Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 43453
Author(s): Hutchison, Emily J.,
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Title : Sex, Knowledge and ‘Women of Sin’ in the Registre Criminel du Châtelet de Paris (1389–92)

Source: Gender and History , 32., 1 ( 2020): Pages 131 - 148. Available with a subscription: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12459
Year of Publication: 2020.

2. Record Number: 11666
Author(s): Esposito, Anna.
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Title : Adulterio, concubinato, bigamia: testimonianze dalla normative statutaria dello Stato pontificio (secoli XIII-XVI) [Beginning in the 13th century, Italian cities, including the papal states, passed laws regulating extra-marital sex. These presupposed that the sexual appetites of women needed to be regulated. They were more tolerant of the offenses of males, and they took into account the reputation of any woman involved in a case about sexual matters. An accusation of rape made by a woman was subject to particularly strict standards of proof. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Trasgressioni: Seduzione, concubinato, adulterio, bigamia (XIV-XVIII secolo). Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglini . Il Mulino, 2004. Gender and History , 32., 1 ( 2020): Pages 21 - 42.
Year of Publication: 2004.

3. Record Number: 8501
Author(s): Lansing, Carol.
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Title : Concubines, Lovers, Prostitutes: Infamy and Female Identity in Medieval Bologna [The author analyzes secular law court records both for the attitudes of poor men and women toward the informal living arrangements which some couples maintained and for the attitudes of the elite and of judges. The author argues that it was the intention of those with power to reinforce behavior norms for "honest" women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Beyond Florence: The Contours of Medieval and Early Modern Italy. Edited by Paula Findlen, Michelle M. Fontaine, and Duane J. Osheim . Stanford University Press, 2003. Gender and History , 32., 1 ( 2020): Pages 85
Year of Publication: 2003.

4. Record Number: 8803
Author(s): Karras, Ruth Mazo.
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Title : Young Knights under the Feminine Gaze ["The women served a ratifying function for a youth's entry into a masculine hierarchy of knightly prestige, but they did not themselves choose the criteria by which they evaluated men. A woman's gaze at a young knight was not a sign of her activity as opposed to his passivity, but rather the sign that she was the prize he was to win, the currency in which his worth in other men's eyes was to be measured." Page 203.]

Source: The Premodern Teenager: Youth in Society, 1150-1650. Edited by Konrad Eisenbichler . Publications of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Essays and Studies, 1. Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2002. Gender and History , 32., 1 ( 2020): Pages 189 - 205.
Year of Publication: 2002.

5. Record Number: 8547
Author(s): Marino, Nancy F.
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Title : How Portuguese "Damas" Scandalized the Court of Enrique IV of Castile [The young women who accompanied the Portuguese princess Juana to the Castilian court caused a great stir. They dressed provocatively, were sexually aggressive, and sometimes wore men's clothing and carried weapons. Several of them became the mistresses of powerful men in the kingdom. When the advisors to Isabella I, la Catolica, Enrique's successor, wished to discredit the king, they used the Portuguese "damas" as another instance of his immorality. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Essays in Medieval Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 18 (2001): 43-52 Link Info
Year of Publication: 2001.

6. Record Number: 5783
Author(s): Skinner, Patricia.
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Title : Gender and Memory in Medieval Italy [the author provides a brief overview of male and female figures cited in chronicles; she then moves on to consider how the reputation of women rulers could be easily tarnished and concludes with the connections between memory and women in the family and in hagiography].

Source: Medieval Memories: Men, Women, and the Past, 700-1300. Edited by Elisabeth van Houts . Women and Men in History Series. Longman, 2001. Pages 36 - 52.
Year of Publication: 2001.

7. Record Number: 3672
Author(s): McSheffrey, Shannon.
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Title : Men and Masculinity in Late Medieval London Civic Culture: Governance, Patriarchy, and Reputation [The author argues that both women and men were judged to be disorderly and misgoverned when they misbehaved sexually].

Source: Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West. Edited by Jacqueline Murray . Garland Medieval Casebooks, volume 25. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, volume 2078. Garland Publishing, 1999. Pages 243 - 278.
Year of Publication: 1999.