Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 15840
Author(s): Weddle, Saundra.
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Title : Identity and Alliance: Urban Presence, Spatial Privilege, and Florentine Renaissance Convents [The author analyses the locations and functions of women's monasteries in late medieval and early modern Florence. Weddle argues that architectural spaces carried multiple meanings. Womens' monasteries were places of spiritual work, but they also could convey meanings related to patronage and politics. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Renaissance Florence: A Social History. Edited by Roger J. Crum and John T. Paoletti . Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pages 394 - 412.
Year of Publication: 2006.

2. Record Number: 7364
Author(s): Devroey, Jean-Pierre.
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Title : Femmes au mirroir des polyptyques: une approche des rapports du couple dans l'exploitation rurale dépendante entre Seine et Rhin au IXe siècle [The author argues that the history of women can only be fully understood when it is considered along with the history of men. Using ninth century polyptiques, the author analyzes women's and men's roles for peasants, serfs, and the unfree. He also suggests reasons for the smaller numbes of women and larger numbers of men in the rural populations. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Femmes et pouvoirs des femmes à Byzance et en Occident (VIe -XIe siècles). Colloque international organisé les 28, 29 et 30 mars 1996 à Bruxelles et Villeneuve d'Ascq. Edited by Stéphane Lebecq, Alain Dierkens, Régine Le Jan, and Jean-Marie Sansterre . Centre de Recherche sur l'Histoire de l'Europe du Nord-Ouest, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3, 1999. Pages 227 - 249.
Year of Publication: 1999.

3. Record Number: 3169
Author(s): Kowaleski, Maryanne.
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Title : Singlewomen in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: The Demographic Perspective

Source: Singlewomen in the European Past, 1250-1800. Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Amy M. Froide . University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. Pages 38
Year of Publication: 1999.

4. Record Number: 4401
Author(s): Biller, Peter.
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Title : Confessors' Manuals and the Avoiding of Offspring [The author argues that pastoral concern over efforts to prevent conception indicates an increase in the practice and may be correlated to overpopulation].

Source: Handling Sin: Confession in the Middle Ages. Edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis York Studies in Medieval Theology . York Medieval Press, 1998. Pages 165 - 187.
Year of Publication: 1998.

5. Record Number: 1998
Author(s): Emigh, Rebecca Jean.
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Title : Land Tenure, Household Structure, and Age at Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany

Source: Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Full Text via JSTOR) 27, 4 (Spring 1997): 613-635. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1997.

6. Record Number: 542
Author(s): Gaunt, Simon.
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Title : The Women of Papal Avignon. A New Source: The "Liber Divisionis" of 1371 [census of 3800 heads of households, 17% of which were females].

Source: Journal of Women's History , 8., 1 (Spring 1996): Pages 36 - 59.
Year of Publication: 1996.

7. Record Number: 657
Author(s): Falskau, Christian-Frederik.
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Title : Demographic Decline in Late Medieval England: Some Thoughts on Recent Research [questions the theory that women's employment, especially as servants, drove down population after the Black Death].

Source: Economic History Review (Full Text via JSTOR) 49, 1 (Feb. 1996): 1-19. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1996.

8. Record Number: 996
Author(s): Jones, E. D.
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Title : Medieval Merchets as Demographic Data: Some Evidence from the Spalding Priory Estates, Lincolnshire

Source: Continuity and Change , 11., 3 (Dec. 1996): Pages 459 - 470.
Year of Publication: 1996.

9. Record Number: 6014
Author(s): Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane.
Contributor(s):
Title : Les Femmes et la mort à la fin du moyen age [the author provides an overview of female mortality based on statistics taken from Florentine ricordanze (which often included family memoirs) for both girls and married women; the author notes the discrepancy in female versus male survival rates with men living in significantly larger proportions from childhood onward; the author also notes the higher mortality rates for women due to death during childbirth].

Source: Ilaria del Carretto e il suo monumento: la donna nell'arte, la cultura, e la società del '400. Atti del convegno Internazionale di Studi, 15-16-17 Settembre, 1994, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca. Edited by Stéphane Toussaint. Translated by Clotilde Soave Bowe. . Edizioni S. Marco Litotipo, 1995. Medieval Prosopography , 16., 1 (Spring 1995): Pages 207 - 221.
Year of Publication: 1995.

10. Record Number: 271
Author(s): Oliva, Marilyn.
Contributor(s):
Title : Counting Nuns: A Prosopography of Late Medieval English Nuns in the Diocese of Norwich

Source: Medieval Prosopography , 16., 1 (Spring 1995): Pages 27 - 55.
Year of Publication: 1995.

11. Record Number: 8532
Author(s): Gallien, Véronique.
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Title : La femme: Témoin de l'evolution du cimetière de la basilique à Saint-Denis durant le haut moyen âge

Source: La Femme pendant le Moyen Âge et l'époque moderne. Actes des Sixiémes Journées Anthropologiques de Valbonne 9-10-11 juin 1992. Edited by Luc Buchet Dossier de Documentation Archéologique, 17. CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre de Recherches Archéologiques) Éditions, 1994. Medieval Prosopography , 16., 1 (Spring 1995): Pages 69 - 86.
Year of Publication: 1994.

12. Record Number: 8684
Author(s): Smith, Richard M.
Contributor(s):
Title : Geographical Diversity in the Resort to Marriage in Late Medieval Europe: Work, Reputation, and Unmarried Females in the Household Formation Systems of Northern and Southern Europe [The author uses demographic evidence from York and Tuscany to demonstrate the differences in household systems betweenNorthwest and Mediterranean Europe. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Woman is a Worthy Wight: Women in English Society c. 1200-1500. Edited by P.J.P. Goldberg . Alan Sutton Publishing, 1992. Medieval Prosopography , 16., 1 (Spring 1995): Pages 16 - 59.
Year of Publication: 1992.

13. Record Number: 10525
Author(s): L’Hermite-Leclercq, Paulette.
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Title : The Feudal Order [The eleventh and twelfth centuries were a time of unity and stability in Europe, but it is hard to determine whether living conditions for women improved during this era. Women from this period rarely speak in their own voices, and their history is mostly mediated by men. Although some claim that women outnumbered men during this time so that women were more highly valued, the author refutes this claim. Noble birth and upbringing may have brought certain advantages to some girls, but gender and class hierarchies limited their options in life. Geographical location, social rank, and economic class profoundly influenced the lives and occupations of women in all three feudal estates: aristocratic women, religious women, and peasant women (rural and urban). Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: A History of Women in the West. Volume 2: Silences of the Middle Ages. Edited by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber . Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992. Medieval Prosopography , 16., 1 (Spring 1995): Pages 202 - 249.
Year of Publication: 1992.

14. Record Number: 8683
Author(s): Goldberg, P. J. P.
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Title : Marriage, Migration, and Servanthood: The York Cause Paper Evidence [The article examines demographic evidence related to marital age in medieval York, in order to identify a regional marriage regime, and observe how it changed over time. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

15. Record Number: 8685
Author(s): Biller, P.P.A.
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Title : Marriage Patterns and Women's Lives: A Sketch of a Pastoral Geography [The author asks what pastoral manuals from northwestern and southern Europe might tell us about women's lives, and suggests that they might provide a response to demographic patterns in those regions. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

16. Record Number: 10743
Author(s): Kock, Esther.
Contributor(s):
Title : Entry into Convents and the Position on the Marriage Market of Noble Women in the Late Middle Ages [The author explores three areas that need more investigation in order to answer the issues involved in the "Frauenfrage" (that is the dramatic upsurge of women's entry into convents and other forms of religious life in the late Middle Ages): 1)The Church's changing conception of marriage including monogamy, indissolubility, and degrees of consanguinity; 2)Economic factors including dower and hereditary position; 3)Demographic factors including sex ratios and age at marriage. Second printing, revised and corrected by the editor. 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. Medieval Prosopography , 16., 1 (Spring 1995): Pages 99 - 122. Second printing, revised and corrected by the editor
Year of Publication: 1992.

17. Record Number: 11038
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Title : Oral Contraceptives and Early-Term Abortifacients during Classical Antiquity and the Middle Ages [The author argues that pre-modern traditional medicine used chemical birth control methods in order to successfully control the birth-rate. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: Past and Present (Full Text via JSTOR) 132 (August 1991): 3-32. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1991.

18. Record Number: 11224
Author(s): Bonfield, Lloyd.
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Title : Canon Law and Family Law in Medieval Western Christendom

Source: Continuity and Change , 6., 3 (December 1991): Pages 361 - 374.
Year of Publication: 1991.