Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 42630
Author(s): Margaret of Anjou, Wife of Henry VI, King of England
Contributor(s): Cron, B. M., ed. and Maurer, Helen, ed.
Title : The Letters of Margaret of Anjou

Source: The Letters of Margaret of Anjou. Edited by Helen Maurer and B. M. Cron . Boydell Press, 2019. Pages 1 - 303. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvd1cb56
Year of Publication: 2019.

2. Record Number: 24048
Author(s): Berman, Constance Hoffman
Contributor(s):
Title : Noble Women's Power as Reflected in the Foundations of Cistercian Houses for Nuns in Thirteenth-Century Northern France: Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey, Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres [The author examines five Cistercian female houses supported by Matilda of Brunswick, the Countess of the Perche; Matilda of Garlande, Lady of Marly; and Isabelle, Countess of Chartres with the help of her daughter, Matilda of Amboise. Berman argues that these actions reveal the power and authority women exercised and need to be incorporated into the historical narrative. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe: Gender, Power, Patronage, and the Authority of Religion in Latin Christendom. Edited by Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells Studies in the History of Christian Traditions . Brill, 2009. Pages 137 - 149.
Year of Publication: 2009.

3. Record Number: 23594
Author(s): Salonen, Kirsi
Contributor(s):
Title : Diemunda and Heinrich- Married or Not? About a Marriage Litigation in the Consistorial Court of Freising in the Late Middle Ages [Diemunda sued Heinrich de Empach to enforce what she claimed was a promise of marriage. She procured a dispensation from the Penitentiary because of consanguinity in the third or fourth degree. The ecclesiastical court in Freising had denied her petition for lack of adequate evidence of both consent and consanguinity. Despite the dispensation from the Penitentiary, Heinrich tried to avoid paying for support of their short-lived illegitimate child and the fine for taking Diemunda's virginity. [Title note supplied by Feminae.]

Source: ... et usque ad ultimum terrae: The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts Edited by Gerhard Jaritz, Torstein Jørgensen, and Kirsi Salonen Ceu Medievalia . Central European University Press, 2007. French Historical Studies , 30., 1 (Winter 2007): Pages 43 - 59.
Year of Publication: 2007.

4. Record Number: 23593
Author(s): McDonald, Jennifer R
Contributor(s):
Title : Illegitimate Scots in the Registers of Supplications and the Registers of the Apostolic Penitentiary during the Pontificate of Sixtus IV (1471- 1484) [The Papal Penitentiary was one source of dispensation for men of illegitimate birth seeking clerical livings. Suppliants of humble origins were more likely to petition the Penitentiary. Those of noble origins or well connected socially or politically petitioned the Datary successfully. University educated men of illegitimate birth also successfully petitioned the Datary for dispensations. These men could afford the Datary's higher fees, while the humbler suppliant had to petition the more affordable penitentiary. Title note supplied by Feminae.]

5. Record Number: 19950
Author(s): Jordan, Erin L.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Abduction" of Ida of Boulogne: Assessing Women's Agency in Thirteenth-Century France

Source: French Historical Studies , 30., 1 (Winter 2007): Pages 1 - 20.
Year of Publication: 2007.

6. Record Number: 13653
Author(s): Bogomoletz, Wladimir V.
Contributor(s):
Title : Anna of Kiev: An Enigmatic Capetian Queen of the Eleventh Century: A Reassessment of Biographical Sources

Source: French History , 19., 3 (September 2005): Pages 299 - 323.
Year of Publication: 2005.

7. Record Number: 23752
Author(s): Holanie, Jean
Contributor(s):
Title : Apprenticeship Contract for Cecilia, Daughter of Johannes Petri: Folio 56v, dated 14 October 1327

Source: Medieval Notaries and their Acts: The 1327-1328 Register of Jean Holanie. Edited by Kathryn L. Reyerson and Debra A. Salata Documents of Practice . TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages), Medieval Institute Publications, 2004. French History , 19., 3 (September 2005): Pages 40
Year of Publication: 2004.

8. Record Number: 10817
Author(s): Martin, Russell E.
Contributor(s):
Title : Archival Sleuths and Documentary Transpositions: Notes on the Typology and Textology of Muscovite Royal Wedding Descriptions [The author surveys royal wedding documents from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly ceremonials (narrative descriptions of weddings) and wedding masters (rosters of courtiers who performed various roles in the ceremonies). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Russian History , 30., 3 (Fall 2003): Pages 253 - 300.
Year of Publication: 2003.

9. Record Number: 10843
Author(s): Jarrett, Jonathan.
Contributor(s):
Title : Power Over Past and Future: Abbess Emma and the Nunnery of Sant Joan de les Abadesses

Source: Early Medieval Europe , 12., 3 ( 2003): Pages 229 - 258.
Year of Publication: 2003.

10. Record Number: 11950
Author(s): Shadis, Miriam and Constance Hoffman Berman
Contributor(s):
Title : A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine's Female Descendants [The authors profile Eleanor's female descendants, especially her daughters and their daughters. In the lives of figures including Blanche of Castile and Leonor, queen of Aragon, Shadis and Berman analyze their uses of power in the areas of politics, patronage, and family. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons The New Middle Ages . Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. French History , 19., 3 (September 2005): Pages 177 - 211.
Year of Publication: 2003.

11. Record Number: 10904
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Blanche of Castile and Facinger's "Medieval Queenship": Reassessing the Argument [The author examines Facinger's argument for the diminution of Capetian queenly power and holds up Blanche of Castile as a counter argument. Shadis points to her authority and power, often in "non-official" venues, as mother and regent, arguing that she shows a solid and consistent exercise of queenship. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Capetian Women. Edited by Kathleen Nolan . Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Early Medieval Europe , 12., 3 ( 2003): Pages 137 - 161.
Year of Publication: 2003.

12. Record Number: 11944
Author(s): de La Roncière, Charles M. Bourel.
Contributor(s):
Title : Queen Eleanor and Aquitaine, 1137-1189 [The author analyzes 50 surviving charters which Eleanor issued in Aquitaine. While she served as Louis VII's agent, she had more authority during the early years of her marriage to Henry II. Following the long years of confinement ordered by Henry, Elean

Source: Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons The New Middle Ages . Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Early Medieval Europe , 12., 3 ( 2003): Pages 55 - 76.
Year of Publication: 2003.

13. Record Number: 8060
Author(s): McMillin, Linda.
Contributor(s):
Title : Anonymous Lives: Documents from the Benedictine Convent of Sant Pere de les Puelles [The author introduces three documents from a monastic archive in Barcelona. They all concern women who are disposing of financial assets, either through a will or through donations to the monastery upon becoming a nun there. In all three cases the women went to some length to ensure that their wishes would be obeyed. Latin texts of the documents along with English translations follow. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. Volume 2: Medieval Women Writing Latin. Edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey . Routledge, 2002. Russian History , 30., 3 (Fall 2003): Pages 265 - 280.
Year of Publication: 2002.

14. Record Number: 9331
Author(s): Reynolds, Rosalind Jaeger
Contributor(s):
Title : Reading Matilda: The Self-Fashioning of a Duchess [The author examines how Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, identified herself in documents in order to understand what kind of image she fashioned for herself as a female ruler. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Essays in Medieval Studies (Full Text via Project Muse) 19 (2002): 1-13. Link Info
Year of Publication: 2002.

15. Record Number: 11159
Author(s): Lees, Clare A. and Gillian R. Overing
Contributor(s):
Title : Power of Recall, I and II

Source: Old English Newsletter , 34., 3 (Spring 2001): Appendix A: Abstracts of Papers in Anglo-Saxon Studies. Conference paper presented at the Thirty-Sixth International Congress on Medieval Studies, the Medieval Institute, Western Michigan University, May 3-6, 2001, Nineteenth Symposium on the Sources of A
Year of Publication: 2001.

16. Record Number: 6087
Author(s): Luzzati, Michele.
Contributor(s):
Title : Schiavi e figli di schiavi attraverso le registrazioni di battesimo medievali: Pisa, Gemona del Friuli, Lucca [Baptismal records indicate a small number of slaves in Italian cities; most of those recorded are women, frequently designated as Blacks or moors; many of the slaves in cities belonged to foreign residents; fewer slaves are recorded outside major cities; the appendix presents a list of slaves' names from the records in Pisa].

Source: Quaderni Storici , 2 (Agosto 2001): Pages 349 - 362.
Year of Publication: 2001.

17. Record Number: 6240
Author(s): Jenkens, A. Lawrence.
Contributor(s):
Title : Caterina Piccolomini and the Palazzo delle Papesse in Siena [the author surveys the works that ten secular women commissioned from the painter Neri di Bicci between 1453 and 1475; the author analyzes the group of women in terms of marital status and social class and compares them with the men who requested art works in Neri's records; women ordered significantly more works for display in churches rather than in homes and their works were more costly with gilt and expensive colors].

Source: Beyond Isabella: Secular Women Patrons of Art in Renaissance Italy. Edited by Sheryl E. Reiss and David G. Wilkins . Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies, Volume 54. Truman State University Press, 2001. Old English Newsletter , 34., 3 (Spring 2001): Pages 77 - 91.
Year of Publication: 2001.

18. Record Number: 4837
Author(s): Skinner, Mary S.
Contributor(s):
Title : French Abbesses in Action: Structuring Carolingian and Cluniac Communities [The author analyzes charters from six women's and five men's monasteries from Anjou, Touraine, and Poitou; the women's houses are Sainte Croix and Trinity, Poitiers; St. Loup/Beaumont, Tours; Ronceray, Angers; S. Georges, Rennes; and Notre Dame, Saintes]

Source: Magistra , 6., 1 (Summer 2000): Pages 37 - 60.
Year of Publication: 2000.

19. Record Number: 4635
Author(s): Berman, Constance H.
Contributor(s):
Title : The "Labours of Hercules," the Cartulary, Church, and Abbey for Nuns of la Cour- Notre- Dame- de- Michery

Source: Journal of Medieval History , 26., 1 (March 2000): Pages 33 - 70.
Year of Publication: 2000.

20. Record Number: 4622
Author(s): Winer, Rebecca Lynn.
Contributor(s):
Title : Defining Rape in Medieval Perpignan: Women Plaintiffs Before the Law [the Appendix provides editions of one release and one pardon in Latin written in the 1270s].

Source: Viator , 31., ( 2000): Pages 165 - 183.
Year of Publication: 2000.

21. Record Number: 3777
Author(s): Livingstone, Amy
Contributor(s):
Title : Aristocratic Women in the Chartrain

Source: Aristocratic Women in Medieval France. Edited by Theodore Evergates . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Revue Bénédictine , 109., 40180 ( 1999): Pages 44 - 73.
Year of Publication: 1999.

22. Record Number: 5150
Author(s): Crick, Julia.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Wealth, Patronage, and Connections of Women's Houses in Late Anglo-Saxon England

Source: Revue Bénédictine , 109., 40180 ( 1999): Pages 154 - 185.
Year of Publication: 1999.

23. Record Number: 4760
Author(s): Skinner, Patricia.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Widow's Options in Medieval Southern Italy [The author analyzes data from charters and finds 215 documented widows up to 1100].

Source: Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Edited by Sandra Cavallo and Lyndan Warner . Women and Men in History. Longman, 1999. Revue Bénédictine , 109., 40180 ( 1999): Pages 57 - 65.
Year of Publication: 1999.

24. Record Number: 5554
Author(s): Zanoboni, Maria Paola
Contributor(s):
Title : O Ribaldo prevosto... Pedofilia nella Milano Quattrocentesca [evidence for pedophilia in the Middle Ages is scarce before the fifteenth century; the evidence from Milan is scattered but the surviving material includes complaints about violent assaults on children, some done by clerics; in an appendix the author presents the Latin text of documents from a notary in 1469 dealing with apparent cases of pedophilia].

Source: Archivio Storico Lombardo. Twelfth Series , 124., ( 1998- 1999): Pages 535 - 544.
Year of Publication: 1998- 1999.

25. Record Number: 3633
Author(s): Vaquero, Mercdes.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women in the Chartularies of Toledo (1101-1291) [The author surveys documents and briefly discusses the women found therein by category including nuns, wives, widows, barraganas(clerical concubines), and single women].

Source: Women at Work in Spain: From the Middle Ages to Early Modern Times. Edited by Marilyn Stone and Carmen Benito-Vessels . Peter Lang, 1998. Archivio Storico Lombardo. Twelfth Series , 124., ( 1998- 1999): Pages 121 - 146.
Year of Publication: 1998.

26. Record Number: 5684
Author(s): Henry, Tom.
Contributor(s):
Title : New Documents for Signorelli's "Annunciation" at Volterra [in the Appendix the author provides transcriptions of three documents: Payments to Signorelli for the Volterra "Annunciation," 7 January 1490 to 13 May 1491; The Company of the Virgin Mary sell their old altarpiece, 4 June 1491- 21 April 1494; Ippolito Cigna's account of his restoration of the "Annunciation," published 1740- 1741].

Source: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 140, 1144 (July 1998): 474-478. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1998.

27. Record Number: 5992
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Jewish Women in the Middle Ages [The author provides a brief overview of women's lives both in the Muslim world and in Christian Europe, touching on marriage, work, education, roles in Judaism, and Jewish-Christian relations].

Source: Jewish Women in Historical Perspective. Edited by Judith R. Baskin . Second edition. Wayne State University Press, 1998. Pages 101 - 127.
Year of Publication: 1998.

28. Record Number: 4744
Author(s): Kelly, Henry Ansgar.
Contributor(s):
Title : Meanings and Uses of "Raptus" in Chaucer's Time [the Appendix presents twelve Latin legal texts with English translations from the Public Record Office that the author discusses in his article].

Source: Studies in the Age of Chaucer , 20., ( 1998): Pages 101 - 165. Later published in Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West. Ashgate Variorum, 2001
Year of Publication: 1998.

29. Record Number: 3430
Author(s): Kittell, Ellen E.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women, Audience, and Public Acts in Medieval Flanders

Source: Journal of Women's History , 10., 3 (Autumn 1998): Pages 74 - 96.
Year of Publication: 1998.

30. Record Number: 2081
Author(s): Walmsley, John.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Early Abbesses, Nuns, and Female Tenants of the Abbey of Holy Trinity, Caen [using charters and early surveys, the author examines the administration of the abbesses, the social origins of the nuns, and the status of female tenants both in Normandy and England, particularly the inheritance rights of widows].

Source: Journal of Ecclesiastical History , 48., 3 (July 1997): Pages 425 - 444.
Year of Publication: 1997.

31. Record Number: 3299
Author(s): Poppe, Andrzej.
Contributor(s):
Title : Theophana von Novgorod

Source: Byzantinoslavica , 58., 1 ( 1997): Pages 131 - 158.
Year of Publication: 1997.

32. Record Number: 3301
Author(s): Goez, Werner.
Contributor(s):
Title : Über die Mathildischen Schenkungen an die Römische Kirche

Source: Frühmittelalterliche Studien , 31., ( 1997): Pages 158 - 196.
Year of Publication: 1997.

33. Record Number: 5680
Author(s): Thomas, Anabel.
Contributor(s):
Title : A New Date for Neri di Bicci's S. Giovannino dei Cavalieri "Coronation of the Virgin" [the author presents document transcriptions in the article's Appendix that prove that Neri di Bicci was selected by the nuns of S. Niccolò dei Frieri to paint an altarpiece in 1488; further document extracts indicate the nuns' additional efforts to make the high altar more splendid].

Source: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 139, 1127 (February 1997): 103-106. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

34. Record Number: 2460
Author(s): Thomas, Susanne Sara.
Contributor(s):
Title : What the Man of Law Can't Say: The Buried Legal Argument of the Wife of Bath's "Prologue" [argues that the poem comments on the struggle over law among king, parliament, bureaucrats, and peasants; it supports the legal authority of the oral over the written].

Source: Chaucer Review , 31., 3 ( 1997): Pages 256 - 271.
Year of Publication: 1997.

35. Record Number: 2206
Author(s): Livingstone, Amy
Contributor(s):
Title : Noblewomen's Control of Property in Early Twelfth-Century Blois-Chartres

Source: Medieval Prosopography , 18., ( 1997): Pages 55 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1997.

36. Record Number: 5893
Author(s): Wright, Alison.
Contributor(s):
Title : Pollaiuolo's "Elevation of the Magdalen" Altar-piece and an Early Patron [the author traces the patronage of Pollaiuolo's painting to a Florentine notary in Staggia; she believes that the iconography of the penitential Magdalene receiving the Eucharist may have been requested by the patron; the Appendix transcribes three pertinent texts: the will of the patron, the patron's 1469 tax return, and the petition from Bruno di Ser Benedetto Grazzini (possibly the patron's son) for the redemption of his deceased wife's dowry (the wife Maddalena was the daughter of the painter Antonio del Pollaiuolo)].

Source: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 139, 1132 (July 1997): 444-451. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

37. Record Number: 2335
Author(s): Skinner, Patricia.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Light of My Eyes: Medieval Motherhood in the Mediterranean

Source: Women's History Review , 6., 3 ( 1997): Pages 391 - 410.
Year of Publication: 1997.

38. Record Number: 1918
Author(s): Schulman, N. M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Husband, Father, Bishop? Grosseteste in Paris [suggests, based on a bequest of a house, that Grosseteste may have lived in Paris for over twenty years and had a wife and three children; the article includes a edition of the bequest from the cartulary of Sainte-Opportune].

Source: Speculum (Full Text via JSTOR) 72, 2 (April 1997): 330-346. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

39. Record Number: 772
Author(s): Stuard, Susan Mosher.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Swift Coming of Age: History of Medieval Women [trends in scholarship and publication with five specific titles reviewed].

Source: Journal of Women's History , 8., 3 (Fall 1996): Pages 228 - 241.
Year of Publication: 1996.

40. Record Number: 5676
Author(s): Karkov, Catherine E.
Contributor(s):
Title : Francesco Botticini's Palmieri Altar-piece [Matteo Palmieri commissioned the altarpiece from Botticini; the panel includes donor portraits of his wife Niccolosa (in a Benedictine habit) and himself; after Matteo's death Botticini and Niccolosa executed a document in 1477 agreeing that the contract for the altarpiece had been fulfilled; Niccolosa and Matteo's nephew acquired a chapel in S. Pier Maggiore where the altarpiece was installed and where Matteo was buried; the Appendix provides transcriptions of six documents, four concerning Botticini, one about the Palmieri chapel, and the first being the agreement between Niccolosa and Botticini].

Source: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 138, 1118 (May 1996): 308-314. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1996.

41. Record Number: 1106
Author(s): McMillin, Linda A.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sant Pere de les Puelles: A Medieval Women's Community [study of Sant Pere's documents yields information on the number of nuns, their familial background and inheritance, men associated with the convent, and the elected officials of the community].

Source: American Benedictine Review , 47., 2 (June 1996): Pages 200 - 222.
Year of Publication: 1996.

42. Record Number: 2433
Author(s): Skinner, Patricia.
Contributor(s):
Title : Disputes and Disparity: Women at Court in Medieval Southern Italy [differences in women's access to justice in Byzantine southern Italy and the Lombard areas; the author suggests that some women turned their legal limitations to their own advantage].

Source: Reading Medieval Studies , 22., ( 1996): Pages 85 - 105.
Year of Publication: 1996.

43. Record Number: 8589
Author(s): Martin, Russell E.
Contributor(s):
Title : Royal Weddings and Crimean Diplomacy: New Sources on Muscovite Chancellery Practice during the Reign of Vasilii III [The author presents a critical edition and historical analysis of a ceremonial ("chin") for the wedding of Prince Andrei Staritskii, brother of Grand Prince Vasilii III, and Evfrosiniia Khovanskaia. This document, along with a diplomatic letter, provide evidence of chancellery practices. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Harvard Ukrainian Studies , 19., ( 1995): Pages 389 - 420. Kamen' Kraeog "I'n": Rhetoric of the Medieval Slavic World: Essays Presented to Edward L. Keenan on His Sixtieth Birthday by His Colleagues and Students. Edited by Nancy Shields Kollmann, Donald Ostrowski, Andrei Pliguzov, and Daniel Rowland.
Year of Publication: 1995.

44. Record Number: 511
Author(s): Hammer, Carl I.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Handmaid's Tale: Morganatic Relationships in Early- mediaeval Bavaria [evidence from law codes and deeds].

Source: Continuity and Change , 10., 3 (Dec. 1995): Pages 345 - 368.
Year of Publication: 1995.

45. Record Number: 655
Author(s): Drell, Joanna H.
Contributor(s):
Title : Family Structure in the Principality of Salerno During the Norman Period, 1077- 1154 [extent of kin groups, for both noble and non- noble families, that participated in the management of family properties].

Source: Anglo-Norman Studies , 18., ( 1995): Pages 79 - 103.
Year of Publication: 1995.

46. Record Number: 1572
Author(s): Johns, Susan.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Wives and Widows of the Earls of Chester, 1100-1252: The Charter Evidence [focuses on their power to make land transactions, particularly in support of the Church].

Source: The Haskins Society Journal , 7., ( 1995): Pages 117 - 132.
Year of Publication: 1995.

47. Record Number: 2765
Author(s): Goez, Elke.
Contributor(s):
Title : Die Markgrafen von Canossa und die Klöster

Source: Deutsches Archiv , 51., ( 1995): Pages 83 - 114.
Year of Publication: 1995.

48. Record Number: 3728
Author(s): Herlihy, David.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and the Sources of Medieval History: The Towns of Northern Italy [analysis of women's roles in primary sources including prescriptive literature, administrative records, account books, memoirs, correspondence, chronicles, biographies, and imaginative literature. The article was originally published in Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History. Edited by Joel Rosenthal. University of Georgia Press, 1990. Pages 133-154.].

Source: Women, Family, and Society in Medieval Europe: Historical Essays, 1978-1991. Edited by David Herlihy . Berghahn Books, 1995. Deutsches Archiv , 51., ( 1995): Pages 13 - 32.
Year of Publication: 1995.

49. Record Number: 5673
Author(s): Gordon, Dillian and Anabel Thomas
Contributor(s):
Title : A New Document for the High Altar-piece for S. Benedetto Fuori della Porta Pinti, Florence [the document from the State Archives in Florence records the commission in 1407 of an altarpiece at S. Benedetto by a wealthy layman].

Source: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 137, 1112 (November 1995): 720-722. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.

50. Record Number: 5669
Author(s): Von Teuffel, Christa Gardner.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Contract for Perugino's "Assumption of the Virgin" at Vallambrosa [between 1498 and 1500, Perugino was commissioned to paint the altarpiece for the monks at Vallambrosa by Don Biagio Milanesi, member of a wealthy family and general of the order; the Appendix presents five documents related to the painting, including the contract, further instructions, a subcontract, a record of payment, and excerpts from Don Biagio's brother's will, demonstrating the family's support of the Vallambrosan order].

Source: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 137, 1106 (May 1995): 307-312. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.

51. Record Number: 6781
Author(s): Steuer, Susan M. B.
Contributor(s):
Title : Family Strategies in Medieval London: Financial Planning and the Urban Widow, 1123-1473 [the author uses the published edition of the cartulary of St. Bartholomew's Hospital to trace the help given to widows not just aid to needy widows but also taking over property management and making retirement arrangements for well-to-do widows who lacked family support].

Source: Essays in Medieval Studies , 12., ( 1995): Pages 1 - 4. and 1-2 (notes) [in the electronic version available through Project Muse]. Issue title: Children and the Family in the Middle Ages.
Year of Publication: 1995.

52. Record Number: 5675
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : New Documents Concerning Desiderio da Settignano and Annalena Malatesta [notarial records survive in which Annalena Malatesta, a noble and wealthy widow, paid the scupltor Desiderio da Settignano for a statue of Mary Magdalene and a bust of Christ; in the Appendix to the article the author transcribes the relevant extracts from the ledger for Annalena; although Annalena founded a Tertiary Dominican house for the protection and education of young widows and virgins, the sculpture of Mary Magdalene was evidently not intended for the convent but for S. Trinità and the altar of the Cerbini family which included Annalena's notary].

Source: Burlington Magazine (Full Text via JSTOR) 137, 1113 (December 1995): 792-799. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.

53. Record Number: 1005
Author(s): Mousnier, Mireille.
Contributor(s):
Title : Aspects de l' anthroponymie féminine médiévale en Gascogne Toulousaine d' après le Cartulaire de Gimont [based on 758 documents taken from the cartulary of the Cistercian abbey of Gimont].

Source: La Femme dans l' histoire et la société méridionales (IXe-XIXe S.): Actes du 66e congrés. . Fédération historique du Languedoc méditerranéen et du Roussillon, 1995. Pages 67 - 90.
Year of Publication: 1995.

54. Record Number: 362
Author(s): Skinner, Patricia
Contributor(s):
Title : Women, Literacy, and Invisibility in Southern Italy, 900-1200

Source: Women, the Book and the Worldly: Selected Proceedings of the St. Hilda's Conference, 1993. Volume 2. [Volume 1: Women, the Book, and the Godly]. Edited by Lesley Smith and Jane H. M. Taylor . D.S.Brewer, 1995. Pages 1 - 11.
Year of Publication: 1995.

55. Record Number: 2767
Author(s): Pohl-Resl, Brigitte.
Contributor(s):
Title : Vorsorge, Memoria und soziales Ereignis: Frauen als Schenkerinnen in den bayerischen und alemannischen Urkunden des 8. und 9. Jahrhunderts

Source: Mitteilungen des Instituts für österreichische Geschichtsforschung , 103., 40241 ( 1995): Pages 265 - 287.
Year of Publication: 1995.

56. Record Number: 3298
Author(s): Weidemann, Margarethe.
Contributor(s):
Title : Urkunde und Vita der heiligen Bilhildis aus Mainz

Source: Francia , 21., 1 ( 1994): Pages 17 - 84.
Year of Publication: 1994.

57. Record Number: 3314
Author(s): Wettlaufer, Jørg.
Contributor(s):
Title : Jus primae noctis: historisch-anthropologische Überlegungen zum Verständnis eines "mittelalterlichen Feudalrechts"

Source: Francia , 21., 1 ( 1994): Pages 245 - 262.
Year of Publication: 1994.

58. Record Number: 12603
Author(s): Reynolds, Philip Lyndon.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Dotal Charter as Theological Charter [The author analyzes four dotal charters from a printed collection in the "Monumenta Germaniae Historica" entitled "Formulae Merowingici et Karolini Aevi." Rather than simply record the bridegrooms' promised gifts, they include small theological treatises on the sanctity of marriage. They draw on liturgical sources to explain important events in sacred history including Eve's creation as a help to Adam and Christ's miracle at the marriage in Cana. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Recherches de Théologie ancienne et médiévale , 61., ( 1994): Pages 54 - 68.
Year of Publication: 1994.

59. Record Number: 4391
Author(s): Feiss, Hugh, O.S.B.
Contributor(s):
Title : Consecrated to Christ, Nuns of This Church Community: The Benedictines of Notre-Dame de Saintes, 1047-1792 [the author maintains that the documents and other evidence present "the picture of a large, independent, and self-consciously feminine community, which played an important part in the economic and cultural life of its region and possesed the vitality to survive long periods of war and other hardships during the 750 years of its existence" (Page 270)].

Source: American Benedictine Review , 45., 3 (September 1994): Pages 269 - 302.
Year of Publication: 1994.

60. Record Number: 5099
Author(s): Oudart, Hervé.
Contributor(s):
Title : Le Landais, un exemple original de vie religieuse féminine dans le diocèse de Bourges au début du XIIe siècle [The author examines a document, reproduced in the Appendix, in which two men grant land in the forest of Landais to a group of holy women who live as hermits].

Source: Les Religieuses dans le Cloître et dans le Monde des Origines à Nos Jours. Actes du Deuxième Colloque International de C.E.R.C.O.R. Poitiers, 29 septembre-2 octobre 1988. . Publications de l'Université de Sainte-Etienne, 1994. American Benedictine Review , 45., 3 (September 1994): Pages 125 - 129.
Year of Publication: 1994.

61. Record Number: 1537
Author(s): Lauranson- Rosaz, Christian.
Contributor(s):
Title : Les origines d'Odon de Cluny [The author argues that Ava, wife of Abbo, is the mother of St. Odo; includes the Latin text and French translation of a charter in which Ava donates many properties to Saint Pierre de Maurs].

Source: Cahiers de Civilization Médiévale , 37., ( 1994): Pages 255 - 270.
Year of Publication: 1994.

62. Record Number: 3626
Author(s): Mckee, Sally.
Contributor(s):
Title : Evidence of Greek Women's Economic Activities under Venetian rule

Source: Byzantine Studies Conference. Abstracts of Papers , 20., ( 1994): Pages 30 - 31.
Year of Publication: 1994.

63. Record Number: 1978
Author(s): Goldberg, Jeremy.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women in Later Medieval English Archives [overview of the various kinds of original records available for the study of women in the subject areas of work, law, lifecycle, and religious devotion].

Source: Journal of the Society of Archivists , 15., 1 (Spring 1994): Pages 59 - 71.
Year of Publication: 1994.

64. Record Number: 10741
Author(s):
Contributor(s):
Title : Marriage, Family, and Patriarchy in Douai, 1350-1600 [The author explores the variety of documentary sources available in Douai for understanding gender differences in marriage and inheritance. Over the time span under consideration, maritalm property arrangements changed from favoring the couple to protecting the lineage. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Marriage and Social Mobility in the Late Middle Ages/Marriage et mobilité sociale au bas moyen-âge. Handelingen van het colloquieum gehouden te Gent op 18 april 1988. Edited by W. Prevenier Studia Historica Gandensia . Department of History of the Arts Faculty of the University of Gent, 1992. Francia , 21., 1 ( 1994): Pages 7 - 39. Second printing, revised and corrected by the editor
Year of Publication: 1992.

65. Record Number: 8438
Author(s): Jones, E. D.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Medieval Leyrwite: A Historical Note on Female Fornication [Leyrwite was a fine, most often paid by women, for illicit sexual activity. The author analyzes the records from Spaulding Priory concerning the serfs that worked its lands. He argues that the Priory did not levy the fines for financial purposes. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: English Historical Review (Full Text via JSTOR) 107, 425 (October 1992): 945-953. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1992.

66. Record Number: 12282
Author(s): Goez, Werner.
Contributor(s):
Title : Matilda Dei gratia si quid est. Die Urkunden-Unterfertigung der Burgherrin von Canossa [Author discusses the use of the formula "Dei gratia si quid est" in Countess Mathilda of Tuscany's signature on documents. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters , 47., ( 1991): Pages 378 - 394.
Year of Publication: 1991.

67. Record Number: 12737
Author(s): Saradi-Mendelovici, Helen.
Contributor(s):
Title : A Contribution to the Study of the Byzantine Notarial Formulas: The "infirmitas sexus" of Women and the "senatusconsultum Velleianum" [The author traces two notarial formulae that were commonly used in legal documents under Roman and Byzantine law: the “infirmitas sexus” (the legal designation of the inferiority of women as a natural characteristic) and the “senatusconsultum Velleianum” (a set of imperial provisions and restrictions imposed upon women). Both of these formulae appear in the middle to late Byzantine periods, where the Byzantine legislation perpetuates ancient restrictions on women’s legal capacities. The natural inferiority of women was often cited as the reason for why imperial legislation must protect and limit their actions. Appendix includes a list of relevant notarial documents in chronological order, including the parties involved , the notary who drew up the document, the location, and the legal formulation used. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Byzantinische Zeitschrift , 83., ( 1990): Pages 72 - 90.
Year of Publication: 1990.

68. Record Number: 15601
Author(s): Herlihy, David.
Contributor(s):
Title : Women and the Sources of Medieval History: The Towns of Northern Italy [The author briefly, but expertly, surveys the many different kinds of documentary sources available for the study of women's history. Herlihy categorizes much of the material as either prescriptive or administrative. In concluding, he emphasizes that the

Source: Medieval Women and the Sources of Medieval History. Edited by Joel T. Rosenthal . University of Georgia Press, 1990. Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters , 47., ( 1991): Pages 133 - 154.
Year of Publication: 1990.

69. Record Number: 15609
Author(s): Stuard, Susan Mosher.
Contributor(s):
Title : Sources on Medieval Women in Mediterranean Archives [The author introduces three contexts for women's history in the medieval Mediterranean: 1) Women's institutional affiliations (mostly religious) ; 2) Standard written texts including theology and law; 3) Social history including women. This third category involves charters, wills, census records, and other documents which have not yet been examined for women's presence and activites. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

70. Record Number: 15600
Author(s): Gold, Penny S.
Contributor(s):
Title : The Charters of Le Ronceray D'Angers; Male/Female Interaction in Monastic Business [The author briefly documents and analyzes women's and men's interactions and roles in administering the female Benedictine monastery of Ronceray d'Angers in western France. Gold compares working relationships with Fontevrault to demonstrate that the Ronceray abbesses had less clean-cut control over the priests and coanons attached to thier houses. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

71. Record Number: 15606
Author(s): Rosenthal, Joel T.
Contributor(s):
Title : Anglo-Saxon Attitudes: Men's Sources, Women's History [The author discusses source material including law codes and the "Anglo Saxon Chronicle." Rosenthal suggests that women's history needs to be read obliquely in texts hwere they are not the focus but play roles of some importance like mothers in male saints' lives. Title note supplied by Feminae.].