The Village Ale-Wife: Women and Brewing in Fourteenth-Century England
The medieval peasant diet was plain and basic; most peasant meals consisted only of bread, ale, and soup with some variation provided by seasoned fruits, legumes, and vegetables.
Religious Women in Medieval East Anglia: Not isolated, but marginalized
Religious Women in Medieval East Anglia: Not isolated, but marginalized By Sono Morishita Deviations and Alienations of Marginalized People in Medieval European Communities: The…
Ambivalent Attitudes toward Women in Late Medieval Europe: Misogyny and the Cult of Women
How and why did misogyny and the cult of women ambivalently exist between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries?
Witchcraft and Women in Medieval Christianity
Witches and vampires draw much attention on Halloween day, in the Harry Potter novels, and in vampire movies. Whether or not they believe in them in a religious sense, many people nowadays simply assume that sort of world and witchcraft might exist somewhere
Session 4: Lordship, History, and the Dominae of Northern France: Rebellion and the Countess
Rebellion and the Countess Heather J. Tanner (Ohio State University) This paper spoke about rebellion and retribution during the reign of King Philip…
Session 4: Lordship, History, and the Dominae of Northern France –
Female Lordship in the 13th c. Picard Historical Documents Kathy M. Krause (University of Missouri – Kansas City) This paper focuses on the…
Session 3: Hostages & Captive Taking in the High Middle Ages Heroes, Fosterage and Hagiography: The Function of Fosterage in Medieval Irish Literature
Heroes, Fosterage and Hagiography: The Function of Fosterage in Medieval Irish Literature Lahney Preston-Matto (Adelphi University) Summary This paper examined the fosterage from…
Session 3: Hostages & Captive Taking in the High Middle Ages
Session 3: Hostages & Captive Taking in the High Middle Ages That’s No Way to Treat a Lady! Hostage or Captive: What’s the…
Women Healers of the Middle Ages: Selected Aspects of Their History
Women Healers of the Middle Ages: Selected Aspects of Their History By William L. Minkowsli American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 82, No.…
The Beauty of Reasoning: A Reexamination of Hypatia of Alexandra
The Beauty of Reasoning: A Reexamination of Hypatia of Alexandra By Bryan J. Whitfield The Mathematics Educator, Vol.6:1 (1995) No handiwork of Callimachus,…
The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution
The beautiful woman in medieval Iberia: rhetoric, cosmetics, and evolution By Claudio Da Soller PhD Dissertation, University of Missouri, 2005 Abstract: Literary portraits…
From Greek myth to medieval witches: infertile women as monstrous and evil
From Greek myth to medieval witches: infertile women as monstrous and evil McGuire, Linda Interdisciplinary.net Abstract In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a…
From Prostitutes to Brides of Christ: The Avignonese Repenties in the Late Middle Ages
From Prostitutes to Brides of Christ: The Avignonese Repenties in the Late Middle Ages By Joëlle Rollo-Koster Journal of Medieval and Early Modern…
Invisible Women
Invisible Women By Ruth Mazo Karras Medieval Feminist Forum, Vol. 39 (2005) Introduction: Medieval recordkeepers wrote down the information they heeded for their own…
Reading Regina: Revisiting the Education of Upper-Class Women In the Middle Ages
Reading Regina: Revisiting the Education of Upper-Class Women In the Middle Ages By Sarah Peters Lucerna, vol. 1, no. 1 (2006) Introduction: Medieval…
Portrayals of women in violent situations in texts of the High Middle Ages
Portrayals of women in violent situations in texts of the High Middle Ages By Nina K. Verbanaz M.A. Thesis, University of Missouri–Columbia, 2008…
The Women of Papal Avignon. A new Source: The Liber Divisionis of 1371
When the papal curia settled permanently in Avignon in 1316, a mass of immigrants flooded the city. The core of the Avignonese population, some five to six thousand natives, was augmented by thousands of newcomers.
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen
Vision – From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen Directed by Margarethe von Trotta Starring Barbara Sukowa, Hannah Herzsprung and Heino Ferch Released…
Hildegard von Bingen: A Timeline
Born nearly 1000 years ago, Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179) remains a popular figure to this day. A polymath ahead of her time who…
Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
Fast, Feast, and Flesh: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women By Caroline Walker Bynum Representations, No. 11 (1985) Introduction: Scholars have…
Natalie Zemon Davis: Why Gender and Women’s Studies Matter
Carla Hesse, Dean of Social Sciences at the University of California – Berkeley in conversation with renowned historian Natalie Zemon Davis of the…
The Queen’s Daughter
The Queen’s Daughter Susan Coventry Publisher:Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, June 8, 2010 ISBN:9780805089929 Summary Joan’s mother is Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine,…
Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance
Poison: A Novel of the Renaissance Sara Poole Publisher: St. Martin’s Press, August 3, 2010 ISBN:9780312609832 Summary In the simmering hot summer of…
The Secret Eleanor
The Secret Eleanor Cecelia Holland Publisher: Berkley Trade, August 3, 2010 ISBN: 9780425234501 Summary Eleanor of Aquitaine seized hold of life in the…
Books of Women’s Conduct from France during the High and Late Middle Ages, 1200-1400
Throughout their lives, men and women in the Middle Ages were expected to conform to strict standards for moral and social behavior.