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Aachen, Nordhein- Westfalen, Germany- Marian Relics ;
Abandoned Children ;
Abandoned Infants ;
Abbesses ;
Abbesses in Art ;
Abbots ;
Abduction SEE Kidnapping ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Ad Amicum Pro Consolatione Epistola ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Letters ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Letters- De Auctoritate Vel Dignitate Ordinis Sanctimonialium ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Historia Calamitatum ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Letters ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Planctus Israel Super Samson ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Sermons- Sermon 30 ;
Abortion ;
Abraham (Biblical Figure) in Literature ;
Abu Nuwas, Poet ;
Academic Politics ;
Accidia SEE Sloth ;
Account Books ;
Account Books SEE ALSO Ricordanze ;
Acculturation ;
Acedia SEE Sloth ;
Achard of Saint Victor, Bishop of Avranches ;
Aconbury, Herefordshire, England- Priory for Women ;
Acteon (Mythological Figure) ;
Active Life SEE Vita Activa, Religious Ideal ;
Active Orders ;
Actresses ;
Acuna Family ;
Adab, Literary Genre ;
Adam de Cobsam, Author - Wright's Chaste Wife ;
Adam (Biblical Figure) ;
Adam (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Adam (Qur'anic Figure) ;
Adaptations ;
Adaptations- Christine de Pizan, Poet- Cent Ballades- Ballade 11 Seulete suy et seulete vueil estre ;
Adela, Countess of Blois ;
Adelaide, Countess of Torino and Daughter and Heir of Olderico Manfredi ;
Adelaide d'Anjou, Wife of Etienne de Brioude, Raymond, Count of Toulouse, Louis V, Carolingian King, and Guillaume, Count of Provence ;
Adelaide of Burgundy SEE Adelheid, Saint and Wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Adelaide, Wife of Roger le Vieux, Count of Carcassonne ;
Adelelme, Saint and Abbot of La Chaise-Dieu ;
Adelheid, Saint and Wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Adeliza of Louvain, Queen-Consort of Henry I of England ;
Adenet le Roi, Poet- Berte aus Grans Pies ;
Administration ;
Admont, Styria, Austria- Benedictine Double House ;
Adolescents ;
Adomnan, Abbot of Iona ;
Adomnan, Abbot of Iona and Author- Vita Sancti Columbae ;
Adoption ;
Adultery ;
Adultery in Literature ;
Advent Lyrics ;
Adventure ;
Advice ;
Advice SEE ALSO Pastoral Care AND Spiritual Care ;
Aelfflaed, Noble Woman and Widow ;
Aelfgifu, Concubine of Cnut, King of England and Denmark ;
Aelfgifu, English Name of Emma SEE Emma, Wife of Aethelred, King of England, and Cnut, King of Denmark ;
Aelfgyfu SEE Aelfgifu ;
Aelfgyva (Figure in the Bayeux Tapestry) ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Homily on Judith ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Homily on Saint Gregory ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Letter to Sigeweard ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Lives of the Saints ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Lives of the Saints- Life of Aethelthryth ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Lives of the Saints- Life of Eugenia ;
Aelfthryth, Wife of Edgar, King of England ;
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint ;
Aelia Verina, Wife of Leo I, Byzantine Emperor ;
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint ;
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint- De Institutione Inclusarum ;
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint- De Sanctimoniali De Wattun ;
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint- Speculum Caritatis ;
Aelfgifu, English name of Emma SEE Emma, Wife of Aethered, King of England, and Cnut, King of Denmark ;
Aelfgyfu SEE Aelfgifu ;
Aesop, Ancient Author ;
Aesthetics ;
Aethelberht SEE Ethelbert, King of Kent ;
Aethelburh, Wife of Edwin, King of Northumbria ;
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians ;
Aethelstan SEE Athelstan, King of Wessex ;
Aethelthryth SEE Etheldreda of Ely, Saint ;
Aethelweard, Chronicler ;
Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester ;
Affective Piety ;
African Women in Literature ;
Agatha, Daughter of Grand Prince laroslav Mudryi and Wife of Prince Edward the Exile, Atheling of England ;
Agatha, Martyr, Saint ;
Age Groups ;
Aged SEE Old Age ;
Agency SEE Women in Active Roles ;
Ages at Marriage ;
Aggression ;
Agnes, Daughter of King Albert of Habsburg and Widow of King Andreas III of Hungary, Who Supervised the Monastery at Konigsfelden ;
Agnes de Valence, Lady of Offaly, Balliol, and Beaumont ;
Agnes, Marchioness, wife of Leopold, Margrave of Austria and Saint ;
Agnes, Nun ;
Agnes of Montepulciano, Dominican Nun and Saint ;
Agnes of Poitou, Wife of Heinrich III, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Agnes of Prague, Saint ;
Agnes of Rome, Saint ;
Agnes (Operatic Figure in Der Arme Heinrich) ;
Agnes, Premyslid Princess SEE Agnes of Prague, Saint ;
Agnes, Princess of Bohemia SEE Agnes of Prague, Saint ;
Agnes, Wife of Andrew III, King of Hungary ;
Agnes, Wife of Heinrich III, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Agnoletti, Anna Maria Enriques, (1907-1944) ;
Agriculture ;
Agriculture in Literature ;
Aileranus Sapiens, Lector of Clonard and Author- Vita I Sanctae Brigitae ;
Airan, Calvados, France - Burials ;
A'isha Bint Abi Bakr, Third and Favorite Wife of the Prophet Muhammad ;
Aithbe Damsa (The Lament of the Caillech Berre), Irish Poem; Akathistos, Hymn ;
Al-Aziz bi-Llah, Fatimid Caliph ;
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid Caliph ;
Al-Sayyida al'Aziziyya, Wife or Concubine of al-Aziz bi-Llah, Fatimid Caliph ;
Alain de Lille, Author- De Planctu Naturae ;
Alain de Lille, Author- Summa De Arte Praedicatoria ;
Alamannus of Hautvillers, Hagiographer ;
Alan of Lille SEE Alain de Lille Alatiel (Literary Figure) ;
Alba, Literary Genre ;
Alberti, Bartolomea Degli SEE Obizzi, Bartolomea Degli ;
Alberti, Giannozzo, Merchant and Character in His Cousin's Book, Della Famigilia by Leon Battista Alberti ;
Alberti, Leon Battista, Humanist ;
Alberti, Leon Battista, Humanist- Della Pittura ;
Alberti, Leon Battista, Humanist- Della Famiglia ;
Albigensian Crusade ;
Albina (Legendary Figure) ;
Albina SEE ALSO Albine (Literary Figure) ;
Albine (Literary Figure) ;
Albine (Literary Figure) SEE ALSO Albina (legendary Figure) ;
Albrecht von Eyb ;
Alceste (Literary Figure) ;
Aldegonde de Maubeuge, Saint ;
Aldegund SEE Aldegonde de Maubeuge, Saint ;
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne ;
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, Saint- De Laudibus Virginitatis ;
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, Saint- Prosa de Virginitate ;
Aldobrandino of Siena, Physician and Author- Regime du Corps ;
Alecis, Guillaume, Poet- Oraison Faicte a la Vierge Marie ;
Alexander III, Pope ;
Alexander IV, Pope ;
Alexander of Hales, Theologian- Glossa in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi ;
Alexander of Hales, Theologian- Summa Theologica ;
Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Aleyde of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ;
Aleydis of Schaerbeek SEE Alice of Schaarbeek, Saint ;
Alfani, Bianco, Author- Novella della Lisetta Levaldini ;
Alfons V el Magnanimo, King of Aragon ;
Alfonso V, the Magnanimous, King of Aragon SEE Alfons V el Magnanimo, King of Aragon ;
Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile- Cantigas de Escarnho ;
Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile- Cantigas de Santa Maria ;
Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile- Cantigas de Santa Maria- 108 ;
Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile- Siete Partidas ;
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex-Domboc ;
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex- Translations- Soliloquies ;
Alibech (Literary Figure) ;
Alice de Bryene, Heiress and Wife of Sir Guy Bryan ;
Alice de Sutton, Grandmother of Alice de Bryene ;
Alice of Antioch, Daughter of Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, and Wife of Bohemond II, Prince of Antioch ;
Alice of Schaarbeek, Saint ;
Alison of Bath SEE Wife of Bath (Literary Figure) ;
Alisoun (Literary Figure) ;
Alisoun of Bath SEE Wife of Bath (Literary Figure) ;
Alisoun of Bathe SEE Wife of Bath (Literary Figure) ;
Allegory ;
Allen, Hope Emily, Literary Historian (1883- 1960) ;
Allusion ;
Almanne de Hautvillers SEE Alamannus of Hautvillers, Hagiographer ;
Alms and Almsgiving ;
Alms and Almsgiving SEE ALSO Charity ;
Aloul, Fabliau ;
Alqama al-Fahl SEE Alqama B. Abada, Poet ;
Alqama B. Abada, Poet ;
Alrewas, Staffordshire, England ;
Altarpieces ;
Altichiero, Painter ;
Amadas et Ydoine, Anglo-Norman Romance ;
Amadi, Angelo, Hagiographer ;
Amadi, Francesco, Art Patron ;
Amalasuntha, Queen of the Ostrogoths ;
Amazons ;
Amazons in Literature ;
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan and Saint ;
Ambrosius, Bishop of Milano SEE Ambrose, Bishop of Milan and Saint ;
Americas ;
Amis and Amiloun, Middle English Romance ;
Amulets ;
Ancestors SEE Genealogy ;
Anchoresses ;
Anchoresses SEE ALSO Recluses ;
Anchorites SEE Anchoresses ;
Ancilla (Latin: Woman Slave) ;
Ancrene Riwle SEE Ancrene Wisse ;
Ancrene Wisse, Middle English Devotional Work ;
al- Andalus ;
Andrea del Castagno, Painter- Villa Carducci Fresco- Eve ;
Andreas Capellanus, Poet- De Amore ;
Andreas Capellanus, Poet- De Amore Libri Tres ;
Androgyny ;
Androgyny in Literature ;
Anelida (Literary Figure) ;
Angela of Foligno, Mystic ;
Angela of Foligno, Mystic- Liber ;
Angela of Foligno, Mystic, in Literature ;
Angelico, Fra, Painter ;
Angelico, Fra, Painter- San Marco Annunciation ;
Angelina da Corbara ;
Angelina da Montegiove, Franciscan Tertiary ;
Angels ;
Angels in Art ;
Anger in Literature ;
Angers, Maine- et- Loire, France- Abbey of Ronceray ;
Angevins, Dynasty in France ;
Angevins, Dynasty in Naples and Hungary ;
Anglelucia, Nun of Fontevrault and Mystic ;
Angles ;
Anglo-Norman Literature ;
Anglo-Normans ;
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ;
Anglo Saxon Studies SEE Old English Language ;
Anicia Juliana, Byzantine Princess ;
Anima (Literary Figure) ;
Animals, Image of ;
Animals in Literature ;
Annals ;
Anne of Bohemia, Queen-Consort of Richard II of England ;
Anne of Brittany, Queen-Consort of Charles VIII and Louis XII of France ;
Anne, Mother of the Virgin, Saint ;
Anne, Mother of the Virgin, Saint- Cult ;
Anne, Mother of the Virgin, Saint in Art ;
Anna (Formerly Agnes of France), Byzantine Empress, Wife of Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor, Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor, and Theodor Branas ;
Annulment ;
Annunciation SEE Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation ;
Annunziate of Lombardy, Nuns ;
Anorexia Nervosa ;
Anorexia Nervosa SEE ALSO Eating Disorders ;
Ansa, Queen of the Lombards ;
Anselm of Aosta, Archbishop of Canterbury ;
Anthony the Younger, Saint ;
Anthropology ;
Anti-Christian Polemics ;
Antichrist ;
Antichrist, Anglo Norman Translation ;
Anticlericalism ;
Antikonie (Literary Figure) ;
Antiphons, Liturgical Texts Sung During Services ;
Antioch ;
Antisemitism ;
Antisemitism in Literature ;
Antoniazzo Romano- Painter ;
Antonino SEE Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence and Saint ;
Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence and Saint ;
Apocalypse ;
Apocalypse SEE ALSO Eschatology ;
Apocryphal Literature ;
Apollo (Mythological Figure) in Art ;
Apollonius of Tyre (Literary Figure) ;
Apollonius of Tyre, Old English Romance ;
Apophatic Mystics ;
Apprentices ;
Aquitaine ;
Arabian Nights SEE Thousand and One Nights ;
Arabic Influences ;
Arabic Language ;
Arabic Literature ;
Arachne (Mythological Figure) ;
Aragon ;
Aragon, Crown of ;
Archaeology ;
Archeology SEE Archaeology ;
Archers ;
Architecture- Domestic SEE Architecture- Secular ;
Architecture, Image of ;
Architecture- Religious ;
Architecture- Secular ;
Archives ;
Archpriest of Talavera SEE Arcipreste de Talavera ;
Areusa (Literary Figure) ;
Arib Ibn Said, Author- Kitab al-Janin (Book of the Generation of the Fetus) ;
Arienti, Giovanni Sabadino degli, Author ;
Arienti, Giovanni Sabadino degli, Author- Gynevera de le Clare Donne; Aristocracy SEE Noble Men or Noble Women or Nobility ;
Aristocrats SEE Noble Men or Noble Women or Nobility ;
Aristotle, Ancient Philosopher ;
Arma Christi (Latin: Instruments of the Passion and Weapons Against the Devil) ;
Armenia ;
Armitage, Ella, Scholar (1841-1931) ;
Armor ;
Armor in Literature ;
Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France- Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast- Chapel- Altarpiece- Presentation in the Temple ;
Ars Moriendi Treatises (Latin: Art of Dying) ;
Arsinde, Wife of Arnaud, Count of Comminges and Carcassonne ;
Art d' Amors, French Poem ;
Art d' Amour, Late Medieval Prose Adaptation of the De Amore ;
Art Historians ;
Art History ;
Art History- Decorative Arts ;
Art History- General ;
Art History- Painting ;
Art History- Painting- Copies ;
Art History- Sculpture ;
Artemis (Mythological Figure) ;
Arthurian Literature ;
Arthurian Romance ;
Artisans ;
Artists ;
Artists' Sculptual Models ;
Arwen (Literary Figure) ;
Asceticism ;
Asceticism in Literature ;
Ashkenazim ;
Asia in Literature ;
Asian Women in Literature ;
Assembly of Ladies, Middle English Poem ;
Asseth (Middle English: Restoring, Making Good) ;
Assisi, Perugia, Italy- Basilica of S. Francesco- St. Elizabeth Chapel- Simone Martini, Painter- Frescoes of Five Saints and the Virgin and Child with Sts. Ladislas and Elizabeth of Hungary ;
Assisi, Perugia, Italy­ Church of Santa Chiara­ Dossal Painting of Saint Clare of Assisi ;
Assisi, Perugia, Italy- Monastery of San Damiano ;
Astridr Olafsdottir, Queen and Stepmother of King Magnus Olafsson of Norway ;
Astrology ;
Astronomy ;
Athelstan, King of Wessex ;
Athelston, Middle English Romance ;
Atli (Literary Figure) ;
Atre Perilleux, Old French Romance ;
Atto, Bishop of Vercelli ;
Aube, Literary Genre ;
Aucassin et Nicolette, Chantefable ;
Auctioneers ;
Audience SEE Readers ;
Audio Visual Materials ;
Audree SEE Etheldreda of Ely, Saint ;
Audrey SEE Etheldreda of Ely, Saint ;
Augsburg, Bayern, Germany ;
Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury ;
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint ;
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint- Confessions ;
Augustinian Order ;
Auria, Saint SEE Oria, Saint ;
Aury, Dominique, Author (1908- )- Story of O ;
Austraberta of Pavilly, Saint ;
Austria ;
Authority ;
Authority in Literature ;
Authors ;
Authors- Collaboration ;
Authorship ;
Autobiography ;
Ava, Wife of Abbo ;
Ave- Eva Topos ;
Aventiure (Literary Motif) ;
Averroes, Philosopher- Book of Animals ;
Avicenna, Philosopher- Canon of Medicine ;
Avignon, Vaucluse, France ;
Avila, Avila, Spain ;
Avila, Avila, Spain- Church of San Vicente- Shrine of Sabina and Cristeta ;
Awards in Literature ;
Awdyl Vraith SEE John of St. Davids, Poet- Ef A Wnaeth Panthon ;
Azema, Anne, Singer ;
Azzo VIII d' Este, Lord of Ferrara ;

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Babies SEE Infants ;
Bachelor Knights ;
Bachelors ;
Baha Al-Din, Historian ;
Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich, Literary Critic (1895-1975) ;
Bald's Leechbook, Old English Collection of Medical Remedies ;
Baldus de Ubaldis, Jurist ;
Ballad, Literary Genre ;
Ballymore Lough Sewdy, County Westmeath, Ireland- Plary Abbey ;
Balthild, Merovingian Queen and Saint ;
Baltic Crusade ;
Baptisms ;
Barbarians ;
Barbatianus, Saint ;
Barbieri, Filippo, Dominican and Author- Of the Twelve Sibyls Who Announced the Coming of Christ ;
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain ;
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain- Cathedral ;
Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain- Women's Monastery of Sant Pere de les Puelles ;
Barking, Greater London, England- Monastery ;
Bartolomea di Matteo, Wife Who Sought a Divorce from Simone di Iacopo Lucca ;
Bartolomeo da Mantova, Hagriographer ;
Basil Archidenos, Author ;
Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea and Saint ;
Basil the Macedonian, Byzantine Emperor ;
Bastards SEE Illegitimacy ;
Battered Women SEE Wife Abuse ;
Battista da Varona, Poor Clare ;
Battle of San Ruffillo, Painting ;
Baudonivia, Hagiographer ;
Baudonivia, Hagiographer- Life of Saint Radegunde ;
Baudri of Bourgueil, Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne ;
Bauduin de Sebourc, Chanson de Geste ;
Baus Descouneus SEE Renaut de Beaujeu, Poet- Bel Inconnu ;
Bavaria ;
Baxter, Margery, Lollard ;
Bayeux Tapestry ;
Beag (Old English: Ring, Bracelet, Crown) ;
Beatrice (Literary Figure) ;
Beatrice of Nazareth, Abbess ;
Beatrice of Nazareth, Abbess- Van Seuen Experiences van Heileger Minnen ;
Beatrijs van Tienen, Abbess of Nazareth SEE Beatrice of Nazareth, Abbess ;
Beatrix, Version of the Naissance du Chevalier au Cygne, Chanson de Geste ;
Beatrix of Canossa, Countess of Tuscany ;
Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby ;
Beauty ;
Beauty in Literature ;
Beauvais, Oise, France ;
Beccadelli, Antonio, Humanist- Hermaphroditus ;
Beccadelli, Antonio, Humanist- Letters ;
Bede, The Venerable, Scholar ;
Bede, The Venerable, Scholar- Historia ;
Bede, The Venerable, Scholar- Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ;
Bede, the Venerable, Scholar- In Canticum Abacuc Cantina ;
Beds in Art ;
Beerte Metten Breden Voeten, Middle Dutch Romance ;
Beggars ;
Beguines ;
Belcari, Feo, Religious Writer ;
Belisaunt (Literary Figure) ;
Beltramina de Maziis, Mother of a Child Attacked by a Priest ;
Belts ;
Bembo, Pietro, Humanist ;
Benedictine Order ;
Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Poet- Roman de Troie ;
Beowulf (Literary Figure) ;
Beowulf, Old English Epic ;
Berengar I, King of Italy ;
Berenguela Alfonso, Concubine of Jaume I, King of Aragon ;
Berenguela of Castile, Queen-Consort of Alfonso IX of Leon ;
Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy ;
Berhtgyth, Nun ;
Berkley, Margaret, Noble Woman ;
Berkshire Conference on the History of Women ;
Berlin Rule, German Version of the Regula of Saint Benedict ;
Bernard d'Angers, Schoolmaster- Liber Miraculorum Sanctae Fidis ;
Bernard d'Angers, Schoolmaster and an Unknown Monk of Conques- Liber Miraculorum Sanctae Fidis ;
Bernard de Ventadour SEE Bernart de Ventadorn ;
Bernard of Angers SEE Bernard d'Angers ;
Bernard of Cabrera, Noble Man ;
Bernard of Clairvaux, Theologian, Saint ;
Bernard of Clairvaux, Theologian, Saint in Literature ;
Bernard of Clairvaux, Theologian, Saint- Sermons on the Song of Songs ;
Bernard of Siena SEE Bernardino da Siena, Theologian and Saint ;
Bernard Silvestris, Author- Cosmographia ;
Bernardino da Siena, Theologian and Saint ;
Bernart de Ventadorn, Troubadour ;
Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, Saint ;
Beroul, Poet- Tristan ;
Bersuire, Pierre, Theologian ;
Bertha SEE Berthe, Wife of Pipin the Short and Mother of Charlemagne ;
Bertha of Sulzbach SEE Irene Komnena (Her Name Upon Marriage to Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor) ;
Bertha of Tuscany, Wife of Rudolf II of Burgundy- Letters ;
Berthe, Wife of Pipin the Short and Mother of Charlemagne in Literature ;
Berthe de Bourgogne, Wife of Eudes, Count of Blois, Tours, and Chartres, and Robert II the Pious, King of France ;
Bertken, Sister, Mystic ;
Bertran de Born, Troubadour- Poem 24 Belh M'es Quan Vey Camjar Lo Senhoratge ;
Besancon, Doubs, France ;
Bessarion of Nicaea, Cardinal ;
Besson, Luc, Film Director (1959- ) ;
Bestiality ;
Betrothal ;
Betrothal SEE ALSO Spousals ;
Betrothal in Literature ;
Beues of Hamtoun SEE Bevis of Hampton ;
Beves of Hamtoun SEE Bevis of Hampton, Middle English Romance ;
Bevis of Hampton, Middle English Romance ;
Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan and Wife of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan ;
Bianca of Navarre SEE Blanche, Queen of Sicily and Navarre ;
Bible Exegesis ;
Bible Exegesis- Genesis- Sodom ;
Bible Exegesis- Habakkuk ;
Bible Exegesis- Jeremiah ;
Bible Exegesis- John ;
Bible Exegesis- Judith ;
Bible Exegesis- Judges ;
Bible Exegesis- Luke ;
Bible Exegesis- Matthew ;
Bible Exegesis- Matthew- Parable of the Talents ;
Bible Exegesis- Psalms; Bible Exegesis- Ruth Bible Exegesis- Song of Songs ;
Bible in Literature ;
Bible- New Testament in Art ;
Bible- New Testament in Literature ;
Bible- New Testament- Book of Revelation in Art ;
Bible- Old Testament in Art ;
Bible- Old Testament in Literature ;
Bible- Old Testament- Genesis in Art ;
Bible- Old Testament- Judith ;
Bible- Old Testament- Leviticus 12: 1-2 ;
Bible- Old Testament- Psalms ;
Bible- Old Testament- Psalms in Art ;
Bible- Old Testament- Women in ;
Bible Study ;
Bible- Translations ;
Bibles MoralisŽes ;
Biblia Pauperum ;
Bibliography SEARCH UNDER Article Type- Bibliography ;
Bien des Fames- Oez Seignor, Je N'Otroi Pas, French Poem ;
Bilhildis of Mainz, Saint ;
Billon, Francois de, Author- Fort Inexpugnable de l' Honneur du Sexe Femenin ;
Binary Opposites SEE Binary Opposition ;
Binary Opposition ;
Binchois, Gilles, Composer ;
Bindings ;
Biography ;
Biography SEE ALSO Hagiography ;
Biography Dictionaries ;
Biology ;
Birds in Literature ;
Birgitta of Sweden, Saint SEE Bridget of Sweden, Saint ;
Birth Control SEE Contraception ;
Birth SEE Childbirth ;
Birth Trays ;
Bishops ;
Bizzoche SEE Penitents ;
Bjarnar Saga Hitdoelakappa, Icelandic Saga ;
Bjorn Arngeirsson (Literary Figure) ;
Black Death ;
Black Knight (Literary Figure) ;
Black Virgin from Puy-en-Velay ;
Black Women ;
Black Women in Literature ;
Blackening ;
Blackface Entertainers ;
Blacks ;
Blacks in Literature ;
Blanca de Navarre SEE Blanche, Queen of Sicily and Navarre Blanca of Navarre, Queen- Consort of Sancho III, King of Castile ;
Blanchardyn and Eglantine, Middle English Verse Romance ;
Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, Wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster ;
Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, Wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster SEE ALSO Blanche (Literary Figure) ;
Blanche (Literary Figure) ;
Blanche of Burgundy, Countess of Savoy ;
Blanche of Castile, Wife of Louis VIII of France ;
Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne ;
Blanche, Queen of Sicily and Navarre ;
Blanchefleur (Literary Figure) ;
Blanche-Mains (Literary Figure) ;
Blannbekin, Agnes, Mystic ;
Blasphemy ;
Blastares, Matthew, Canonist and Author- Alphabetical Collection ;
Blind, Image of ;
Blindness ;
Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France ;
Blonde Esmeree (Literary Figure) ;
Blood ;
Blood, Image of ;
Blood in Literature ;
Boadicea, British Queen Who Led a Revolt against the Romans ;
Boarding ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- De Mulieribus Claris ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron- Griselda ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron II, VII ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron II, IX ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron III. X ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron- IV, I ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron V, IV ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron VII- III ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron IX, IX ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Esposizioni Sopra la "Comedia" di Dante ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Filostrato ;
Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Teseida ;
Body ;
Body in Literature ;
Boethius, Philosopher- De Consolatione Philosophiae; Bohemia ;
Bohemond, Prince of Antioch ;
Bohemund of Antioch ;
Boileau, Etienne, Livre des Metiers ;
Bokenham, Osbern, Author- Clare Roll ;
Bokenham, Osbern, Author- Legendys of Hooly Wummen ;
Bokenham, Osbern, Author- Legendys of Hooly Wummen- Lyf of S. Cycyle ;
Bokenham, Osbern, Author- Mappula Angliae ;
Bologna, Bologna, Italy ;
Bonaventure, Saint SEE Bonaventure, Theologian, Saint ;
Bonaventure, Theologian Saint ;
Bone Density ;
Bone Florence of Rome, Romance ;
Bones SEE Human Remains ;
Boniface, Saint ;
Boniface, Saint- Letters ;
Boniface VIII, Pope- Liber Sextus- Periculoso ;
Boniface IX, Pope ;
Bonincontro de Morigia, Chronicler ;
Bonvoisin, Berangere, Actress and Author, and Philippe Clevenot- Celle Qui Ment [Modern Play about Angela of Foligno] ;
Book of Ceremonies ;
Book of Hours ;
Book of Revelation SEE Apocalypse ;
Book of Showings SEE Julian of Norwich, Mystic- Revelations of Divine Love ;
Book of the Knight of the Tower, Middle English Translation of the Chevalier de la Tour Landry's Livre ;
Book to a Mother, Middle English Prose Didactic Work ;
Books ;
Books in Art ;
Books of Hours ;
Borgia, Lucrezia, Wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara ;
Boswell, John, Historian (1945-1994) ;
Boswell, John, Historian (1945-1994)- Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe ;
Botticelli, Sandro, Painter- Madonna del Magnificat ;
Botticelli, Sandro, Painter- Primavera ;
Botticelli, Sandro, Painter- Uffizi Annunciation ;
Botticini, Francesco, Painter- Assumption of the Virgin ;
Bouchet, Jean, Poet- Oraison de Nostre Dame ;
Boudicca SEE Boadicea, British Queen Who Led a Revolt Against the Romans ;
Boundaries in Literature ;
Bourdieu, Pierre, Sociologist (1930- ) ;
Bourgeoisie ;
Bourges, Cher, France- Cathedral of St. Etienne ;
Boys ;
Boys in Literature ;
Bracteates ;
Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, Legal Treatise ;
Branks, Instruments of Torture ;
Bratislava (Hungarian: Pozsony), Bratislava, Slovak Republic ;
Bravery SEE Courage ;
Bread, Image of ;
Breast Feeding ;
Breast Milk SEE Breast Feeding ;
Breasts ;
Brescia, Brescia, Italy- Monastery of Santi Cosma e Damiano ;
Bretha Crolige, Irish Legal Text ;
Bretha Dein Checht, Irish Legal Text ;
Breton Lays SEE Lais, Literary Genre ;
Breviaries ;
Brewing and Distillation ;
Bride, Image of ;
Bride of Christ, Image of ;
Bride Price ;
Bride Price SEE ALSO Dowries ;
Bride Shows ;
Bridegroom, Image of ;
Brides ;
Bridget of Sweden, Saint ;
Bridget of Sweden, Saint- Revelationes Sanctae Birgittae ;
Bridget of Sweden, Saint- Sunte Birgitten Openbaringe ;
Bridget of Sweden, Saint in Art ;
Bridget of Sweden, Saint in Literature ;
Bridgettine Order SEE Brigittine Order ;
Brigit, Abbess of Kildare, Saint ;
Brigittine Order ;
Brigstock, Northamptonshire, England ;
Briseida (Literary Figure) ;
Briseis (Literary Figure) ;
Brittany ;
Brive, Correze, France- Priory of Coyroux, a Women's House Dependent on the Male Monastery of Obazine ;
Brooches ;
Brothels SEE Houses of Prostitution ;
Brothers ;
Browne, Rye, Wife of Henry Browne, Chandler and Burgess of Calais ;
Bruder Hansen, Middle Low German Poet ;
Bruges, West- Vlaanderen, Belgium ;
Brunham, John, Merchant and Father of Margery Kempe ;
Brunhild (Literary Figure) ;
Brunhild, Merovingian Queen ;
Brut, Anglo Norman Prose Chronicle ;
Bryennios, Nikephoros, Historian and General, Husband of Anna Komnena ;
Bubonic Plague SEE Black Death ;
Buddha and Buddhism ;
Bulgaria ;
Bulgarus, Jurist ;
Bullough, Vern L., Historian (1928-) ;
Buoch von dem Vechten und von der Ritterschafft, Middle High German Translation of Pizan's Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie ;
Buondelmonte Family ;
Burgh Laws, Scottish Legal Treatise ;
Burgos, Burgos, Spain- Monastery of Las Huelgas ;
Burgundy ;
Burial ;
Burials ;
Burley, Walter, Philosopher- Abridgement of Expositio Problematum Aristotelis ;
Bursfeld, Niedersachsen, Germany- Monasteries for Women ;
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England ;
Busnois, Antoine SEE Busnoys, Antoine, Composer Busnoys, Antoine, Composer ;
Busse-Wilson, Elisabeth, Historian (1890-1974)- Das Leben der Heiligen Elisabeth von Thuringen ;
Butler, Margaret, Countess, Wife of Sir Piers Butler, Earl of Ormand ;
Buzzacarina, Fina, Wife of Francesco il Vecchio da Carrara, Ruler of Padua ;
Bynum, Caroline Walker, Historian (1941- ) ;
Byrhtferth, Author- Passio ;
Byzantine SEE Byzantium ;
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Cadastres ;
Cadastres- 1427 ;
Cadoc's Lady (Literary Figure) ;
Caen, Normandy, France- Holy Trinity Abbey ;
Caesarean Birth ;
Caesarius, Bishop of Arles, Saint ;
Caesarius von Heisterbach, Author ;
Caffari, Rosata, Wife of Stefano Caffari ;
Caffarini, Tommaso, Dominican Friar and Hagiographer ;
Caillech (Middle Irish: Veiled One) ;
Cain Adomnan SEE Lex Innocentium ;
Cairo, Egypt ;
Calcified Uterine Fibroleiomyomas; Calefurnia (Literary Figure) (Roman Woman Who Misbehaved, Baring Her Genitals in Public, in a Fit of Rage Because She Was Not Allowed to Speak in Court) ;
Calisto (Literary Figure) ;
Callixtus III, Pope ;
Camaldolese Order ;
Cambrai, Nord, France -Cathedral ;
Camilla, Huntress and Warrior (Literary Figure) ;
Camille (Literary Figure) ;
Campin, Robert (Also Known as the Master of Flemalle), Painter ;
Campsey, Suffolk, England- Monastery of Augustinian Canonesses ;
Canacee (Literary Figure) ;
Cancionero de Baena, Collection of Castilian Lyrics ;
Candlemas SEE ALSO Mary, Virgin, Saint- Purification ;
Candlemas Day and the Killing of the Children of Israel, English Drama ;
Candlemas, Feast Day Commemorating the Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of the Virgin Mary ;
Cannibalism in Literature ;
Canon Law ;
Canonesses ;
Canonization of Saints ;
Cansos, Literary Genre ;
Cantar de Mio Cid, Epic ;
Cantare di Madonna Elena, Italian Poem ;
Cantigas de Loor, Musical Genre ;
Capgrave, John, Author- Life of Saint Katherine ;
Capital Punishment SEE Executions ;
Captivity ;
Caracciolo da Lecce, Roberto, Preacher ;
Caregivers and Caregiving ;
Caretina, Queen ;
Carew-Poyntz Hours ;
Carlo de Camerino, Painter- Madonna of Humility and the Temptation of Eve ;
Carloman, King of the Franks ;
Carmagna, Italy- Monastery of Santa Maria ;
Carmelite Order ;
Carnivalesque ;
Carolingian Dynasty ;
Carretto, Ilaria del, Wife of Paolo Guinigi, Lord of Lucca ;
Carruthers, Mary, Literary Historian ;
Carthusian Order ;
Cary, Elizabeth, Author (1585-1639)- The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II ;
Casali, Francesco di Bartolomeo de', Ruler of Cortona ;
Cassandra (Literary Figure) ;
Cassandre (Literary Figure) ;
Cassian, John, Patristic Writer ;
Cassianus Johannes SEE Cassian, John Cassoni, Marriage Chests ;
Castles, Image of ;
Castiglione, Baldassare, Author- Libro del Cortegiano ;
Castile ;
Castilian Literature ;
Castles ;
Castration ;
Catalan Language ;
Catalan Literature ;
Catalina, Wife of Enrique III, King of Castile ;
Catalogs ;
Catalogs in Literature ;
Catalonia ;
Cataphatic Mystics ;
Caterina da Siena, Saint SEE Catherine of Siena, Saint ;
Caterina Vegri SEE Catherine Vigri, Saint ;
Catharism ;
Cathars SEE Catharism ;
Cathedrals ;
Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint ;
Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint in Art ;
Catherine of Bologna, Saint SEE Catherine Vigri, Saint ;
Catherine of Cleves, Duchess, Consort of Arnold van Egmond, Duke of Gelderland ;
Catherine of Genova SEE Catherine of Genoa, Saint ;
Catherine of Genoa, Saint ;
Catherine of Siena, Saint ;
Catherine of Siena, Saint- Dialogo ;
Catherine of Siena, Saint in Art ;
Catherine of Siena, Saint- Letters ;
Catherine Vigri, Saint ;
Catherine Vigri, Saint- Sette Armi Spirituali ;
Cavalca, Domenico, Author- Vitae Patrum ;
Cavalcanti, Guido, Poet ;
Cavalcanti, Guido, Poet- Donna Me Prega ;
Cavani, Liliana, Film Director (1937- ) ;
Caviness, Madeline, Art Historian (1938- ) ;
Cavusin, Cappadocia- Pigeon House Church- Fresco Portraits ;
Caxton Abstract, Middle English Version of the Regula of Saint Benedict ;
Caxton, William, Printer ;
Caxton, William, Printer and Author- Book of the Knight of the Tower ;
Cecilia, Saint ;
Cecilia, Saint in Literature ;
Ceffi, Filippo, Notary and Translation ;
Celestina (Literary Figure) ;
Celibacy ;
Cemeteries ;
Censorship ;
Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, Story Collection ;
Central Italy ;
Cerchi, Umiliana SEE Umiliata dei Cerchi, Penitent and Saint ;
[No cross ref necessary in Feminae] Ceremonies ;
Ceremonies in Literature ;
Cereta, Laura, Humanist ;
Cereta, Laura, Humanist- Letters ;
Cereta, Laura, Humanist- Letters (Epistolae Familiares) ;
Cerisy-la-Foret, Manche, France ;
Chalice for the Eucharist from Cologne ;
Champagne, France ;
Champain, Cecily, Possible Victim of Raptus ;
Champion, Pierre, Historian (1880-1942) ;
Chancery Courts ;
Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise SEE Canso de la Crozada ;
Chanson de Sainte Foy, Old Provencal Verse Saint's Life ;
Chanson d'Yde et Olive, Romance ;
Chansons de Femme, Literary Genre ;
Chansons de Geste, Literary Genre; Chansons de Malmariee, Literary Genre ;
Chansons de Toile, Literary Genre ;
Chansos, Literary Genre SEE Cansos, Literary Genre ;
Chapels ;
Characterization ;
Charity ;
Charity SEE ALSO Alms and Almsgiving ;
Charivari, Folk Custom ;
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, in Literature ;
Charles of Anjou, Duke of Anjou and King of Naples ;
Charles II, King of Naples ;
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Charles V, King of France ;
Charles VII, King of France ;
Charles d'Orleans, Poet- Poesies Anglaises- Ballade 59- Alone am Y and Wille to be Alone ;
Charles the Noble, King of Navarre ;
Charlotte of Savoie, Wife of Louis XI, King of France ;
Charms ;
Charter Endorsement SEE Middle Cornish Interlude ;
Charter Fragment SEE Middle Cornish Interlude ;
Charters and Diplomatics ;
Charters and Diplomatics in Literature ;
Chartier, Alain, Author- Epistola de Puella ;
Chartier, Alain, Author- Livre de l'Esperance ;
Chartier, Alain, Author- Quadrilogue Invectif ;
Chartrain, France ;
Chartres, Diocese of ;
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France ;
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France- Cathedral- Marian Relics ;
Charts and Diagrams ;
Chastellain, Georges, Author ;
Chastellain, Georges, Author- Louange a la Tresglorieuse Vierge ;
Chastellain, Georges, Author, and Jean Robertet, Author- Douze Dames de Rhetorique ;
Chastising of God's Children, Middle English Mystical Treatise ;
Chastity ;
Chastity in Literature ;
Chatelaine de Vergi, Poem ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- ABC ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Book of the Duchess ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Canon's Yeoman's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Clerk's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Franklin's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- General Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Knight's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Man of Law's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Manciple's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Merchant's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Miller's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Miller's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Nun's Priest's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Pardoner's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Pardoner's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Physician's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Prioress's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Reeve's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Reeve's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Second Nun's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Second Nun's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Shipman's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Squire's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Summoner's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Tale of Melibee ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Wife of Bath's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Wife of Bath's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Hyd , Absalon, Thy Gilte Tresses Clere ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Legend of Good Women ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Legend of Good Women- Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Orygenes Upon the Maudeleyne ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Parliament of Fowls ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Troilus and Criseyde ;
Chelidonia, Recluse and Saint ;
Chess ;
Chess in Literature ;
Chester Family ;
Chevalier a l'Espee, Romance ;
Chevalier des Dames, du Dolent Fortune, Allegorical Poem ;
Chiara d' Assisi SEE Clare of Assisi, Saint ;
Chievrefeuille SEE Marie de France, Poet- Chievrefoil ;
Child Abuse ;
Child Abuse SEE ALSO Infanticide ;
Child Care Workers ;
Childbirth ;
Childbirth, Image of ;
Childbirth in Art ;
Childbirth in Literature ;
Children ;
Children in Literature ;
Children SEE ALSO Infants ;
China ;
Chinese Literature ;
Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France - Chapel of Saint Radegunde ;
Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France- Chapel of Saint Radegunde- Paintings ;
Chivalry ;
Chlothild SEE Clotild, Wife of Clovis, King of the Franks ;
Choumnaina Palaiologina, Irene- Eulogia, Abbess of the Double Monastery Philanthropos Soter ;
Chretien de Troyes, Poet ;
Chretien de Troyes, Poet- Cliges ;
Chretien de Troyes, Poet- Erec et Enide ;
Chretien de Troyes, Poet- Perceval ou le Conte du Graal ;
Chretien de Troyes, Poet- Yvain ;
Chriseyde (Literary Figure) ;
Christ I, Old English Poem ;
Christians-Muslims- Relations ;
Christina Mirabilis van Sint-Truiden, Mystic ;
Christina of Markyate, Recluse ;
Christina the Astonishing ;
Christina von Stommeln SEE Christine of Stommeln ;
Christinae Miribilis ;
Christine de Pisan SEE Christine de Pizan ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Cent Ballades ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Cent Ballades D' Amant et de Dame ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Dit de la Pastoure ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Dit de la Rose ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Ditie de Jehanne d 'Arc ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epistre au Dieu d'Amours ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epistre de la Prison de Vie Humaine ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epistre d'Othea a Hector ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epitre Othea SEE Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epistre d'Othea a Hector ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Faits d' Armes et de Chevalerie ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Lamentacion sur les Maux de la Guerre Civile ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Lavision- Christine ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Lay de Dame ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Letters ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de la Cite des Dames ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de la Paix ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de la Prod' Hommie de l'Homme ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de Prudence ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre des Fais et Bonne Meurs du Sage Roy Charles V ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre des Trois Vertus ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre du Chemin de Long Estude ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre du Corps de Policie ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre du Duc des Vrais Amans ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Sept Psaumes Allegorises Christine, Martyr, Saint ;
Christine of Stommeln, Mystic ;
Christine of St. Trond SEE Christina Mirabilis ;
Christus in Nostra Insula SEE Xpistus in Nostra Insula ;
Chronicles ;
Chronicles - Monastic ;
Church, Image of ;
Church and State ;
Church in Literature ;
Church Reform SEE Ecclesiastical Reform ;
Churches ;
Churching ;
Cielo d'Alcamo, Poet ;
Cimabue, Giovanni, Painter ;
Cinema SEE Film ;
Cipolla, Bartolomeo, Jurist ;
Circumcision ;
Circumcision in Literature ;
Cistercian Order ;
Cities and Towns; Cities and Towns in Literature ;
Cities, Image of ;
Citizenship ;
City Councils ;
Civil War ;
Clare of Assisi, Saint ;
Clare of Assisi, Saint in Art ;
Clare of Assisi, Saint in Film ;
Clare of Assisi, Saint- Letters ;
Clare of Montefalco, Saint ;
Clarisses SEE Poor Clares Order ;
Clarke, Dorothy Clotelle, Literary Historian (1908-1993) ;
Classical Influences ;
Claude de Armoises, Woman Who Posed as Joan of Arc ;
Claudina (Literary Figure) ;
Claustration SEE Monastic Enclosure ;
Cleanness, Middle English Poem ;
Clemence of Burgundy, Countess of Flanders; Clemence, Nun of Barking and Author ;
Clement VII, Pope ;
Cleopatra, Ancient Queen ;
Clergeon SEE Clergeoun (Literary Figure) ;
Clergeoun (Literary Figure) ;
Clergy ;
Clergy in Literature ;
Clergy- Sexual Behavior ;
Clergy- Sexual Behavior in Literature ;
Clifford, Lady Maud de, Widow of Sir Robert de Clifford ;
Clitoridectomy SEE Circumcision ;
Cloisters, Monastic ;
Cloth SEE Textiles ;
Clothild SEE Clotild, Wife of Clovis, King of the Franks ;
Clothing ;
Clothing, Image of ;
Clothing in Literature ;
Clotild, Wife of Clovis, King of the Franks ;
Cloud of Unkowing, Middle English Mystical Work ;
Clovis, King of the Franks ;
Cluniac Order ;
Code of Justinian ;
Codicology ;
Cognac, Charente, France- Church of Saint Martin- Cemetery ;
Coins ;
Col, Gontier, Author ;
Col, Pierre, Author ;
Colette of Corbie, Saint ;
Collaboration ;
Collectio Canonum Hiberensis, Law Collection ;
Collectors and Collecting ;
Colliot, Regine, Literary Historian (1914-1996) ;
Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France- Convent of Unterlinden ;
Cologne, North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany- Church of the Holy Virgins ;
Colonialism SEE Imperialism ;
Columba, Abbot of Iona, saint ;
Comic Books ;
Comic Characters ;
Commemoration ;
Commenda Contracts ;
Commentaries ;
Commentary, Literary Genre ;
Commercialization ;
Common Law Courts ;
Communication in Literature ;
Communism ;
Community Life ;
Comnena, Anna, Historian SEE Komnena, Anna, Historian ;
Como, Italy- Monastery of San Marco ;
Compagnia di Santa Maria della Misericordia, Confraternity in Florence ;
Compilation ;
Complaint in Literature ;
Complaint of Our Lady, Anglo-French Prose Devotional Work ;
Comportment SEE Human Behavior ;
Composers ;
Computers and Teaching ;
Comrac Liadaine Ocus Cuirithic (The Meeting of Liadain and Cuirithir), Irish Prose Narrative with Poetry ;
Concilia, Legal Genre ;
Concubines ;
Concubines in Literature ;
Concubines of Priests SEE Clergy- Sexual Behavior ;
Condesa Traidora, Spanish Epic ;
Conduct SEE Human Behavior ;
Conduct Literature SEE Handbooks ;
Conferences ;
Confession, Sacrament ;
Confessiones ;
Confessors ;
Confessors' Handbooks ;
Confessors' Handbooks SEE ALSO Penitential Books ;
Confidants in Literature ;
Confidentiality ;
Confraternities ;
Confraternities- Registers ;
Confraternities- Statutes ;
Conjugal Debt ;
Consanguinity ;
Conscience ;
Consecration Ceremonies ;
Consent ;
Conservatism ;
Constance (Literary Figure) ;
Constance (Literary Figure in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale) SEE Custance (Literary Figure) ;
Constance de Rabastens, Mystic ;
Constance de Skelmanthorpe, Ward and Heiress ;
Constance, Queen of Sicily, Wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, Byzantine Emperor- Book of Ceremonies ;
Constantine Africanus SEE Constantine the African, Translator ;
Constantine the African, Translator ;
Constantine the African, Translator- De Genecia ;
Constantine the African, Translator- De Genitalibus Membris ;
Constantinople/Istanbul ;
Constantinople/Istanbul- Church of Hagia Sophia- Clerical Tribunal (Ekklesiekdikoi) ;
Constantinople/Istanbul- Church of Hagia Sophia in Art ;
Constantinople/Istanbul- Hagios Polyeuktos ;
Constantinople/Istanbul- Monastery Church Founded by Constantine Lips- Inlaid Marble Plaque of Eudokia ;
Constantinople/Istanbul- Monastery of the Mother of God of Sure Hope (Theotokos Tes Bebaias Elpidos) ;
Constantinople/Istanbul- Relics- Mapharion of Mary, a Garment Covering the Head and Shoulders ;
Constanza of Hohenstaufen, Wife of Pere III el Gran, King of Aragon ;
Consumerism ;
Consumption ;
Conte du Graal Continuations, French Romances ;
Contemplation ;
Contemplative Life ;
Contemplative Orders ;
Contraception ;
Contraceptives SEE Contraception ;
Contracts ;
Contracts in Literature ;
Conversas ;
Conversion, Religious ;
Conversion, Religious in Literature ;
Conversos SEE Conversas ;
Cookery ;
Cooking SEE Cookery ;
Coptic Language ;
Coptic Literature ;
Copying ;
Corbacho SEE Arcipreste de Talavera ;
Corbet, Sybil, Wife of Herbert fitz Herbert and Concubine of Henry I, King of England ;
Cornaro, Caterina, Wife of James II Lusignan, King of Cyprus ;
Cornazzano, Antonio, Poet and Courtier- De Mulieribus Admirandis ;
Cornazzano, Antonio, Poet and Courtier- Del Modo di Regere ;
Cornazzano, Antonio, Poet and Courtier- Libro dell' Arte del Danzare; Cornazzano, Antonio, Poet and Courtier- Vita della Vergine or Vita de Nostra Donna ;
Cornelia, Ancient Roman Matron ;
Cornish Language ;
Cornish Literature ;
Cornwall ;
Coronations ;
Corporal Works of Mercy in Art ;
Corpus Christi ;
Cortona, Tuscany, Italy ;
Corvey, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Germany- Abbey ;
Cosmas of Prague, Historian ;
Cosmetics ;
Cossa, Francesco del, Painter ;
Costanza de Castilla, Granddaughter of Pedro I, King of Castile, and Prioress of Santo Domingo el Real ;
Coudrette, Poet ;
Council of Trent (1545-1563) ;
Countesses ;
Country Life SEE Rural Conditions ;
Countryside SEE Rural Conditions ;
Counts ;
Courage ;
Courtesy ;
Courtesy Books SEE Handbooks ;
Courtesy in Literature ;
Courtly Behavior ;
Courtly Customs ;
Courtly Epic, Literary Genre ;
Courtly Literature ;
Courtly Love ;
Courts ;
Courts in Literature ;
Courts- Literary Activity ;
Courts- Musical Activity ;
Courts of Law ;
Courts of Law, Ecclesiastical ;
Courts of Law, Ecclesiastical- Papal ;
Courts of Law, Royal ;
Courtship ;
Courtship, Image of ;
Coventry Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant, English Mystery Plays ;
Coventry, West Midlands, England ;
Creation ;
Creative Thinking ;
Creativity SEE Creative Thinking ;
Crescentia (Literary Figure) ;
Creseyde (Literary Figure) ;
Creseyde SEE ALSO Criseyde ;
Crete ;
Creton, Raimbold, Knight, Crusader and Criminal ;
Crime and Criminals ;
Crime and Criminals in Literature ;
Criseyde (Literary Figure) ;
Criseyde SEE ALSO Creseyde ;
Cristiana da Santa Croce, Saint ;
Criticism ;
Criticism, Medieval ;
Critics ;
Critiques ;
Critiques and Replies ;
Cross Cultural Approach ;
Cross Dressing ;
Cross Dressing in Literature ;
Crosses and Crucifixes ;
Crosses and Crucifixes in Literature ;
Crowns in Art ;
Crucifix ;
Crusades ;
Crusades SEE ALSO Albigensian Crusade ;
Cuckolds ;
Cuckolds in Art ;
Cuckolds in Literature ;
Cultural Diversity SEE Multiculturalism ;
Cultural Studies ;
Cupid (Literary Figure) ;
Curial e Guelfa, Catalan Novella ;
Curses and Cursing in Literature ;
Custance (Literary Figure) ;
Customary Law ;
Cynewulf, Poet- Elene ;
Cynewulf, Poet- Juliana ;
Cyprus ;
Cywyddwyr, Welsh Poets ;

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Da Lutiano Family ;
Dafydd Ap Gwilym, Poet ;
Dafydd Ap Gwilym, Poet- Englynion y Cusan ;
D'Ailly Hours ;
Daily Life ;
Dairying ;
Dalassena, Anna , Mother of Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Dalassene, Anna SEE Dalssena, Anna, Mother of Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Dame a la Licorne, Tapestry Series ;
Damsels of the Queen's Chamber ;
Dance ;
Dance of Death (Artistic Motif) ;
Dandolo, Fantino, Bishop of Padua ;
Daniel, Monk and Author- Bios di Santa Marina ;
Danielina SEE Danielis, Byzantine Noble Woman Danielis, Byzantine Noble Woman ;
Danta Gradha, Irish Poems ;
Dante Alighieri, Poet ;
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Convivio ;
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Divina Commedia- Inferno ;
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Divina Commedia- Paradiso ;
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Divina Commedia- Purgatorio ;
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Vita Nuova ;
Daphne, Egypt ;
Daphne (Mythological Figure) ;
Daphne (Mythological Figure) in Art ;
Daret, Jacques, Painter- Presentation in the Temple ;
Databases ;
Dati, Goro, Author ;
Datini Family ;
Datini, Francesco, Merchant Datini, Francesco, Merchant- Letters ;
Datini, Ginevra, Illegitimate Daughter of Francesco Datini ;
Datini, Margherita, Wife of Francesco Datini, Merchant ;
Daughters ;
Daughters in Literature ;
David (Biblical Figure) ;
David (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Davizzi, Lena, Widow and Nun ;
Dawn Song SEE Alba, Literary Genre ;
De Bono et Malino Spiritu, Latin Polemic Against Joan of Arc ;
De Burggravin van Vergi, Dutch Romance ;
De Ceremoniis ;
De Ilustres Mujeres en Romance ;
De Latrone Converso, Byzantine Story ;
De Lacy, Margaret, Noble Woman ;
De Passionibus Mulierum, Medical Compilation ;
Deaconesses ;
Deaconesses SEE ALSO Ordination of Women ;
Dead ;
Deaf ;
Death ;
Death, Image of ;
Death in Literature ;
Death SEE ALSO Mortality ;
Debate, Literary Genre ;
Debate, Literary Genre SEE ALSO Partimens, Literary Genre ;
Debate, Literary Genre SEE ALSO Tensos, Literary Genre ;
Deborah (Biblical Figure) ;
Deceit SEE Deception ;
Deception ;
Deception in Literature ;
Decretals ;
Dedicatees and Dedications ;
Deeds SEE Charters and Diplomatics ;
Defamation SEE Libel and Slander ;
Delilah (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Delteil, Joseph, Surrealist (1894-1978)- Jeanne d'Arc ;
Demandes D'Amour, Literary Genre ;
Demography ;
Demoniac Possession ;
Demoniacs ;
Demons ;
Demons in Art ;
Denmark ;
Depositions SEE Witnesses ;
Depression ;
Der Nersessian, Sirapie, Art Historian (1896-1989) ;
Der Von Kurenberg, Poet ;
Derrida, Jacques, Literary Critic (1930- ) ;
Des Grantz Geanz, Anglo Norman Verse Prologue to Brut ;
Deschamps, Eustache, Poet ;
Deschamps, Eustache, Poet- Ballade 285 ;
Desco da Parto SEE Birth Trays ;
Descriptio, Literary Device for Describing a Character ;
Description ;
Desert, Image of ;
Desiderio da Settignano, Sculptor- Mary Magdalene ;
Desiderius, King of the Lombards ;
Desire in Literature ;
Detective and Mystery Stories, Literary Genre ;
Deucalion (Mythological Figure) ;
Developmental Psychology ;
Devices, Insignia Used as Liveries or Signs of Party Membership ;
Devil ;
Devil in Art ;
Devil in the Form of a Half Woman and Half Serpent in Literature ;
Devil in the Form of a Serpent in Literature ;
Devotio Moderna, Spiritual Movement ;
Devotional Literature ;
Devotional Objects ;
Devotional Practices ;
Dhuoda, Countess of Barcelona and Septimania ;
Di Baldese, Santina, Caregiver and Mother of Ambrogio di Baldese, Painter ;
Dia, Countess of, Trobairitz ;
Dia, Countess of, Trobairitz- A Chantar m'Er de so Qu'Ieu Non Voloria ;
Dialectic ;
Dialogical Criticism ;
Dialogical Reading ;
Dialogue Between Christ and the Devil ;
Dialogue in Literature ;
Diana d'Andalo, Dominican ;
Diana (Mythological Figure) ;
Diarmaid and Grainne Tales ;
Dictionary, Literary Genre ;
Didactic Literature SEE Handbooks ;
Didactic Romances ;
Dido (Literary Figure) ;
Diego de San Pedro, Author- Carcel de Amor ;
Dietetics SEE Nutrition ;
Difregwawd Taliesin SEE John of St. Davids, Poet- Foruchel Duw Golochir Ympob Va ;
Digby Plays ;
Digby Plays- Conversion of Saint Paul ;
Digby Plays- Mary Magdalene ;
Digression ;
Dindshenchas Erenn, Middle Irish Collection of Toponymic Lore ;
Dionysius the Pseudo- Areopagite, Theologian ;
Diplomacy ;
Disabled ;
Discerment ;
Discernment of Spirits, Determining Whether a Holy Person was Inspired by Jesus Christ or by the Devil ;
Disease, Image of ;
Diseases ;
Diseases in Literature ;
Disloyalty in Literature ;
Displacement in Literature ;
Disputations ;
Distaffs ;
Dit de la Rose, French Poem ;
Dits, Literary Genre ;
Divine Heart of Jesus Christ ;
Division of the Sexes ;
Divorce ;
Divorce in Literature ;
Doctors SEE Physicians ;
Documents SEE Charters and Diplomatics ;
Dogaressa SEE Dogaresse, Wives of the Doges, Elected Heads of the Venetian Republic ;
Dogaresse, Wives of the Doges, Elected Heads of the Venetian Republic ;
Dolce of Worms, Wife of Rabbi Eleazar ben Judah ;
Dolls ;
Domenico di Bartolo Ghezzi, Painter- Madonna of Humility ;
Domestic Abuse SEE Child Abuse and SEE Wife Abuse ;
Domestic Life, Image of ;
Domestic Space ;
Domestic Space in Art ;
Domesticity ;
Domination ;
Dominican Order ;
Dominican Order- Tertiaries ;
Domitilla, Vallombrosan Nun and Mystic ;
Domna (Literary Figure) ;
Domne Eafe, Founder and Abbess of Thanet ;
Dona Endrina (Literary Figure) ;
Donatello, Artist- David ;
Donatello, Artist- Feast of Herod Reliefs ;
Donatello, Artist- Judith and Holofernes ;
Donations SEE Alms and Almsgiving ;
Donatus, Bishop of Fiesole- Vita Metrica Sanctae Brigidae ;
Donegild (Literary Figure) ;
Donna Soletta (Literary Figure) ;
Donnchadh Mor O Dalaigh, Poet - Buime Trir Mathair Mhic De ;
Donnolo, a Jewish Physician ;
Donor Portraits ;
Donors ;
Dorigen (Literary Figure) ;
Dorothea, Saint SEE Dorothy, Martyr, Saint ;
Dorothea of Montau, Mystic, Saint ;
Dorothy, Martyr, Saint ;
Douai, Nord, France ;
Double Houses ;
Double Monasteries SEE Double Houses ;
Douceline of Digne, Mystic and Beguine ;
Doukaina, Irene, Byzantine Empress, Wife of Alexios I Komnenos ;
Dowager Countesses ;
Dowager Queens ;
Dowager Queens in Literature ;
Dower SEE ALSO Dowries ;
Dower ;
Dowries SEE ALSO Bride Price ;
Dowries SEE ALSO Dower ;
Dowries ;
Dowry SEE Bride Price ;
Dower ;
Dowries ;
Dragons ;
Dragons in Art ;
Drapa Af Mariugrat, Skaldic Poem ;
Dream of the Rood, Old English Poem ;
Dreams in Literature ;
Dreyer, Carl-Theodor, Filmaker (1889-1968)- Passion de Jeanne d'Arc ;
Drinking of Alcoholic Beverages ;
Drogo, Monk of Saint Winocsbergen and Hagiographer ;
Drouart La Vache, Author- Livre D' Amour ;
Du Chevalier Qui Fist les Cons Parler, French Fabliau ;
Dubois, Pierre, Lawyer and Author- De Recuperatione Terre Sancte ;
Dubrovnik SEE Ragusa ;
Duccio di Boninsegno, Painter ;
Duccio di Boninsegno, Painter- Maesta- Annunciation of Christ's Birth ;
Duccio di Boninsegno, Painter- Rucellai Madonna ;
Duchesses ;
Duchesses' Households ;
Duguay, Christian, Film Director (1947(?)- ) ;
Dunbar, William, Poet- Ane Blak Moir ;
Duns Scotus, John, Philosopher ;
Dunstable, John SEE Dunstaple, John, Composer ;
Dunstaple, John, Composer- Salve Scema Sanctitatis (Motet) ;
Duoda SEE Dhuoda, Countess of Barcelona and Septimania ;
Dutch Literature ;
Dutch Translations of the Trotula and the Secreta Mulierum (Secrets of Women) ;
Dybinus, Nicolaus SEE Nicolaus de Dybin, Grammarian ;
Dyfi, Ieuan, Welsh Poet ;

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Earl, James W., Literary Historian- Beowulf and the Origins of Civilization ;
Earnshaw, Doris, Literary Historian (1924- )- Female Voice in Medieval Romance Lyric ;
Earth, Image of ;
East Anglia ;
Easton, Adam, Cardinal- Defensorium Sanctae Birgittae ;
Eaten Heart (Literary Motif) ;
Eating Disorders ;
Eating Disorders SEE ALSO Anorexia Nervosa ;
Eating, Image of ;
Eavesdropping in Literature ;
Eberhard, Abbot of Salem ;
Ebner, Margaretha, Dominican Nun and Mystic; Ecclesia, Image of ;
Ecclesiastical Politics ;
Ecclesiastical Reform ;
Ecclesiastical Space ;
Ecclesiastical Vestments ;
Ecclesiastical Vestments- Stoles ;
Ecgburg, Abbess ;
Eckenstein, Lina, Researcher (1857-1931) ;
Eckhart, Meister, Mystic ;
Ecloga Theoduli, Latin Pastoral Debate Poem ;
Ecology ;
Economics ;
Economics in Literature ;
Ecphrasis SEE Ekphrasis, Rhetorical Form ;
Eddic Poetry ;
Edgitha, Wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Edgiva, Sister of Keonwald and Half-Sister of Athelstan, King of Wessex ;
Edith SEE Edgitha, Wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Edith, Daughter of Edgar, King of England, Nun at Wilton, and Saint ;
Edith, Queen Consort of Edward I, King of England ;
Editing Texts ;
Education SEE ALSO Handbooks ;
Education ;
Edward I, King of England ;
Edward II, King of England ;
Edward II, King of England in Art ;
Edward III, King of England ;
Edward the Confessor, King of England and Saint ;
Effeminacy ;
Effeminacy in Literature ;
Eglantine SEE Prioress (Literary Figure) ;
Egypt ;
Egypt- Cairo- Genizah ;
Eikassia SEE Kassia, Poet ;
Eirene, Wife of Konstantin V ;
Eirene the Sevastokratorissa, Wife of Andronikos the Sevastokrator ;
Eiriks Saga Rauda, Icelandic Saga ;
Eithne in Gubai (Literary Figure) ;
Eithne, Mother of Furbaide ;
Eiximenis, Francesc, Bishop of Elne- Libre de les Dones ;
Ekbert of Schonau, Monk and Brother of Elisabeth ;
Ekkehard IV, Monk of St. Gall and Author- Casus Sancti Galli ;
Ekphrasis, Rhetorical Form ;
Elaine of Astolat (Literary Figure) ;
Elderly SEE Old Age ;
Eleanor of Aquitaine Vase ;
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Wife of Louis VII of France and Henry II of England ;
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Wife of Louis VII of France and Henry II of England in Art ;
Eleanor of Castile, Queen- Consort of Edward I of England ;
Eleanor of Provence, Queen- Consort of Henry III of England ;
Eleanor of Scotland, Wife of Sigmund, Archduke of Tyrol SEE Elegiac in Art ;
Elections ;
Elena y Maria, Spanish Debate Poem ;
Eleonora d'Aragona SEE Eleonora of Aragon, Wife of Giovanni Chiaromonte, Count of Modica ;
Eleonora d'Aragona, Wife of Ercole d'Este, Duke of Ferrara ;
Eleonora of Aragon, Wife of Giovanni Chiaromonte, Count of Modica ;
Eleonore von Schottland ;
Eleonore von Osterreich SEE Eleonore von Schottland ;
Eleonore von Schottland, Author- Pontus und Sidonia ;
Elfgifu SEE Aelfgifu ;
Elie de Bourdeilles, Bishop of Perigueux ;
Elijah (Biblical Figure) ;
Elioxe, Version of the Naissance du Chevalier au Cygne, Chanson de Geste ;
Elisabeth of Schonau, Mystic ;
Elisabeth van Spalbeek, Mystic ;
Elisabeth von Nassau- Saarbrucken, Author ;
Elisabeth von Nassau- Saarbrucken, Author- Huge Scheppel ;
Elisabeth von Nassau- Saarbrucken, Author- Konigin Sibille ;
Elisabeth von Oye SEE Elsbeth von Oye ;
Elisabeth von Thuringen, Saint SEE Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint ;
; Elissa (Literary Figure) ;
Elite Women ;
Elizabeth (Biblical Figure) ;
Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare ;
Elizabeth Kotromanic, Wife of Louis of Anjou, King of Hungary and Poland ;
Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint ;
Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint in Art ;
Elizabeth of Luxemburg, Queen of Hungary ;
Elizabeth of York SEE Elizabeth, Queen- Consort of Henry VII of England ;
Elizabeth Plantagenet, Wife of Jan I, Count of Holland ;
Elke von Repgow, Jurist- Sachsenspiegel ;
Enguerrand de Quarton, Painter- Coronation of the Virgin ;
Elizabeth, Queen-Consort of Edward IV, King of England ;
Elizabeth, Queen- Consort of Edward IV of England ;
Elizabeth, Queen- Consort of Henry VII of England ;
Ellington, Cambridgeshire, England ;
Elsbeth von Oye, Mystic ;
Else (Literary Figure) ;
Elstob, Elizabeth, Scholar (1683-1756) ;
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, Writer- Defence of Good Women ;
Emaré, Middle English Breton Lay ;
Embroidery ;
Emilia (Literary Figure) ;
Emilye (Literary Figure) ;
Emma of Normandy SEE Emma, Queen of England and Denmark ;
Emma, Queen of England and Denmark ;
Emma, Wife of Aethelred, King of England, and Cnut, King of Denmark SEE Emma, Queen of England and Denmark ;
Emotions ;
Emotions in Literature ;
Emperors ;
Empress of Rome (Literary Figure) ;
Empresses ;
Empresses in Art ;
Encina, Juan del, Poet- Cancionero ;
Encomia SEE Laudatory Literature ;
Encyclopedia, Literary Genre ;
Endogamy (Marriage Within the Group) ;
Enide (Literary Figure) ;
Enite (Literary Figure) ;
Enoch (Biblical Figure) ;
Enrico Rampina, Archbishop of Milan ;
Enrique IV, King of Castile ;
Entrances SEE Processions ;
Environment SEE Ecology ;
Envy ;
Eowende (Old English: Testicles) ;
Eowyn (Literary Figure); Ephesian Matron SEE Widow of Ephesus (Literary Motif) ;
Epic, Literary Genre ;
Epigraphy ;
Epiphany ;
Episkepsis (Visitation/ Protection) SEE Mary, Virgin, Saint - Image Of - Orans Virgin with Christ Child Medallion ;
Epistemology ;
Epistolae, Database of Medieval Women's Letters ;
Epistolae Duorum Amantium, Collection of Letters in Latin ;
Epitaphs ;
Epithalamium, Literary Genre ;
Equity Courts SEE Chancery Courts ;
Erhard, Saint ;
Erizzo, Anna, Supposed Daughter of Antonio Erizzo ;
Erizzo, Benedetto ;
Erizzo, Elena ;
Erkanfrida, Wife of Nithad of Trier ;
Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne ;
Ermentrude, Queen Consort of Charles II the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Eroticism ;
Eroticism SEE ALSO Sexuality Errores Gazariorum, Latin Tract Against Witches ;
Eschatology ;
Eschatology SEE ALSO Apocalypse ;
Essen, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Germany- Monastery for Canonesses ;
Essen, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Germany- Monastery for Women ;
Essentialism ;
Este Family ;
Esther (Biblical Figure) ;
Esther (Biblical Figure) in Literature ;
Estrif de ii Dames, French Dream Vision Poem ;
Ethelbert, King of Kent ;
Etheldreda of Ely, Saint ;
Etheldreda of Ely, Saint- Cult ;
Etheldreda of Ely, Saint in Art ;
Ethelfled SEE Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians ;
Ethics ;
Ethnic Relations ;
Etiquette ;
Etupe (French-Jewish: Plugged up, Uncircumcised) ;
Etymology ;
Eucharist, Sacrament ;
Eudokia, Wife of Konstantin V ;
Eudokia Baiane, Saint and Wife of Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor ;
Eugenius IV, Pope ;
Eulalia, Saint ;
Eulalie, Saint SEE Eulalia, Saint ;
Eunuchs ;
Eunuchs in Literature ;
Euphemism ;
Euphrosine, Old French Saint's Life ;
Euphrosyne, Saint ;
Euphrosyne, Wife of Alexios III Angelos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Euriaut (Literary Figure) ;
Eustace, Martyr, Saint in Art ;
Eustathios of Thessalonike, Archbishop and Author ;
Eva, Recluse ;
Evangiles des Quenouilles, Comic Text ;
Eve (Biblical Figure) ;
Eve (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Eve (Biblical Figure) in Literature ;
Eve (Qur'anic Figure) ;
Evfrosiniia Khovanskaia, Wife of Andrei Staritskii, Younger Brother of Grand Prince Vasilii III of Moscow ;
Evil ;
Evil Eye ;
Evora, Alto Alentejo, Portugal ;
Exchange of Women ;
Exchange of Women in Literature ;
Excommunication ;
Executions ;
Exempla, Literary Genre ;
Exemplars SEE Role Models ;
Exeter Book- Advent, Old English Poem ;
Exhibitions ;
Exogamy (Marryiage Outside the Group) ;
Exorcism ;
Exoticism ;
Experience ;
Eyne Gude Lere Van Einer Junchvrowen (Good Counsel for a Young Lady), Middle Low German Handbook ;

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Fabia Eudokia, Wife of Herakleios, Byzantine Emperor, and Saint ;
Fables, Literary Genre ;
Fabliaux, Literary Genre ;
Facet, Catalan Didactic Text ;
Fairies ;
Fairies in Literature ;
Faits and the Passion of Our Lord Jesu Christ, Middle English Devotional Work Written by an Unknown Woman for a Nun ;
Falcon, Image of ;
Fall of Humankind ;
Fall of Humankind in Art ;
Fall of Humankind in Literature ;
Fall of Man SEE Fall of Humankind ;
Family ;
Family, Image of ;
Family in Literature ;
Family of Ealdorman Uhtred of Northumbria ;
Family of Ralph of Tosny ;
Family of William FitzOsbern ;
Family Planning SEE Contraception ;
Famines ;
Famous Women ;
Fantasy ;
Fantasy Fiction ;
Fantasy Novels SEE Fantasy Fiction ;
Farce, Literary Genre ;
Farmer's Daughter (Literary Figure in Der Arme Heinrich) ;
Fashion ;
Fasting ;
Fastnachtspiel, Literary Genre ;
Fastnachtsspiel SEE Fastnachtspiel ;
Father, Image of ;
Fathers ;
Fathers in Art ;
Fathers in Literature ;
Fathers SEE ALSO Parents ;
Fatwas, Legal Pronouncements ;
Favorites, Royal ;
Fear ;
Fear in Literature ;
Feastdays- Mary, Virgin, Saint- Nativity (September 8) ;
Feastdays SEE ALSO Holidays and Festivals ;
Feasts and Feasting in Literature ;
Fedele, Cassandra, Author ;
Fees ;
Female Adolescents ;
Female Biology, Image of ;
Female Divinity ;
Female Gaze ;
Female Voice in Literature ;
Femina, Nurse of the Daughter of Justin II, Byzantine Emperor ;
Femininity ;
Femininity in Art ;
Femininity in Literature ;
Feminist Theory ;
Fernando de Rojas, Author- Celestina ;
Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy ;
Fertility ;
Festivals ;
Festschriften ;
Feudalism ;
Feudalism in Literature ;
Feuds ;
Feuds SEE Vendetta ;
Ficino, Marsilio, Humanist ;
Fides SEE Foy, Martyr, Saint ;
Fiesole, Firenze, Italy ;
Fighting ;
Filelfo, Mario, Author ;
Filius Getronis, Monastic Play from the Fleury Playbook ;
Fille du Comte de Ponthieu, Romance ;
Film ;
Film Directors ;
Fina Buzzacarini, Wife of Francesco il Vecchio da Carrara, Ruler of Padua ;
Fina of San Gimignano ;
Fines and Penalties ;
Finland ;
Fire, Image of ;
Firumbras, Middle English Poem, Translation of Fierabras, French Chanson de Geste ;
Fish, Image of ;
Fitzherbert, Anthony, Author- Boke of Husbandry ;
Fitzthomas, John, Lord of Offaly ;
Flagellation ;
Flamenca (Literary Figure) ;
Flamenca, Occitan Romance ;
Flanders ;
Flemish Literature ;
Flexippe, Niece of Criseyde (Literary Figure) ;
Fliessende Lichte der Gottheit SEE Mechthild von Magdeburg, Mystic ;
FljotsdÏla Saga [Saga of the People of Fljotsdalr] ;
Floire et Blancheflor, Old French Romance ;
Flora, Martyr, Saint ;
Florence ;
Florence, Abbess of the Benedictine Abbey in Saintes ;
Florence- Church of S. Francesco al Monte (Also Known as S. Salvatore al Monte), a Male Monastery of Franciscan Observants- Annunciation ;
Florence- Church of S. Niccolo dei Frieri, A Monastery for Jerusalemite Nuns ;
Florence- Church of S. Trinita ;
Florence- Church of San Giovanni Evangelista- Humility Polyptych ;
Florence- San Pier Maggiore, Benedictine House for Women ;
Florence- Church of Santa Croce, Holy Confessors Chapel ;
Florence- Church of Santo Spirito- Nerli Chapel Altarpiece- Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors ;
Florence- Le Murate, Benedictine House for Women ;
Florence- Male Dominican Monastery of San Marco- Annunciation Painting ;
Florence- Monastery of S. Benedetto Fuori della Porta Pinti, a Male Camaldolese House ;
Florence- Monastery of San Giovanni Evangelista ;
Floris and Blauncheflur, Middle English Verse Romance ;
Flowers ;
Flowing Light of the Godhead SEE Fliessende Lichte der Gottheit ;
Foi, Martyr, Saint SEE Foy, Martyr, Saint ;
Folie Tristan, Poem ;
Foligno, Perugia, Italy- Santa Anna Monastery ;
Folk Tales ;
Folklore ;
Folly ;
Fonte Frida, Spanish Romance ;
Fontevraud SEE Fontevrault- l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, France- Abbey, Double House Founded by Robert d'Arbrissel ;
Fontevrault- l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, France- Abbey, Double House Founded by Robert d'Arbrissel ;
Fool (Literary Figure) ;
Footprints, Image of ;
Forgeries ;
Fortescue, John, Sir, Lawyer ;
Fortress SEE Castles ;
Fostering ;
Foster Mothering ;
Fotine, Saint SEE Photeine, Saint ;
Foucault, Michel, Philosopher (1926-1984) ;
Foy, Martyr, Saint ;
Fra Arnaldo, Angela of Foligno's Confessor and Scribe ;
Frame Stories, Literary Genre ;
Franca of Vitalta, Saint ;
France, Anatole, Author (1884-1924)- Vie de Jeanne 'Arc ;
Frances of Rome, Saint SEE Francesca Bussa dei Ponziani, Saint ;
Francesca Bussa dei Ponziani, Saint ;
Francesca da Rimini ;
Francesca Venusta, Widow of a Bolognese Knight ;
Francesco da Barberino, Author- Reggimento e costumi di Donna ;
Francesco di Simone Ferrucci, Sculptor- Virgin and Child with Angels ;
Francis of Assisi, Saint ;
Francis of Assisi, Saint in Film ;
Franciscan Order ;
Franciscan Order- Tertiaries ;
Frankfurt Passion Play ;
Franklin (Literary Figure) ;
Frantzen, Allen J., Literary Historian (1947- ) ;
Frau Minne (Literary Figure) ;
Frauenfrage ;
Fredegar, Chronicler- Chronicarum ;
Fredegond SEE Fredegund, Wife of Chilperic I, Merovingian King ;
Fredegund, Wife of Chilperic I, Merovingian King ;
Frederick III, King of Sicily ;
Fregoso, Giovan Battista, Author- Anteros Sive Tractatus Contra Amorem ;
French Language ;
French Studies ;
Freydis Eiriksdottir, Sister of Leifr ;
Freyja (Mythological Figure) ;
Freyr (Mythological Figure) ;
Friars ;
Frideswide, Saint ;
Friedrich von Hausen, Poet ;
Friendship ;
Friendship in Literature ;
Fro Laichdenman (Literary Figure) ;
Froissart, Jean, Chronicler- Chroniques ;
Froissart, Jean, Chronicler- Espinette Amoureuse ;
Froissart, Jean, Chronicler- Joli Buisson de Jonece ;
Frund, Johann, Chronicler of Lucerne ;
Fueros, Spanish Codes of Law ;
Fujiwara Michitsuna's Mother, Poet- Kagero Diary ;
Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres- Sermons- Approbate Consuetudinis ;
Functionalism ;
Fund Raising ;
Fund Raising SEE ALSO Patronage, Ecclesiastical ;
Funerals ;
Furniture ;

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Gabriel, Giovanni, Who Successfully Denied His Marriage to Orsa Dolfin ;
Gabrina, Witch ;
Gaddi, Taddeo, Painter ;
Galadriel (Literary Figure) ;
Galehot (Literary Figure) ;
Galen, Ancient Physician ;
Galeran de Meulan SEE Waleran II, Count of Meulan and Earl of Worcester ;
Galfredus de Vinosalvo SEE Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Rhetorician and Author ;
Galician- Portugese Literature ;
Galla Placidia, Wife of Constantinus, Roman Emperor, and Regent for Her Son, Valentinian III ;
Galleries (Architecture) ;
Gallus Anonymus, Chronicler ;
Galos, Elisabeth Louise Josephine, Comtesse de Houdetot, Author- Page de Jehenne, a Novel for Young Adults ;
Gambacorta, Chiara, Prioress of San Domenico of Pisa ;
Games ;
Gangulphus SEE Gongolf, Saint ;
Ganna, Varese, Italy- Church of San Gemolo- Image of the Madonna della Misericordia ;
Ganola, Ludovica, Disciple of Stefana Quinzani ;
Ganymede (Mythological Figure) ;
Garden, Image of ;
Garden of Eden in Literature ;
Gardens in Art ;
Garnier de Rouen, Author- Moriuht ;
Garson, Jean, Theologian ;
Gascony ;
Gast of Gy, Middle English Poem ;
Gaufridus Anglicus SEE Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Rhetorician and Author ;
Gautier de Coinci, Poet- Miracles de Nostre Dame ;
Gautier of Chatillon, Poet- Alexandreis ;
Gauvain (Literary Figure) ;
Gaveston, Amie de, Damsel of the Queen's Chamber ;
Gaveston, Piers, Earl of Cornwall and Favorite of Edward II, King of England ;
Gaveston, Piers, Earl of Cornwall and Favorite of Edward II, King of England, in Art ;
Gay Theory SEE Queer Theory ;
Gaze ;
Gem, Image of ;
Gemona del Friulu, Udine, Italy ;
Gender ;
Gender and Medieval Studies Group ;
Gender in Art ;
Gender in Literature ;
Gender Reversal ;
Gendered Pronouns ;
Genealogy ;
General Church Councils ;
Generydes, Middle English Verse Romance ;
Genesis A, Old English Poem ;
Genesis B, Old English Poem ;
Genesis, Old English Poem ;
Genital Mutilation SEE Circumcision ;
Genitals, Display of ;
Genius (Literary Figure) ;
Genoa, Genova, Italy ;
Genoa, Genova, Italy- Monastery of San Genesio di Vado ;
Genoa, Genova, Italy- Monastery of San Tomasso ;
Genoa, Genova, Italy- Monastery of Sant' Andrea della Porta ;
Genoa, Genova, Italy- Monastery of Santo Stefano ;
Genoa SEE ALSO Genoese ;
Genoese ;
Genoese SEE ALSO Genova ;
Genova SEE Genoa ;
Gent, Oost-Vlaannderen, Belgium ;
Gentry ;
Gentry Women ;
Gentucca (Literary Figure) ;
Geoffrey, Abbot of Saint Albans ;
Geoffrey, Brother of Henry II, King of England ;
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Rhetorician and Author ;
Geoffroi de Vinsauf SEE Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Rhetorician and Author ;
Geography ;
George, Martyr and Saint ;
Georgia ;
Geraint ab Erbin, Romance ;
Gerald of Aurillac, Saint ;
Gerald of Wales SEE Giraldus Cambrensis, Historian ;
Gerbert de Montreuil, Poet- Roman de la Violette ;
Gereint vab Erbin, Middle Welsh Romance ;
German Language ;
Germanus, Bishop of Paris, Saint ;
Germanus, Saint ;
Gernrode, Saxony- Anhalt, Germany- Convent of St. Cyriacus ;
Gerson, Jean, Theologian ;
Gerson, Jean, Theologian- De Mirabili Victoria ;
Gertrud die Grosse von Helfta SEE Gertrude the Great of Helfta ;
Gertrude, Abbess of Nivelles, Saint ;
Gertrude the Great of Helfta, Mystic, Saint ;
Gertrude the Great of Helfta, Mystic, Saint- Exercises ;
Gertrude the Great of Helfta, Mystic, Saint- Legatus Divinae Pietatis ;
Geste Francor- Berta Ai Piedi Grandi, Franco-Italian Chanson de Geste ;
Gesture ;
Gesture in Art ;
Ghent SEE Gent- Oost-Vlaannderen, Belgium ;
Gherardesca of Pisa, Recluse ;
Ghirlandaio, Domenico, Painter- San Gimignano, Collegiat, Chapel Dedicated to Santa Fina- Two Frescoes, The Annunciation of Santa Fina's Death by Saint Gregory the Great and The Funeral of Santa Fina ;
Ghismonda, Literary Figure ;
Ghismonda, Princess of Salerno SEE Scismonde, Princess of Salerno (Literary Figure) ;
Ghosts ;
Gibson, Mel, Actor and Director (1956- )- Braveheart ;
Giburc (Literary Figure) ;
Giburc (Literary Figure) SEE ALSO Guibourc (Literary Figure) ;
Giburc (Literary Figure) in Art ;
Gifts ;
Gilbertine Order ;
Gilbert of Sempringham, Saint ;
Gilbertus Anglicus, Physician- Sekeness of Wymmen ;
Gilla Mo- Duta O Caiside- Banshenchas (Lore of Women) ;
Gilles de Bins SEE Binchois, Composer ;
Ginevra, Courtesan ;
Gioacchino da Fiore SEE Joachim of Fiore, Theologian ;
Giotto di Bondone, Painter ;
Giovanna I d'Angio SEE Jeanne d'Anjou, Queen of Naples ;
Giovanna of Signa, Recluse and Saint ;
Giovanni, Priest of the Diocese of Faenza, Hagiographer ;
Giovanni de Biondo, Painter ;
Giovanni Colombini, Founder of the Gesuati ;
Giovanni dalle Celle, Florentine Notary ;
Giovanni delle Celle, Confessor of Domitilla, Vallombrosan Nun and Mystic ;
Giovanni Dominici, Dominican Vicar General ;
Giraldus Cambrensis, Historian ;
Giraldus Cambrensis, Historian- Topographia Hibernica ;
Girart de Roussillon, Chanson de Geste ;
Girls ;
Gisela, Wife of Konrad II, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Gisla Saga Surssonar, Icelandic Saga ;
Giuliana di Collalto, Abbess ;
Giunta Bevegnati, Franciscan and Hagiographer ;
Giusto de' Menabuoi, Painter ;
Glass Windows ;
Glosses ;
Glosses in Literature ;
Gloves ;
Gnomic Poetry ;
Goat, Image of ;
Go-Betweens in Literature ;
God- Motherhood SEE Jesus Christ as Mother ;
God the Father ;
God the Father as Father ;
God the Father as Mother ;
God the Father as Mother SEE ALSO Jesus Christ as Mother ;
Goddesses ;
Godefridus, Monk of Disibodenberg, and Theodoricus, Monk of Echternach- Vita Sanctae Hildegardis ;
Godelieve of Gistel, Saint ;
Godmothers ;
Godparents ;
Gold ;
Goldeborw (Literary Figure) ;
Golden Legend SEE Legenda Aurea ;
Gongolf, Saint ;
Gonzalez, Isabel, Poet ;
Gonzalo de Berceo, Poet ;
Gonzalo de Berceo, Poet- Milagros de Nuestra Senora ;
Gonzalo de Berceo, Poet- Milagros de Nuestra Senora- La Abadesa Encinta ;
Goodness in Literature ;
Gorini, Fioretta, Mother of Giuliano de' Medici's Illegitimate Son ;
Goscelin of Saint- Bertin (also of Canterbury), Hagiographer ;
Goscelin of Saint- Bertin (also of Canterbury), Hagiographer- Liber Confortatorius ;
Goscelin of Saint- Bertin (Also of Canterbury), Hagiographer- Vita Deo Dilectae Virginis Mildrethae ;
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (also of Canterbury), Hagiographer- Vita Sanctae Edithe ;
Gospel- Books ;
Gospel Lectionaries ;
Gospel of Nicodemus, Anglo-French Prose Devotional Work ;
Gossips ;
Gossips and Gossiping in Literature ;
Gossip's Bridles SEE Branks ;
Goswin de Bossut, Monk of Villers and Hagiographer ;
Gothic Style ;
Gothic War SEE De Bello Gothico ;
Goths ;
Gottfried, Monk of Saint Disibod- Vita Sanctae Hildegardis ;
Gottfried von Strassburg, Poet ;
Gottfried von Strassburg, Poet- Tristan ;
Government SEE Politics ;
Government Finances ;
Gower, John, Poet- Confessio Amantis ;
Gower, John, Poet- Confessio Amantis- Episode of Apollonius of Tyre ;
Gower, John, Poet- Mirour de l'Omme ;
Gower, John, Poet- Tale of Florent ;
Gower, John, Poet- Vox Clamantis ;
Grace, Theological Virtue ;
Graduate Students ;
Graelent, Breton Lai ;
Grain Goddesses ;
Grammar ;
Grandchildren ;
Grandes Chroniques de France, Chronicle ;
Grandmothers ;
Gratian, Canonist- Decretum ;
Grave Goods ;
Great Harlot SEE Great Whore of Babylon ;
Great Schism, 1378-1417 ;
Great Whore of Babylon ;
Greece ;
Greek Literature ;
Greeks ;
Greenblatt, Stephen, Literary Historian (1943- )- Renaissance Self-Fashioning ;
Gregorian Chants ;
Gregorian Reform SEE Ecclesiastical Reform ;
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint ;
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint- Decem Libri Historiarum ;
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint ;
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint- Homiliae in Evangeliza ;
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint- Letters ;
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint- Libellus Responsionum ;
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint in Art ;
Gregory VII, Pope ;
Gregory IX, Pope ;
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint ;
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint- Decem Libri Historiarum ;
Grendel's Mother (Literary Figure); Grief SEE Mourning ;
Griselda ;
Griselda (Literary Figure) ;
Groenlendinga Saga, Icelandic Saga ;
Grosse Selentrost, Der (Low German Devotional Book) ;
Grotesque ;
Grottaferrata, Roma, Italy- Abbey ;
Group Identity ;
Gualdrada, Wife of Count Guido Guidi and Exemplar of Chastity ;
Guardians ;
Guarini, Guarino, Humanist ;
Gudmundar Arason ;
Gudmundar Saga ;
Gudrun Osvifrsdottir (Literary Figure) ;
Guelfa, Literary Figure ;
Guenevere, Queen (Literary Figure) ;
Guibert of Gembloux, Monk and Secretary to Hildegard ;
Guibert of Nogent, Benedictine Monk and Chronicler ;
Guibourc (Literary Figure) ;
Guibourc (Literary Figure) SEE ALSO Giburc (Literary Figure) ;
Guigo II, Prior of the Grande Chartreuse ;
Guildeluec (Literary Figure) ;
Guilds ;
Guile SEE Deception ;
Guilhem de Tudela, Author, and Anonymous Continuator- Canso de la Crozada ;
Guilhem IX SEE Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine ;
Guillaume d' Auvergne, Bishop of Paris ;
Guillaume d'Auxerre, Theologian- Summa Aurea ;
Guillaume de Lorris, Poet- Roman de la Rose ;
Guillaume de Lorris, Poet- Roman de la Rose- Illuminations of ;
Guillaume de Saint-Pathus, Hagiographer- Miracles de Saint Louis ;
Guillaume de Tyr SEE William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre and Historian ;
Guillaume Firebrace (Literary Figure) ;
Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitane ;
Guillaume le Marechal SEE William Marshal ;
Guillaume Machaut, Poet- Voir Dit ;
Guilliadun (Literary Figure) ;
Guinevere SEE Guenevere, Queen (Literary Figure) ;
Guingamor, Old French Lai ;
Guinigi, Nicolao, Bishop of Lucca ;
Guinigi, Paolo, Lord of Lucca ;
Guta- Sintram Codex, Manuscript Created by a Nun from Schwartzenthann and a Monk from Marbach ;
Gunnor, Countess of Normandy, Wife of Richard I, Duke of Normandy ;
Gynaecea SEE Women's Workshops ;
Gynecology SEE ALSO Medicine ;
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Hachette, Jeanne, Heroine of the Siege of Beauvais ;
Hadewijch, Mystic ;
Hadewijch, Mystic- Mengeldichten ;
Hadewijch II, Mystic ;
Hadith, Literary Genre ;
Hadith of the Slander ;
Hag (Literary Figure) ;
Hagiography ;
Hagiography in Art ;
Hagiography SEE ALSO Biography ;
Hair Color ;
Hairstyles ;
Hali Meidenhad, Middle English Devotional Work ;
Hallaert, M.- The "Sekenesse of Wymmen": A Middle English Treatise on Diseases in Women (Omirel, 1982) ;
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott, Literary Historian (1866- 1933) ;
Handbooks SEE ALSO Confessors' Handbooks ;
Handbooks SEE ALSO Education ;
Handbooks ;
Handicapped SEE Disabled ;
Hardham, Sussex, England- Church- Adam and Eve Cycle ;
Harrowing SEE Jesus Christ- Descent into Hell ;
Hartlieb, Johan, Translator ;
Hartmann von Aue, Poet ;
Hartmann von Aue, Poet- Der Arme Heinrich ;
Hartmann von Aue, Poet- Erec ;
Hartmann von Aue, Poet- Iwein ;
Hathumoda, Abbess of Gandersheim ;
Hathumoda, Saint ;
Hatzlerin, Clara, Scribe ;
Haukdaela Thattr- Thora Episode, Icelandic Saga ;
Hausmann, Anna, Lover of Oswald von Wolkenstein ;
Hautvillers, Marne, France- Monastery for Men ;
Havelok the Dane, Middle English Poem ;
Hawkes Petkovic, Sonia Elizabeth Chadwick, Archaeologist (1933-1999) ;
Hawwa SEE Eve ;
Headdresses ;
Healers and Healing ;
Healers and Healing in Literature ;
Heaven ;
Heavy Metal Music ;
Hebrew Literature ;
Heckington, Lincolnshire, England- Parish ;
Church of St. Andrew ;
Hector (Mythological Figure) ;
Height SEE Stature, Human ;
Heinrich III, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Heinrich IV, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Heinrich V, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Heinrich I, King of Germany ;
Heinrich Seuse, Mystic ;
Heinrich von Laufenberg, Cleric and Author- Regimen ;
Heinrich von Morungen, Poet ;
Heinrich von Veldeke, Poet- Eneas ;
Heinrich von Veldeke, Poet- Eneit ;
Heiresses ;
Heldris de Cornualle, Poet- Roman de Silence ;
Helen of Troy (Mythological Figure) SEE Helena (Literary Figure) ;
Helena (Literary Figure) ;
Helena Dragas, Wife of Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Helena Notara Gateliousaina of Ainos, Wife of Giorgio Gattilusio Ruler of Ainos ;
Helena, Saint ;
Helena, Saint in Literature ;
Heliand, Old Saxon Poem ;
Helfta, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany- Monastery; Helfta, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany- Monastery of Saint Mary ;
Hell in Art ;
Hell in Literature ;
Heloise, Abbess of Le Paraclet ;
Heloise, Abbess of Le Paraclet- Letters ;
Heloise, Abbess of Le Paraclet- Problemata ;
Henri d'Arci, Knight Templar ;
Henry I, King of England ;
Henry II, King of England ;
Henry III, King of England ;
Henry IV, King of England ;
Henry V, King of England ;
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Henry VI, King of England ;
Henry of Ghent, Theologian ;
Henry of Ghent, Theologian- Summa Quaestionum Ordinarium ;
Henry of Saltrey, Cistercian Monk and Author- Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii ;
Henry Suso, Mystic ;
Henry the Wrangler, Duke of Bavaria ;
Heraldry ;
Herbs ;
Herebert, William, Poet ;
Heresy SEE ALSO Catharism ;
Heresy SEE ALSO Lollard Movement ;
Heresy ;
Herlihy, David, Historian (1930-1991) ;
Hermann, Brother, Author- Leben der Grafin Iolande von Vianden ;
Hermann von Sachsenheim, Poet- Die Morin ;
Hermaphrodites ;
Hermaphrodites in Literature ;
Herodis (Literary Figure) ;
Heroes ;
Heroes in Art ;
Heroes in Literature ;
Heroines SEE Heroes ;
Herrad of Landsberg, Abbess of Hohenberg ;
Herrad of Landsberg, Abbess of Hohenberg- Hortus Deliciarum ;
Hersende, Abbess of Fontevrault ;
Hervarar Saga, Icelandic Saga ;
Herzeloyde (Literary Figure) ;
Heterosexism ;
Heterosexuality ;
Hierarchy ;
High School Students ;
Hilaria SEE Ilaria, Saint ;
Hild, Saint ;
Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, Saint ;
Hildebert of Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours ;
Hildeburh (Literary Figure) ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Causae et Curae ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Expositiones Evangeliorum ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Letters ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Letters- 70 and 70R ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Liber Divinorum Operum ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Liber Simplicis Medicinae ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Liber Subtilitatum Diversarum Naturarum Creaturarum ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Lyrics ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- O Ignis Spiritus ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Ordo Virtutum ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Ordo Virtutum- O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Physica ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Scivias; Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Symphonia ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Symphonia- Spiritui Sancto ;
Hildegund (Literary Figure) ;
Hildegurls- Electric Ordo Virtutum ;
Music ;
Hildesheim, Niedersachsen, Germany- Monastery of St. Michael- Bronze Doors ;
Hilton, Walter, Mystic- Scale of Perfection ;
Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims ;
Hindu Tantrism ;
Hippocratic Oath ;
Hippolytus, Franciscan Friar and Hagiographer ;
Hirsau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany- Benedictine Abbey for Men ;
Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'a Cesar, Old French Prose Work; Historia Augusta, Continuation of Suetonius ;
Historia Calamitatum SEE Ad Amicum Pro Consolatione Epistola ;
Historia de la Linda Melosina, Old Spanish Translation of Jean d'Arras' Melusine ;
Historians ;
Historical Fiction SEE Historical Novels ;
Historical Novels ;
Historiebijbel van 1360, Prose Bible Translation ;
Historiography ;
History ;
History- Sources ;
History- Study and Teaching ;
Hjalmpes Saga ;
Hobbes, Thomas, Philosopher (1588-1679) ;
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet ;
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Balade to the Virgin and Christ ;
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Complaint of the Virgin ;
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Dialogue with a Friend ;
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Letter of Cupid ;
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Mother of God ;
Hocktide, Holiday ;
Hodgson, Phyllis, Religion Historian (1909-2000) ;
Holidays and Fesitvals; Holidays and Festivals SEE ALSO Feastdays ;
Holofernes (Biblical Figure) ;
Holy Family ;
Holy Ghost SEE Holy Spirit ;
Holy Grail ;
Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Devotion to ;
Holy Spirit ;
Holy Spirit in Music ;
Holy Vernicle SEE Veronica's Veil ;
Home ;
Home, Image of ;
Home in Literature ;
Homer, Ancient Poet- Iliad ;
Homilies, Literary Genre ;
Homoeroticism ;
Homoeroticism in Art ;
Homoeroticism in Literature ;
Homophobia ;
Homophobia in Literature ;
Homosexuality ;
Homosexuality in Art ;
Homosexuality in Film ;
Homosexuality in Literature ;
Homosexuality in Music ;
Homosociality ;
Homosociality in Literature ;
Honor ;
Honor in Literature ;
Horseback Riding ;
Horses in Literature ;
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem Order ;
Hospitallers SEE Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem Order ;
Hospitals ;
Hours of Jeanne of Navarre, Queen of Navarre and Wife of Philippe, Comte d'Evreux ;
Hours of the Guardian Angel ;
House of Anjou SEE Angevins, Dynasty in France AND Angevins, Dynasty in Naples and Hungary ;
House of Burgundy ;
House of York ;
Housebook Master, Artist- Falconer ;
Household Staff ;
Households ;
Households- Accounts ;
Households in Literature ;
Houses ;
Houses of Prostitution ;
Housewives SEE Housework ;
Housework ;
How a Lover Praiseth His Lady, Middle English Poem ;
Hrabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz ;
Hrafnista Sagas ;
Hrothgar (Literary Figure) ;
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, Dramatist ;
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, Dramatist- Passio Sancti Gongolfi Martyris ;
Hucbald, Monk of Saint Amand-les-Eaux and Author- Vita Rictrudis ;
Hue de Rotelande, Poet- Ipomedon ;
Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln, Saint ;
Hugh of Fouilloy, Prior of Saint-Laurent-aux-Bois and Author- De Claustro Animae ;
Hugh of St. Victor, Theologian ;
Hugh, Monk of Floreffe, Hagiographer ;
Hugo von Langenstein, Poet- Martina ;
Hull, Eleanor, Mystic ;
Human Behavior ;
Human Dissection ;
Human Remains ;
Human Reproduction ;
Humanism ;
Humiliati ;
Humility ;
Humor ;
Humor, Bawdy ;
Humor in Art ;
Humoral Medicine SEE Humors, Medical Concept ;
Humors, Medical Concept ;
Humours SEE Humors, Medical Concept ;
Hungary ;
Hunger, Image of ;
Hunger SEE Famines ;
Huns, People ;
Hunting ;
Hunting in Art ;
Husbands ;
Husbands in Art ;
Husbands in Literature ;
Hussite Movement ;
Huy, Liege, Belgium- Saint Victor, Cluniac Monastery for Women ;
Hyena, Image of ;
Hygd (Literary Figure) ;
Hymns ;
Hypertext ;
Hysteria ;

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Ibn Khalfun, Isaac, Poet ;
Ibn Rushd SEE Averroes ;
Ibn-Sina SEE Avicenna, Philosopher ;
Iceland ;
Iconoclasm ;
Iconography ;
Iconophiles ;
Icons ;
Ida, Countess of Boulogne, Saint ;
Ida of Leau, Mystic ;
Ida of Leeuw SEE Ida of Leau, Mystic ;
Ida of Nivelles, Mystic ;
Ida the Gentle (Dulcis) of Lea ;
Identity ;
Ides Aglaecwif (Noble Woman Hero) ;
Ignatios, Patriarch of Constantinople ;
Ikasia SEE Kassia, Poet ;
Ilaria, Saint ;
Illegitimacy ;
Illegitimacy in Literature ;
Illnesses SEE Diseases ;
Illumination of Manuscripts ;
Imad Al-Din, HistoIbn Khalfun, Isaac, Poet ;
Image ;
Imagery ;
Imagery SEE Garden, Image of ;
Imagery SEE Queen, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Architecture, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Blood, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Bride, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Castle, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Church, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Cities and Towns, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Cities, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Courtship, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Desert, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Disease, Image of Imagery SEE ALSO Domestic Life, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Earth, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Eating, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Ecclesia, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Falcon, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Family, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Fish, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Footprints, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Knight, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Lord, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Mary, Virgin, Saint- Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Mirror, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Moon, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Pearl, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Rose, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Sloth, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Water, Image of ;
Imagery SEE ALSO Wilderness, Image of ;
Images ;
Imitatio Christi SEE Jesus Christ, Imitation of ;
Imitation ;
Immaculate Conception ;
Immaculate Conception in Art ;
Immathchor NAilella Ocus Airt, Old Irish Legal Text ;
Imperialism ;
Impostors and Imposture ;
Impotence ;
Impotence in Literature ;
Impruneta, Firenze, Italy- Church of Santa Maria- Shrine ;
Impurity SEE Ritual Purity ;
In Primis Debet Sacerdos, Confessors' Handbook ;
Incarnation, Doctrine ;
Incest ;
Incest in Literature ;
Independent Scholars ;
Indexes ;
Individual ;
Individual SEE ALSO Self ;
Indulgences ;
Ineffable ;
Infant Jesus SEE Jesus Christ- Infancy ;
Infanticide ;
Infanticide in Literature ;
Infanticide SEE ALSO Child Abuse ;
Infants ;
Infants in Literature ;
Infants SEE ALSO Children ;
Infibulation SEE Circumcision ;
Infidelity SEE Adultery ;
Influences ;
Ingeborg of Denmark, Wife of Philippe II, King of France ;
Inheritance ;
Inheritance in Literature ;
Initiation Rites ;
Inlaid Marble Plaque of Eudokia ;
Innocent III, Pope ;
Innocent III, Pope- Letters ;
Innocent IV, Pope ;
Inquisition ;
Insanity SEE Mental Illness ;
Inscriptions SEE Epigraphy ;
Insinuationes SEE Legatus Divinae Pietatis ;
Insulting Gestures ;
Insults ;
Insults in Literature ;
Intellectual Property ;
Intellectuals ;
Intelligence ;
Intention ;
Intercession ;
Intercession in Art ;
Intercession in Literature ;
Interludes, Literary Genre ;
International Marie de France Society ;
International Trade ;
Internet Computer Network ;
Interpersonal Relationships ;
Interpolation ;
Intertextuality ;
Interviews ;
Intimacy ;
Intimidation ;
Invective SEE Insults ;
Inventories ;
Investments ;
Ioasaph, Metropolitan of Ephesos ;
Ireland ;
Irene, Byzantine Empress ;
Irene Komnena (Formerly Bertha of Sulzbach), Byzantine Empress and Wife of Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Irigaray, Luce ;
Irish Language ;
Irish Literature ;
Irony ;
Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen-Consort of Charles VI, King of France ;
Isabel I la Catolica, Queen of Castile- Letters ;
Isabel de Byron, Wife of Robert I de Neville of Hornby Manor ;
Isabel de Clare, Wife of William Marshal I, Earl of Pembroke ;
Isabel de Villena, Author and Abbess of La Trinita (Valencia), a Franciscan House ;
Isabel of Portugal, Wife of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy ;
Isabel, Wife of Enguerrand VII of Coucy ;
Isabella I, la Catolica SEE Isabel I la Catolica, Queen of Castile ;
Isabella I, la Catolica, Queen of Castile ;
Isabella d'Aragona, Wife of Gian Galeazzo Sforza II, Duke of Milan ;
Isabella d'Este, Wife of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua ;
Isabella of France, Wife of Edward II, King of England ;
Isabella of Scotland, Wife of Francis, Duke of Brittany ;
Isabelle of Hainaut, Wife of Philippe II, King of France ;
Isabelle of Longchamp, Sister of Louis IX ;
Isabetta di Luigi of Perugia, Mystic ;
Iseult (Literary Figure) ;
Isidore of Seville, Theologian- Etymologiae ;
Isidorus of Sevilla SEE Isidore of Seville ;
Islam ;
Isle of Ladies, Middle English Satire ;
Iso of St. Gall, Monk ;
Isolde (Literary Figure) ;
Isolt SEE Iseult (Literary Figure) ;
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey- Chora Monastery- Kariye Camii Church ;
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey- Monastery Church Founded by Constantine Lips- Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey- Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus ;
Istorietta Amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Ippolito Bondelmonti, Italian Novella ;
Isucan, Irish Poem ;
Ita, Saint ;
Italian Language ;
Itinerarium Peregrinorium, Chonicle of the Third Crusade ;
Ivetta of Huy SEE Yvette of Huy, Anchoress ;
Ivo, Bishop of Chartres ;
Ivo, Bishop of Chartres- Letters ;
Ivories ;
Ivory SEE Ivories ;
Izumi Shikibu, Poet ;

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J. Paul Getty Museum ;
Jacob of Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa- Legenda Aurea ;
Jacob of Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa- Legenda Aurea- Huntington Library HM 3027 ;
Jacobs, Bertha SEE Bertken, Suster, Mystic ;
Jacopo da Varagine SEE Jacob of Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa ;
Jacopone da Todi, Poet ;
Jacqueline de Hacqueville, Possibly a Lady-in-Waiting at the French court or the Daughter of a Wealthy Cloth Merchant, Who Wrote Poems/Songs to Antoine Busnoys - Ja que Lui ne Pour les Biens ;
Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal ;
Jacques Legrand, Augustinian Hermit- Livre de Bonnes Meurs ;
Jalousie (Literary Figure) ;
Jan van Eyck, Painter- Annunciation ;
Jankyn (Literary Figure) ;
Januarie (Literary Figure) ;
Japanese Literature ;
Jauchelette, Brabant, Belgium- Convent of la Ramee ;
Jaume I, King of Aragon ;
Jealousy in Literature ;
Jean d'Arras, Author ;
Jean d'Arras, Author- Roman de Melusine ;
Jean d'Aulon, Bodyguard of Joan of Arc ;
Jean de Burgogne, Count d'Etampes ;
Jean de Meun, Poet- Roman de la Rose ;
Jean de Meun, Poet- Roman de la Rose- Illuminations of ;
Jean de Meung SEE Jean de Meun ;
Jean de Montreuil, Author ;
Jean, Duke of Berry ;
Jean Le Fevre, Poet- Lamentations de Matheolus ;
Jean Le Fevre, Poet- Livre de Leesce ;
Jean le Viste, President of the Cours des Aides and Commissioner of the Dame a la Licorne Series ;
Jean Maillart, Royal Secretary- Roman du Comte d'Anjou ;
Jean Pucelle, Illuminator ;
Jean Sans Peur, Duke of Burgundy ;
Jeanne d' Arc SEE Joan of Arc, Saint ;
Jeanne d' Evreux, Queen- Consort of Charles IV of France ;
Jeanne de Bourgogne, Queen- Consort of Philippe V le Long, King of France ;
Jeanne de Laval, Wife of Rene I d' Anjou, King of Naples ;
Jeanne de Navarre, Wife of Philippe IV, King of France ;
Jeanne I d'Anjou, Queen of Naples ;
Jeanne of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders ;
Jeanne, Queen of Naples and Countess of Provence ;
Jefimija, Wife of Jovan Ugljesa, Ruler of Serbia ;
Jelena, Empress of Serbia ;
Jephthah's Daughter (Biblical Figure) ;
Jephthah's Daughter (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Jerome, Theologian and Saint ;
Jerome, Theologian, Saint- Adversus Jovinianum ;
Jerusalem, Israel/West Bank ;
Jerusalem, Kingdom of ;
Jesse Tree ;
Jesus Christ ;
Jesus Christ as Mother ;
Jesus Christ as Mother SEE ALSO God the Father as Mother Jesus Christ- Birth ;
Jesus Christ- Descent into Hell ;
Jesus Christ- Genitals of in Art ;
Jesus Christ- Humanity of ;
Jesus Christ, Imitation of ;
Jesus Christ, Imitation of in Art ;
Jesus Christ in Art ;
Jesus Christ in Literature ;
Jesus Christ- Infancy ;
Jesus Christ- Passion ;
Jesus Christ- Passion in Art ;
Jesus Christ- Passion in Literature ;
Jesus Christ- Wounds ;
Jeu d'Adam, Anglo Norman Play ;
Jeux- Partis, Literary Genre ;
Jewelry ;
Jewish Law ;
Jews ;
Jews in Literature; Jezebel, Image of ;
Jezebel, Latin Poem ;
Joachim of Fiore, Theologian ;
Joan, Daughter of Eustace le Seler ;
Joan, Legendary Pope in Literature ;
Joan, Master, Physician, and Author- Trotula ;
Joan of Arc, Saint ;
Joan of Arc, Saint in Film ;
Joan of Arc, Saint in Literature ;
Joan of Kent, Princess of Wales, Wife of Edward the Black Prince ;
Joan of Navarre, Wife of Henry IV, King of England ;
Job Hunting ;
Johan Rodriguez, Musician ;
Johanna of Rozmital, Wife of George Podebrady, King of Bohemia ;
John Marienwerder, Canon and Confessor to Dorothea of Montau ;
John of Freiburg, Dominican Friar- Confessionale ;
John of Garland, Author- Stella Maris ;
John of St. Davids, Poet- Ef A Wnaeth Panthon ;
John of St. Davids, Poet- Goruchel Duw Golochir Ympob Va ;
John the Baptist, Saint- Birth ;
John VII, Pope ;
Joie (Literary Figure) ;
Jonah (Biblical Figure) ;
Jonas of Orleans, Bishop- De Institutione Laicali ;
Jonathan (Biblical Figure) ;
Jones, David, Artist- Four Queens of 1941 ;
Jordan of Saxony, Dominican ;
Jordanus von Sachsen SEE Jordan of Saxony, Dominican Master General ;
Joseph, Saint ;
Joseph, Saint as Mother ;
Joseph, Saint in Art ;
Joseph, Saint in Literature ;
Josephus, Flavius, Jewish Historian- Antiquitates Judaicae ;
Josian (Literary Figure) ;
Josquin de Pres SEE Josquin Desprez ;
Josquin Desprez, Composer ;
Joufroi de Poitiers, Poem ;
Joy ;
Juan II, King of Navarre ;
Juan de Flores, Author- Coronacion de la Senora Gracisla ;
Juan de Flores, Author- Cronica Incompleta de los Reyes Catolicos ;
Juan de Flores, Author- Grimalte y Gradissa ;
Juan Gil de Zamora, Author ;
Juan Manuel, Infante Don, Author- Conde Lucanor ;
Juana, Wife of Enrique IV, King of Castile, and Sister of Alfonso V, King of Portugal ;
Jubilee Years ;
Judah ben Salomo ha-Cohen Ibn Matqu, Author- Midrash ha-Hokhma (The Exposition of Science) ;
Judaism ;
Judaizers ;
Judgement of Paris (Mythological Figure) ;
Judges ;
Judith (Biblical Figure) ;
Judith (Biblical Figure), Image of ;
Judith (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Judith, Countess of Flanders ;
Judith, Old English Poem ;
Judith, Queen Consort of Aethelwulf, King of the West Saxons ;
Juette of Huy, Saint SEE Yvette of Huy, Anchoress ;
Jugando Estaba el Rey Moro, Spanish Frontier Ballad ;
Julian of Norwich, Mystic ;
Julian of Norwich, Mystic- Revelations of Divine Love ;
Juliana, Martyr, Saint ;
Juliana, Martyr, Saint in Literature ;
Juliana of Mont Cornillon ;
Juliana of Nicomedia, Saint ;
Juliana of Warwick, Chamberlain to Matilda de Percy, Countess of Warwick, and Wife of Nigel of Plumpton, a Yorkshire Knight ;
Juliana, Old English Poem ;
Juliene, Saint SEE Juliana, Martyr, Saint ;
Jung, Carl Gustav, Psychiatrist (1875-1961) ;
Junto al Vado de Xenil, Spanish Frontier Ballad ;
Jury ;
Jus Primae Noctis, Legal Principle ;
Justice of Trajan (Literary Topos) in Art ;
Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor ;
Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor in Art ;
Jutes ;
Jutt of Huy SEE Yvette of Huy, Anchoress ;
Jutta von Sponheim, Recluse, Saint ;
Juvenal, Ancient Poet ;

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Kabbalah, Jewish Theosophic Movement ;
Kaiserchronik, Early Middle High German Chronicle ;
Kalliope, Literary Figure ;
Kassia, Poet ;
Kassiane SEE Kassia, Poet ;
Katherine Group, Middle English Hagiographical Works ;
Katherine Group SEE ALSO Names of Individual Works and Saints Whose Lives Are Included in the Group: Hali Meidenhad ;
Sawles Warde ;
Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint ;
Juliana, Martyr, Saint ;
and Margaret of Antioch, Saint ;
Katherine, Saint SEE Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint ;
Katillus Thornberni, Brigittine Brother- Letters ;
Kaufringer, Heinrich- Literature- Verse ;
Kempe, Margery, Mystic ;
Kempe, Margery, Mystic- Book of Margery Kempe ;
Kennings, Figure of Speech ;
Keonwald, Bishop of Worcester ;
Kerr, Katharine, Science Fiction and Fantasy Novelist (1944- ) ;
Ketubbah, Jewish Women's Marriage Portion ;
Khayal Motif (A Vision of the Beloved Woman Seen by the Poet in His Dreams) ;
Kidnapping ;
Kilculliheen, Waterford, Ireland- Augustinian Convent for Women ;
King Horn, Middle English Romance ;
King, Margot H., Religion Historian (1934- ) ;
King of France ;
King of Tars, Romance ;
Kings ;
Kings in Art ;
Kings in Literature ;
King's Lynn, Norfolk, England ;
Kingship ;
Kinship SEE Family ;
Kisses in Literature ;
Klaeber, Frederick, Philologist (1863-1954) ;
Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk, German Prose Narrative of the Childhood of Christ ;
Knight, Image of ;
Knight (Literary Figure) ;
Knights ;
Knights in Art ;
Knights in Literature ;
Knowledge ;
Komnena, Anna, Historian ;
Komnena, Anna, Historian- Alexiad ;
Komnene, Anna, Historian SEE Komnena, Anna, Historian ;
Komnenian Dynasty ;
Konigsfelden, Aargau, Switzerland- Franciscan Double Monastery- Church- Eastern Choir and Western Gallery ;
Konrad II, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Konrad von Wurzburg, Poet ;
Konstantinos Hermionakos, Poet ;
Kontakion, Literary Genre ;
Koran SEE Qur'an ;
Kormaks Saga ;
Kottanner, Helene, Attendant to Elizabeth of Luxemburg and Author- Denkwurdigkeiten der Helene Kottanner ;
Kramer, Heinrich, Inquisitor and Jacob Sprenger, Preacher- Malleus Maleficarum ;
Kreupel Margriet SEE Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg, Recluse ;
Kriemhild (Literary Figure) ;
Kristeva, Julia, Theorist (1941- ) ;
Kroeupel Margreit, Hermit ;
Kublai Khan, Mongol Ruler of China ;
Kudrun, Middle High German Epic ;
Kunigunde, Dutchess of Poland and Nun ;
Kyteler, Alice, Wealthy Businesswoman ;

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La Chaise-Dieu, Haute-Loire, France- Abbey for Benedictine Monks ;
La Sauve Majeure, Gironde, France- Monastery- Carved Corbel ;
Labalme, Patricia, Historian (1927-2002) ;
Lacan, Jacques, Psychoanalyst (1901-1981) ;
Lacnunga, Old English Collection of Medical Remedies ;
Ladern- sur- Lauquet, Aude, France- Monastery of Rieunette, a Cistercian House for Women ;
Ladies-in-Waiting ;
Lady Meed (Literary Figure) ;
Lady of Hochfelden, Tomb of a Hunnish Woman Whose Skeleton Gives Evidence of Extensive Horseback Riding ;
Lady of the Lake (Literary Figure) ;
Lafontaine-Dosogne, Jacquline, Art Historian (1928-1994) ;
Lagorio, Valerie M., Literary Historian (1925- ) ;
Lai du Trot, French Verse Tale ;
Lais, Literary Genre ;
Lament, Literary Genre ;
Lament of the Caillech Berre SEE Aithbe Damsa ;
Lamprecht von Regensburg, Author ;
Lancelot, French Romance ;
Lancelot (Literary Figure) ;
Lancelot en Prose, Romance ;
Land Tenure ;
Landais, Indre, France ;
Landry, Chevalier de la Tour, Author ;
Langland, William, Poet- Piers Plowman ;
Langland, William, Poet- Piers Plowman- Passus 9 ;
Language ;
Language (Forms of Addressing Women) ;
Languedoc ;
Lantfrid and Cobbo, Latin Poem ;
Lapo da Castiglionchio, Humanist- De Commodes Curiae ;
Latin Language ;
Latin Literature ;
Latin Poetry ;
Laudatory Literature ;
Laudine (Literary Figure) ;
Laughter ;
Laughter in Literature ;
Laura (Literary Figure) ;
Lauzengiers (Jealous, Slandering Courtiers in Troubadour Verse) ;
Lavain (Literary Figure) ;
Lavine (Literary Figure) ;
Law ;
Law Enforcement ;
Law in Literature ;
Law- Language ;
Law of Women, Welsh Law Book ;
Laxdaela Saga SEE Laxdaoela Saga ;
Laxdaoela Saga ;
Lay le Freine, Middle English Romance ;
Lay Piety ;
Lay Piety in Literature ;
Layamon, Poet- Brut ;
Layla Al-Akhyaliyyah, Muslim Poet ;
Le Irish, Jack, Anglo-Irish Soldier and Yeoman of the Royal English Household ;
Leadership ;
Learning and Scholarship ;
Leather ;
Lectio Divina Leechbook, Old English Collection of Medical Remedies ;
Leechbook III, Old English Collection of Medical Remedies ;
LeFranc, Martin, Poet- Champion des Dames Legal Guardians SEE Guardians ;
Legend of Orihuela ;
Leges Visigothorum, Visigothic Law Code ;
Legitimation ;
Leizla Rannveigar [Rannveig's Vision] ;
Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor- Novelles ;
Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor- Procheiron ;
Leo da Perego, Franciscan Friar ;
Leo the Philosopher, Author ;
Leoba, Abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, Saint ;
Leon (Kingdom) ;
Leon Megistos, Poet ;
Leonardo de Laserrata, Priest Accused of Sodomy ;
Leonardo da Vinci, Humanist- Medusa ;
Leonardo da Vinci, Humanist- Virgin of the Rocks ;
Leonessa, Italy- Monastery of Santa Lucia ;
Leoninus, Canon and Poet ;
Leonor de Acuna, Daughter of Juan de Acuna y de Portugal, Duke of Valencia ;
Leonor of England, Queen-Consort of Alfonso VIII of Castile ;
Leprosy ;
Les Douze Dames de Rhetorique, Literary Collection of Letters, Allegory, and Emblems ;
Lesbian-Like as a Category ;
Lesbians ;
Lesbians in Literature ;
Letter of Prester John, Italian Translation ;
Letters ;
Letters in Literature ;
Letters of Recommendation ;
Levaldini, Lisetta de (Literary Figure) ;
Lex Innocentium ;
Lex Salica (Legal Text in Latin) ;
Leyrwite, Fine on Peasant Women for Sexual Misdemeanors ;
Li Baus Descouneus SEE Renaut de Beaujeu, Poet- Le Bel Inconnu ;
Libel and Slander ;
Liber de Causis, Pseudo- Aristotelian Work ;
Liber de Modo Bene Vivendi ad Sororem, Latin Handbook for Nuns ;
Liber Divisionis ;
Liber Eliensis, Chronicle ;
Liber Gomorrhianus SEE Book of Gomorrah ;
Liber Historiae Francorum, Chronicle ;
Liber Miraculorum, Devotional Work ;
Liber Sancti Iacobi, Liturgical Book ;
Libraries, Medieval ;
Libro SEE Catherine of Siena, Saint - Dialogo ;
Libro del Arcipreste SEE Libro de Buen Amor ;
Libro del Caballero Zifar, Romance ;
Libro della Divina Dottrina SEE Catherine of Siena, Saint- Dialogo ;
Lichfield, Stafford, England ;
Lieb und Leid, Alliterating Word Pair ;
Liege ;
Lienor (Literary Figure) ;
Life Cycle ;
Life Expectancy ;
Light ;
Liguria ;
Lille, Nord, France ;
Lincolnshire, England ;
Lineage SEE Genealogy ;
Linen ;
Linguistics ;
Lioba SEE Leoba, Abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, Saint ;
Lippi, Filippino, Painter ;
Listening ;
Listserves SEE Electronic Discussion Groups ;
Literacy ;
Literacy SEE ALSO Readers ;
Literacy SEE ALSO Writing ;
Literalism ;
Literary Contests ;
Literary Criticism ;
Literary Criticism SEE Criticism ;
Literary Criticism, Medieval ;
Literary Critics ;
Literary Critics SEE Critics ;
Literary Form SEE Literary Genres ;
Literary Genres ;
Literary Historians ;
Literary Theory SEE Literature-Theory ;
Literature ;
Literature- Canon ;
Literature- Drama ;
Literature- History and Criticism ;
Literature- Prose ;
Literature- Reception ;
Literature- Study and Teaching ;
Literature- Theory ;
Literature- Verse ;
Lithuania ;
Litters ;
Little Office of the Virgin ;
Liturgical Books ;
Liturgical Books SEE ALSO Liturgy ;
Liturgical Drama ;
Liturgical Vestments SEE Ecclesiastical Vestments ;
Liturgy ;
Liturgy- Offices ;
Liturgy SEE ALSO Liturgical Books ;
Liturgy- Sequences ;
Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, Son of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Liutbirg, Saint ;
Livre des Fais du Bon Messire Jehan le Maingre Dit Bouciquaut, Chronicle ;
Llewelyn ap Iowerth, Prince of Wales ;
Llull, Ramon, Theologian- Book of the Lover and the Beloved ;
Llull, Ramon, Theologian- Doctrine d'Enfant ;
Llull, Raymond SEE Llull, Ramon ;
Llywarch Hen Cycle- Heledd Poems, Welsh Poetic Cycle ;
Loano, Savona, Italy- Monastery of San Giovanni ;
Loathly Lady (Literary Figure) ;
Loenge des Bonnes Femmes, French Poem ;
Logic ;
Lollard Movement ;
Lollard Movement in Literature ;
Lombardo, Pietro, Sculptor- Madonna and Child ;
Lombards ;
London ;
London, England ;
Long Distance Trade SEE International Trade ;
Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire, England ;
Lopez de Mendoza, Inigo, Marques de Santillana, Poet- Serranillas ;
Lord, Image of ;
Lordship ;
Lorenzetti, Pietro, Painter ;
Lorenzetti, Pietro, Painter- Humility Polyptych ;
Lorenzetti, Pietro, Painter- Virgin and Child with Saints (Arezzo Polyptych) ;
Lorenzo Giacomini, Dominican and Hagiographer ;
Lothar Crystal ;
Lothar II, King of Lotharingia ;
Louis de Male, Count of Flanders ;
Louis, Duke of Orleans ;
Louis II, Duke of Bourbon ;
Louis III, King of West Francia ;
Louis IX, King of France, Saint ;
Louise of Savoie, Wife of Charles d'Orleans, Count of Angouleme ;
Love ;
Love- Maternal ;
Love- Religious Aspects ;
Love Charms ;
Love in Art ;
Love in Literature ;
Love in Music ;
Love Letters ;
Lovesickness ;
Lucca, Lucca, Italy ;
Lucilla, Martyr, Saint ;
Lucina, Aristocratic Matron (Literary Figure) ;
Lucrece (Ancient Figure) ;
Lucretia (Ancient Figure) ;
Lucy, Saint ;
Luitprand, Bishop of Cremona ;
Luitprand, Bishop of Cremona- Antapodosis ;
Luke, Apostle and Saint ;
Luke, Evangelist and Saint as Painter ;
Lunete (Literary Figure) ;
Lupi, Margareta, Daughter of Corradino Lupi, an Agent of the Condottiere Bonifacio Lupi ;
Lupo di Francesco, Sculptor ;
Lutgard, Saint ;
Lutgardis of Aywieres, Saint SEE Lutgard, Saint ;
Luxuria ;
Luxuria (Latin: Sexual Pleasure) ;
Luxury Trade ;
Lyarde, Middle English Comic Poem ;
Lydgate, John, Poet ;
Lydgate, John, Poet- Fabula Duorum Mercatorum ;
Lydgate, John, Poet- Isopes Fabules ;
Lydgate, John, Poet- Life of Our Lady ;
Lydgate, John, Poet- Reson and Sensuallyte ;
Lyf of Saint Katharin of Senis the Blessed Virgin, a Middle English Translation of Raymond of Capua's Legenda Major ;

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Maastrichter Passion Play ;
Mabinogion, Welsh Collection of Tales ;
Mabinogion, Welsh Collection of Tales- First Branch- Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed ;
Mabinogion, Welsh Collection of Tales- Four Branches ;
MacCarthy, Eleanor, Lady, Wife of Sir Donal McCarthy, Lord of Carbery ;
Machiavelli, Niccolo, Political Theorist- Discourses ;
Machiavelli, Niccolo, Political Theorist- Estratto di Lettere al Dieci di Balia- Post Mortem Cosimi ;
Machiavelli, Niccolo, Political Theorist- Florentine Histories ;
Madame Marie, Owner of a Devotional Picture Book ;
Maddalena di Sicilia, a Nun Who Contested Her Marriage to Giorgio Zaccarotto ;
Madelberta of Maubeuge, Saint ;
Madness SEE Mental Illness ;
Madog ap Gwallter, Franciscan Friar and Author- Mab a'n Rhodded [A Son was Given] ;
Madonna ;
Madonna, Figure in Art ;
Madonna Lactans (Artistic Motif) ;
Madonna of the Firescreen- Attributed to a Follower of Robert Campin, Possibly the Master of the Merode Triptych ;
Maeren SEE Maren, Literary Genre ;
Magic ;
Magic in Literature ;
Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History ;
Magnificat ;
Mahmals SEE Litters ;
Maidstone, Richard, Carmelite Friar- Concordia Facta Inter Regem Riccardum II et Civitatem Londonie ;
Maine, France ;
Makouraino, Female Archer ;
Malatesta, Annalena, Wife of Baldaccio Anguillara d'Anghiari and, as a Devout Widow, Founder of the Annalena Convent ;
Malatesta, Cleopa, Wife of Theodore Palaiologos, Despot of Morea ;
Male Adolescents ;
Male Authority ;
Male Authors ;
Male Friendship ;
Male Friendship in Literature ;
Male Menstruation ;
Male Monasticism SEE Monks ;
Male Pregnancy ;
Male Sexuality ;
Male Sexuality in Literature ;
Male Virginity ;
Malmariees (French: Wives Married to Cruel Husbands) ;
Malory, Sir Thomas, Author ;
Malory, Sir Thomas, Author- Morte Darthur ;
Mamluks, Egyptian Dynasty ;
Man in Black (Literary Figure) ;
Manciple (Literary Figure) ;
Manere of Good Lyvyng, Middle English Translation of the Devotional Text, Liber de Modo Bene Vivendi ad Sororem ;
Mankind, Middle English Play ;
Man of Law (Literary Figure) ;
Man Man Relationships ;
Man Woman Relationships ;
Man Woman Relationships in Literature ;
Mangana Poems ;
Manganeios Prodromos SEE Mangana Poems ;
Manly, John Matthews, Literary Historian (1865-1940) ;
Manors ;
Mantegna, Andrea, Painter- Pallas Expelling the Vices From the Garden of Virtue ;
Manuel, Infante of Castile, Brother of Alfonso X, el Sabio ;
Manuscripts ;
Manuscripts in Art ;
Manuscripts- Commission of ;
Manuscripts- Ownership of ;
Manuscripts- Production ;
Mara Brankovic, A Wife of Murad II, Ottoman Emperor ;
Marbach, Haut-Rhin, France- Augustinian House of Male Canons ;
Marbod, Bishop of Rennes ;
Marburg an der Lahn, Hesse, Germany- Church of St. Elisabeth. Marc, King SEE Mark, King (Literary Figure) ;
Marcabru, Troubadour ;
Marcabru, Troubadour- L'Autrier Jost' una Sebissa ;
Marcella, Widow and Biblical Scholar ;
Marcellina, Virgin ;
Marchiennes, Nord, France - Benedictine Double House ;
Marcigny, Saone-et-Loire, France- Monastery for Women ;
Maren, Literary Genre ;
Margaret Colonna ;
Margaret de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln ;
Margaret of Anjou, Wife of Henry VI, King of England ;
Margaret of Antioch, Saint ;
Margaret of Antioch, Saint in Art ;
Margaret of Antioch, Saint in Literature ;
Margaret of Citta di Castello, Dominican Tertiary ;
Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan Penitent, and Saint ;
Margaret of Hungary, Princess and Dominican Nun ;
Margaret of Hungary, Princess, Dominican Nun, and Saint ;
Margaret of Provence, Queen of Louis IX of France ;
Margaret of Scotland, Wife of Louis XI, King of France ;
Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Saint ;
Margaret Stuart SEE Margaret of Scotland, Wife of Louis XI, King of France Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg, Recluse ;
Margaretha von Ebner SEE Ebner, Margaretha ;
Margarethe von Schwangau, wife of Oswald von Wolkenstein ;
Margherita da Citta di Castello SEE Margaret of Citta di Castelo, Dominican Tertiary ;
Margherita da Cortona SEE Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan Penitent and Saint ;
Margherita Lambertenghi ;
Margherita of Faenza, Abbess ;
Monasticism ;
Marginalia ;
Marginality ;
Marguerite d'Ecosse SEE Margaret of Scotland, Wife of Louis XI, King of France Marguerite d'Oingt, Author ;
Marguerite d'Oingt, Poet ;
Marguerite of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders ;
Marguerite Porete, Mystic ;
Marguerite Porete, Mystic- Miroir des Simples Ames ;
Maria (Forename) ;
Maria, Wife of Konstantin V ;
Maria de Ajofr’n, Beata and Mystic ;
Maria Lekapana, Wife of Peter, Tsar of Bulgaria ;
Maria of Alania, Wife of Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Maria of Castile, Queen-Consort of Alfons V el Magnanimo, King of Aragon ;
Maria of Jerusalem, Popular Tale of a Mother Who Ate Her Own Infant During a Siege ;
Maria of Pozzuoli, Female Soldier ;
Maria of Venice SEE Sturion, Maria ;
Maria Regina, Iconographic Type ;
Marie, Countess of Champagne ;
Marie de Beaumont de Meulan, Wife of Hugues de Talbot, Lord of Cleuville ;
Marie de Bretagne, Wife of Gui IV de Chatillon, Count of St. Pol ;
Marie de France, Poet ;
Marie de France, Poet- Espurgatoire Seint Patriz ;
Marie de France, Poet- Fables ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Bisclavret ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Chaitivel ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Chievrefoil ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Deus Amanz ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Eliduc ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Equitan ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Fresne ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Guigemar ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Lanval ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Laustic ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Milun ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Prologue ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Yonec ;
Marie de Rethel, Wife of Wautier d'Enghien ;
Marie d'Oignies, Mystic ;
Marie of Antioch, Wife of Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Marie of Bourbon, Princess of Morea-Achaia and Titular Latin Empress of Constantinople, Wife of Guy de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, and Robert, Prince of Tarento ;
Marie of Brabant , Queen-Consort of Philippe III, King of France ;
Marienstern, Sachsen, Germany- Cistercian House for Women ;
Marina of Antioch, Saint ;
Marina of Scanio, Saint ;
Marino de Perugia, Artist- Dominican Choir Book- Historical Initial for the Office of the Feast of the Assumption ;
Maritagium (Latin: Dowry from the Bride's Family) ;
Marital Affection ;
Marital Separations ;
Mark, King (Literary Figure) ;
Marquard von Stein, Translator of the Buch der Ritter vom Turn (Written by the Chevalier de la Tour Landry) ;
Marriage ;
Marriage- Annulment ;
Marriage- Clandestine ;
Marriage- Contested ;
Marriage- Forced in Literature ;
Marriage Contracts ;
Marriage Debt SEE Conjugal Debt ;
Marriage, Image of ;
Marriage in Art ;
Marriage in Literature ;
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, France ;
Martha and Mary (Biblical Figures) ;
Martha of Bethany, Saint (Biblical Figure) ;
Martin V, Pope ;
Martin of Tours, Saint ;
Martinez de Toledo, Alfonso, Author- Aripreste de Talavera ;
Martini, Neria, Bride Who Contested Her Marriage to Giacobi Baldassino ;
Martino I, (the "Younger"), King of Sicily ;
Martyrs ;
Martyrs in Art ;
Martyrs in Literature ;
Marxist Literary Theory ;
Mary Magdalene, Saint ;
Mary Magdalene, Saint- Cult ;
Mary Magdalene, Saint in Art ;
Mary Magdalene, Saint in Literature ;
Mary, Mother of Jesus ;
Mary of Egypt, Saint ;
Mary of Egypt, Saint in Art ;
Mary of Egypt, Saint in Literature ;
Mary of Hungary, Wife of Charles II of Anjou ;
Mary of Oignies SEE Marie d'Oignies ;
Mary, Queen of Hungary and Wife of Sigismund of Luxemburg ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint ;
Mary, Virgin , Saint SEE ALSO Maryam, Mother of Isa (Jesus) in the Qur'an ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint and Child in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation in Literature ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint as Blachernitissa (Of the Blachernai (One of the most Prominent Marian Churches in Constantinople)) ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint as Madonna del Soccorso, a Club-Wielding Figure Who Saves Children from the Devil ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint as Reader ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint as the Virgin Hodegetria, Named for the Famous Icon of the Virgin Believed to Have Been Painted by Saint Luke ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Assumption in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Assumption in Music ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Birth in Literature ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Coronation in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Coronation in Literature ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Cult ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Dormition ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Dormition in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Dormition in Literature ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Image of ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Image of - Orans Virgin with Christ Child Medallion ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint in Literature ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint in Music ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Purification SEE ALSO Candlemas ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Purification in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Purification in Literature ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Veil of ;
Maryam, Mother of Isa (Jesus) in the Qur'an ;
Maryam, Mother of Isa (Jesus) in the Qur'an SEE ALSO Mary, Virgin, Saint ;
Masculinity ;
Masculinity in Art ;
Masculinity in Film ;
Masculinity in Literature ;
Masculinization ;
Maso di Banco, Painter ;
Mass ;
Massacio, Painter- Expulsion from the Garden of Eden ;
Massacre of the Innocents ;
Master of Flemalle, Painter SEE Robert Campin [No cross ref in Feminae necessary] ;
Master of the Andre Madonna, Painter ;
Master of the Bartholomew Altar, Painter- Deposition ;
Master of the Franciscan Temperas- Four Paintings on Canvas- Madonna and Child with Saints Clare and Mary Magdalene and the Annunciation, Crucifixion, Stigmatization of St. Francis, and Flagellation ;
Master of the St. Ursula Legend, Painter- Virgin and Child with St. Anne Presenting a Woman (Identified as Anna de Blasere, Wife of Jan van Nieuwenhove) ;
Masturbation ;
Masturbation in Literature ;
Matchmakers in Literature ;
Matchmaking SEE Matchmakers ;
Matelda, (Literary Figure) ;
Matellica, Italy- Monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena ;
Material Culture ;
Maternal Imagery SEE Mother, Image of ;
Mathewson, Jeanne T., Literary Historian (1925-1992) ;
Mathilda of Flanders, Wife of William I, King of England ;
Mathilda, Countess of Tuscany ;
Mathilda SEE ALSO Matilda ;
Mathilde, daughter of Beatrix of Canossa ;
Mathilde, Wife of Heinrich I, King of Germany ;
Mathilde, Wife of Henry I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Matilda of Canossa SEE Matilda, Countess of Tuscany ;
Matilda of Scotland, Queen- Consort of Henry I of England ;
Matilda, Abbess of Essen ;
Matilda, Abbess of the Abbey of La Trinite, Caen ;
Matilda, Countess of Tuscany ;
Matilda the Empress, Queen of England ;
Matriarchy ;
Matrilineage ;
Matthew of Boulogne ;
Matthew of Vendome SEE Matthieu de Vendome ;
Matthieu de Vendome, Poet- Ars Versificatoria ;
Mattiotti, Giovanni, Hagiographer ;
Matzli Ruerenzumph (Literary Figure) ;
Mauss, Marcel, Sociologist (1872-1950) - Essay on the Gift ;
Maxims I, Old English Poem ;
Maxims II, Old English Poem ;
May (Literary Figure) ;
Mayors, Administrators of Monastic Estates, and Their Wives ;
Mazzei, Lapo, Notary and Friend of Francesco Datini ;
McGuire, Brian Patrick, Historian (1946- ) ;
McNamara, Jo Ann, Historian (1931- ) ;
Mechain, Gwenful, Female Welsh Poet ;
Mechthild of Hackeborn SEE Mechthild von Hackeborn, Mystic ;
Mechthild von der Pfalz, Wife of Ludwig I of Wurttemberg and Albrecht VI of Austria ;
Mechthild von Hackeborn, Mystic ;
Mechthild von Hackeborn, Mystic- Liber Specialis Gratiae ;
Mechthild von Magdeburg, Mystic ;
Mechthild von Magdeburg, Mystic- Fliessendes Licht der Gottheit ;
Mechtild SEE Mechthild ;
Medea (Literary Figure) ;
Medea (Mythological Figure) ;
Medical Instruments and Apparatus ;
Medical Manuscripts ;
Medical Manuscripts- Ownership of ;
Medici, Florentine Family ;
Medici, Giuliano De', Brother of Lorenzo ("Magnifico") ;
Medici, Giulio De' SEE Clement VII, Pope ;
Medici, Lorenzo ("Magnifico") de' ;
Medici, Piero di Cosimo de' ;
Medicine SEE ALSO Gynecology ;
Medicine SEE ALSO Healers and Healing ;
Medicine SEE ALSO Healing ;
Medicine ;
Medicine in Literature ;
Medieval Feminist Forum, Formerly Medieval Feminist Newsletter ;
Medieval Feminist Index ;
Medieval Feminist Newsletter ;
Medieval Studies ;
Medieval Studies- Study and Teaching ;
Medievalism ;
Medievalists ;
Meditacion Sur la Sollempniteit de l'Apparicion Nostre Seigneur Aus Trois Roys, French Devotional Text ;
Meditation ;
Meditation, Literary Genre ;
Medusa (Mythological Figure) ;
Meeting of Liadain and Cuirithir SEE Comrac Liadain Ocus Cuirithir ;
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan ;
Melibea (Literary Figure) ;
Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem and Wife of King Fulk of Anjou ;
Melusine (Literary Figure) ;
Memling, Hans, Painter- Annunciation ;
Memmo, Girolamo ;
Memmo, Lucia ;
Memorialization ;
Memorialization of the Dead ;
Memory ;
Men and Feminism ;
Menarche ;
Mendicant Orders ;
Menstruation ;
Mental Illness ;
Mentoring ;
Mercenaries ;
Merchants ;
Merchet (Marriage Payment) ;
Merlin, Middle English Prose Romance ;
Merlin, Prophet and Magician (Literary Figure) ;
Mermaids ;
Merode Tryptic, Painting ;
Merovingian Kingdoms ;
Messenger (Literary Type) ;
Messenger or Herald of God's Loving Kindness SEE Legatus Divinae Pietatis ;
Metalwork ;
Metamorphosis SEE Transformation in Literature ;
Metaphor, Literary Device ;
Metel, Hugh, Augustinian Canon of Toul- Letters ;
Methodios, Patriarch of Constantinople ;
Metonymy, Literary Device ;
Metrics ;
Metz, Moselle, France ;
Mexican Americans ;
Mexico ;
Michael III, Byzantine Emperor ;
Michael VII Doukas, Byzantine Emperor ;
Michelet, Jules, Historian (1798-1874) ;
Michitsuna No Haha SEE Fujiwara Michitsuna's Mother ;
Middle Ages- Study and Teaching SEE Medieval Studies ;
Middle Ages in Film ;
Middle Class SEE Bourgeoisie ;
Middle Cornish Interlude, Play ;
Middle English Language ;
Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament- Judyth ;
Middle High German Language ;
Midwives ;
Migration ;
Milan, Milano, Italy ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Cambiago, a Monastery for Women ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Monastery of San Maurizio ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Monastery of San Pietro in Gessate ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Monastery of San Vincenzo ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Monastery of Sant' Orsola ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Monastery of Santa Margerita ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Monastery of Santa Margherita ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Monastery of Santa Maria Valle ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Monastery of Santa Marta ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Monastery of Santa Redegonda ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Sant' Agostino, a Monastery for Women ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Sant' Eustorgio, a Dominican Monastery for Women ;
Milan, Milano, Italy- Santa Maria Maddalena, a Monastery for Women ;
Mildburg, Saint ;
Mildred, Saint SEE Mildrith, Saint ;
Mildrith, Abbess of Minister-in-Thanet, Saint ;
Mildrith, Daughter of Domne Eafe and Abbess of Thanet, Saint, ;
Military History ;
Military History SEE Warfare and Warriors Military Leadership ;
Millau, Aveyron, France ;
Miller (Literary Figure) ;
Milles d'Amiens, Author- Le Prestre et le Chevalier ;
Minne (Literary Motif) ;
Minnelied ;
Minnerede, Literary Genre ;
Minnesang, Literary Genre ;
Minute Francaise, Trial Record of Joan of Arc ;
Miracle la Fille d'un Roy, French Miracle Play ;
Miracles ;
Miracles of Saint Louis, French Text of a Latin Transcript of an Inquest ;
Miracula Inventionis Beate Mylburge Virginis ;
Mirror, Image of ;
Miscarriages ;
Misericordia Maggiore, a Confraternity in Bergamo Devoted Primarily to Charitable Activities ;
Misericords ;
Misogyny ;
Misogyny in Literature ;
Missionaries ;
Mistresses SEE Concubines ;
Mnemonics ;
Mocedades de Rodrigo, Spanish Epic Poem ;
Modesty ;
Modthryth (Literary Figure) ;
Moissac, Tarn-et-Garonne, France- Abbey Church of Saint Pierre- Portal- Luxuria ;
Monaci, Lorenzo, Author- Carmen seu Historia de Carolo II Cognomento Parvo Rege Hungariae ;
Monaco, Lorenzo, Painter- Coronation of the Virgin ;
Monasteries SEE Monasticism Monastic Elections ;
Monastic Enclosure ;
Monastic Rules SEE Regula ;
Monasticism SEE ALSO Active Orders ;
Monasticism SEE ALSO Contemplative Orders ;
Monasticism SEE ALSO Nuns ;
Monasticism ;
Monasticism- Affiliation ;
Monasticism and Debts ;
Monasticism- Endowments ;
Monasticism- Governance ;
Monasticism in Literature ;
Monasticism- Suppression of ;
Mone, Hawise, Lollard ;
Moneta of Cremona, Dominican- Adversus catharos et valdenses libri quinque ;
Money ;
Money in Literature ;
Moneylenders and Moneylending ;
Mongols, People ;
Monks ;
Monks' Chronicles; Monks in Literature ;
Monkton Deverill, Wiltshire, England ;
Monogamy ;
Monsters ;
Monsters in Art ;
Montbaston, Jeanne de, Illuminator and Wife of Richard de Montbaston, a Parisian Book Maker ;
Montefeltro Family ;
Montefiascone, Viterbo, Italy- Cathedral- Vanni Altarpiece, Portrait of Saint Margaret with Panels Narrating Her Life, Painted in the Style of Turino Vanni ;
Montpellier, Herault, France ;
Monza, Milano, Italy- Cathedral- Queen Theodolinda's Chapel ;
Moon, Image of ;
Morality ;
Morality in Film ;
Morality in Literature ;
Morgengabe (Morning Gift) ;
Morold (Literary Figure) ;
Morosini, Elena, Mother of Pietro Bembo, Humanist ;
Morris Dances ;
Mort le Roi Artu, Prose Romance ;
Mortain, Manche, France- Les Blanches, a Cistercian Abbey for Women ;
Mortality SEE ALSO Death ;
Mortality ;
Mortimer Family ;
Mortuary Rolls ;
Mortuary Rolls- De felici obitu Angelusiae virgines, sanctimonialis Fontebraldensis ;
Mosaics ;
Moses (Biblical Figure) ;
Moslems SEE Muslims ;
Motets ;
Mother Folly (Literary Figure) ;
Mother, Image Of ;
Mother, Image of in Art ;
Mother of Guibert of Nogent, Recluse ;
Mother of Lavinia (Literary Figure) ;
Mothers ;
Mothers in Art ;
Mothers in Literature ;
Mothers-in-Law in Literature ;
Mothers SEE ALSO Parents ;
Motion Pictures SEE Film ;
Mount Athos, Makedhonia, Greece ;
Mountains ;
Mourning ;
Mourning in Art ;
Mourning in Literature ;
Mousetraps ;
Movies SEE Film ;
Moving Pictures SEE Film ;
Muktafi, Caliph ;
Mula, Girolamo da, Who Was Unsuccessful in Denying His Marriage to Marietta Soranzo ;
Mulieres Religiosae ;
Multiculturalism ;
Multimedia Systems ;
Mummings ;
Mundualdus SEE Guardians ;
Murasaki Shikibu, Court Lady, Novelist, and Poet- Tale of Genji ;
Murder ;
Murder in Literature ;
Muscovy ;
Music ;
Music and Literature ;
Music- Study and Teaching ;
Musica, One of the Seven Liberal Arts, Personified as a Woman ;
Musicians ;
Muslims SEE ALSO Saracens in Literature ;
Muslims ;
Muslims in Literature ;
My Fair Lady ;
Myroure of Oure Ladye, Devotional Work ;
Mystere d'Adam, Play ;
Mysteries SEE Detective and Mystery Stories ;
Mystery Plays ;
Mysterium (Latin: Mystery, Used by the Author to Mean "The Human Enactment of a Divine Symbol as well as its Manifestation in the Sensory Sphere" (Page 85)) ;
Mystery Plays SEE ALSO Literature- Drama ;
Mystery Plays ;
Mystical Marriage ;
Mystical Marriage SEE Bride of Christ, Image of ;
Mysticism ;
Mysticism SEE Mystics ;
Mystics ;
Mythology ;
Mythology- Celtic ;
Mythology- Classical ;
Mythology- Classical in Art ;
Mythology- Scandinavian ;

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N- Town Plays ;
N- Town Plays- Assumption of Mary ;
N- Town Plays- Trial of Mary and Joseph ;
N'Huc e Madona, Catalan Poem ;
Nahua Indians ;
Names- Epithets ;
Names- Forenames ;
Names- Forenames in Literature ;
Names in Literature ;
Names- Surnames ;
Names Taken by Nuns at Religious Profession ;
Nanna di Neri di Gino Capponi, Wife of Tanai di Francesco de' Nerli, Active in Florence's Communal Government ;
Naples, Napoli, Italy Naples, Napoli, Italy- Monastery of San Gregorio Armeno ;
Naples, Napoli, Italy- Monastery of Santa Chiara ;
Naples, Napoli, Italy- Monastery of Santa Patrizia ;
Naples, Napoli, Italy- Santa Maria Maddalena, a Convent for Repentant Prostitutes ;
Narbonne, Aude, France ;
Narcisse, French Poem ;
Narrative ;
Narrative in Art ;
Narrative SEE ALSO Narrator ;
Narrator ;
Narrator SEE ALSO Narrative ;
National Group ;
National Socialism ;
Nationalism ;
Nativity ;
Natural Philosophy ;
Nature ;
Nature (Literary Figure) ;
Nature in Literature ;
Naumburg,Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany- Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul- Statues of Reglindis, Wife of Hermann, and Uta, Wife of Ekkehard II, in the West Choir, Carved by the Naumburger Meister ;
Nazism SEE National Socialism ;
Near Damascus, Syria- Convent of Saidnaiya- Icon of Our Lady of Saidnaiya ;
Near Droitwich (in the Middle Ages Wych), Worcestershire, England- Westwood Priory ;
Near Michery, Sens, France- La Cour Notre Dame- Cistercian Abbey for Women ;
Neckham, Alexander, Theologian and Author- Meditatio Magistri Alexandri de Magdalena ;
Necromancy ;
Neidhart, Poet ;
Neoplatonism ;
Neri di Bicci, Painter ;
Neri di Bicci, Painter- Coronation of the Virgin ;
Nest ferch Rhys ap Tewdwr, Daughter of Rhys ap Tewdwr, Prince of South Wales, and Concubine of Henry I, King of England ;
Nestor, Monk and Author ;
Netherlands ;
Neuf Preuses SEE Nine Worthy Women ;
Neville of Hornby Hours ;
Newman, Sharan, Mystery Writer (1949-) ;
Ni Dhuibhne, Eilis, Author (1954-) - The Wife of Bath (short story) ;
Nibelungenlied, Middle High German Epic ;
Niccolosa de' Serragli, Wife of Matteo Palmieri, Humanist ;
Nicholas V, Pope ;
Nicknames ;
Nicola di Maestro Antonio d'Ancona, Artist- Madonna and Child with Donor and Saints Leonard, Jerome, John the Baptist, and Francis ;
Nicolaus de Dybin, Grammarian- Declaracio oracionis de beata Dorothea ;
Nicolette (Literary Figure) ;
Nider, Johannes, Dominican Theologian- Formicarius ;
Nightingales in Literature ;
Nilo di Rossano, Saint ;
Nimrod (Biblical Figure) in Literature ;
Nine Worthies SEE Nine Worthy Women ;
Nine Worthy Women (Literary Motif) ;
Nino, Apostle to the Georgians and Saint ;
Nisa Al-Hulafa SEE Gihat Al Aimma Al-Hulafa Min Al-Harair Wa-l-ima ;
Nightingale, Image of ;
Noah's Wife SEE Wife of Noah ;
Nobility ;
Nobility in Literature ;
Noble Men ;
Noble Men in Literature ;
Noble Women ;
Noble Women in Literature ;
Noble Women- Titles ;
Nobles SEE Noble Men or Noble Women or Nobility ;
Nocturnal Emissions ;
Nogarola, Angela, Humanist Poet ;
Nogarola, Isotta, Humanist ;
Nogarola, Isotta, Humanist- De Pari Aut Impari Evae Atque Adae Peccato ;
Nogorolo, Leonardo, Author ;
Non SEE Nonita, Saint, Mother of Saint David of Wales ;
Nonita, Saint, Mother of Saint David of Wales ;
Nonna SEE Nonita, Saint, Mother of Saint David of Wales ;
Nonnita SEE Nonita, Saint, Mother of Saint David of Wales ;
Norfolk, England ;
Norman Conquest of England (1066) ;
Normandy ;
Normans ;
Norse Studies SEE Scandinavian Studies ;
North Carolina Research Group on Medieval and Early Modern Women ;
Northern Metrical Version, Middle English Version of the Regula of St. Benedict ;
Northern Prose Version, Middle English Version of the Regula of Saint Benedict ;
Northumbria ;
Norway ;
Norwich, Norfolk, England ;
Noses ;
Nossage-et-Benevent, Hautes-Alpes, France- Cluniac Priory for Women ;
Notaries ;
Nothingness ;
Notre-Dame de la Charite SEE Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France- Abbey of Ronceray ;
Novella, Literary Genre ;
Novelle, Literary Genre ;
Noys (Literary Figure) ;
Nude in Art ;
Nude in Literature ;
Nudity SEE Nude ;
Nujeymah, Captain of the Female Archers from Ghana ;
Number- Symbolism SEE Numerology ;
Numerical Composition ;
Numerology in Literature ;
Numismatics SEE Coins ;
Nuns ;
Nuns SEE ALSO Active Orders ;
Nuns SEE ALSO Comtemplative Orders ;
Nuns SEE ALSO Monasticism ;
Nuns- Compelled to Take Vows ;
Nuns in Literature ;
Nuptial Imagery SEE Bride, Image of ;
Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany- Convent of St. Catherine, a Dominican Women's House ;
Nurnberg SEE Nuremberg ;
Nurses ;
Nurturing Behavior ;
Nushuz [Arabic: A Woman’s Rebellion against her Husband, or a Husband’s Cruelty towards his Wife] ;
Nutrition ;

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Obedience ;
Obituary Rolls SEE Mortuary Rolls ;
Obizzi, Bartolomea Degli, a Pious Lay Woman ;
Oblates and Oblation (Children Offered to God and the Monastic Life) ;
Oblates of Tor de' Specchi ;
Oblation, Monastic Principle ;
Obrecht, Jacob, Composer- Missa Sicut Spina Rosam ;
Obrecht, Jacob, Composer- Missa Sub Tuum Praesidium ;
Obscenity ;
Obstetrics SEE Childbirth ;
Occitan Language ;
Occitan Literature ;
Occitania ;
Odo, Abbot of Cluny, Saint ;
Odors ;
Oedipus Complex ;
Oedipus (Mythological Figure) ;
Of Three Workings in Man's Soul, Middle English Devotional Work ;
Of Widewhod, Middle English Tract ;
Office Holding ;
Officials ;
Old Age ;
Old Age in Literature ;
Old English Language ;
Old French Language ;
Old Slavonic Language ;
Olga, Princess of Kiev ;
Online Chat Groups SEE Electronic Discussion Groups ;
Ono No Komachi, Poet ;
Openshaw, Kathleen M.J., Art Historian (1944-1995) ;
Optics ;
Orable (Literary Figure) ;
Oral Tradition ;
Orality SEE Oral Tradition ;
Oratories SEE Chapels ;
Oratory SEE Rhetoric ;
Orcherd of Syon, Middle English Devotional Work Based on Liber Divine Doctrine S. Catherine Senensis ;
Ordeals, Judicial ;
Order of Penitents ;
Order of San Damiano SEE Poor Clares Order ;
Orderic Vitalis, Historian Orderic Vitalis, Historian- Historia Ecclesiastica ;
Ordinalia, Medieval Cornish Play ;
Ordination (Latin: Ordinatio, Being Chosen and Consecrated to Take up a Particular Function in the Community) ;
Ordination of Women ;
Ordination of Women SEE ALSO Deaconesses Orgasm ;
Oria, Saint ;
Orientalism ;
Original Sin, Doctrine ;
Orkney ;
Orkneyinga Saga ;
Orphanages ;
Orphans ;
Orpheus (Mythological Figure) ;
Orsini, Clarice SEE Orsini, Claricia, Wife of Lorenzo ("Magnifico") de' Medici ;
Orsini, Claricia, Wife of Lorenzo ("Magnifico") de' Medici ;
Orte, Viterbo, Italy ;
Orthodox Eastern Church ;
Orthodox Eastern Clergy ;
Orthodoxy ;
Orthography and Spelling ;
Orvieto, Orvieto, Italy ;
Osek Lectionary ;
Osenovifsa (Old Slavonic: She Who Overshadows) ;
Osith SEE Osyth, Saint ;
Osteoporosis ;
Oswald von Wolkenstein, Poet ;
Oswald von Wolkenstein, Poet- Frolich so wil Ich aber singen ;
Osyth, Saint ;
Other SEE Outsiders ;
Other World Visions, Literary Genre ;
Otto Guillaume, Count of Burgundy ;
Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Ottonian Dynasty ;
Outsiders in Literature ;
Overing, Gillian, Literary Historian (1952- )- Language, Sign, and Gender in Beowulf ;
Overpopulation ;
Ovid, Ancient Poet ;
Ovid, Ancient Poet- Heroides ;
Ovid, Ancient Poet- Metamorphoses ;
Ovid, Ancient Poet- Metamorphoses- Pyramus and Thisbe ;
Ovid, Ancient Poet- Remedia Amoris ;
Ovide Moralise, French Poem ;
Owein, Middle Welsh Romance ;

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Paden, William D., Jr. , Literary Historian (1941- ) ;
Padova SEE Padua ;
Padua, Padova, Italy- Santa Giustina, Benedictine Congregation ;
Padua, Padua, Italy ;
Padua, Padua, Italy- Arena Chapel- Fresco Cycle ;
Padua, Padua, Italy- Arena Chapel- Fresco Cycle- Early Life of the Virgin ;
Padua, Padua, Italy- Baptistery ;
Padua, Padua, Italy- Baptistery- Frescoes by Giusto de' Menabuoi, Artist ;
Padua, Padua, Italy- Monastery of San Mattia, a House for Women ;
Pagan Influences ;
Pagan Practices SEE Paganism ;
Paganism ;
Pagans in Literature ;
Pageants ;
Pain and Suffering ;
Pain and Suffering in Art ;
Pain and Suffering in Literature ;
Palaces ;
Palaeologus and Variants SEE Palaiologina, Palaiologoi, and Palaiologos ;
Palaiologina, Zoe, Wife of Ivan III, Grand Prince of Moscow ;
Palaiologoi, Byzantine Dynasty ;
Palaiologos, Thomas, Despot of Morea ;
Palanquins SEE Litters ;
Paleography ;
Paleologus and Variants SEE Palaiologina, Palaiologoi, and Palaiologos ;
Palermo, Palermo, Italy ;
Pandarus (Literary Figure) ;
Panegyric SEE Laudatory Literature ;
Pannocchieschi d'Elci, Emilia dei, Abbess ;
Panormita SEE Beccadelli, Antonio, Humanist ;
Papacy ;
Papacy- Curia ;
Papyrology ;
Paraclete SEE Paraclet ;
Paraskeve, Saint ;
Paraskevi SEE Paraskeve, Saint ;
Pardoner (Literary Figure) ;
Parents ;
Parents SEE ALSO Fathers ;
Parents SEE ALSO Mothers ;
Paris ;
Paris- Quinze-Vingts, Charitable Home for the Blind ;
Paris (Literary Figure) ;
Paris, Gaston, Philologist (1839-1903) ;
Paris, Paulin, Scholar (1800-1881) ;
Parish Guilds ;
Parishes ;
Partimens, Literary Genre ;
Partimens, Literary Genre SEE ALSO Debate, Literary Genre ;
Paschal I, Pope ;
Pasiphae (Mythological Figure) ;
Pasolini, Pier Paolo, Filmmaker (1922-1975)- Decameron ;
Passio Domini Nostri Jhesu Christi, Cornish Play in the Cycle of the Ordinalia ;
Passio of Saints Juliana and Paul ;
Passion Plays ;
Paston, Agnes, Gentry Woman ;
Paston Family ;
Paston, Margaret, Gentry Woman ;
Pastoral SEE Pastourelle, Literary Genre ;
Pastoral Care ;
Pastoral Care- Nuns ;
Pastoral Care SEE ALSO Advice AND Spiritual Care ;
Pastoral Literature ;
Pastorela, Literary Genre ;
Pastourelle, Literary Genre ;
Paternoster ;
Pathos ;
Patience ;
Patience, Middle English Poem ;
Patriarchy ;
Patriarchy in Literature ;
Patrilineage ;
Patrilineage in Literature ;
Patristics ;
Patronage ;
Patronage, Artistic ;
Patronage, Ecclesiastical ;
Patronage, Ecclesiastical SEE ALSO Fund Raising; Patronage, Literary ;
Patronage, Literary SEE ALSO Dedicatees and Dedications ;
Patronage, Musical ;
Paul II, Pope ;
Paul, Saint, Apostle ;
Paul of Naples, Deacon and Author ;
Paul the Deacon, Historian ;
Paul the Deacon, Historian- Historia Langobardorum ;
Paupers SEE Poverty ;
Peace ;
Peace Weavers ;
Pean Gatineau, Canon- Vie Monseignor Saint Martin de Tors ;
Pearl, Image of ;
Pearl, Middle English Poem ;
Pearl Maiden (Literary Figure) ;
Pears ;
Peasantry ;
Peasantry SEE ALSO Serfs ;
Peasants' Revolt in England (1381) ;
Peasants SEE Peasantry ;
Pecock, Reginald, Author and Bishop of Chichester ;
Pedagogy SEE Study and Teaching ;
Pedophilia ;
Pedophilia in Literature ;
Pellegrini, Bianca, Concubine of Pier Maria Rossi ;
Penance ;
Penitential Books SEE ALSO Confessors' Handbooks ;
Penitential Books ;
Penitentials SEE Penitential Books ;
Penitentials SEE Penitential Books and Confessors' Handbooks ;
Penitents ;
Penthesilea (Mythological Figure) ;
Perchta of Rozmberk, Wife of John Lichtenstejn ;
Performance ;
Performance Practice ;
Performance Theory ;
Periodicals SEE Scholarly Journals ;
Periodization ;
Permutacio (Rhetorical Figure) ;
Perpignan, Pyrenees- Orientales, France ;
Perrers, Alice, Mistress of Edward III, King of England ;
Persia ;
Persian Literature ;
Personification ;
Perspective ;
Perugian Crusade ;
Perugino, Pietro, Painter- Assumption of the Virgin ;
Pesaro, Cataruza da, Widow of Marino da Pesaro- Letters ;
Pesaro, Nicoletto da, Brother-in-Law of Cataruza da Pesaro ;
Peter Auriole, Archbishop of Aix ;
Peter Damian, Theologian ;
Peter Damian, Theologian- Book of Gomorrah ;
Peter Damiani SEE Peter Damian, Theologian ;
Peter of Dacia, Dominican Friar ;
Peter of Dusburg, Priest in the Teutonic Order and Author- Chronicon Terrae Prussiae ;
Peter of Florence, Franciscan and Hagiographer ;
Peter of Limoges, Franciscan Author- De Oculo Morali ;
Peterborough Chronicle ;
Petitions ;
Petrarca, Francesco, Poet ;
Petrarca, Francesco, Poet- Africa ;
Petrarca, Francesco, Poet- De Viris Illustribus ;
Petrarca, Francesco, Poet- Epistolae Seniles, Book 17, Letter 3 ;
Petrarca, Francesco, Poet- Familiares ;
Petrarca, Francesco, Poet- Letters ;
Petrarca, Francesco, Poet- Secretum ;
Petrarch SEE Petrarca, Francesco Petronilla, Abbess of Fontevrault ;
Petrus Christus, Painter- Couple in a Goldsmith's Shop ;
Pfitzner, Hans, Opera Composer ;
Philip Alquier of Riez, Franciscan Friar, Confessor to Queen Sancia, and Spiritual Director of the Penitent Prostitutes at Santa Maria Maddalena ;
Philip the Chancellor SEE Philippe le Chancelier ;
Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy ;
Philippe, Abbot of Clairvaux and Author- Vita Elizabeth Sanctimonialis ;
Philippe de Mezieres, Author- Livre De La Vertu Du Sacrement De Mariage Et Du Reconfort Des Dames Mariees ;
Philippe de Novara, Author- Quatre Ages de l'Homme ;
Philippe de Novarre SEE Philippe de Novara ;
Philippe de Remi, Author- Jehan et Blonde ;
Philippe de Remi, Author- Manekine ;
Philippe de Thaon, Poet-Livre de Sibile ;
Philippe IV le Bel, King of France ;
Philippe le Bon SEE Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy ;
Philippe le Chancelier, Theologian- Summa de Bono ;
Philology ;
Philomela (Literary Figure) ;
Philomena (Literary Figure) ;
Philomena, Old French Poem ;
Philosophy ;
Photeine, Saint ;
Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople ;
Phyllis, Lover of Aristotle, in Art ;
Physical Anthropology ;
Physical Deformity in Literature ;
Physicality ;
Physicians ;
Physiognomy ;
Pian di Carpine (Subsequently Magione), Perugia, Italy- Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie- Fresco of Madonna and Child with Angels, Eve, and Francesco Casali ;
Pica, Mother of Francis of Assisi, Saint ;
Picara (Literary Figure) ;
Piccolomini, Aeneas Sylvius SEE Pius II, Pope ;
Piccolomini, Caterina, Sister of Pope Pius II, and Widow of Bartolomeo Guglielmi ;
Pico della Mirandola, Lucrezia, Wife of Gherardo Felice Appiano d'Aragona, Count of Montegano ;
Picture Books ;
Pierre d'Ailly, Cardinal ;
Pietro d'Abano, Scientist ;
Pietro d'Abano, Scientist- Expositio Problematum Aristotelis ;
Pilate's Wife SEE Procula, Dame, Wife of Pontius Pilate (Literary Figure) ;
Pilgrimage ;
Pinzochere SEE Penitents ;
Pisa, Pisa, Italy ;
Pius II, Pope ;
Pius II, Pope- Historia De Duobus Amantibus ;
Place in Literature ;
Plainsong ;
Plantagenets, Dynasty ;
Plants in Literature ;
Platonism ;
Plautus, Ancient Dramatist ;
Plays SEE Literature- Drama ;
Pleasure ;
Poaching ;
Poculum Mortis (Latin: Cup of Death) Topos ;
Poema de Fernan Gonzalez, Spanish Epic ;
Poetic Structure ;
Poetry SEE Literature- Verse ;
Poets ;
Poisoning ;
Poissy, Yvelines, France- Saint Louis, a Dominican Monastery For Nuns ;
Poitiers,Vienne, France-Cathedral of Saint Pierre ;
Poitiers, Vienne, France- Church of Saint Radegunde- Tomb of Radegunde ;
Poitiers, Vienne, France-Convent of the Holy Cross ;
Poitiers, Vienne, France- Saint Radegunde- Chapter House ;
Pol de Limbourg, Painter ;
Poland ;
Polemics- Women ;
Polirone, Italy- Monastery of Saint Benedetto ;
Politian SEE Poliziano, Angelo, Humanist Political Participation ;
Political Science ;
Political Theory SEE Political Science ;
Politics ;
Politics in Art ;
Politics in Literature ;
Poliziano, Angelo, Humanist ;
Poll Tax ;
Pollaiuolo, Antonio del, Painter- Elevation of the Magdalen ;
Polo, Marco, Traveler ;
Polygamy ;
Polygyny ;
Polyphony ;
Polyptychs, Registers ;
Pomest'e System, Estates and Their Incomes Assigned to Soldiers, Their Widows, or Other Survivors ;
Poor SEE Poverty ;
Poor Clares Order ;
Poor Clares Order- Colettines ;
Popes ;
Popular Culture ;
Population SEE Demography ;
Pornography ;
Portinari Family ;
Portraits ;
Portugal ;
Portugese ;
Portugese Literature; Postmodern Theory ;
Poststructuralist Theory ;
Potiphar's Wife SEE ALSO Zulaykha (Qur'anic Figure) ;
Potiphar's Wife (Biblical Figure) ;
Poverty ;
Power ;
Power, Eileen, Historian (1889-1940) ;
Power in Art ;
Power in Literature ;
Power of Women Topos ;
Praefectio, Legal Procedure Allowing Full Female Inheritance of Land When There was no Legitimate Male Heir ;
Praise in Literature SEE Laudatory Literature ;
Prato, Firenze, Italy ;
Prayer ;
Prayerbooks ;
Preaching ;
Preaching in Art ;
Preaching in Literature ;
Precepts, Old English Poem ;
Pregnancy ;
Pregnancy, Image of ;
Pregnancy in Literature ;
Prejudices ;
Premonstratensian Double House ;
Premonstratensian Order ;
Press, Alan R. , Literary Historian; Prices ;
Pride in Literature ;
Priests SEE Clergy ;
Primavera, Mythological Figure ;
Primera Cronica General, Spanish History ;
Primogeniture ;
Princes in Literature Princesses ;
Princesses in Literature ;
Printing ;
Prints ;
Prioress (Literary Figure) ;
Prioresses ;
Prise d' Orange, Chanson de Geste ;
Privacy ;
Private Income ;
Private Sphere and Public Sphere ;
Problemata, Latin Translation of a Compilation of Questions Concerning Natural Philosophy Attributed to Aristotle ;
Processions ;
Procla SEE Procula, Dame, Wife of Pontius Pilate (Literary Figure) ;
Procopius, Historian ;
Procopius, Historian- De Bello Gothico ;
Procula, Dame, Wife of Pontius Pilate (Literary Figure) ;
Prodigal Son (Biblical Figure) ;
Progne (Literary Figure) ;
Prologues ;
Promise in Literature ;
Pronouns ;
Proof of Age Inquests ;
Propaganda ;
Property ;
Property- Division of ;
Prophecy ;
Prophecy in Literature ;
Prophetia Sibillae Magae, Latin Poem ;
Prosa de Virginitate SEE De Laudibus Virginitatis ;
Prose Lancelot SEE Lancelot en Prose ;
Proserpina (Mythological Figure) ;
Proserpina (Mythological Figure) SEE ALSO Primavera and Persephone ;
Prosopography ;
Prostitutes ;
Prostitutes in Literature ;
Prostitution SEE Prostitutes ;
Provencal Language SEE Occitan Language ;
Provence ;
Proverbs ;
Providence ;
Prudence ;
Prudence (Literary Figure) ;
Psalter of Bonne of Luxembourg, Wife of Jean le Bon ;
Psalter-Hours of Blanche of Burgundy SEE Savoy Hours ;
Psalters, Liturgical Books ;
Psellos, Michael, Historian ;
Psellos, Michael, Historian- Chronography ;
Psellos, Michael, Historian- Letters ;
Pseudo Albert the Great- Mariale or CCXXX Questiones Super Evangelium "Missus Est" ;
Pseudo Albertus Magnus SEE Pseudo Albert the Great ;
Pseudo- Origen- De Maria Magdalena ;
Psyche, Literary Figure ;
Psychoanalytic Theory SEE ALSO Psychological Approach ;
Psychoanalytic Theory ;
Psychological Approach SEE ALSO Psychoanalytic Theory ;
Psychological Approach ;
Psychology and Literature ;
Public Space ;
Public Space in Literature ;
Publishing ;
Pucellina of Blo“s, Jewish Martyr ;
Pulcheria, Byzantine Empress ;
Pulci, Antonia, Dramatist ;
Punishment ;
Punishment in Literature ;
Puns and Punning ;
Puppet Theater ;
Purgatoire des Mauvais Maris, French Polemical Text ;
Purgatory ;
Pusinna, Saint ;
Pusinne SEE Pusinna, Saint ;
Puterich, Jakob, Author ;
Pygmalion (Literary Figure) ;
Pyrrha (Mythological Figure) ;

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Qasidah, a Tripartite Poetic Form Generally Used by Male Poets to Celebrate the Masculine Hero ;
Queen, Image of ;
Queen Mary Psalter (Presented to Queen Mary Tudor in 1553) ;
Queen of Sheba (Biblical Figure) ;
Queen of Sheba (Biblical Figure) in Literature ;
Queens ;
Queens' Councils ;
Queens' Households ;
Queens in Art ;
Queens in Literature ;
Queer Theory ;
Querelle de la Rose SEE ALSO Roman de la Rose ;
Querelle de La Rose ;
Querelle des Femmes SEE Polemics- Women ;
Queste del Saint Graal, Prose Romance ;
Queynte (Middle English: Cunt, Slang for Vagina) ;
Quicherat, Jules, Historian (1814-1882)- Proces ;
Quinzani, Stefana, Leader of a House of Dominican Tertiaries ;
Quirini, Lauro, Humanist ;
Quoniam (Latin: Since, Because; Pun for Vagina) ;
Qur'an ;
Qur'an Exegesis ;
Qur'an Exegesis 2:282 ;
Qur'an- Sura Yusuf ;

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Raban Maur SEE Hrabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz ;
Rabanus Maurus SEE Hrabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz ;
Rabbis ;
Rabi a al-Adawiya, Muslim Saint ;
Raccomandati della Vergine Maria, Confraternity ;
Race and Racism ;
Rachel (Biblical Figure) ;
Radegund SEE Radegunde of Poitiers, Merovingian Queen, Saint ;
Radegunde of Poitiers, Merovingian Queen, Saint ;
Radegunde of Poitiers, Merovingian Queen, Saint- Letter of Foundation ;
Radulphus Glaber, Historian- Five Books of Histories ;
Ragusa ;
Raimon de Cornet, Poet ;
Raimonda, Catalan Widow ;
Raimondo, Called Palmario, of Piacenza, Saint ;
Raimundo Capuano SEE Raymond of Capua ;
Ralph Glaber SEE Radulphus Glaber, Historian ;
Ralph, Lord Cromwell, Lord Treasurer of England ;
Rannveig (Literary Figure) ;
Ransoms ;
Raoul de Cambrai, Chanson de Geste ;
Rape ;
Rape in Art ;
Rape in Literature ;
Rape of the Sabine Women (Mythological Motif) ;
Rapture ;
Raptus [Latin: Rape or Abduction, Either Forcible or Consensual, Sometimes with the Intention of Marriage] ;
Ratherius, Bishop of Verona ;
Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy- Church of San Vitale- Mosaics ;
Raymond of Capua, Confessor of Saint Catherine of Siena ;
Raymond of Penafort, Canonist, Saint ;
Readers SEE ALSO Literacy ;
Readers ;
Readers in Art ;
Readers in Literature ;
Reading, Berkshire, England- Abbey, a Male Cluniac House ;
Reading SEE Readers ;
Reage, Pauline SEE Aury, Dominique, Author ;
Reason ;
Reason (Literary Figure) ;
Reception ;
Recluses ;
Recluses SEE ALSO Anchoresses ;
Redemption, Theological Concept ;
Reeve (Literary Figure) ;
Reformation ;
Regensburg, Bayern, Germany - Niedermunster, a Benedictine House ;
Regensburg, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany ;
Regents ;
Regula ;
Regula (Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint) ;
Regula (Benedict of Nursia, Saint) ;
Regula (Clare of Assisi, Saint) ;
Regula (Isabelle of Longchamp) ;
Regula (Pope Urban IV) ;
Reine de Castillon, Noble Woman ;
Relics ;
Religion ;
Religion- Cross-Cultural Approach ;
Religion- History ;
Religion Historians ;
Religion in Literature ;
Religious Education ;
Religious Life ;
Religious Radicalism ;
Religious Tolerance ;
Religious Tolerance in Literature ;
Religious Women Not in Orders SEE Beguines ;
Lay Piety ;
Mystics ;
AND Penitent Women ;
Reliquaries ;
Remarriage ;
Remarriage in Literature ;
Remedies ;
Renaissance ;
Renart, Jean, Poet- Guillaume de Dole ;
Renart, Jean, Poet- Lai de l'Ombre ;
Renart, Jean, Poet- Roman de la Rose SEE Renart, Jean, Poet- Guillaume de Dole ;
Renaut de Beaujeu, Poet - Bel Inconnu ;
Renaut, Poet- Galeran de Bretagne ;
Rene de Bage SEE Renaut de Beaujeu, Poet ;
Rennes, Ille- et- Vilaine, France- Abbey of Saint- Georges ;
Rental Housing ;
Rented Properties SEE Rental Housing ;
Reoldo, Beltramo, Cistersian Monk and Hagiographer ;
Reponse du Bestiaire ;
Reponse du Bestiaire, French Prose Work ;
Reputation ;
Resistance ;
Resistance in Literature ;
Restrictions ;
Retail Trade ;
Revelation of Purgatory, Middle English Devotional Text ;
Revelations of Divine Love SEE Julian of Norwich, Mystic ;
Revenge ;
Revenge in Literature ;
Reversionary Bequests ;
Revision ;
Revolts ;
Revolutions SEE Revolts ;
Rhetoric ;
Rhiannon (Literary Figure) ;
Riannon SEE Rhiannon (Literary Figure) ;
Rich Clares Order SEE Urbanist Clares Order ;
Richard II, King of England ;
Richard de Fournival, Author- Bestiaire d' Amour ;
Richard de Fournival, Author- Consaus d'Amours ;
Richard, Duke of York ( 1460) ;
Richard Rolle of Hampole, Mystic ;
Richilde, Countess of Flanders ;
Rickert, Edith, Literary Historian (1871-1938) ;
Ricordanze, Daybooks Kept by Italian Merchants and Artisans ;
Rictrude of Marchiennes, Saint ;
Rictrudis SEE Rictrude of Marchiennes, Saint ;
Riddles, Literary Genre ); Riddy, Felicity, Literary Historian (1940- ) ;
Right Wing SEE Conservatism ;
Ritual ;
Ritual Purity ;
Ritual Theory ;
Rivers ;
Riverside Counselor's Stories, Japanese Story Collection- Haizumi ;
Robbers SEE Crime and Criminals ;
Robbers SEE Criminals ;
Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy ;
Robert de Blois, Author- Floris et Lyriope, Old French Romance ;
Robert de Blois, Poet- Chastoiement des Dames ;
Robert de Boron, Poet- Estoire dou Graal ;
Robert de Boron, Poet- Joseph d' Arimathie ;
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln ;
Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln- Chateau d'Amour ;
Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily ;
Robert le Diable, Old French Hagiographical Romance ;
Robert of Shrewsbury, Prior of the Benedictine Abbey of Saints Peter and Paul in Shrewsbury- Vita et Translatio S. Wenefredae ;
Robert the Frisian, Count of Flanders ;
Rochester, Kent, England ;
Rockenhausen, Rheinland- Pfalz, Germany- Abbey of Saint Disibod ;
Rodrigo Diaz del Vivar, known as El Cid, Military Leader ;
Roger Borsa, Duke of Apulia ;
Roig, Jaume, Physician- Spill o Libre de Les Dones (Mirror or Book of Women) ;
Role Models ;
Roles de la Taille de Philippe le Bel, Tax Records ;
Rolls, Official Documents- Court Rolls ;
Roman de la Dame a la Lycorne et du Biau Chevalier au Lion, Romance ;
Roman de la Rose SEE ALSO Querelle de la Rose ;
Roman d'Eneas, Epic ;
Roman de Perceforest, Romance ;
Roman de Thebes, Prose Romance ;
Roman van Moriaen, Middle Dutch Romance ;
Romance, Literary Genre ;
Romance of Ahmad Danif, Arabic Popular Romance ;
Romanos the Melodist, Author- Threnos Theotokou (Mary at the Cross) ;
Romanz del Infant Garcia, Spanish Epic ;
Rome ;
Rome- Church of Santa Maria del Popolo ;
Rome- Hospital of Santo Spirito ;
Rome- Old St. Peter's Basilica ;
Rome- S. Maria Antiqua- Frescoes ;
Rosary, Prayer ;
Rose of Viterbo, Holy Woman, Saint ;
Rose, Image of ;
Rossetti, Christina, Poet (1830-1894) ;
Rossi, Pier Maria, Condottiere and Count of Berceto ;
Rostocker Liederbuch, Low German Song Collection ;
Roswitha von Gandersheim SEE Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim ;
Rotuli SEE Mortuary Rolls ;
Rotulus SEE Mortuary Rolls ;
Rougemont, Denis De, Author (1906-1985) ;
Royal Dynasties ;
Royal Family ;
Royal Gold Cup of the Kings of France and England ;
Rucellai, Giovanni, Merchant ;
Rudolph of Fulda, Author- Vita Leobae Abbatissae ;
Rufino, Master, Canon of the Church of the Twelve Apostles, Piacenza- Vita Sancti Raymundi Palmarii Confessoris ;
Rufinus of Aquileia, Historian- Historia Monachorum in Aegypto ;
Rufus of Shotep, Bishop of Hypsele- Homily on the Annunciation ;
Rugerin Berger, Anna, Printer ;
Ruiz, Juan, Archpriest of Hita- Libro de Buen Amor ;
Rule of St. Benedict SEE Regula (Benedict of Nursia, Saint) ;
Rulers ;
Rules SEE Regula ;
Rules, Monastic SEE Regula ;
Rupert, Saint ;
Rupert of Deutz, Theologian ;
Ruprecht, Saint SEE Rupert, Saint ;
Rural Conditions ;
Russell, P.E., Literary Historian (1913-); Russian Language ;

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Sabina and Cristeta, Sisters of Saint Vincent, Martyrs and Saints ;
Sachsenheim, Hermann von, Poet ;
Sacra Rappresentazione, Literary Genre ;
Sacramentaries, Liturgical Books ;
Sacraments ;
Sacre Rappresentazioni SEE Sacra Rappresentazione, Literary Genre ;
Sacred Heart, Devotion To ;
Sacred Space ;
Sacrifice in Literature ;
Sacrilege ;
Sacrilege in Literature ;
Sagas ;
Said, Edward, Author (1935- ) ;
Saint Albans Psalter ;
Saint Anne Teaching the Virgin to Read, Artistic Motif ;
Saint Benedict's Rule SEE Regula (Benedict of Nursia, Saint) ;
Saint Denis, Seine, France- Abbey- Cemetery ;
Saint Martin de Fontenay, Calvados, France- Cemetery ;
Saint-Ouen l'Aumone, Val d'Oiser, France- Female Cistercian Abbey of Maubuisson ;
Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France- Female Benedictine Abbey of Notre-Dame ;
Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France- Female Benedictine Abbey of Notre-Dame- Church ;
Saints SEE Hagiography ;
Salerno, Salerno, Italy ;
Salerno, Salerno, Italy- Medical School ;
Salic Law ;
Salome (Biblical Figure) ;
Salome (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Salvation, Theological Concept ;
Samaritan Woman (Biblical Figure) ;
San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy- Church, the Pieve, now known as the Collegiata ;
San Salvatore, Brescia, Italy- Monastery for Women ;
Sancha, Sister of Sancho Ramirez V, King of Aragon ;
Sancha (Literary Figure) ;
Sancia of Majorca, Queen of Naples and Wife of King Robert of Anjou ;
Sanctity ;
Sandro Botticelli, Artist ;
Sankt Trudperter Hohes Lied, Middle High German Paraphrase and Commentary on the Song of Songs; Sant Peterburg Bibliotheca Publica Graeca 243 ;
Santander, Cantabria, Spain- Collegiate Church of Santillana del Mar- Sepulchre of Saint Juliana ;
Sanuti, Nicolosa, Noble Woman and Author- Nicolosa Sanuti, Bolognese Matron, to the Most Reverend Father in Christ, the Bolognese Papal Legate, That Ornaments Be Restored to Women ;
Sappho, Ancient Poet ;
Saracens in Literature SEE ALSO Muslims ;
Saracens in Literature ;
Sarah (Biblical Figure) in Literature ;
Sarcophagi ;
Sarum Liturgy ;
Satan SEE Devil ;
Satanael, Fallen Angel ;
Satire ;
Satire, Literary Form ;
Satyriasis ;
Savoy ;
Savoy Hours ;
Sawles Warde, Middle English Devotional Work ;
Saxons ;
Saxony ;
Sayyida Nafisa, Great-Granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad's Grandson, al-Hasan ;
Scandinavian Studies ;
Scetis (Wadi al-Natrun), Egypt- Monastery of the Syrians (Dayr al-Suryan), Church of the Virgin ;
Schaftlarn, Upper Bavaria, Germany ;
Lo Scheggia, Painter- Justice of Trajan, Cassone Panel ;
Lo Scheggia, Painter- Triumph of Fame, Tray for the Birth of Lorenzo de' Medici ;
Scheherazade SEE Shahrazad (Literary Figure) ;
Schiffman, Suzanne, Filmmaker (1929- )- Sorceress ;
Scholarly Societies ;
School Texts ;
Scismonde, Princess of Salerno (Literary Figure) ;
Schlauch, Margaret, Literary Historian (1898-1986) ;
Schlick, Kaspar, Imperial Chancellor ;
Schoffelin, Poet ;
Scholarly Journals ;
Scholarly Organizations SEE Scholarly Societies ;
Scholarly Societies ;
Scholars ;
Scholasticism ;
Scholastics SEE Scholasticism ;
Schonau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany- Benedictine Double House ;
Schoolbooks ;
Schwartzenthann, Haut-Rhin, France- Augustinian House of Canonesses ;
Schwesterbucher SEE Sister- Books ;
Science ;
Science in Literature ;
Scientific Method ;
Scipio, Publius Cornelius, Africanus, Roman General, in Art ;
Scismonde, Princess of Salerno (Literary Figure) ;
Scivias, Vision Literature ;
Scolds SEE Scolding ;
Scotland ;
Scribes and Scriptoria ;
Scrolls in Art ;
Scruples ;
Scrupulosity SEE Scruples ;
Scuole delle Quattro Marie, Confraternity ;
Seals SEE Sigillography ;
Secrecy ;
Secrecy in Literature ;
Secres des Dames, French Translation of the Secreta Mulierum, Medical Text ;
Secreta Mulierum, Medical Text ;
Secretaries ;
Secrets SEE Secrecy ;
Secular Canonesses ;
Seduction ;
Segolene, Saint ;
Segregation ;
Seleucia SEE Silifke, Icel, Turkey ;
Self ;
Self SEE ALSO Individual ;
Self in Literature ;
Self-Mutilation ;
Semen ;
Semen, Female ;
Seminars ;
Semiotics ;
Sempronio (Literary Figure) ;
Senses ;
Senses in Literature ;
Sentimental Romances, Literary Genre ;
Sephardim ;
Sequentia, Musical Group ;
Sercambi, Giovanni, Author ;
Serfs ;
Serfs SEE ALSO Peasantry Sergius of Radonezh, Saint ;
Sermones Super Cantica SEE Sermons on the Song of Songs ;
Sermons ;
Serra, Abbess ;
Servants ;
Servants in Literature ;
Servent, Tecla, Mystic- Letter ;
Seven Corporal Works of Mercy Artistic Motif ;
Seven Deadly Sins in Art ;
Seven Experiences of Loving SEE Van Seuen Manieren van Heileger Minnen ;
Seven Manners of Loving SEE Van Seuen Manieren Van Heileger Minnen ;
Seville, Sevilla, Spain ;
Sex Differences ;
Sex Ratio ;
Sexing Human Remains ;
Sexual Abstinence SEE Chastity ;
Sexual Abuse in Literature ;
Sexual Attraction ;
Sexual Deviation ;
Sexual Division of Labor ;
Sexual Violence ;
Sexuality ;
Sexuality in Art ;
Sexuality in Film ;
Sexuality in Literature ;
Sexuality SEE ALSO Clergy- Sexual Behavior ;
Sexuality SEE ALSO Eroticism ;
Sforza, Caterina, Wife of Girolamo Riario, Ruler of Imola and Forli ;
Sforza, Ippolita, Wife of Alfonso of Aragon, Duke of Naples ;
Sforza Family ;
Shagrat al-Durr SEE Shajarat al-Durr ;
Shagrat al-Durr SEE Shajarat al-Durr ;
Shahrazad (Literary Figure) ;
Shajarat al-Durr, Wife of Sultan al-Salih Najm al-Din Ayyub and Shakespeare, William- Taming of the Shrew ;
Shakespeare, William, Dramatist- A Lover's Complaint ;
Shamanism ;
Shame ;
Shame in Art ;
Shelob (Literary Figure) ;
Shi Zhenlin, Author- Random Notes from Xiqing ;
Sheehan, Michael M., Historian (1925- 1992) ;
Sheela-na-gigs, Carved Figures ;
Sheela-Na-Gigs, Carved Figures of Naked Females That Emphasize the Genitals ;
Shepherdesses in Literature ;
Ships, Image of ;
Shirin, Saint ;
Shivary SEE Charivari, Folk Custom ;
Shrews ;
Shrews in Literature ;
Shrines ;
Shuangqing (Literary Figure) ;
Sibylla/Saba with a Goose Foot (Literary Figure) ;
Sibyllenweissagung, German Poem ;
Sibyllina of Pavia, Recluse and Saint ;
Sibyls, Legendary Female Prophets from the Classical Age ;
Sicily ;
Sickness SEE Diseases ;
Sidonia, Literary Figure ;
Siena, Siena, Italy ;
Siena, Siena, Italy- Cathedral- Altarpiece- Maesta- Front Predella- Annunciation of Christ's Birth ;
Siena, Siena, Italy- Church of Santa Marta- Nuns' Choir- Fresco Paintings- Funeral of Saint Martha ;
Siena, Siena, Italy- Palazzo delle Papesse ;
Siete Infantes de Lara, Spanish Epic ;
Siete Infantes de Salas SEE Siete Infantes de Lara ;
Sigebert of Gembloux, Author- Passio Sanctae Luciae Virginis ;
Sight ;
Sighvatr Thordharson, Poet ;
Sigillography ;
Sigismund of Burgundy, Saint ;
Signorelli, Luca, Painter- Annunciation ;
Signy (Literary Figure) ;
Sigolena, Saint SEE Segolene, Saint ;
Sigune (Literary Figure) ;
Sikelgaita, Duchess of Apulia and Wife of Robert Guiscard ;
Silence ;
Silence in Literature ;
Silifke, Icel, Turkey ;
Silk ;
Simon of Atherfield ;
Simona Beata ;
Simone de Cascina, Dominican Preacher and Author ;
Simone de Cascina, Dominican Preacher and Author- Colloquio Spirituale ;
Simone de Crocefissi, Painter- Dream of the Virgin ;
Simony ;
Singers and Singing; Singing ;
Single Women ;
Single Women in Literature ;
Sins ;
Sins in Art ;
Sir Degrevant, Middle English Verse ;
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Middle English Poem ;
Sir Gowther, Middle English Romance ;
Sir Orfeo, Middle English Verse Romance ;
Sirin SEE Shirin, Saint ;
Sister-Books ;
Sisters ;
Sisters in Literature ;
Sisters of Saint Clare SEE Urbanist Clares Order ;
Sisters of the Common Life ;
Sith (Old English: Journey, Exile, Pilgrimage) ;
Sitt al-Mulk, Fatimid Princess ;
Sixtus IV, Pope ;
Skaldic Poetry ;
Skeletons SEE Human Remains ;
Skull- Artificial Deformities ;
Slaughter of the Innocents SEE Massacre of the Innocents ;
Slave, Image of ;
Slave Trade ;
Slavery SEE Slaves ;
Slaves ;
Slaves in Literature ;
Sloth, Image of ;
Smalley, Beryl, Historian (1905-1984) ;
Snake Maiden (Literary Motif) ;
Snakes in Literature ;
Snorri Sturluson, Author- Heimskringla ;
Social Change ;
Social Class ;
Social Class in Literature ;
Social Groups ;
Social History ;
Social Mobility ;
Social Networks ;
Social Networks SEE ALSO Family ;
Social Networks SEE ALSO Friendship ;
Social Roles ;
Social Roles in Literature ;
Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship ;
Sodom ;
Sodomy ;
Sodomy, Image of ;
Sodomy in Literature ;
Soldadeiras, Female Professional Entertainers Sometimes Equated with Prostitutes ;
Somerset, England ;
Soncino, Cremona, Italy- House for Female Dominican Tertiaries ;
Songs ;
Sons ;
Sons in Art ;
Sons in Literature ;
Sonzino, Alvise de, Who Successfully Denied His Marriage to Ursina Basso ;
Sophia, Daughter of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Abbess of Gandersheim ;
Sophonisba (Literary Figure) ;
Sopron, Hungary ;
Soranus, Ancient Greek Physician ;
Soteriology SEE Salvation, Theological Concept ;
Sotties, Literary Genre ;
Soul ;
Soul in Literature ;
Sources ;
Souterrains (Underground Dwellings) ;
South English Legendary, Middle English Work ;
Southern Italy ;
Sowdanesse (Literary Figure) ;
Sozzini, Mariano, Jurist ;
Space in Literature ;
Spalbeek, Liege, Belgium- Chapel of Our Lady ;
Spalding, Lincolnshire, England- Spalding Priory- Myntling Register ;
Spalliere, Painted Panels ;
Speculum Devotorum, Middle English Devotional Work ;
Speculum Virginum, Latin Handbook for Nuns ;
Speculum Virginum- Epithalamium, Latin Handbook for Nuns ;
Speech ;
Speech Act Theory ;
Speech in Literature ;
Sperandea of Cingoli, Recluse and Saint ;
Spieghel der Maechden [Maidens' Mirror}, Dutch Translation of the Speculum Virginum ;
Spindle ;
Spinning ;
Spirit Possession SEE Demoniac Possession ;
Spiritual Care ;
Spiritual Care SEE ALSO Advice AND Pastoral Care ;
Spiritual Marriage ;
Spiritual Poverty ;
Spirituality ;
Spoleto, Perugia, Italy ;
Spousals SEE ALSO Betrothal ;
Spousals Ceremony ;
Sprenger, Jacob SEE Kramer, Heinrich ;
Spryngolde, Robert, Priest ;
Stabat Mater Dolorosa, Hymn ;
Staffarda, Cistercian monastery ;
Stage Props ;
Stagel, Elsbeth, Mystic ;
Staggia, Siena, Italy- Church of S. Maria- Chapel of the Magdalen- Elevation of the Magdalen ;
Stained Glass SEE Glass Windows ;
Stanhope, Joan, Niece and Heir of Lord Cromwell, Wife of Humphrey Bourchier and Robert Radcliffe ;
Stanhope, Maud, Niece and Heir of Lord Cromwell, Wife of Robert Lord Willoughby, Sir Thomas Neville, and Sir Gervase Clifton ;
Starvation SEE Famines ;
State Formation ;
Station Island, County Donegal, Northern Ireland- Saint Patrick's Purgatory ;
Statistics ;
Statius, Ancient Latin Poet ;
Statius, Ancient Latin Poet- Thebaid ;
Stature, Human ;
Stefano, Ser, Hagiographer ;
Steinberg, Leo, Art Historian (1920- )- Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion ;
Steinfeld, Nordheim- Westfalen, Germany- Monastery ;
Stephen, King of England ;
Stepmothers in Literature ;
Stewart, Annabella, Daughter of James I, King of Scotland ;
Stews, Houses of Prostitution in Southwark, London, England Stimulus Amoris, Latin Religious Text ;
Stone, Marcus, Painter (1840-1921) ;
Storytelling ;
Stricker (Der), Poet ;
Strontium (Trace Element in Human Remains) ;
Strophic Version of Old Testament SEE Middle English Metrical Paraphrase of the Old Testament ;
Strozzi, Alessandra Macinghi- Letters ;
Strozzi, Zanobi, Painter- Annunciation ;
Stuard, Susan Mosher, Historian (1935- ) ;
Students ;
Studies in Medievalism ;
Study (Literary Figure) ;
Studying Medieval Women: Sex, Gender, Feminism (Speculum special issue 68, 2 (April 1993) ;
Sturion, Maria ;
Sturla Thordarson, Author - Islendinga Saga ;
Subjectivity ;
Submissiveness ;
Succession ;
Succession in Literature ;
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome ;
Suffering ;
Suffolk, England ;
Sufism ;
Suicide in Literature ;
Sultan Aybak ;
Sumptuary Laws ;
Supernatural ;
Sura of Yusuf ;
Surgeons ;
Susanna (Biblical Figure) ;
Susanna (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Swan Children (Literary Motif) ;
Swans in Literature ;
Swearing ;
Sweat ;
Sweden ;
Swillington, Elizabeth, Heiress ;
Switzerland ;
Sybil of Anjou, Countess of Flanders ;
Synadene, Euphrosyne, Nun and Daughter of Theodora Synadene ;
Synadene, Theodora, Founder of the Monastery of the Mother of God of Sure Hope ;
Synagoga, Allegorical Figure for the Old Law and for Judaism ;
Syncletica, Saint SEE Synkleike, Saint ;
Synesios of Cirene, Bishop of Ptolemais and Author ;
Synkleike, Saint ;
Syon, Middlesex, England, Abbey ;
Syr Launfal, Middle English Romance ;
Syriac Art ;

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Taboos ;
T'an Luan, Buddhist Monk ;
Taddeo di Bartolo, Painter ;
Taddeo di Bartolo, Painter- Madonna Avvocata ;
Taddeo di Bartolo, Painter- Virgin of the Assumption and Saints in Montepulciano ;
Tagelied, Literary Genre ;
Tageliet SEE Tagelied, Literary Genre ;
Tagewise SEE Tagelied, Literary Genre ;
Tain Bo Cuailnge (Cattle Raid of Cooley), Irish Tale ;
Talavera, Hernando de, Archbishop of Granada and Confessor to Isabel I la Catolica- Letters ;
Tale of Sir Corneus, Middle English Poem ;
Tale of Two Lovers SEE Pius II, Pope- Historia De Duobus Amantibus ;
Talestris (Literary Figure) ;
Tapestries ;
Tart, Cote-d'Or, France- Cistercian Monastery ;
Tartars SEE Mongols, People ;
Tarvin, Cheshire, England ;
Tatars SEE Mongols, People ;
Tauler, Johannes SEE Tauler, John, Mystic ;
Tauler, John, Mystic ;
Tauler, John, Mystic- Tauler Canticles- Song of Bareness ;
Taverns ;
Tavola Ritonda, Tristan Romance ;
Taxation ;
Taxes SEE Taxation ;
Teaching ;
Tears ;
Tears in Literature ;
Teenagers SEE Adolescents ;
Templars, Military Order ;
Tensos, Literary Genre ;
Tensos, Literary Genre SEE ALSO Debate, Literary Genre ;
Tents ;
Tenxwind of Andernach, Abbess ;
Terence, Ancient Author ;
Teresa de Cartagena, Nun ;
Teresa de Cartagena, Nun- Admirai—n Operum Dey ;
Teresa Gil de Vidaure, Wife of Jaume I, King of Aragon ;
Teresa of Avila, Saint ;
Terracotta Statuettes- Dovizia (a Personification of Wealth) Based on Donatello's Statue Now Lost ;
Terramagnino da Pisa, Author- Doctrina d'Acort ;
Testard, Robinet, Illuminator ;
Testimony SEE Witnesses ;
Textiles ;
Textiles- Production ;
Thais, Anglo Norman Translation ;
Thais, Penitent Courtesan of Egypt ;
Thalamus Virginis (Latin: Virgin's Bedroom) in Art ;
Thanet, Kent, England- Monastery ;
Theaters- Stage Settings ;
Theaters- Stage Settings in Art ;
Thebes in Literature ;
Thecla, Saint ;
Thekla SEE Thecla, Saint ;
Theoderic, Monk of Echternach- Vita Sanctae Hildegardis ;
Theodora, Byzantine Empress ;
Theodora, Queen ;
Theodora, Saint and Wife of Theophilos, Byzantine Emperor, and Saint ;
Theodora, Wife of Constantine XI Palaiologos, Despot of Morea and Byzantine Emperor ;
Theodora, Wife of Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor ;
Theodora, Wife of Michael II, Emperor of Epirus ;
Theodora of Alexandria, Saint ;
Theodore, Abbot of Stoudios- Letters and Sermons ;
Theodore Balsamon, Patriarch of Antioch ;
Theodore of Stoudios, Monastic Reformer ;
Theodoric of Apolda, Domincan Monk and Hagiographer ;
Theodolinda, Wife of Authari, King of the Lombards, and of Agiluf, King of the Lombards ;
Theoleptos, Archbishop of Philadelphia- Letters ;
Theology ;
Theology in Art ;
Theophana of Novgorod, Wife of Ostromir, Governor ;
Theophano, Wife of Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor ;
Theophano, Wife of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Theophanou, Wife of Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine Emporer ;
Theophanu SEE Theophano, Wife of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Theophilus (Literary Figure) ;
Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid ;
Theophylact, Archbishop of Ochrid- Defense of Eunuchs ;
Theory SEE ALSO Feminist Theory ;
Theory SEE ALSO Marxist Literary Theory ;
Theory SEE ALSO Poststructuralist Theory ;
Theory SEE ALSO Psychoanalytic Theory ;
Theory SEE ALSO Queer Theory ;
Theory SEE ALSO Scientific Method ;
Theory SEE ALSO Semiotics ;
Theory ;
Theotokos, Epithet of Mary (God-Bearing) ;
Theutberga, wife of Lothar ll, King of Lotharingia ;
Thietmar of Merseburg, Historian ;
Thieves SEE Crime and Criminals ;
Thieves SEE Criminals ;
Thiez, Haute-Savoie, France- Priory of Rosay for Women ;
Tholosan, Claude, Judge- Ut Magorum Et Maleficiorum Errores Manifesti Ignorantibus Fiant ;
Thomas a Kempis, Devotional Writer ;
Thomas Aquinas, Saint ;
Thomas de Bretagne, Poet ;
Thomas de Bretagne, Poet- Tristan ;
Thomas of Cantimpre, Scientist ;
Thomas of Cantimpre, Scientist- Bonum Universale de Apibus ;
Thomas of Cantimpre, Scientist- Vita Christinae Mirabilis ;
Thomas of Cantimpre, Scientist- Vita Lutgardis ;
Thomas of Cantimpre, Scientist- Vitae ;
Thomas of Celano, Franciscan ;
Thomas of Chobham, Dean of Salisbury ;
Thomas, Edith, Historian (1909-1970) ;
Thornton, Barbara, Singer (1950-1998) ;
Thorthr Kolbeinsson (Literary Figure) ;
Thousand and One Nights, Collection of Tales ;
Three Kings of Cologne, Middle English Prose Narrative ;
Thryth (Literary Figure) ;
Tifeignon (Old French and Old Occitan: Antimony) ;
Till Eulenspiegel, Early New High German Collection of Tales ;
Tilly, Louise A., Historian (1930-) and Joan Wallach Scott, Historian (1941-)- Women, Work and Family ;
Time ;
Time in Literature ;
Titles of Manuscripts ;
Tochter Syon, Middle High German Verse Epos ;
Toledo, Toledo, Spain ;
Tolkien, J. R. R., Philologist and Novelist (1892-1973) ;
Tolkien, J.R.R., Philologist and Novelist (1892-1973)- Beowulf:The Monsters and the Critics ;
Tolkien, J. R. R., Philologist and Novelist (1892-1973)- Lord of the Rings ;
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel SEE Tolkien, J. R. R. ;
Tomb Effigies ;
Tombs SEE Burials ;
Tommaso d' Aquino, Saint SEE Thomas Aquinas, Saint ;
Tommaseo di Benvenuto de Pizzano, Father of Christine de Pizan ;
Tornabuoni de' Medici, Lucrezia, Poet and Wife of Piero di Cosimo de' Medici ;
Torrechiara, Italy- Castello di Torrechiara- Camera Peregrina Aurea- Frescoes of Pier Maria Rossi and Bianca Pellegrini ;
Torture ;
Torture SEE Violence ;
Torture in Art ;
Tourette Syndrome ;
Tourette's Syndrome SEE Tourette Syndrome ;
Tournaments ;
Tower Houses ;
Tower of Nesle ;
Towneley Noah SEE Wakefield Plays- Processus Noe Cum Filiis ;
Towns and Cities ;
Toys ;
Trade in Literature ;
Tragic in Literature ;
Trances ;
Transformation ;
Transformation in Literature ;
Transgendered Practices ;
Transgendered Practices in Art ;
Translatio Sanctae Pusinnae ;
Translation ;
Transmission of Texts ;
Transvestism SEE Cross Dressing ;
Transvestites SEE Cross Dressing ;
Trattato SEE Catherine of Siena, Saint- Dialogo ;
Travel ;
Travel Writing ;
Treason ;
Treason in Literature ;
Treasure ;
Treasure of the Cities of Ladies SEE Livre des Trois Vertus ;
Trebizond (Empire)- Church of Hagia Sophia- Genesis Frieze ;
Tree of Jesse, Artistic Topos ;
Tree of Life ;
Trees in Literature ;
Tres Ancien Coutoumier, Norman Law Book ;
Tres Riches Heures de Duc de Berry ;
Trexler, Richard C., Historian (1932- )- Naked Before the Father: The Renunciation of Francis of Assisi ;
Trials ;
Trials in Literature ;
Trickery SEE Deception ;
Tricks SEE Deception ;
Tricksters in Literature ;
Trinity ;
Trinity in Art ;
Trinubium Annae ;
Tristan de Nanteuil, Chanson de Geste ;
Tristan (Literary Figure) ;
Trobairitz ;
Troilus (Literary Figure) ;
Trolls ;
Tropes ;
Trota of Salerno, Author ;
Trotula, Medical Compilation ;
Troubadours ;
Trousseau (Household Goods That the Bride Brings to Her New Home) ;
Trousseau (Household Goods That the Bride Brings to Her New Home) in Art ;
Troy, Image of ;
Trust ;
Truth in Literature ;
Tsaritsas ;
Tsutsumi Chunagon Monogatari SEE Riverside Counselor's Stories ;
Tucher, Katharina, Widow of Otto Tucher, a Patrician of Nuremberg ;
Turgot, Bishop of St. Andrews's- Vita Sanctae Margaretae Scotorum Reginae ;
Tuscany ;
Tydorel, Breton Lai ;
Tyranny and Tyrannicide Typology ;

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Ubaldo de Saint Amand SEE Hucbald, Monk of Saint Amand-les-Eaux and Author- Vita Rictrudis Ubaldus of Saint Amand SEE Hucbald, Monk of Saint Amand-les-Eaux and Author- Vita Rictrudis Ucello, Paolo, Painter ;
Udhri Romances, Literary Genre ;
Ugolino, Cardinal SEE Gregory IX, Pope ;
Ulrich von Etzenbach, Poet ;
Ultan Moccu Conchobuir, Bishop of Ard Breccain ;
Umbria ;
Umiliana dei Cerchi SEE Umiliata dei Cerchi, Penitent and Saint ;
Umiliata dei Cerchi, Penitent and Saint ;
Umilta of Faenza, Mystic and Saint ;
Umilta of Faenza, Mystic and Saint in Art ;
Umm Gundah, Wife of Imru al-Qays, Poet and Prince of Kinda ;
Uncles ;
Unfree SEE Serfs SEE ALSO Slaves ;
Unicorns ;
Union of Bursfeld, An Organization of Reformed Benedictine Monasteries in Northern Germany ;
Universities and Colleges ;
University of Cambridge- Clare College ;
University of Paris ;
Urban II, Pope ;
Urban IV, Pope ;
Urban Areas SEE Cities and Towns ;
Urbanist Clares Order ;
Ureisun of Oure Louerde, Middle English Devotional Work ;
Urraca, Daughter of Fernando, King of Leon and Castile ;
Ursula Busts ;
Ursula, Virgin Martyr, Saint ;
Ursula, Virgin Martyr, Saint and the Eleven Thousand Virgin Martyrs ; Usk, Thomas, Author- Testament of Love ;
Uta, Abbess of Niedermunster ;
Uterus ;

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Val di Susa, Cuneo, Italy ;
Valencia, Valencia, Spain ;
Valkyries (Mythological Figures) ;
Vallombrosan Order ;
Vampires ;
Vasari, Giorgio, Author and Painter- Palazzo Vecchio- Rooms of Eleonora of Toledo, Wife of Cosimo de' Medici- Paintings of Four Famous Women- Story of Gualdrada ;
Vases ;
Vegetius, Ancient Author- Epitoma Rei Militaris ;
Veil, Image of ;
Veils ;
Velluti, Donato, Florentine Judge ;
Venantius Fortunatus, Poet- De Virginitate ;
Venantius Fortunatus, Poet-De Vita Sanctae Radegundis ;
Vendetta ;
Vengeance SEE Revenge ;
Venice ;
Venice- Church of S. Giobbe- Martini Chapel- Altarpiece ;
Venice- Church of S. Maria dei Miracoli ;
Venice- Monastery of Salarola ;
Venice- San Zaccaria, a Benedictine Convent ;
Ventimiglia, Francesco, Count of Geraci ;
Venus (Mythological Figure) ;
Verdiana da Castelfiorentino, Recluse ;
Vere, Maud de, Dowager Countess of Oxford ;
Verino, Ugolino, Poet ;
Vernacular Language ;
Veronica's Veil ;
Vespasiano Bisticci, Author ;
Vespucci, Simonetta, Mistress of Giuliano de' Medici ;
Vezelay, Yonne, France- Church of Sainte- Marie- Magdalene- Capital- Rape of Ganymede ;
Via Negativa ;
Vicente Ferrer SEE Vincent Ferrer, Dominican Preacher, Saint ;
Vicenza, Vicenza, Italy ;
Vices in Art ;
Vida de Santa Maria Egipciaca, Castilian Verse Translation ;
Vie Seinte Audree, Anglo Norman Saint's Life That May be Attributed to Marie de France ;
Vie Seinte Osith, Anglo Norman Hagiographical Work in Verse ;
Vieille (Literary Figure) ;
Vieillesse (Literary Figure) ;
Vierges Ouvrantes, Statues of the Virgin which Open to Reveal a Scene Inside ;
Vikings ;
Vikings, Image of ;
Vilaine River ;
Villages ;
Villani, Matteo, Humanist ;
Villeneuve-les-Avignon, Vaucluse, France- Hospital Chapel of the Holy Trinity- Coronation of the Virgin ;
Vincent de Beauvais, Encyclopedist- Miroir Historial ;
Vincent Ferrer, Dominican Preacher, Saint ;
Vinland SEE Americas ;
Violant of Bar, Wife of Joan I, Duke of Girona and King of Aragon ;
Violante de Bar SEE Violant of Bar, Wife of Joan I, Duke of Girona and King of Aragon ;
Violence ;
Violence in Art ;
Violence in Literature ;
Viragos (Women Who Act as Men, Frequently Used in a Positive Sense) SEE Virile Women ;
Virgil, Ancient Poet- Aeneid ;
Virgin in Majesty from the Altarpiece Originally in Evora Cathedral ;
Virginia (Literary Figure) ;
Virginity ;
Virginity in Art ;
Virginity in Literature ;
Virgins SEE Virginity ;
Virgo Inter Virgines (Artistic Motif) ;
Virile Women ;
Virility ;
Visconti, Gian Galeazzo, Duke of Milan ;
Visigoths, People ;
Vision de Saint Paul, Anglo Norman Translation ;
Visions ;
Visions in Literature ;
Visitations, Official Visits by Religious Superiors ;
Vita Activa, Religious Ideal ;
Vita Adae et Evae, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha ;
Vita Aedwardi Regis, Latin History ;
Vita Auct. Pseudo-Marcilia Interprete Pseudo- Syntyche ;
Vita Beatricis ;
Vita Domnae Juttae Inclusae ;
Vita Liutbirgae, Latin Saint's Life ;
Vita S. Wenefrede ;
Vitae Patrum, Hagiographic Collection ;
Vitas Patrum SEE Vitae Patrum, Hagiographic Collection ;
Viterbo, Viterbo, Italy ;
Vito da Cortona, Franciscan Friar and Author ;
Vito da Cortona, Franciscan Friar and Author- Vita Umilianae ;
Vitteri, Cateruzza, Who Obtained a Divorce ;
Vitteri, Nicolo ;
Voice ;
Volksbuch, Literary Genre ;
Volsunga Saga ;
Volterra, Tuscany, Italy- Cathedral- Oratory of the Company of the Virgin Mary (a Confraternity)- Annunciation ;
Voluspa, Eddic Poem ;
Volva (Literary Figure) ;
Vostaert, Pennic and Pieter Vostaert, Poets -Walewein, Middle Dutch Romance ;
Vowesses ;
Vox Benedictina: A Journal of Feminine and Monastic Spirituality ;

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Wace, Poet- Roman de Brut ;
Wace, Poet- Roman de Rou ;
Wages ;
Wakefield Plays ;
Wakefield Plays- Processus Noe Cum Filiis ;
Waldensian Movement ;
Waldetrude SEE Waudru de Mons, Saint ;
Waleran II, Count of Meulan and Earl of Worcester ;
Wales ;
Wales- Literature ;
Wall Paintings ;
Walter Map, Author- Dissuasio Valerii ad Rufinum ;
Walter von der Vogelweide, Poet ;
Waltharius, Latin Epic ;
Walton, Yorkshire (East Riding), England- Gilbertine Priory ;
War of the Roses SEE Wars of the Roses ;
Wardship ;
Warfare and Warriors ;
Warfare and Warriors, Image of ;
Warfare and Warriors in Literature ;
Warfare- Treatises ;
Warning to Gossips Artistic Motif ;
Wars of the Roses ;
Water, Image of ;
Watton, Yorkshire (East Riding), England- Gilbertine Priory ;
Waudru de Mons, Saint ;
Wealhtheow (Literary Figure) ;
Wealth ;
Weapons ;
Weasels in Art ;
Weaving ;
Web Sites ;
Wedding Rings ;
Weddings ;
Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell, Middle English Romance ;
Weeping SEE Tears ;
Weights and Measures ;
Welsh Literature ;
Wenefred, Saint ;
Werewolves ;
Wermbold of Buscoep, Chaplain and Preacher Associated with the Devotio Moderna ;
Wessex ;
West Africa ;
Weston, Jessie Laidlay, Literary Historian (1850-1928) ;
Wet Dreams SEE Nocturnal Emissions Wet Nurses ;
Wharncliffe Hours ;
What the Goodwife Taught Her Daughter, Middle English Poem ;
Whitby, Yorkshire, England- Whitby Abbey ;
Whitelock, Dorothy, Anglo-Saxonist (1901-1982) ;
Whites ;
Widow of Ephesus (Literary Motif); Widowers ;
Widows ;
Widows in Art ;
Widows in Literature ;
Wife Abuse ;
Wife Abuse in Literature ;
Wife Beating SEE Wife Abuse ;
Wife of Bath (Literary Figure) ;
Wife of Noah (Biblical Figure) ;
Wife's Lament, Old English Elegy ;
Wild Woman ;
Wilde Alexander, Der, Poet ;
Wilderness, Image of ;
Wiles SEE Deception ;
William I, the Conqueror, King of England ;
William II, King of Sicily ;
William, Brother of Henry II, King of England ;
William de la Pole, Earl of Suffolk ;
William Marshal I, Earl of Pembroke ;
William of Apulia, Chronicler ;
William of Auvergne SEE Guillaume d'Auvergne ;
William of Auxerre SEE Guillaume d'Auxerre ;
William of Malmesbury, Historian William of Malmesbury, Historian- Gesta Regum Anglorum ;
William of Palerne, Middle English Romance ;
William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre and Historian ;
Williamites, Heretical Group ;
Wills ;
Wilton, Wiltshire, England- Benedictine House for Women ;
Wilton Diptych, Altarpiece ;
Winchester, Hampshire, England ;
Wisdom, Theological Virtue ;
Witchcraft SEE Witches ;
Witches ;
Witches in Art ;
Witches in Literature ;
Witnesses ;
Wittenweiler, Heinrich, Poet- Ring ;
Wittig, Monique, Novelist and Feminist Theorist (1935- )- Les Guerilleres ;
Wives ;
Wives in Art ;
Wives in Literature ;
Wohunge of Ure Lauerd, Middle English Devotional Work ;
Wolfdietrich, Middle High German Poem ;
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Poet ;
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Poet- Parzival ;
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Poet- Titurel ;
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Poet- Willehalm ;
Woman, Image of ;
Woman of the Apocalypse in Art ;
Woman with an Issue of Blood (Biblical Figure) ;
Woman Woman Relationships ;
Woman's Reply to Her Lover, Middle English Poem ;
Women and Religion ;
Women Authors ;
Women Authors in Art ;
Women Authors in Literature ;
Women Authors SEE ALSO Women Storytellers ;
Women- Biology ;
Women Clergy SEE Ordination of Women ;
Women in Active Roles ;
Women in Active Roles in Literature ;
Women in Art ;
Women in Film ;
Women in Literature ;
Women in Music ;
Women in Religion ;
Women Philosophers ;
Women Preachers ;
Women Scholars ;
Women Storytellers ;
Women Trouveres ;
Women's Community ;
Women's Equality in Literature ;
Women's Galleries ;
Women's History ;
Women's Nature ;
Women's Quarters ;
Women's Rights ;
Women's Status ;
Women's Status in Literature ;
Women's Studies ;
Women's Workshops ;
Wood Carving ;
Wood, Charles T., Historian (1933- ) ;
Woodcuts ;
Woodville, Elizabeth SEE Elizabeth, Queen-Consort of Edward IV, King of England ;
Woolf, Rosemary, Literary Historian (1925-1978) ;
Worcester, William, Author, Antiquarian, and Secretary to Sir John Falstaff ;
Work ;
Work in Art ;
Work in Literature ;
Workshop of Sandro Botticelli- Spalliere, Painted Panels- Story of Lucretia ;
Workshop of Sandro Botticelli- Spalliere, Painted Panels- Story of Virginia ;
Workshop of Sandro Botticelli- Spalliere, Painted Panels- Tale of Nastagio degli Onesti ;
Workshops (Seminars) ;
World Turned Upside Down (Literary Topos) ;
World War, 1939-1945 ;
World War II SEE World War, 1939-1945 ;
World War Two SEE World War, 1939-1945 ;
Wounds, Image of ;
Writing ;
Wulf and Eadwacer, Old English Elegy ;
Wyle, Niclas von, Humanist ;
Wynkyn de Worde, , Printer ;

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Xanthippe (Literary Figure) ;
Xpistus in Nostra Insula, Latin Hymn ;

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Ydoine (Literary Figure) ;
Yolanda of Vianden, Countess and Prioress York, North Yorkshire, England ;
York Plays ;
York Plays- Death, Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin ;
Yorkshire ;
Yorkshire, East Riding, England ;
Yorkshire, England ;
Young, Jean Isobel, Literary Historian (1903-1990) ;
Young Men ;
Youth SEE Adolescents ;
Yvain (Literary Figure) in Art ;
Yves, Bishop of Chartres ;
Yvette of Huy, Anchoress ;

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Zagorsk, Moskva, Russia- Trinity- Sergius Monastery ;
Zamora, Zamora, Spain- Convent of Las Duenas ;
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra ;
Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra, in Literature ;
Zinc (Trace Element in Human Remains) ;
Zinevra (Literary Figure) ;
Zita, Saint ;
Zoe, Byzantine Empress ;
Zohar, Kabbalistic Work ;
Zonaras, John, Historian- Epitome Historion ;
Zoology ;
Zoroastrianism ;
Zosimus, Author ;
Zulaykha (Qur'anic Figure) ;
Zulaykha (Qur'anic Figure) SEE ALSO Potiphar's Wife ;

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