HISTORY 310
DAUGHTERS OF EVE, SISTERS OF MARY: WOMEN IN THE MIDDLE AGES
 

SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING




Atkinson, Clarissa, The Oldest Vocation (Ithaca, 1991)
Baldwin, John, The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France Around 1200 (Chicago, 1994)
Bennett, Judith, Women in the medieval English countryside : gender and household in Brigstock before the
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Bennett, Judith, et al., eds., Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages (Chicago,1989)
Bennett, Judith, Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women’s Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 (Oxford,
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Bennett, Judith and Amy Froide, eds., Singlewomen in the European past, 1250-1800 (Philadelphia, 1999)
Bennett, Judith, A medieval life : Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344 (McGraw-Hill, 1999)
Bitel, Lisa M., The Land of Women: Tales of Sex and Gender from Early Ireland (Ithaca, NY, 1996)
Bitel, Lisa M., Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100 (Cambridge, 2002)
Blamires, Alcuin, ed., Woman Defamed and Woman Defended (Oxford, 1992)
Blamires, Alcuin, The Case for Women in Medieval Culture (Oxford, 1997)
Bloch, R. Howard, Medieval misogyny and the invention of Western romantic love (Chicago, 1991)
Boswell, John, Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality (Chicago, 1980)
Boyarin, Daniel, “Paul and the Genealogy of Gender,” Representations 41 (1993).
Bridenthal, Renate and Susan Mosher Stuard, eds., Becoming Visible: Women in European History, 3rd ed.
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Brooke, Christopher, The Medieval Idea of Marriage (Oxford, 1989)
Brown, Peter, The Body and Society: Men, Women and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity (New York,
1988)
Brundage, James A., Law, Sex and Christian Society in Medieval Europe (Chicago, 1987)
Bullough, Vern, and James A. Brundage, eds., Handbook of Medieval Sexuality (New York, 1996)
Bullough, Vern, and James Brundage, Sexual Practices and the Medieval Church (1982; reprint, Prometheus
Press, 1994)
Butler, Judith, Gender Trouble (New York, 1990)
Bynum, Caroline W., Holy Feast and Holy Fast (Berkeley, 1987)
Bynum, Caroline W., Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval
Religion (New York, 1991)
Cadden, Joan, Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science and Culture (Cambridge, 1993)
Carpenter, Jennifer and Sally-Beth MacLean, eds., Power of the Weak: Studies on Medieval Women
(Urbana, 1995)
Chance, Jane, ed., Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages (Gainesville, 1996)
Cohen, Jeffrey J. and Bonnie Wheeler, eds., Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (New York, 1997)
Davids, Adelbert, ed., The Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the Turn of the Millennium
(Cambridge, 1995)
Dillard, Heath, Daughters of the Reconquest: Women in Castilian Town Society 1100-1300. Cambridge, 1984.
Dockray-Miller, Mary, Motherhood and Mothering in Anglo-Saxon England (NY, 2000)
Dronke, Peter, Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1984)
Duby, Georges, ed., A History of Private Life. Volume II: Revelations of the Medieval World (Cambridge, MA,
1988)
Duby, Georges, Medieval Marriage: Two Models from Twelfth-Century France (Baltimore, 1978)
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Evergates, Theodore, ed., Aristocratic women in medieval France (Philadelphia, 1999)
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Flanagan, Sabine, Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life (Routledge, 1989)
Gilchrist, Roberta, Gender and Material Culture: the Archaeology of Religious Women (Routledge, 1994)
Gold, Penny S., The Lady and the Virgin (Chicago, 1985)
Goldberg, P.J.P., Women, Work and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire, c.1300-
1520 (Oxford, 1992)
Goodman, Anthony, Margery Kempe and Her World (Longman, 2002)
Gravdahl, Katherine, Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature (Philadelphia, 1991)
Howell, Martha, Women, Production and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities (Chicago, 1986)
Itnyre, Cathy Jorgensen, ed., Medieval Family Roles: A Book of Essays (Garland, 1996)
Jewell, Helen M., Women in Medieval England (Manchester, 1996)
Jochens, Jenny, Women in Old Norse society (Ithaca, 1995)
Johnson, Penelope, Equal in Monastic Profession (Chicago, 1991)
Karras, Ruth M., Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (Oxford, 1996)
Kay, Sarah and Miri Rubin, eds., Framing Medieval Bodies (Manchester, 1994)
Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 1985)
Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, ed., A History of Women in the West. Volume II: Silences of the Middle Ages
 (Cambridge, MA, 1992)
Laqueur, Thomas, Making Sex: Body and Gender From the Greeks to Freud (Cambridge, MA, 1990)
Lees, Clare, ed., Medieval Masculinities (Minneapolis, 1994)
Leyser, Henrietta, Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England, 450-1500 (NY, 1995)
Lomperis, Linda, and Sarah Stanbury, eds., Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature
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 Ages (Durham, 1992)
McNamara, Jo Ann, Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns through Two Millennia (Cambridge, MA, 1996)
Mooney, Catherine, Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and Their Interpreters (Philadelphia, 1999)
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Newman, Barbara, Sister of Wisdom: St Hildegard’s Theology of the Feminine (Berkeley, 1987)
Ortner, Sherri, “Is Female to Male as Nature Is to Culture?” Feminist Studies 1 (1972): 5-31.
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Parsons, John C., ed. Medieval Queenship (New York, 1993)
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Salisbury, Joyce, Perpetua’s Passion: the Death and Memory of a Young Roman Woman (New York, 1997)
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Ward, Jennifer C., English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1992)
Wemple, Suzanne F., Women in Frankish Society (Philadelphia, 1985)
Willard, Charity C., Christine de Pisan: Her Life and Works (New York, 1984)
Wilson, Katharina, ed., Medieval Women Writers (Athens, GA., 1984)



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