The Image of the Crusade Woman through Islamic Writings Contemporary with the Crusades
The Crusades were a real opportunity for Muslims and Christians to co-habit, deepen their knowledge of each other, and discover each others customs and traditions.
Why Eastern Women Matter: The Influence of Byzantine Empresses on Western Queenship during the Middle Ages
My research proposes that the imperial women of the east had an important and discernable influence on the royal women of the west. In order to show this influence I examine the nature of western queenship by analyzing the Merovingian, Carolingian, and Ottonian dynasties.
Midwives and Medical Texts: Women’s Healing Practices in the Crown of Aragón, 1300-1600
Throughout the kingdom of Aragón, women who performed healing actions were only periodically titled midwives and very rarely called doctors. They were even more infrequently licensed or counted in censuses in such a way that we can reliably estimate the number of female healers.
“In writing it may be spoke”: The Politics of Women’s Letter-Writing, 1377-1603
Examining significant moments of women’s letter-writing from throughout the late medieval and early modern periods, I argue that the epistolary genre enabled fifteenth- and sixteenth-century women to craft representations of themselves on paper that preserved their modesty yet allowed them to intervene in the public sphere.
Study examines the same-sex relationships of Medieval Arab Women
A recent article suggests that lesbian activities of women in the medieval Arab world were far more common and open than is commonly believed, or would be considered acceptable in today’s Middle East.
Women workers could be found on the medieval construction site, study finds
According to a recently published study, women could be found working on construction sites, if only occasionally, including in specialized roles such as…
Claire Jones, editor of HerStoria
HerStoria magazine started up in 2009 and soon got impressive reviews, including being named to the top ten list of new magazines from…
Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe
Landscape with Two Saints: How Genovefa of Paris and Brigit of Kildare Built Christianity in Barbarian Europe By Lisa Bitel Oxford University Press,…
Forgetting the Weakness of Her Sex and a Woman’s Softness: Historians of the Anglo-Norman World and their Female Subjects
Abelard warns that the devil can ‘easily seduce a woman when her desire is for authority’ and he warns against making a local noblewoman into an abbess, for her authority could easily lead to pride and presumptuousness.
Maleficae et Maledictae Feminae: Fourteenth-Century Sources for Key Feature of the Learned Interpretation of Witchcraft in Italy at the End of the Middle Ages
Maleficae et Maledictae Feminae: Fourteenth-Century Sources for Key Feature of the Learned Interpretation of Witchcraft in Italy at the End of the Middle…
The King’s Mistress
The King’s Mistress By Emma Campion Crown Publishing, 2010 ISBN: 978-0307589255 The King’s Mistress is a story based on the life of King…
Lineage strategies and the control of widows in Renaissance Florence
Lineage strategies and the control of widows in Renaissance Florence By Isabelle Chabot Widowhood in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, edited by Sandra…
The Social Status of Women in Latvia in the 7th-13th Centuries, in the Light of Palaeodemographic Data
This paper is intended as a contribution to the understanding of women’s social role and living conditions in the Iron Age society in Latvia.
The Ladies of Ely
The ‘sisters’ of Ely were among the most venerated saints of Anglo-Saxon England, regularly rivalling even the Canterbury cults in the number and value of donations received from supplicants
Eirene Doukaina, Byzantine empress, A.D. 1067-1133
Eirene Doukaina, Byzantine empress, A.D. 1067-1133 By Elizabeth C. Lundy Master’s Thesis, University of Ottawa, 1988 Abstract: Eirene Doukaina was born in Constantinople…
A Case of Indifference? Child Murder in Later Medieval England
Infanticide was a felony in the Middle Ages and neither jurors nor royal officials treated child murder with indifference. Nevertheless, it is clear that both gender and marital status guided the courts in their decisions throughout the legal process in terms of indicting, prosecuting, and sentencing defendants in cases of child murder.
Continental Women Mystics and English Readers
In 1406 Sir Henry later Lord Fitzhugh, trusted servant of King Henry IV, visited Vadstena, the Bridgettine monastery for men and women in Sweden. Vadstena was the mother-house of the Order of the Most Holy Saviour and had been founded by the controversial continental mystic St Bridget of Sweden, who had died in 1373 and had been canonized in Fitzhugh was so impressed by what he saw that he gave one of his manors near Cambridge as the future site for an English Bridgettine foundation.
Women’s oldest profession? Evidence from twelfth century Bergen, Norway
I am going to present a micro level study; A close up on activities at town plots in Bergen in twelfth century western Norway providing substance to our insight in the everyday life of ordinary people – the first generations of townspeople in this newly established town.
Texts and contexts : women’s dedicated life from Caesarius to Benedict
Texts and contexts : women’s dedicated life from Caesarius to Benedict Rudge, Lindsay University of St Andrews, 21-Jun-2007 Abstract The history of western…
Women and Cows – Ownership and Work in Medieval Sweden
In this paper, I will be looking at butter making as a woman’s occupation.
Sand Daughter
Sand Daughter By Sarah Bryant Publisher: Berkley Trade ISBN:9780425229804 “An epic filled with emotion and rich with atmosphere” (” Historical Novel Society”) from…
The Council of the Cursed: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland
The Council of the Cursed: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland By Peter Tremayne Publisher: Headline, March 5, 2009 ISBN: 9780755328413 When Bishop Leodegar…
Subversive images of women in Medieval English literature : a selective reading
The resistance that women characters in medieval literatures pose to the hegemonic ideology is a matter of particular interest of this paper. At the same time, the nature of their containment and appropriation is also something that this paper wishes to examine.
Chambers of Death
Chambers of Death By Priscilla Royal Publisher:Poisoned Pen Press, August 1, 2009 ISBN:9781590586419 When one of her company falls ill on a return…