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1. Record Number: 12609
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Title : Limiting Yardage and Changes of Clothes: Sumptuary Legislation in Thirteenth-Century France, Languedoc, and Italy [In Western Europe, the first laws to control the expenditure and display of dress by laypersons appeared in the thirteenth century. The initial period of regulating activity in Occitania, France, and Italy developed from ecclesiastical laws regulating clerical dress, but the political origins and motivations for the legislation varied by region. Italian and Occitan cities based their legislation upon Roman law, while northern regions of France used customary law; the cities of Montpellier and Siena focused more attention on women’s display than men’s, while most French regions were more interested in keeping a clear correlation between social status and wealth in general. The effects of sumptuary legislation on people in these regions are reflected by numerous sartorial concerns in contemporary vernacular poetry and didactic literatures. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
Source: Medieval Fabrications: Dress, Textiles, Clothwork, and Other Cultural Imaginings.   Edited by E. Jane Burns .   Palgrave, 2004.  Pages 121 - 136.
Year of Publication: 2004.
2. Record Number: 4464
Author(s): Smith, Jennifer.
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Title : Unfamiliar Territory: Women, Land, and Law in Occitania, 1130-1250
Source: Medieval Women and the Law.   Edited by Noël James Menuge .   Boydell Press, 2000.  Pages 19 - 40.
Year of Publication: 2000.
3. Record Number: 3780
Author(s): Cheyette, Fredric.
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Title : Women, Poets, and Politics in Occitania
Source: Aristocratic Women in Medieval France.   Edited by Theodore Evergates .   University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.  Pages 138 - 177.
Year of Publication: 1999.
4. Record Number: 2799
Author(s): Passerat, G.
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Title : Douceline, Delphine, et les autres ou la sainteté féminine en occitanie à la fin du moyen âge [considers the impact of Franciscan spirituality on women in Occitania; the author provides short sketches of Douceline de Digne, a Beguine, Delphine de Puymichel who lived in a chaste marriage, and Constance de Rabastens who had visions and made public prophecies].
Source: Bulletin de Littérature Ecclésiastique , 98., 3 (juillet-septembre 1997):  Pages 235 - 250.
Year of Publication: 1997.