Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 44530
Author(s): Albericus of Rosciate, , , Bartolus of Sassoferrato, , Julius Kirshner and Osvaldo Cavallar
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Title : Abortion

Source: Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Texts and Contexts. Edited by Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner . University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pages 444 - 462. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv179h1fw.33
and from De Gruyter: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536336-009
Year of Publication: 2020.

2. Record Number: 13678
Author(s): Sims, Richard F.
Contributor(s):
Title : Secondary Offenders? English Women and Crime, c. 1220-1348 [The author analyzes records from the south and southwest of England. Women committed fewer crimes than men. They were less aggressive, Sims argues, not because there was a public repugnance for violent women, but because the crimes they preferred, such as larceny and burglary, were best committed quickly and quietly. The author also briefly addresses infanticide and insanity. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women 4: Victims or Viragos? Edited by Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless . Four Courts Press, 2005. Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005): Pages 69 - 88.
Year of Publication: 2005.

3. Record Number: 15314
Author(s): Butler, Sara M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Abortion by Assault: Violence against Pregnant Women in Thirteenth and Fourteenth- Century England

Source: Journal of Women's History , 17., 4 ( 2005): Pages 9 - 31.
Year of Publication: 2005.

4. Record Number: 10948
Author(s): Dinshaw, Carolyn.
Contributor(s):
Title : Theater Makes History: Ritual Murder by Proxy in the "Mistere de la Sainte Hostie" [The author explores the connections between the antisemitic play in which a Christian servant murders her own child and several infanticides that occured around Metz and resulted in the mothers' guesome executions. Enders argues that host desecration is equated with infanticide, the horror of which was vivid in people's minds due to the recent crimes. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004): Pages 991 - 1016.
Year of Publication: 2004.

5. Record Number: 10876
Author(s): Kittell, Ellen E.
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Title : Reconciliation or Punishment: Women, Community, and Malefaction in the Medieval County of Flanders [The author argues that women began to be associated with specific crimes during the fourteenth century in the Low Countries. In the previous century the emphasis was on reconciliation among individuals in conflict, but during the fourteenth century the courts focused on punishing the offender. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: The Texture of Society: Medieval Women in the Southern Low Countries. Edited by Ellen E. Kittell and Mary A. Suydam . Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004): Pages 3 - 30.
Year of Publication: 2004.

6. Record Number: 10878
Author(s): Naessens, Mariann.
Contributor(s):
Title : Judicial Authorities' Views of Women's Roles in Late Medieval Flanders [The author examines court records concerning various sexual crimes including adultery, brothel keeping, and cross dressing. The judges appear to be most concerned with men's honor as preserved through women's fidelity and subordination. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

7. Record Number: 8086
Author(s): Innes-Parker, Catherine.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Homicidal Women" Stories in the "Roman de Thèbes," the "Brut Chronicles," and Deschamps's "Ballade 285" [The author summarizes her thesis in this way: "These three phenomena concerning the homicidal-women stories--their participation in the narrow yet strong narrative tradition of women-on-top, their framing in the inaccessible sphere of myth, and their use as a currency of literary prestige--were all coherent with the dominant male ideology and, perhaps more unexpectedly, useful in shaping national politics." (Pages 207-208)].

Source: Domestic Violence in Medieval Texts. Edited by Eve Salisbury, Georgiana Donavin, and Merrall Llewelyn Price . University Press of Florida, 2002. Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004): Pages 205 - 222.
Year of Publication: 2002.

8. Record Number: 6434
Author(s): Brundage, James A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sin, Crime, and the Pleasures of the Flesh: The Medieval Church Judges Sexual Offences [The author provides a brief overview of the issues involved in the medieval church's efforts to enforce rules about sexual behavior].

Source: The Medieval World. Edited by Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson . Routledge, 2001. Speculum , 79., 4 (October 2004): Pages 294 - 307.
Year of Publication: 2001.

9. Record Number: 6188
Author(s): Federico, Sylvia.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Imaginary Society: Women in 1381 [the author argues that historians have not recognized that women figured both as rebels and victims in the Rising of June 1381; the author uses a variety of primary sources including a pardon roll, evidence from the Court of Common Pleas and special royal commissions, and literary works by Chaucer and Gower as well as Knighton's "Chronicle" and Walsingham's "Historia Anglicana"].

Source: Journal of British Studies (Full Text via JSTOR) 40, 2 (April 2001): 159-183 Link Info
Year of Publication: 2001.

10. Record Number: 4786
Author(s): Brasington, Bruce C.
Contributor(s):
Title : Crusader, Castration, Canon Law: Ivo of Chartres' Letter 135 [the author considers the case of a former crusader who castrated a priest in a dispute over property; Ivo, though shocked by the horrific crime, showed mercy by allowing the knight to go to Rome and ask the pope to remove Ivo's penance; the appendix reproduces Ivo's letter in Latin].

Source: Catholic Historical Review , 85., 3 (July 1999): Pages 367 - 382.
Year of Publication: 1999.

11. Record Number: 3506
Author(s): Kerr, Margaret H.
Contributor(s):
Title : Husband and Wife in Criminal Proceedings in Medieval England [a wife's rights were severely restricted in criminal procedures and she was subject to her husband's guardianship; she generally only began a criminal procecution for rape or causing a miscarriage; if husband and wife together committed a crime, the husband was generally held responsible; appendices include "A Note on Rape," "A Note on Wives' Unconventional Appeals," and "Primary Sources"].

Source: Women, Marriage, and Family in Medieval Christendom: Essays in Memory of Michael M. Sheehan, C.S.B. Edited by Constance M. Rousseau and Joel T. Rosenthal . Western Michigan University, 1998. Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 20., ( 1998): Pages 211 - 251.
Year of Publication: 1998.

12. Record Number: 6290
Author(s): Siegmund, Frank.
Contributor(s):
Title : Pactus Legis Salicae § 13; Über den Frauenraub in der Merowingerzeit

Source: Frühmittelalterliche Studien , 32., ( 1998): Pages 101 - 123.
Year of Publication: 1998.

13. Record Number: 4744
Author(s): Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Contributor(s):
Title : Meanings and Uses of "Raptus" in Chaucer's Time [the Appendix presents twelve Latin legal texts with English translations from the Public Record Office that the author discusses in his article].

Source: Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 20., ( 1998): Pages 101 - 165. Later published in Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West. Ashgate Variorum, 2001
Year of Publication: 1998.

14. Record Number: 3999
Author(s): Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Contributor(s):
Title : Statutes of Rapes and Alleged Ravishers of Wives: A Context for the Charges Against Thomas Malory, Knight

Source: Viator , 28., ( 1997): Pages 361 - 419. Later published in Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West. Ashgate Variorum, 2001
Year of Publication: 1997.

15. Record Number: 1064
Author(s): Wortley, John.
Contributor(s):
Title : Documents: De Latrone Converso: The Tale of the Converted Robber (BHG 1450kb W861) [a robber chief infiltrates a women's monastery where he is welcomed as a holy man; when he inadvertently cures a nun, he repents and becomes a monk].

Source: Byzantion , 66., 1 ( 1996): Pages 219 - 243. Reprinted in Studies on the Cult of Relics in Byzantium up to 1204. By John Wortley. Ashgate Variorum, 2009. Article X.
Year of Publication: 1996.

16. Record Number: 2774
Author(s): Rath, Brigitte.
Contributor(s):
Title : ... und wolt das Schwert durch in stossen. Zur physischen Gewalt in Südtirol um 1500

Source: Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft , 7., 2 ( 1996): Pages 56 - 69.
Year of Publication: 1996.

17. Record Number: 1620
Author(s): Brundage, James A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Playing by the Rules: Sexual behaviour and Legal Norms in Medieval Europe [ways in which ecclesiastical courts judged and punished sexual crimes].

Source: Desire and Discipline: Sex and Sexuality in the Premodern West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray and Konrad Eisenbichler . University of Toronto Press, 1996. Viator , 28., ( 1997): Pages 23 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1996.

18. Record Number: 8644
Author(s): Del Pozzo, Joan P.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Apotheosis of Niccolò Toldo: An Execution "Love Story": Appendix A Translation of Saint Catherine of Siena's Most Celebrated Letter

Source: MLN: Modern Language Notes (Full Text via Project Muse) 110, 1 (January 1995): 164-177. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.

19. Record Number: 390
Author(s): Luongo, Thomas.
Contributor(s):
Title : Catherine of Siena: Rewriting Female Holy Authority [use of erotic imagery and transformations of gender].

Source: Women, the Book and the Godly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 1 [Volume 2: Women, the Book and the Worldly]. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor . D.S. Brewer, 1995. Homme: Zeitschrift für feministische Geschichtswissenschaft , 7., 2 ( 1996): Pages 89 - 103.
Year of Publication: 1995.

20. Record Number: 2718
Author(s): Sabaté, Flocel.
Contributor(s):
Title : Femmes et violence dans la Catalogne du XIVe siècle

Source: Annales du Midi , 106., 207 (juillet-septembre 1994): Pages 277 - 316.
Year of Publication: 1994.

21. Record Number: 24350
Author(s): Laughton, Jane.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women in Court: Some Evidence from Fifteenth-Century Chester [The author analyzes records from two Chester courts, the Portmote headed by the mayor and the Pentice presided over by the two city sheriffs. Analysis of Pentice rolls for 1431-32, 1459-60, and 1489-90 show women involved in 21% of cases. For both courts, women appear in a variety of roles including plaintiffs, pledges, traders and producers (many of them legally independent as "femmes soles"), debtors, thieves, and brawlers. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Harlaxton Medieval Studies , 4., ( 1994): Pages 89 - 99. Issue title: England in the Fifteenth Century: Proceedings of the 1992 Harlaxton Symposium
Year of Publication: 1994.

22. Record Number: 7165
Author(s): Finch, Andrew.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and Violence in the Later Middle Ages: The Evidence of the Officiality of Cerisy

Source: Continuity and Change , 7., 1 ( 1992): Pages 23 - 45.
Year of Publication: 1992.

23. Record Number: 11820
Author(s): Pulsiano, Phillip and Kirsten Wolf
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Hwelp" in "Wulf and Eadwacer" [The symbolic meaning of the "hwelp" (whelp, young dog or wolf) in is much debated in this Old English poem. Some critics interpret the "hwelp" as representing a child who is born as a result of an illicit love affair, but the authors argue that many references to wolves in Old Norse literature and law suggest that the "hwelp" in this poem is the child of an outlaw father. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: English Language Notes , 28., 3 (March 1991): Pages 1 - 9.
Year of Publication: 1991.

24. Record Number: 12774
Author(s): Prevenier, Walter.
Contributor(s):
Title : Violence Against Women in a Medieval Metropolis: Paris Around 1400 [The author argues that fifteenth-century Parisian trial records attest to an everyday climate of danger and violence for single women living in the medieval metropolis. He discusses in detail the case of Ysablet des Champions, a widow who was raped by servants of the duke of Burgundy, and who went on to build a successful court case against her assailants. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Law, custom, and the social fabric in medieval Europe: essays in honor of Bryce Lyon. Edited by Bernard S. Bachrach and David Nicholas Studies in medieval culture . Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1990. English Language Notes , 28., 3 (March 1991): Pages 263 - 283.
Year of Publication: 1990.

25. Record Number: 36276
Author(s): Stanton, Doris Mary,
Contributor(s):
Title : Sibba, daughter of William, appeals William, son of Hugh of Bolton...

Source: Pleas before the King or His Justices, 1198-1212. Volume 4 Rolls or Fragments of Rolls from the Years 1207-1212. Publications of the Selden Society, Volume 84. Edited by Doris Mary Stenton . Bernard Quaritch for the Selden Society, 1967. English Language Notes , 28., 3 (March 1991): Pages 114 - 114.
Year of Publication: 1967.

26. Record Number: 36069
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Title : Cantiga 105 How the wicked bridegroom planned to do something and committed a shameful deed

Source: English Language Notes , 28., 3 (March 1991):
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27. Record Number: 36286
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Title : Murder of Godelieve from The Life and Miracles of Saint Godelieve

Source: English Language Notes , 28., 3 (March 1991):
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