bridenthal and C. Koontz, Becoming Visible
*Nancy
Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of
Gender (Berkeley 1978).
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Psychoanalysis and Modern Feminism (1989).
*Natalie
Davis and Joan Scott, Women's History as Women's Education (Smith College
1985).
Natalie
Davis. "Women's History in Transition: The European Case," Feminist
Studies 111, nos. 3-4 (1976).
*Carol
Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development
(Cambridge 1982).
*Joan
Kelly, Women, History and Theory: The Essays of Joan Kelly (Chicago
1984).
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"The Social Relations of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women's
History," Signs 1 (1976).
*Gerda
Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (New York 1986).
Nancy
Partner, ed., Studying Medieval Women: Sex,
Gender, Feminism (Cambridge: Medieval
Academy, 1993).
*Joan
Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis," American
Historical Review 91:5 (December 1986).
Susan
Mosher Stuard, Women in Medieval History and Historiography
(Philadelphia: University of
Pennsylvania Press, 1987).
Gender
and the Politics of History
(New York 1988).
PRIMARY SOURCES (WORKS
BY WOMEN)
Online
resources on the World Wide Web containing primary texts: Internet Medieval
Sourcebook, Internet Women's History Sourcebook, Internet Early Modern
Sourcebook, Labyrinth, Orb
Joseph
Baird and R. Ehrman, eds. and trans. The letters of hildegard of bingen.
vol. 1. oxford: 1994.
Emilie
Zum Brunn and Georgette Epiney-Burgard, eds.
Women Mystics in Medieval Europe (New York:
Paragon House, 1989).
*Catharine
of Siena, The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin (trans. A. Thorold)
(Westminster 1943).
*Christine
de Pisan, Medieval woman's mirror of honor: the treasury of the city of
ladies, trans. Charity Cannon Willard
-----.
The Book of the City of Ladies, trans. Earl Jeffrey Richards (New
York: Persea Books, 1982).
*-------------------
Treasure of the City of ladies, or, the book of the three virtues, trans.
Sarah Lawson (Penguin 1985).
Christine
de Pizan: The book of the body politic
ed. and trans. kate langdon forhan (cambridge)
*Peter
Dronke, Women Writers of the Middle Ages:
A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua (d203) to Marguerite Porete (d.
1310) (Cambridge: Cambridge,
1984).
Anne
Haight, ed. Hrothwitha of Gandersheim: Her Life, Times, and Works, and a
Comprehensive Bibliography (New York 1965).
*Hildegard
of Bingen, Scivias (trans. Bruce Hozeski)
Hrotsvithae
opera, ed. H.
Homeyer (Munich 1970).
*Julian
of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love (Viking Penguin)
*Margery
Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, trans. B. A Windeatt (Penguin
1985)
*Marguerite
of Navarre, The Heptameron (trans. P. Chilton) (1984)
Marie
de France, Fables (Medieval Academy)
Marie
de France, The Lais of Marie de France, trans. Glyn Burgess (Penguin
1999).
*Roswitha
of Gandersheim, Plays of Roswitha (1923)
*Medieval
Women's Visionary Literature,
ed. Elizabeth Petroff (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986). Primary sources
on over twenty female religious writers, including Hrothswitha, Margery Kempe,
St. Perpetua, St. Clare, and Hildegard of Bingen
Betty
Radice, ed., The Letters of Abelard and Heloise (Penguin 1974).
Songs
of the Women Troubadors,
ed. Matilda T. Bruckner et al (Garland, 1995).
*Gaspara
Stampa, Selected poems (Italica Press)
Katharina
Wilson, ed. Medieval Women Writers (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984).
*Women
poets of the italian renaissance.
ed. Laura Anna Stortoni. (Italica Press)
PRIMARY SOURCE
COLLECTIONS
See
the list of online resources listed in the previous section
Leon
Battista Alberti, the family in renaissance florence. Waveland.
*Emilie
Amt, Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook (London: Routledge,
1993)
Augherson,
Kate. Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook (The Construction of Feminities in
England 1520-1680 (Routledge)
*Roy
Cave and H. Coulson, A Source Book for Medieval Economic History (New
York: Biblo and Tannen, 1965).
The
Danse Macabre of Women,
ed. ann tukey harrison (Kent State Press).
*Georges
Duby, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West (Columbia, S.
C., 1962, but has appeared in later edition).
*English
Historical Documents, various editors, vols. 1-5 (1953-1979)
The
danse macabre of women,
ed. Ann Tukey Harrison. Kent State Press.
Millet,
Bella and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, editors. Medieval English Prose for Women.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990.
Thiébaux,
Marcelle, ed. The Writings of Medieval Women (New York: Garland, 1994).
SECONDARY LITERATURE
*Carol
Adams et al, From Workshop to warfare: the lives of medieval women
Prudence
Allen, The Concept of Woman (Montreal: Eden Press, 1985).
*Philippe
Aries, Centuries of Childhood (New York 1965).
*Clarissa
Atkinson, The oldest vocation: Christian
Motherhood in the Middle Ages (Ithaca: Cornell, 1991).
-----.
“’Precious Balsam in a Fragile Glass’: The Ideology of Virginity in
the Later Middle Ages,” Journal of Family History 8 (1983):
131-143.
Derek
Baker, ed. Medieval Women (Oxford 1978).
*John
Baldwin, The language of sex (Chicago).
*Anne
Barstow. Joan of Arc: Heretic, Mystic, Shaman (1986)
*Bayard,
Tania, ed. and trans. A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the
Fourteenth Century (HarperCollins).
Beer,
Frances. Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages.
Rudolf
Bell, Holy anorexia. (Chicago, 1985)
*Bennett,
Judith. Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing
World, 1300-1600 (Oxford 1996).
*-----.
Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800 (Pennsylvania, 1999).
-----.
Women in the Medieval English Countryside:
Gender and Household in Brigstock Before the Plague (New York:
Oxford, 1987).
*Bitel,
Lisa. Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (Cornell,
1996)
*R.
Howard Bloch, Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love
(Chicago 1991)
*Brenda
Bolton, “Mulieres Sanctae,” in Women in Medieval Society, ed. Susan
Stuard, 141-158.
*Bornstein,
Daniel, and Rusconi, Robert. Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance
Italy (Chicago)
*Diane
Bornstein, “Courtly Love,” in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed.
Joseph Strayer, volume 3 (New York: Scribner,
1983): 667-674.
Constance
Brittain Bouchard, Strong of Body, Brave and Noble:
Chivalry and Society in Medieval France (Ithaca: Cornell, 1998).
Alain
Boureau, The Lord’s First Night: The
Myth of the Droit de Cuissage, trans. Lydia Cochrane (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Bridenthal,
Renate and Susan Stuard, Becoming Visible: Women in European History, 3rd
edition (Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
1998)
Jean
Brink and Alison Coudert, M. Horowitz, eds, The Politics of Gender in Early
Modern Europe (Kirksville, Mo. 1989).
Christopher
Brooke, The medieval idea of marriage (Oxford 1989)
*Matilda
Tomaryn Bruckner, “Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadors,” Speculum 67 (1992):
865-891.
*James
Brundage, Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1987)
*Bullough,
Vern and James Brundage, eds. Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (New York:
Garland, 1996).
John
Butler, "Witchcraft, Healing, and Historians' Crazes," review essay, Journal
of Social History 18 (1) (Fall 1984)
*Carolyn
Bynum, *Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages
(Berkeley 1982).
*------------
*Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval
Women (Berkeley 1987)
*------------
Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval
Religion (New York: Zone Books, 1991).
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The resurrection of the body in western christianity (New York: Columbia:
1994)
*Joan
Cadden. Meanings of sex differences in the middle ages: medicine, science,
and culture (Cambridge 1993).
Stanley
Chojnacki, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice (Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University, 2000).
*Jeffrey
Cohen and Bonnie Wheeler, eds., Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (New
York: Garland, 1997).
Alice
Clark, Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century (New York 1968)
*Clark,
Ann. Elisabeth of Schonau (Penn).
Elizabeth
Clark, “Devil’s Gateway and Brides of Christ:
Women in the Early Christian World,” in Ascetic Piety and Women’s
Faith (Lewiston, New York: E.
Mellen, 1986): 23-60.
*Gillian
Clark, Women in Late Antiquity (Oxford 1993)
*Stuart
Clark, "Inversion, Misrule, and the Meaning of Witchcraft, Past and
Present 87 (May 1980).
*Cohn,
Samuel K. Women of the Streets (Johns Hopkins 1996)
*Louise
Collis, Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe
(New York 1964).
Allison
Coudert, "The Myth of the Improved Status of Protestant Women: The Case of
the Witchcraze," in The Politics of Gender (see above).
Davidson,
Audrey-Ekdahl, ed. The Ordo virtutum of Hildegard of Bingen: Critical Studies
(Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Pubs, Western Michigan University, 1992).
*Natalie
Zemon Davis, The Return of Martin Guerre (Cambridge 1983)
*--------------------.
"Women on Top," Society and Culture in Early Modern France
(Stanford, 1975).
*Davis,
Natalie Zemon and Arlette Farge, ed, A history of women in the West, vol
III: Renaissance and Enlightenment Paradoxes (Cambridge: Harvard)
*Arlyn
Diamond and Lee Edwards, eds. The Authority of Experience: Essays in Feminist
Criticism (Boston 1988). Includes essay on Chaucer.
*Heath
Dillard, Daughters of the Reconquest: Women
in Castilian Town Society, 1100-1300 (Cambridge:
Cambridge, 1984).
*Peter
Dronke. Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Cambridge 1984).
*Georges
Duby, Medieval Marriage. Two Models from Twelfth Century France (trans.E.
Foster) (Baltimore 1981).
*Sharon
Elkins, Holy women of twelfth century England (Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina, 1988).
*Dyan
Elliott, Fallen Bodies: Pollution,
Sexuality, and Demonology in the Middle Ages (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).
*-----.
Spiritual marriage: sexual abstinence in medieval wedlock
(Princeton 1993).
*Edith
Ennen, The Medieval Woman, trans. E. Jephcott (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1989).
*Mary
Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski, eds., Women and Power in the Middle Ages
(Athens: University of Georgia, 1988).
*Sharon
Farmer, “Persuasive Voices: Clerical
Images of Medieval Wives,” Speculum 61 (1986): 517-543.
*Marjorie
Ferguson, M. Quilligan, N. Vickers, eds., Rewriting the Renaissance: The
Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe (Chicago 1984)
*Moira
Ferguson, ed. First Feminists: British Women Writers 1578-1799
(Bloomington 1985).
*Joan
Ferrante, To the Glory of Her Sex: Women’s
Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts (Bloomington 1997).
*Laurie
Finke and Martin Schichtman, eds. Medieval Texts and Contemporary Readers
(Ithaca 1987).
Special
section on women and gender in French History in French Historical Studies
16 (1) (Spring 1989)
*Frances
and Joseph Gies, A Medieval Family: The
Pastons of Fifteenth Century England (New York:
HarperCollins 1998).
*-----.
Women in the Middle Ages (New York: Harper and Row, 1978).
E.
Gilson. Heloise and Abelard. Michigan.
*Carlo
Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults (Baltimore
1983).
*Penny
Gold, The Lady and the Virgin: Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth
Century France (Chicago 1985).
*P.
J. P. Goldberg. Women, work, and life cycle in a medieval economy (Oxford
1992)
*Jack
Goody, The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe (Cambridge
1983).
Jack
Goody, Joan Thirsk, E. P. Thompson, Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in
Western Europe, 1200-1800 (Cambridge)
Monica
Green, “Women’s Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe,” in Sister
and Workers, ed. Bennet et al, 39-78.
Jeffrey
Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The
Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997).
*Barbara
Hanawalt, ed. Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe (Bloomington 1986).
*Harvey,
Barbara. Living and Dying in England, 1100-1540 (Oxford 1993).
*David
Herlihy, *Medieval Households (Cambridge 1986).
*--------------
Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe (Houghton Mifflin
1989)
*--------------
*Tuscans and Their Families (New Haven 1985)--co-authored with Christiane
Klapisch-Zuber.
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*"Land, Family, and Women in Continental Europe, 701-1200," Traditio
18 (1962): 89-120.
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Women, Family, and Society in Medieval Europe:
Historical Essays, 1978-1991 (Providence and Oxford:
Berghahn, 1995).
Stephanie
Hollis. Anglosaxon women and the church. Boydell.
Julia
Bolton Holloway and Constance Wright, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in
the Middle Ages (NY: Peter Lang, 1990).
Amy
Hollywood, The Soul as Virgin wife: Mechtild
of Magdeburg, Marguerite Porete, and Meister Eckhardt (Notre Dame 1995).
Margaret
Howell, Eleanor of Provence: Queenship
in Thirteenth Century England (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1998).
*Martha
Howell. The Marriage Exchange: Property,
Social Place, and Gender in Cities of the Low Countries, 1300-1550 (Chicago
1998).
*-----.
Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities (Chicago
1986).
C.
Stephen Jaeger, Ennobling Love (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).
Jewell,
Helen. Women in Medieval England (Manchester 1996).
Jenny
Jochens, Women in Old Norse Society (Cornell 1995)
*Penelope
Johnson. Equal in the Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France
(Chicago 1991).
William
Chester Jordan. Women and credit in pre-industrial and developing societies
Marion
Kaplan, ed. The Marriage Bargain: Women and Dowries in European History
(Binghamton 1985)
*Karras,
Ruth Mazo. Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England
(Oxford 1996).
*Ruth
Kelso, The Doctrine of the Lady
Margaret
King and A. Rabil, Her Immaculate Hand: Selected Works by and about the Women
Humanists of Quattrocento Italy (Binghamton 1983)
*Julius
Kirshner and Susanne Wemple, Women of the Medieval World (Basil Blackwell
1988).
*Christiane
Klapisch-Zuber, Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy (trans. L.
Cochrane) (Chicago 1985)
*-----.
A History of Women in the West, 2: Silences of the Middle Ages.
(Cambridge: Harvard, 1992).
Maryanne
Kowaleski, “Singlewomen in Medieval and Early Modern Europe:
The Demographic Perspective,” in Singlewomen in the European Past,
1250-1800, ed. Judith Bennett and Any Froide (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998):
38-81.
Margaret
Wade Labarge, A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life
(Boston: Beacon Press, 1986).
*Lees,
Clare, ed. Medieval Masculinities (Minnesota 1994).
Brian
Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe (Longman 1987).
*Carol
Levin and J. Watson, Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and
Renaissance (Wayne State 1987)
*Laiou,
Angeliki, ed. Consent and Coercion to Sex and Marriage in Ancient and
Medieval Societies (Harvard 1994).
*Leyser,
Henrietta. Medieval Women: A
Society History of Women in England 450-1500 (St. Martin's, 1998).
*Carolyn
Lougee, Le Paradis des Femmes: Women, Salons, and Social Stratification in
Seventeenth Century France (Princeton 1976).
*Mavis
Mate, Daughters, Wives, and Widows after the Black Death:
Women in Sussex, 1350-1535 (Boydell 1998).
-----Women
in English Society (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1999).
June
Hall McCash, “The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women:
An Overview,” in The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women, ed.
J. McCash (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996):
1-49.
*McNamara,
Jo Ann. Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia (Harvard
1996).
*-----.
“The Herrenfrage:
The Restructuring of the Gender System, 1050-1150,” in Medieval
Masculinities, ed. Clare Lees (Minneapolis: University
of Minnesota Press, 1994): 3-29.
Marion
Meade, Eleanor of Aquitaine: A
Biography (New York: Penguin,
1977).
Meale,
Carol. Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500 (Cambridge).
*Linda
Mitchell, ed., Women in Medieval Western European Culture (New York:
Garland, 1999).
*A.
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1994).
*E.
W. Monter, Witchcraft in France and Switzerland (Ithaca 1976).
Rosemary
T. Morewedge, ed., The Role of Women in the Middle Ages (Albany 1975).
Kathleen
Morris, Sorceress or Witch? The Image of Gender in Medieval Iceland and
Northern Europe (University Press 1991). 29.50
*Muir,
Ruggiero and Edward Muir, Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective (Johns
Hopkins 1990).
*John
Hine Mundy, Men and Women at Toulouse in the Age of the Cathars (Toronto
1990).
Jacqueline
Murray, ed., Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities:
Men in the Medieval West (New York:
Garland, 1999).
*Newman,
Barbara. From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and
Literature (Philadelphia: University of Penn. Press, 1995).
*-----.
“Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise,” Journal
of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 22 (1992):
121-157. Reprinted in From
Virile Woman.
*-----.
“Possessed by the Spirit: Devout
Women, Demoniacs, and the Apostolic Life in the Thirteenth Century,” Speculum
73 (1998): 733-770.
*O'Faolain,
Julia and Lauro Martines, eds., Not in God's Image: Women in History from the
Greeks to the Victorians (New York 1973).
*Susan
Moeller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought (Princeton 1979).
Lydia
Otis, Prostitution in Medieval Society:
The History of An Urban Institution in Languedoc (Chicago 1985).
*Ozment,
Steven. The Burgermeister's Daughter (Harper 1996)
*Partner,
Nancy F., ed. "Studying Medieval Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism," Speculum
68 (2) April 1993 (later published as a separate volume by the Medieval
Academy).
Paterson,
Linda. World of the Troubadors (Cambridge 1993).
Payer.
Pierre. The bridling of desire: views of sex in the later middle ages
Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1993.
*Pitkin,
Hanna Fenichel. Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of
Niccolo Machiavelli (Berkeley 1984)
*Eileen
Power, Medieval Women (New York 1985).
Regine
Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin, Joan of Arc:
Her Story (New York: St.
Martin’s, 1998).
*Elizabeth
Petroff. Medieval Women's Visionary Literature (New York 1986).
*Mary
Prior, ed, Women in English Society, 1500-1800 (New York 1985).
*Ranft,
Patricia. Women and Religious Life in Premodern Europe (St. Martin's
1996)
*Riddle,
John M. Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the renaissance
(Harvard).
*Rocke,
Michael. Forbidden Friendships: Homosexuality and Male Culture in Renaissance
Florence (Oxford 1996).
*Mary
Beth Rose, ed., Women in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Literary and
Historical Perspectives (Syracuse 1986).
*Joel
Rosenthal, Medieval Women and the sources of medieval history (Athens:
University of Georgia Press, 1990).
*Rosemary
Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin, eds, Women of the Spirit: Female Leadership
in the Jewish and Christian Traditions (New York 1979)
Jane
Tibbetts Schulenburg, Forgetful of Their Sex: Female Sanctity, ca. 500-1100 (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1998).
Shulamith
Shahar, The Fourth Estate: A
History of Women in the Middle Ages (London:
Methuen, 1983).
Sheehan,
Michael. Marriage, Family, and Law in Medieval Europe: Collected Studies,
ed. James Farge (Toronto 1996).
Walter
Simons, Cities of Ladies: Beguine
Communities in the Medieval Low Countries, 1200-1565 (Philadelphia:
University of Penn., 2001).
Pauline
Stafford, Queen Emma and Queen Edith: Queenship
and Women’s Power in Eleventh Century England (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1997).
Doris
Mary Stenton, The English Woman in History (New York 1977).
*Lawrence
Stone, The Family, Sex, and Marriage, 1500-1800 (New York 1979).
*Susan
Mosher Stuard, “The Dominion of Gender or How Women Fared in the High Middle
Ages,” in Becoming Visible, 3rd edition:
129-150.
*-----.
Women in Medieval Society (Phil: Univ. of Pa. Press, 1976).
Thompson,
Sally. Women Religious: The Founding of English Nunneries after the Norman
Conquest.
*Hugh
Trevor-Roper, The European Witch-craze of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth
Centuries and Other Essays.
Elisabeth
van Houts, Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe, 900-1200 (London:
Macmillan, 1999).
*Venarde,
Bruce. Women's Monasteries and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and
England, 890-1215 (Ithaca: Cornell, 1997).
*D.
P. Walker, Unclean Spirits: Possession and Exorcism in France and England in
the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries (Philadelphia 1981).
Sue
Sheridan Walker,ed. Wife and Widow in Medieval England (Michigan).
Jennifer
Ward, English noblewomen in the later middle ages. Longman. 1992.
*Warner,
Marina. Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism (1981)
*Retha
Warnicke, Women in the English Renaissance and Reformation (Westport, Ct.
1983)
Wiethaus,
Ulrike, ed. Maps of flesh and light: religious experience of medieval women
mystics syracuse 1993.
*Suzanne
Wemple, Women in Frankish Society. Marriage and the Cloister, 500-900
(Philadelphia 1981).
*
Wiesner, Merry. Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge:
1994).
Dobson,
Barrie. “The Role of Jewish Women
in Medieval England,” in Christianity and Judaism, ed. Diana Wood
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1992): 145-168.
Garland,
Lynda. Byzantine Empresses:
Women and Power in Byzantium, AD 527-1204 (New York:
Routledge, 1999).
Hambly,
Gavin, ed. Women in the Medieval
Islamic World (New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1998).
Laiou,
Angeliki. “Women in Byzantine
Society,” in Women in Medieval Western Euorpean Culture, ed. Linda
Mitchell (New York: Garland, 1999): 81-94.
Mirrer,
Louise. Women, Jews, and Muslims
in the Texts of Reconquest Castile (Ann Arbor:
University of Michigan Press, 1996).
Stow,
Kenneth, “The Jewish Family in the Rhineland in the High Middle Ages:
Form and Function,” American Historical Review 92 (1987):
1085-1110.