Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 43876
Author(s): Wilkinson, Louise J., ed.
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Title : The Household Roll of Eleanor de Montfort, Countess of Leicester and Pembroke, 1265
Source: Household Roll of Eleanor de Montfort, Countess of Leicester and Pembroke, 1265: British Library, Additional MS 8877.   Edited by Louise J. Wilkinson Publications of the Pipe Roll Society New Series .   Boydell Press, 2020.  Pages 1 - 134.
Year of Publication: 2020.
2. Record Number: 36620
Author(s): Ward, Jennifer
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Title : Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (1295-1360): Household and Other Records
Source: Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare (1295-1360): Household and Other Records. Jennifer Ward .   Boydell Press, 2014.  Pages 1 - 154.
Year of Publication: 2014.
3. Record Number: 24051
Author(s): Brown, Elizabeth A. R.
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Title : Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault [The author provides evidence about Blanche of Artois, one of three royal daughters-in-law of King Philip the Fair who were accused of adultery in 1314. Blanche was imprisoned for the rest of her life. Thirteen documents concerning provisions for Blanche and her household while imprisoned at Château-Gaillard are presented in the appendix along with English translations and descriptions. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom.   Edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells Studies in the History of Christian Traditions .   Brill, 2009.  Pages 223 - 248.
Year of Publication: 2009.
4. Record Number: 14750
Author(s): Shopkow, Leah
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Title : The Narrative Constructions of the Famous (or Infamous) and Fearsome Virago, Beatrice of Bourbourg [The author analyzes two representations of Beatrice, inheritor of the castellany of Bourbourg in Flanders and wife of the ruler of the county of Guines. Both authors saw her as ambitious and proud, but Lambert of Ardre saw this as fitting. Futhermore he praised Beatrice for her good influence on her morally weak husband. In contrast William of Andres blamed her for everything that went wrong including things done by her husband and son. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004):  Pages 55 - 71.
Year of Publication: 2004.
5. Record Number: 6613
Author(s): Sekules, Veronica.
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Title : Spinning Yarns: Clean Linen and Domestic Values in Late Medieval French Culture [the author argues that linen was an important responsibility for the housewife, whether bourgeois or aristocratic; linen was associated with cleanliness, health, and domestic ease; the author uses as evidence the household inventory of Jeanne de Chastel (1347), widow of Raoul de Presles, clerk to the king, and the inventory of Marguerite de Rohan (1497), countess of Angoulême].
Source: The Material Culture of Sex, Procreation, and Marriage in Premodern Europe.   Edited by Anne L. McClanan and Karen Rosoff Encarnación .   Palgrave, 2002. Historical Reflections/ Reflexions historiques , 30., 1 (Spring 2004):  Pages 79 - 91.
Year of Publication: 2002.
6. Record Number: 2229
Author(s): Chareyron, Nicole.
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Title : De l'histoire à la chanson. Les fiançailles rompues de Louis de Male [Louis was betrothed to Isabel, the daughter of Edward III, King of England; politics and personal inclination led him to delay the match and then break it in favor of Marguerite, the daughter of the count of Brabant].
Source: Moyen Age , 103., 40241 ( 1997):  Pages 545 - 559.
Year of Publication: 1997.
7. Record Number: 818
Author(s): Legaré, Anne- Marie.
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Title : Reassessing Women's Libraries in Late Medieval France: The Case of Jeanne de Laval
Source: Renaissance studies : journal of the Society for Renaissance Studies , 10., 2 (June 1996):  Pages 209 - 236.
Year of Publication: 1996.
8. Record Number: 5579
Author(s): de Visser- van Terwisga, Marijke.
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Title : Les Portugais dans l'entourage de la duchesse de Bourgogne Isabelle de Portugal (1430- 1471) [the Appendix presents a transcript dated May 6, 1453, of the marriage contract between Béatrice of Coïmbre, niece of the duchess Isabel, and Adolphe of Clèves, nephew of Duke Philip the Good; both uncle and aunt endowed the bride generously with land, money, and luxury goods].
Source: Revue du Nord , 77., 310 (avril-juin 1995):  Pages 321 - 343.
Year of Publication: 1995.
9. Record Number: 10378
Author(s): Mombello, Gianni
Contributor(s): Margolis, Nadia, trans. and ed.
Title : Christine de Pizan and the House of Savoy [The author traces the relationship between Christine’s family and the royal House of Savoy, particularly the ties between Christine’s father Thomas and members of the Savoy court. The article lists the manuscripts of Christine’s works recorded in Savoy household accounts during the fifteenth century. Although most of the manuscripts in the Savoy collection were destroyed in later centuries, some remain. The article ends with a bibliography of the current manuscript holdings of Christine’s works in the Savoy; the contents and codicological details of each manuscript are described. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan.   Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno .   University of Georgia Press, 1992. Revue du Nord , 77., 310 (avril-juin 1995):  Pages 187 - 204.
Year of Publication: 1992.
10. Record Number: 12750
Author(s): LoPrete, Kimberly A.
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Title : The Anglo-Norman Card of Adela of Blois [Adela occupied a high social status and power by virtue of her royal blood (she was the daughter of William the Conqueror), her role as the Countess of Blois, Chartres, and Meaux, and her position as the mother of Stephen, future King of England. She exerted authority as family head, accumulating land holdings and inheritance claims for the family by negotiating marriage alliances between her own family (the Thebaudians) and other powerful dynasties. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Albion , 22., 4 (Winter 1990):  Pages 567 - 589.
Year of Publication: 1990.