Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 20733
Author(s): Harris, Barbara J.
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Title : Aristocratic and Gentry Women, 1460-1640
Source: History Compass , 4., 4 ( 2006):  Pages 668 - 686.
Year of Publication: 2006.
2. Record Number: 14555
Author(s): Rock, Vivienne.
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Title : Shadow Royals? The Political Use of the Extended Family of Lady Margaret Beaufort [The author analyzes how Margaret Beaufort made advantageous marriages and positions for her extended family of half and step siblings and their descendants. At the same time these arrangements usually furthered the political aims of the Tudor dynasty. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Family and Dynasty in Late Medieval England: Proceedings of the 1997 Harlaxton Symposium.   Edited by Richard Eales and Shaun Tyas Harlaxton medieval studies .   Shaun Tyas, 2003. Medieval Feminist Forum , 36., (Fall 2003):  Pages 193 - 210.
Year of Publication: 2003.
3. Record Number: 11378
Author(s): Passmore, S. Elizabeth.
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Title : Painting Lions, Drawing Lines, Writing Lives: Male Authorship in the Lives of Christina of Markyate, Margery Kempe, and Margaret Paston [First article in a Roundtable series entitled "Are You Still Deciding Whether to be a Medievalist or a Feminist?"]
Source: Medieval Feminist Forum , 36., (Fall 2003):  Pages 36 - 40.
Year of Publication: 2003.
4. Record Number: 9501
Author(s): Lee, Becky R.
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Title : Men's Recollections of a Women's Rite: Medieval English Men's Recollections Regarding the Rite of the Purification of Women after Childbirth
Source: Gender and History , 14., 2 (August 2002):  Pages 224 - 241.
Year of Publication: 2002.
5. Record Number: 16584
Author(s): Friedrichs, Rhoda Lange.
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Title : Rich Old Ladies Made Poor: The Vulnerability of Women's Property in Late Medieval England
Source: Medieval Prosopography , 21., ( 2000):  Pages 211 - 229.
Year of Publication: 2000.
6. Record Number: 4812
Author(s): Phillips, Kim M.
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Title : Bodily Walls, Windows, and Doors: The Politics of Gesture in Late Fifteenth-Century English Books for Women [the author analyzes three romances in manuscript, a printed romance, and the courtesy text, "Book of the Knight of the Tower"; she argues that the manuscript texts are more concerned with social status than the policing of relations between women and men and harken back to the glory days of courtly life, while the printed texts appeal to a wider audience, especially the bourgeois, and concentrate on sexual respectability].
Source: Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts in Late Medieval Britain. Essays for Felicity Riddy.   Edited by Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, Rosalynn Voaden, Arlyn Diamond, Ann Hutchison, Carol M. Meale, and Lesley Johnson Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts .   Brepols, 2000. Medieval Prosopography , 21., ( 2000):  Pages 185 - 198.
Year of Publication: 2000.
7. Record Number: 4470
Author(s): Hawkes, Emma.
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Title : [S]he Will...Protect and Defend Her Rights Boldly by Law and Reason...: Women's Knowledge of Common Law and Equity Courts in Late-Medieval England [The author argues that though women did not participate in court cases in large numbers, some gentry women directed legal cases behind th scenes, showing a good grasp of the law].
Source: Medieval Women and the Law.   Edited by Noël James Menuge .   Boydell Press, 2000. Medieval Prosopography , 21., ( 2000):  Pages 145 - 161.
Year of Publication: 2000.
8. Record Number: 4328
Author(s): Oliva, Marilyn.
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Title : All in the Family? Monastic and Clerical Careers Among Famly Members in the Late Middle Ages
Source: Medieval Prosopography , 20., ( 1999):  Pages 161 - 180.
Year of Publication: 1999.
9. Record Number: 4978
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Title : Matronage or Patronage? The Case of Osbern Bokenham's Women Patrons [the author explores the lives and politics of six gentry and noble women, Isabel Hunt, Agatha Flegge, Katherine Clopton Denston, Katherine Howard, Elizabeth Howard Vere, and Lady Isabel Bourchier, countess of Eu, mentioned in the "Legendys of Hooly Wummen"; they were important to Bokenham and his priory, in part because of their political and social connections to Richard, Duke of York].
Source: Florilegium , 16., ( 1999):  Pages 97 - 105.
Year of Publication: 1999.
10. Record Number: 2666
Author(s): Richardson, Malcolm.
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Title : Women, Commerce, and Rhetoric in Medieval England [analyzes women's business letters, primarily from the collections of the Paston, Stonor, and Plumpton families; many of these gentry women were left in charge of the family estates while their husbands stayed in London on business].
Source: Listening to Their Voices: The Rhetorical Activities of Historical Women.   Edited by Molly Meijer Wertheimer .   University of South Carolina Press, 1997. Florilegium , 16., ( 1999):  Pages 133 - 149.
Year of Publication: 1997.
11. Record Number: 3590
Author(s): Rosenthal, Joel T.
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Title : Looking for Grandmother: The Pastons and Their Counterparts in Late Medieval England
Source: Medieval Mothering.   Edited by John Carmi Parsons and Bonnie Wheeler .   Garland Publishing, 1996. Northern History , 32., ( 1996):  Pages 259 - 277.
Year of Publication: 1996.
12. Record Number: 842
Author(s): Richardson, Malcolm.
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Title : Women, Commerce, and Writing in Late Medieval England [family and business letters sent by women ].
Source: Disputatio: An International Transdisciplinary Journal of the Late Middle Ages , 1., ( 1996):  Pages 123 - 145.
Year of Publication: 1996.
13. Record Number: 905
Author(s): Cullum, P. H.
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Title : Vowesses and Female Lay Piety in the Province of York, 1300-1530
Source: Northern History , 32., ( 1996):  Pages 21 - 41.
Year of Publication: 1996.
14. Record Number: 1618
Author(s): Vickers, Noreen.
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Title : The Social Class of Yorkshire Medieval Nuns [evidence taken from charters, visitations, and wills].
Source: Yorkshire Archaeological Journal , 67., ( 1995):  Pages 127 - 132.
Year of Publication: 1995.
15. Record Number: 271
Author(s): Oliva, Marilyn.
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Title : Counting Nuns: A Prosopography of Late Medieval English Nuns in the Diocese of Norwich
Source: Medieval Prosopography , 16., 1 (Spring 1995):  Pages 27 - 55.
Year of Publication: 1995.
16. Record Number: 9481
Author(s): Harding, Wendy.
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Title : Medieval Women’s Unwritten Discourse on Motherhood: A Reading of Two Fifteenth-Century Texts [The author examines two late medieval texts, those of Margery Kempe and Margaret Paston, in order to consider the relationship between masculine, public discourses on motherhood and private, feminine ones. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Women's Studies , 21., 2 ( 1992):  Pages 197 - 209.
Year of Publication: 1992.
17. Record Number: 11209
Author(s): McNamer, Sarah
Contributor(s):
Title : Female Authors, Provincial Setting: The Re-versing of Courtly Love in the Findern Manuscript [The article includes an appendix with transcriptions of Middle English poems believed to be written by women. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Viator , 22., ( 1991):  Pages 279 - 310.
Year of Publication: 1991.