Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


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1. Record Number: 28318
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Contributor(s): Lisa Jefferson, translator
Title : “Fees: Alice Bridenelle, the daughter of Thomas Picot, the son of John Picot, the son of Nicholas Picot, sometime mercer of London, for a fee to make her free – 20s.” [1427-1428, folio 94v.] [Alice Bridenelle is the only woman (apart from widows) noted in these records as being admitted to the Mercers’ Company. Title note supplied by Feminae.]
Source: The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London: An Edition and Translation. Volume 1   Edited by Lisa Jefferson .   Ashgate, 2009.  Pages 384 - 385.
Year of Publication: 2009.
2. Record Number: 28319
Author(s):
Contributor(s): Lisa Jefferson, translator
Title : “This ordinance was revised during the term of office of the aforesaid wardens… And it is fully agreed that all widows of the mistery who wish to live as a feme-sole and carry on the trade with their household, who are under the governance of the mistery, or those who are with husbands who are men of the same mistery and under its governance, shall enjoy the full benefit of the aforesaid ordinance.” [1417, folio 71v.]
Source: The Medieval Account Books of the Mercers of London: An Edition and Translation. Volume 1   Edited by Lisa Jefferson .   Ashgate, 2009.  Pages 296 - 299.
Year of Publication: 2009.
3. Record Number: 11426
Author(s): Kennedy, Ruth,
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Title : Spalding's "Alliterative Katherine Hymn": A Guild Connection from the South-East Midlands?
Source: Viator , 35., ( 2004):  Pages 455 - 482.
Year of Publication: 2004.
4. Record Number: 12608
Author(s): Karras, Ruth Mazo.
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Title : “This Skill in a Woman is By No Means to Be Despised”: Weaving and the Gender Division of Labor in the Middle Ages [Throughout the Middle Ages, cloth production was a respectable and even prestigious occupation for women. Women’s work was often devalued in comparison to that of men, but cloth production had great cultural importance. While women involved in other professions (like brewsters) came to be perceived negatively as their participation in urban and commercial life increased, the respectability of women weavers endured. Men eventually assumed control over the commercial production and trade of cloth in the later Middle Ages, yet the idea of women’s weaving remained an important concept in literary texts and in society as a whole. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings.   Edited by E. Jane Burns .   Palgrave, 2004. Viator , 35., ( 2004):  Pages 89 - 104.
Year of Publication: 2004.
5. Record Number: 8070
Author(s): French, Kathrine L.
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Title : Women in the Late Medieval English Parish [The author argues that parish guilds in England were important because they gave women the opportunity to join single-sex organizations that were approved by the community. Women took leadership roles and created activities and rituals that were meaningful for their lives. While generally reinforcing accepted gender behaviors, customs like Hocktide (in which women held men captive for ransom-contributions to the parish) made authorities uneasy. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Gendering the Master Narrative: Women and Power in the Middle Ages.   Edited by Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski .   Cornell University Press, 2003. Viator , 35., ( 2004):  Pages 156 - 173.
Year of Publication: 2003.
6. Record Number: 10458
Author(s): Sanok, Catherine.
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Title : Performing Feminine Sanctity in Later Medieval England: Parish Guilds, Saints' Plays, and the "Second Nun's Tale" [The author signals the "oppositional potential" of plays, pageants, and Chaucer's dramatic recounting of the lives of female martyrs. Seeing women, who are normally excluded from authority, portrayed as preaching and teaching (without any suggestion of heterodoxy) must have made civic and ecclesiastical officials nervous. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 32, 2 (Spring 2002): 269-303. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2002.
7. Record Number: 3768
Author(s): Haas, Louis.
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Title : Women and Politics in the Urban Milieu [The author argues that women were excluded from urban political life because they could not contribute the required military service; they did, however, act informally and privately to influence politics].
Source: Women in Medieval Western European Culture.   Edited by Linda E. Mitchell .   Garland Publishing, 1999.  Pages 221 - 235.
Year of Publication: 1999.
8. Record Number: 3769
Author(s): McRee, Benjamin R. and Trisha K. Dent
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Title : Working Women in the Medieval City [The authors provide an introductory overview, touching on specific occupations (servants, petty retailing, textile manufacture, healing, and prostitution) and on the regional and chronological variations].
Source: Women in Medieval Western European Culture.   Edited by Linda E. Mitchell .   Garland Publishing, 1999.  Pages 241 - 256.
Year of Publication: 1999.
9. Record Number: 3744
Author(s): Goldberg, P. J. P.
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Title : Masters and Men in Later Medieval England
Source: Masculinity in Medieval Europe.   Edited by D.M. Hadley .   Women and Men in History Series. Addison Wesley Longman, 1999.  Pages 56 - 70.
Year of Publication: 1999.
10. Record Number: 3197
Author(s): French, Katherine L.
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Title : Maidens' Lights and Wives' Stores: Women's Parish Guilds in Late Medieval England
Source: Sixteenth Century Journal: The Journal of Early Modern Studies (Full Text via JSTOR) 29, 2 (Summer 1998): 399-425. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1998.
11. Record Number: 7449
Author(s): Greci, Roberto.
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Title : Donne e corporazioni: La Fluidità di un rapporto [Women played a subordinate role in the Italian urban economy, but they were involved in various trades. They were particularly active in making cloth. Guilds marginalized women, even when women were involved in making goods. Women also played a significant role as innkeepers and small-scale retailers. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Il Lavoro delle donne.   Edited by Angela Groppi .   Storia delle donne in Italia. Editori Laterza, 1996.  Pages 71 - 91.
Year of Publication: 1996.
12. Record Number: 3731
Author(s): Herlihy, David.
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Title : Women's Work in the Towns of Traditional Europe [The author argues that women lost status in the urban economies between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries; he suggests four factors that drove this change: urbanization, capitalization, saturated markets, and monopolization].
Source: Women, Family, and Society in Medieval Europe: Historical Essays, 1978-1991.   Edited by David Herlihy .   Berghahn Books, 1995. Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 25., 1 (Winter 1995):  Pages 69 - 95. The article was originally published in La donna nell' economia. Secc. XIII-XVIII. Atti della "Ventunesima Settimana di Studix" 10-15 aprile 1989, a cura di Simonetta Cavaciocchi. Le Monnier,1990. 103-130.
Year of Publication: 1995.
13. Record Number: 324
Author(s): Nicholas, David.
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Title : Child and Adolescent Labour in the Late Medieval City: A Flemish Model in Regional Perspective
Source: English Historical Review (Full Text via JSTOR) 110 (Nov. 1995): 1103-1131. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.
14. Record Number: 573
Author(s): Bennett, Judith M.
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Title : Women and Men in the Brewers' Gild of London, CA 1420 [unlike other guilds, the brewers admitted women in large numbers, but they were excluded from certain guild functions].
Source: The Salt of Common Life: Individuality and Choice in the Medieval Town, Countryside, and Church: Essays Presented to J. Ambrose Raftis.   Edited by Edwin Brezette DeWindt Studies in Medieval Culture, 36.   Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1995.  Pages 181 - 232.
Year of Publication: 1995.
15. Record Number: 232
Author(s): Wiesner-Hanks, Merry.
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Title : Learned Task and Given to Men Alone: The Gendering of Tasks in Early Modern German Cities [division between production and reproduction].
Source: Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 25., 1 (Winter 1995):  Pages 89 - 106.
Year of Publication: 1995.
16. Record Number: 9534
Author(s): Laiou, Angeliki E.
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Title : The Festival of "Agathe": Comments on the Life of Constantinopolitan Women [The author examines a short treatise by Michael Psellos about the annual festival of Agathe in which women sang and danced near a church. Laiou argues that the women's activities which praised good cloth-making suggest that they were members of a female guild for carders, spinners, and weavers. The article was originally published in Byzantium 1 (1986): 111-122. Volume One was also titled Tribute to Andreas N. Stratos. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Gender, Society, and Economic Life in Byzantium. Angeliki E. Laiou Variorum Collected Studies Series .   Ashgate, 1992. Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies , 25., 1 (Winter 1995):  Pages 111 - 122. Originally published in Byzantium 1 (1986): 111-122. Volume One was also titled Tribute to Andreas N. Stratos.
Year of Publication: 1992.