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When the Bishop Married the Abbess: Masculinity and Power in Florentine Episcopal Entry Rites, 13001600

Strocchia — 2007-07-19T11:46:28-00:00

Gender & History, Vol. 19, No. 2. (August 2007), pp. 346-368.

Religion Makes a Difference: Clerical and Lay Cultures in the Courts of Northern Italy, 1000-1300

Maureen Miller — 2008-07-26T00:24:44-00:00

The American Historical Review, Vol. 105, No. 4. (2000), pp. 1095-1130.

Confession before 1215

Alexander Murray — 2008-07-26T00:23:55-00:00

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 3 (1993), pp. 51-81.

Ecclesiastical Reform in the Late Old English Period

RR Darlington — 2008-07-26T00:21:05-00:00

The English Historical Review, Vol. 51, No. 203. (1936), pp. 385-428.

The war against heresy in medieval Europe

Moore — 2008-03-21T06:18:28-00:00

Historical Research, Vol. 81, No. 212. (May 2008), pp. 189-210.

NOTES AND COMMENTS

Adrian Hastings — 2008-07-26T00:17:04-00:00

The Heythrop Journal, Vol. 24, No. 2. (1983), pp. 171-177.

Review: [The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around 1200]

Constance Berman — 2008-07-26T00:15:38-00:00

Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 6, No. 2. (1995), pp. 325-328.

The Rural Chapter in England from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century

Jean Scammell — 2008-07-26T00:10:41-00:00

The English Historical Review, Vol. 86, No. 338. (1971), pp. 1-21.

Man of the Church, or Man of the Village Gender and the Parish Clergy in Medieval Normandy

Thibodeaux — 2006-12-24T13:10:01-00:00

Gender & History, Vol. 18, No. 2. (August 2006), pp. 380-399.

Interpreting Legitimacy

Rolf Nygren — 2008-07-26T00:07:03-00:00

Journal of Family History, Vol. 28, No. 1. (1 January 2003), pp. 149-160.

Legitimacy has been a key concept of Western family law for hundreds of years. The test of legitimacy determined who belonged to a family and who did not. In principle, legitimacy entitled children to maintenance and inheritance from both parental sides. Illegitimacy did not unconditionally do so. This article reflects on why legitimacy appeared as a significant part of the ecclesiastical policy and legislation from the mid-twelfth century onwards and why legitimacy could remain an indispensable part of European family law for at least seven hundred years until the second half of the nineteenth century. 10.1177/0363199002238558

Henry of Huntingdon: Clerical Celibacy and the Writing of History

Nancy Partner — 2008-07-26T00:03:57-00:00

Church History, Vol. 42, No. 4. (1973), pp. 467-475.

The Origins of Clerical Celibacy in the Western Church

Charles Frazee — 2008-07-26T00:02:04-00:00

Church History, Vol. 41, No. 2. (1972), pp. 149-167.

A Bishop and His World before the Gregorian Reform: Hubert of Angers, 1006-1047

Steven Fanning — 2008-07-26T00:00:42-00:00

Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 78, No. 1. (1988), pp. i-193.

The Skewed Sex Ratio in a Medieval Population: A Reinterpretation

Michael Siegfried — 2008-07-25T21:36:17-00:00

Social Science History, Vol. 10, No. 2. (1986), pp. 195-204.

Review: [Women's Monasticism and Medieval Society: Nunneries in France and England, 890-1215]

Jo Mcnamara — 2008-07-25T21:35:44-00:00

The American Historical Review, Vol. 103, No. 4. (1998), pp. 1238-1239.

Gregorian Reform in Action: Clerical Marriage in England, 1050-1200

CNL Brooke — 2008-07-25T21:23:25-00:00

Cambridge Historical Journal, Vol. 12, No. 1. (1956), pp. 1-21.

Gender, Sacrament and Ritual: The Making and Meaning of Marriage in Late Medieval and Early Modern England

Christine Peters — 2007-04-24T12:28:03-00:00

Chronicles (Penguin Classics)

Jean Froissart — 2008-03-26T00:23:14-00:00

(27 April 1978)

Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society by David d'Avray Byzantine Women: Varieties of Experience, AD 800-1200 edited by Lynda Garland Household, Women and Christianities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne

Van Houts — 2008-03-25T00:41:42-00:00

Gender & History, Vol. 19, No. 2. (2007), pp. 384-387.

Women in England, C. 1275-1525: Documentary Sources (Manchester Medieval Sources Series)

2008-03-25T06:09:22-00:00

(21 December 1995)

Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

2008-03-25T06:05:27-00:00

(28 January 1997)

This collection of essays focuses on the questions of women's access to a written culture and their representation in literature in late medieval Britain. It explores women's engagement with Anglo-Norman, English, Welsh and Latin, and addresses such issues as orality and literacy and women's exclusion from a written tradition. It considers the historical evidence for women's activity as writers, patrons and readers, and examines the representation of women within different literary genres--both secular and religious--their possession or lack of power, and their roles as lovers, mothers and saints.

The Prime Of Their Lives: Wise Old Women In Pre-industrial Europe (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change) (Groningen Studies in Cultural Change)

2008-03-25T00:36:19-00:00

(01 December 2004)

The contributions to this volume show that in pre-industrial Europe, women in their prime (women who had reached maturity and were beyond fertility but not yet in old age), constitute a separate category for historical and literary analysis. These wise old women, or WOWs, took on tasks in society which were essentially different from the ones they had taken on before, mainly in the household. The case studies presented here show that some of these women entered a second phase of creativity and productivity and were even able to fulfil their desires at the age of forty. Being able, at last, to find their authentic selves, they acquired a female voice of their own. For some of them, for example, Christine de Pizan, the age of forty even functioned as a trope of female authorship.

English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages (The Medieval World)

Jennifer Ward — 2008-03-25T06:04:20-00:00

(12 April 1995)

Sanctity and Motherhood: Essays on Holy Mothers in the Middle Ages (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)

Mulder-Bakker — 2008-03-25T00:34:52-00:00

(01 May 1995)

Increasingly, recent scholarship has focused on those married women and mothers in the Middle Ages who achieved holiness. The Merovingian Waldetrudis and Rictrudis; Ida, mother of the crusader king Godfrey of Bouillon; Elisabeth of Hungary and Bridget of Sweden are among them. Unlike Mary and her mother, Saint Anne (mother saints, whose sanctity was based on motherhood) these female parents were honored despite rather than because of their children. They were holy mothers, whose status as spouses and mothers gave them a public voice and opened for them the road to sanctification. They successfully combined marriage and motherhood with a religious life and functioned as holy women in their community. Despite increasing respect, tension between the roles of saint and wife persisted. Saintly women were not expected to be happily married: the ancient prejudice against sexual passion and physical ease mitigated the enjoyment of married life. The book's original essays focus on Northern Europe, where the cultof Saint Anne reached its climax around 1500. It does not explore Church doctrine and theology, as other studies do, but examines the religious experience of historical holy mothers and saints and how these women were perceived by their communities and their biographers.

Medieval English Prose for Women: Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Bella Millett — 2008-03-25T05:57:50-00:00

(19 November 1992)

The Ancrene Wisse, a guide for female recluses written in the West Midlands in the early thirteenth century, and the closely related religious works of the `Katherine Group', offer a vivid insight into the religious life of the time, and their rich and varied prose style blends Latin and native English stylistic traditions with remarkable skill and assurance. The difficulty of their language, however, has made them largely inaccessible except to experts in Middle English, and this edition is designed to introduce them to a wider audience, including undergraduates with limited experience of Middle English and specialists in other disciplines, particularly history, theology, and women's studies. It provides a representative selection (the last two parts of Ancrene Wisse, and three complete works from the Katherine Group, Hali Meithhad, Sawles Warde, and Seinte Margarete) in new and readable critical texts, with a general introduction, notes, a select glossary, and interleaved translations.

Seeing and Knowing: Women and Learning in Medieval Europe, 12001550 Edited by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

Fiona Griffiths — 2006-12-24T13:09:59-00:00

Gender & History, Vol. 18, No. 2. (August 2006), pp. 425-427.

A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World (History of Private Life (Paperback))

Phillippe Ariès — 2005-04-18T14:51:24-00:00

(01 February 1993)

Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society

David D'avray — 2008-03-25T00:30:08-00:00

(01 March 2008)

This study shows how marriage symbolism emerged from the world of texts to become a social force affecting ordinary people. It covers the whole medieval period but identifies the decades around 1200 as decisive. New arguments for regarding preaching as a mass medium from the thirteenth century are presented, building on the author's Medieval Marriage Sermons. In marriage preaching symbolism was central. Marriage symbolism also became a social force through law, and lay behind the combination of monogamy and indissolubility which made the medieval Church's marriage system a unique development in world history. Symbolism is not presented as an explanation on its own: it interacted with other causal factors, notably the eleventh-century Gregorian Reform's drive for celibacy, which made the higher clergy like a third gender and less sympathetic to patriarchal polygamous tendencies. Sexual intercourse as a symbol of Christ's union with the Church became central, not just in mysticism but in society as structured by Church law. Symbolism also explains apparently bizarre rules, such as the exemption from capital punishment of clerics in minor orders provided that they married a virgin not a widow. The rules about blessing second marriages are also connected with this nexus of thought. The book is based on a wide range of manuscript sources: sermons, canon law commentaries, Apostolic Penitentiary registers, papal bulls, a gaol delivery roll, and pastoral handbooks. The collection of documents at the end of the book expands the source base for the history of medieval marriage generally as well as underpinning the thesis about symbolism.

Women and Power in the Middle Ages

Mary Erler — 2008-03-31T11:56:48-00:00

(31 January 1988)

Margaret of Anjou: Queenship and Power in Late Medieval England

Helen Maurer — 2008-03-27T20:42:55-00:00

(10 February 2005)

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflict, the Wars of the Roses. In Shakespeare's rendering she becomes an adulterous queen who mocks her captive enemy, Richard, duke of York, before killing him in cold blood. Shakespeare's portrayal has proved to be remarkably resilient, because Margaret's queenship lends itself to such an assessment. In 1445, at the age of fifteen, she was married to the ineffectual Henry VI, a move expected to ensure peace with France and an heir to the throne. Eight years later, while she was in the later stages of her only pregnancy, Henry suffered a complete mental collapse that left him catatonic for roughly a year and a half: Margaret came to the political forefront. In the aftermath of the king's illness, she became an indefatigable leader of the Lancastrian loyalists in their struggle against their Yorkist opponents. Margaret's exercise of power was always fraught with difficulty: as a woman, her effective power was dependent upon her invocation of the authority of her husband or her son. Her enemies lost no opportunity to charge her with misconduct of all kinds. More than five hundred years after Margaret's death this examination of her life and career allows a more balanced and detached view.

The Book of Margery Kempe (Penguin Classics)

Margery Kempe — 2008-03-26T20:26:30-00:00

(08 February 2000)

Though a familiar name, little was known about the English mystic Margery Kempe (c. 1373-c. 1440) for hundreds of years except that she had an association with the great Julian of Norwich. This all changed in 1934 with the discovery of The Book of Margery Kempe in a library where it had lain hidden for four hundred years. Finding Margery's own story was important not just because of the light it shed on her life, but it also turned out to be the first known autobiography in the English language. Even more intriguing to the experts of the day, this unique document was written by a woman. But if anyone had expected to find her anything like her cloistered contemporary, Julian, they were in for something of a surprise. Far from being a typical holy woman, Margery Kempe was married and mother of fourteen children. Moreover, she had been a woman of substance, even running a large brewery for a time. After turning to religion, she traveled thousands of miles around the known world on pilgrimages to distant lands. Beyond the circumstances of her life, what's most compelling about the text is the inner Margery that emerges. Her account of spiritual awakening, far from being a blissful episode is instead full of conflict and recrimination. What good was this new way of life if it caused her such trouble? Was this really the only way to lead a holy life? Margery remained unsure of the answers. But her patience in her struggle is a wonder to behold, and an example for us today. The first autobiography written in English--by a brewery owner, Christian mystic, and mother of 14 named Margery Kempe, who died in the 15th century--is now available in a lively, modern translation by John Skinner. It begins with her stark conversion experience, heralded by a vision of Christ in her bedroom one night. The story follows Margery through pilgrimages across Europe and to the Holy Land, through a heresy trial in England, and her burgeoning mystical life. Similar in many ways to Showings by Julian of Norwich and the Confessions of Augustine, The Book of Margery Kempe is a beautiful description of medieval daily life and religious experience. --Michael Joseph Gross

Genealogies and dynastic awareness in the Hundred Years War. The evidence of A tous nobles qui aiment beaux faits et bonnes histoires

Marigold Norbye — 2008-03-24T23:42:51-00:00

Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 33, No. 3. (September 2007), pp. 297-319.

A tous nobles is a fifteenth-century genealogical chronicle of the kings of France which survives in more than 60 copies and 21 textual versions, proving its versatility and popularity. Its manuscripts exist in both roll or codex format, and range from plain to luxurious. A tous nobles can be found on its own, or embedded within a universal chronicle. Seventeen of its textual versions are accompanied by a genealogical tree, closely integrated with the text and varying according to each version. The variety of format, layout and content suggest that A tous nobles was constantly being remodelled to suit its audiences. In one extreme case, the contents were rewritten to reflect opinions diametrically opposed to those of authors of all the other versions. A tous nobles was allegedly based on the Grandes Chroniques de France, and its general tenor is favourable to the French royal dynasty in power. However, the authors of A tous nobles did not slavishly follow all the elements of royal ideology contained in the Grandes Chroniques. Moreover, most of them chose to ignore a fundamental issue that had a direct impact on the Hundred Years War, the question of whether women could succeed or transmit rights to the French throne.

Breaking Old Habits: Recent Research on Women, Spirituality, and the Arts in the Middle Ages1

June Mecham — 2008-03-24T23:31:00-00:00

History Compass, Vol. 4, No. 3. (2006), pp. 448-480.

Abstract The study of women, spirituality, and the arts has progressed considerably over the past twenty-five years, becoming both more nuanced and sophisticated as well as more conflicted. Recent scholarship on this subject reflects the adoption of broader definitions of the arts and of female religiosity in addition to a weakening of both conceptual and disciplinary boundaries. Current research further demonstrates a greater democratization in the types of women and pious activities studied. Researchers are increasingly re-conceptualizing piety in terms of grouped or interrelated actions tied to the visual and material culture of medieval Christianity, thereby highlighting the importance of performance within female devotion. While issues of essentialism and agency continue to stimulate debate, researchers have uncovered considerable evidence of the influence medieval women exerted upon religious drama, music, art, literature, and theology. Nevertheless, substantial areas for further research remain.

Medieval Europe and the World: Why Medievalists Should Also Be World Historians

Teofilo Ruiz — 2008-03-24T23:29:53-00:00

History Compass, Vol. 4, No. 6. (2006), pp. 1073-1088.

Abstract "Medieval Europe and the World: Why Medievalist Should Also Be World Historians" argues for the use of world history's methodology and the application of its innovative approach to our research and teaching of the Middle Ages. After reviewing recent methodological changes in our understanding of medieval history, the article reviews recent developments in world history and suggests ways in which medievalists could enrich their research and teaching by drawing upon world history's recent methodological breakthroughs. Finally, "Medieval Europe and the World" calls for collaborative research and teaching projects that would allow us to understand the Middle Ages in a global context.

Women, Gender, and Rulership in Medieval Italy

Holly Hurlburt — 2008-03-24T23:28:55-00:00

History Compass, Vol. 4, No. 3. (2006), pp. 528-535.

Abstract This article addresses the multifaceted relationship between women and political power on the Italian peninsula during the emergence, flourishing and struggles of local powers, both communes and principalities. Natal and marital ties, widowhood, regency, intercession, patronage, and ritual were some of the devices by which women in this era of political changeability helped to forge political alliances, and ruled, represented, and influenced ruling bodies.

Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages

Laurel Amtower — 2008-04-04T23:38:14-00:00

(23 February 2001)

Women in Medieval English Society (New Studies in Economic and Social History)

Mavis Mate — 2008-04-04T23:30:13-00:00

(28 August 1999)

This book presents a concise and accessible introduction to the various issues and debates surrounding women and their position in medieval society. Professor Mate examines the role women played in the economy, clarifies legal provisions for women and highlights the importance of class, as well as gender, in determining marriage and opportunities.

Women, the Book, and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St Hilda's Conference, Oxford, Volume II (Women, the Book, & the Wordly)

2008-03-27T22:17:37-00:00

(05 October 1995)

This second volume of proceedings from the `Women and the Book' conference, held at St Hilda's College, Oxford in 1993, brings together fifteen papers dealing with women's experience in the secular literary world. It covers the whole variety of roles women might take, as patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature; encompassed in its range are well-known characters, real and fictional, such as Christine de Pisan and the Wife of Bath, and the more obscure but no less fascinating topic of women in Chinese medieval court poetry. Like its predecessor 'Women, the Book, and the Godly'(Brewer, 1995), this volume illuminates the world of medieval women with careful scholarship and attention to sources, producing new readings and new materials which shed fresh light on an increasingly important field of study. Contributors: PATRICIA SKINNER, PHILIP E. BENNETT, JENNIFER GOODMAN, CHARITY CANNON-WILLARD, BENJAMIN SEMPLE, ANNE BIRRELL, JEANETTE BEER, MARK BALFOUR, CAROL HARVEY, HEATHER ARDEN, KAREN JAMBECK, JULIA BOFFEY, JENNIFER SUMMIT, MARGARITA STOCKER

Book Production and Publishing in Britain 1375-1475 (Cambridge Studies in Publishing and Printing History)

2008-04-04T23:23:06-00:00

(03 September 1989)

This series of studies, by experts in the relevant fields, comprehensively and systematically examines British book production and publishing in the hundred years before the introduction of printing. The terms 'book' and 'publishing' are usually employed in reference to the products of the printing press. This collection of essays, however, deals with the manuscript book, its materials and make-up, the people who made, commissioned and read such books, the kinds of reading matter they wanted, and the way books catered for - and created - the reading and book-buying public. Special attention is paid to the increasing systemization and commercialization of production. These essays constitute a valuable work of reference for scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines.

The library of Philip the Bold and Margaret of Flanders, first Valois duke and duchess of Burgundy

Muriel Hughes — 2008-04-04T23:21:10-00:00

Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 4, No. 2. (June 1978), pp. 145-188.

Dukes of the Valois Burgundian race in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries provide an instructive chapter in the history of book making and book collecting. Starting with the books of Philip the Bold (Philippe le Hardi), the Burgundian library reached an impressive size through the efforts of Philip the Good, whose love of books, as of all else in the realm of art, made it one of the most remarkable collections of the fifteenth century. To the interests and influence of the dukes in the expansion of the library were added those of the duchesses, who were naturally affected by the activities of their husbands and, in the cases of Isabel of Portugal and Margaret of York, were equally responsible for new developments in the trends in the making, gathering, and reading of books. This study, based principally upon printed sources, will treat of the acquisition of books and some of the uses of them by the first Valois duke and duchess, Philip the Bold and Margaret of Flanders.

Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook

Emilie Amt — 2008-03-27T23:32:55-00:00

(21 December 1992)

Through public and private records, letters, laws and archaeological evidence, this book describes the everyday lives of women in medieval Europe. Using women's own voices where possible, the collection focuses on ordinary women of all ranks.

Chaste, Silent and Obedient: English Books for Women, 1475-1640

Suzanne Hull — 2008-07-10T00:12:48-00:00

The author identifies and examines the books that appear to have been published, at least in part, for an English-speaking female audience during the Renaissance. Detailed bibliographic lists include not only books specifically directed to women as a group, but also histories and biographies of famous women as well as books with subjects specifically within a woman's province, such as midwifery, cookery, and needlework.

Male Authors, Female Readers: Representation and Subjectivity in Middle English Devotional Literature

Anne Bartlett — 2008-07-10T00:08:37-00:00

(15 July 1995)

Blood & Roses: The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century

Helen Castor — 2008-03-27T17:00:21-00:00

(16 September 2004)

Women in Medieval English Society (Sutton History Paperbacks)

Goldberg — 2008-03-28T02:02:39-00:00

(25 May 1997)

A fascinating study of the role of women in medieval English society: her social position and influence in a variety of religious and secular contexts -- marriage and servanthood, work and status, confession and charity, lordship and estate management.

Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages

2008-03-31T23:10:11-00:00

(02 November 1994)

Focusing on medieval women with a wide range of occupations and life-styles, the interdisciplinary essays in this collection examine women's activities within the patriarchal structures of the time. Individual essays explore women's challenges to a sexual ideology that confined them strictly to the roles of wives, mothers, and servants. Also included are sections on women and work, cultural production and literacy, and religious life. These essays provide a greater understanding of the ways in which gender has played a part in determining relations of power in Western cultures. This volume makes a vital contribution to the current scholarship about women in the Middle Ages.

Household Accounts from Medieval England: Part 1: Introduction, Glossary, Diet Accounts (i) (Records of Social and Economic History New Series XVII)

2008-07-17T10:32:02-00:00

(07 January 2006)

This comprehensive study makes a unique source accessible to historians of the later medieval nobility. Household accounts contain invaluable evidence on daily life, diet, hospitality, etiquette, travel, the arts, politics, as well as on medieval finance generally. In Part 1, Woolgar's detailed introduction discusses these documents as a coherent body of records, and places them in the context of the administrative systems for which they were created. Their diplomatic forms and development are analyzed and compared with those on the Continent, and an extensive glossary is provided to assist scholars in the study of these sources. Woolgar has also carefully selected and edited the accounts of 28 households, to illustrate the full variety of texts that have survived. Diet accounts of 14 households are printed in Part 1, ranging from those of knights and earls to those of the higher clergy.

Women and the Book: Assessing the Evidence (The British Library Studies in Medieval Culture)

Jane Taylor — 2008-04-04T23:02:55-00:00

(19 April 1997)

This collection of commissioned essays re-evaluates the role of medieval women as readers, authors, and subjects of books, and the depiction of the relationships between women and books in medieval art. The fourteen essays cover such diverse topics as the development of a female audience for books, examinations of illuminations of and for women in books of hours, and how female authors viewed themselves, as well as the manufacture and collection of books and images by women.Dealing specifically with the relationships between women and images, the volume will be of interest to art historians, feminist scholars, and historians alike.

A Social History of England, 1200-1500

2008-04-06T10:43:36-00:00

(28 August 2006)

What was life really like in England in the later Middle Ages? This comprehensive introduction explores the full breadth of English life and society in the period 1200-1500. Opening with a survey of historiographical and demographic debates, the book then explores the central themes of later medieval society, including the social hierarchy, life in towns and the countryside, religious belief, and forms of individual and collective identity. Clustered around these themes a series of authoritative essays develop our understanding of other important social and cultural features of the period, including the experience of war, work, law and order, youth and old age, ritual, travel and transport, and the development of writing and reading. Written in an accessible and engaging manner by an international team of leading scholars, this book is indispensable both as an introduction for students and as a resource for specialists.

The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women

2008-04-04T23:00:28-00:00

(31 August 1995)