Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 45569
Author(s): Kekaumenos, , and Grigori Simeonov ,
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Title : Matchmakers Visit the Homes of Their Customers
Source: Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook.   Edited by Claudia Rapp and Johannes Preiser-Kapeller .   V&R unipress, Vienna University Press, 2023.  Pages 317 - 318. The text is from Consilia et Narrationes. Greek text (digitally) edited and trans. by Charlotte Roueché, online 2013: https://ancientwisdoms.ac.uk/library/keka umenos-consilia-et-narrationes/index.html. Translation modified by Dirk Krausmüller. The book is available open access at: https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/pdf/10.14220/9783737013413
Year of Publication: 2023.
2. Record Number: 4758
Author(s): Cavallo, Sandra and Lyndan Warner
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Title : Part One Defining Widowhood: Introduction [brief overview of relevant topics including stereotypes, remarriage, inheritance, children, the Church, and loneliness and poverty].
Source: Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.   Edited by Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner .   Women and Men in History. Longman, 1999.  Pages 3 - 23.
Year of Publication: 1999.
3. Record Number: 4759
Author(s): Crick, Julia.
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Title : Men, Women, and Widows: Widowhood in Pre-Conquest England [the author argues that the Christian idea of monogamous marriage did not change habits of concubinage in Anglo-Saxon England; therefore, "widow" was a term used by the Church only for certain specific cases, not for all the women that we would consider widows].
Source: Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.   Edited by Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner .   Women and Men in History. Longman, 1999.  Pages 24 - 36.
Year of Publication: 1999.