A Select Bibliography of Works Concerning Medieval Women

Adams, Carol, et al. From Workshop to Warfare: The Lives of Medieval Women. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Aigrain, René. Sainte Radegonde. Paris: Librairie Lecoffre, 1930.

Allen, Prudence. "Two Medieval Views on Woman's Identity: Hildegard of Bingen and Thomas Aquinas," Studies in Religion: Sciences Religieuses, Vol. 16, no. 1, 1987, pp. 21-36.

Allen, Charlotte. "The Holy Feminine," First Things, No. 98, December, 1999, pp. 37-44.

Altmann, Barbara K. The Love Debate Poems of Christine de Pizan. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1998.

Amt, Emilie, ed. Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook. New York and London: Routledge, 1993.

Anderson, Bonnie S., and Judith P. Zinsser. A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, Vol. I. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Angela of Foligno. The Book of Divine Consolation of the Blessed Angela of Foligno, trans. Mary G. Steegman. New York: Cooper Square, 1966.

Anna Comnena. Alexiad, trans. E.R.A. Sewter. London and New York: Penguin, 1969.

Atkinson, Clarissa W. Mystic and Pilgrim: The Book and World of Margery Kemp. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

----. The Oldest Vocation: Christian Motherhood in the Middle Ages. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

---- et al., eds. The Female in Sacred Image and Social Reality. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985.

Baker, Derek, ed. Medieval Women. Oxford: B. Blackwell for the Ecclesiastical History Society, 1978.

Baldwin, John W. The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France around 1200. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Barr, Jane, "The Influence of St. Jerome on Medieval Attitudes to Women," in Janet Martin Soskice, ed., After Eve: Women, Theology and the Christian Tradition. London: Marshall Pickerin, 1990, pp. 89-102.]

Barratt, Alexandra, "Undutiful Daughters and Metaphorical Mothers among the Beguines," in Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, eds. New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and their Impact, in ser. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999., pp. 81-104.

Barratt, Alexandra, ed. Women's Writing in Middle English. London and New York: Longman, 1992.

Barstow, Anne Llewellyn. Joan of Arc: Heretic, Mystic, Shaman. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.

Baskin, Judith R., "Medieval Jewish Women," in Linda Mitchell, ed. Women in Medieval Western European Culture. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 2007, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999, pp. 65-80.

Baudonivia. De Vita Sanctae Radegondis. Hanover: Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum II, 1888.

Bauml, F., "Varieties and consequences of medieval literacy and illiteracy," Speculum 55 (1980), pp. 237-265.

Beer, Frances. Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1992.

Beer, Jeanette, ed. and trans. Master Richard's Bestiary of Love and Response. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.

Bell, David N. What Nuns Read; Books and Libraries in Medieval English Nunneries. Kalamazoo, 1995.

Bell, Susan Groag, "Medieval Women Book-owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society Vol. 7, No. 4 (Summer, 1982), pp. 742-768.

Benedek, Thomas G. The Roles of Medieval Women in the Healing Arts, ed. Douglas Radcliff Umstead. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Publications on the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Vol. III, 1975.

Bennett, Henry S. The Pastons and Their England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1922.

----. Six Medieval Men and Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955.

Bennett, Judith M., ed. Sisters and Workers in the Middle Ages. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Bertini, Ferruccio, ed. Medioevo al femminile. Rome and Bari: Laterza, 1989.

Blamires, Alcuin. The Case for Women in Medieval Culture. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997.

----, ed. Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Bloch, R. Howard. Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Renate. The Writings of Margaret of Oingt, Medieval Prioress and Mystic (D. 1310). Newburyport, MA: Focus Information Group, 1990.

Boffey, Julia, "Women Authors and Women's Literacy in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England," in Carol M. Meale, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 159-182.

Bogin, Meg. The Women Troubadours. New York and London: Paddington Press, 1976.

Bokenham, Osbern. A Legend of Holy Women, trans. Sheila Delaney. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press.

Bonfante, Larissa, trans. The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gandersheim. New York: New York University Press, 1979.

Book of the Knight of La Tour Landry (microform). London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1868 (rev. 1906).

Bornstein, Diane. The Lady in the Tower: Medieval Courtesy Literature for Women. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1983.

Boswell, John. The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.

Bowers, Jane, and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music: The Western Tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986.

Bowie, Fiona, ed. Beguine Spirituality: Mystical Writings of Mechtild of Magdeburg, Beatrice of Nazareth, and Hadewijich of Brabant, trans. Oliver Davies. New York: Crossroad, 1990.

St. Bridget of Sweden. The Liber Celestis of St. Bridget of Sweden: The Middle English Version. EETS no. 291. O.S., ed. Roger Ellis. Oxford: Early English Text Society, 1987.

-----. Life and Selected Revelations: Birgitta of Sweden, ed. Marguerite Tjader Harris, trans. Albert Ryle Kezel. New York: Paulist Press, 1990.

Browning, Robert. History, Language and Literacy in the Byzantine World. Northampton, MA: Variorum Reprints, 1989.

Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn. "Fictions of the Female Voice: The Women Troubadours," Speculum, Vol. 67, no. 4, October, 1992, pp. 865-891.

Brundage, James. Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

Brunn, Emilie Zum, and Georgette Epiney-Burgard. Women Mystics in Medieval Europe / Femmes Troubadours de Dieu, trans. Sheila Hughes. New York: Paragon House, 1989.

Buckler, Georgina. Anna Comnena: A Study. London: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Butler-Bowdon, W., ed. The Book of Margery Kempe: A Modern Version. London and Toronto: Jonathon Cape, 1936.

Bynum, Caroline Walker. Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion. New York: Zone Books; Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991.

----. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

----. Jesus as Mother: Studies in the Spirituality of the High Middle Ages. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982.

Cadden, Joan. Meanings of Sex Difference in the Middle Ages: Medicine, Science, and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Cameron, Averil. "'Neither Male nor Female," in Ian McAuslan and Peter Walcot, eds., Women in Antiquity, Greece and Rome Studies, Vol. III. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Campbell, Donald. Arabian Medicine and its Influence on the Middle Ages. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1926.

Cantor, Norman F. The Medieval Reader. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.

Casey, Kathleen. "The Cheshire Cat: Reconstructing the Experience of Medieval Women," in Berenice A. Carroll, ed., Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays. Urbana, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1976.

Cazelles, Brigitte, ed. Lady as Saint: A Collection of Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Chamberlain, Marcia Kathleen, "Hildegard of Bingen's Causes and Cures: A Radical Feminist Response to the Doctor-Cook Binary," in Maud Burnett McInerney, ed. Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998, pp. 53-73.

Chance, Jane, ed. Gender and Text in the Later Middle Ages. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996.

----, "Speaking In Propria Persona: Authorizing the Subject as a Political Act in Late Medieval Feminine Spirituality," in Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, eds. New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and their Impact, in ser. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999, pp. 269-296.

Cherewatuk, Karen, and Ulrike Wiethaus, eds. Dear Sister: Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.

Clark, Gillian. Women in Late Antiquity: Pagan and Christian Life-styles. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Claussen, M.A., "God and Man in Dhuoda's Liber Manualis," in W.J. Shiels and Diana Wood, eds. Women in the Church: Papers Read at the 1989 Summer Meeting and the 1990 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 43-52.

Cocalis, Susan L., ed. The Defiant Muse: German Feminist Poems from the Middle Ages to the Present: A Bilingual Anthology. New York: Feminist Press, 1986.

Coldwell, Maria V., "Jougleresses and Trobairitz: Secular Musicians in Medieval France," in Jane Bowers and Judith Tick, eds. Women Making Music: The Western Tradition, 1150-1950. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1986, pp. 39-61.

Collis, Louise. Memoirs of a Medieval Woman: The Life and Times of Margery Kempe. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1964.

Coon, Lynda L. Sacred Fictions: Holy Women and Hagiography in Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.

Costomiris, G.-A. "Etudes sur les Ecrits des Médecins Grecs," Revue des Etudes Grecques, Vol. III, 1890, pp. 145-179.

Crawford, Anne. The Letters of the Queens of England, 1100-1547. Dover, NH: A. Sutton, 1994.

Cumming, William Patterson, ed. The Revelations of St. Brigitta. London: Oxford University Press, 1929.

Dalven, Rae. Anna Comnena. Twayne's World Author Series 213. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972.

Davis, Janet B. "Hrotsvit, Strong Voice of Gandersheim," Advances in the History of Rhetoric: Histories of and Futures for Rhetorical Education, Vol. III, 1998, pp. 45-56.

de Pizan, Christine. The Book of the City of Ladies, trans. Earl Jeffrey Richards. New York: Persea, 1982.

----. Christine's Vision, trans. Glenda K. McLeod. Garland Library of Medieval Literature, Vol. 68, ser B. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1993.

----. Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc, Angus J. Kennedy and Kenneth Varty, eds. Oxford: Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, 1977.

----. A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor: The Treasury of the City of Ladies, trans. Charity Cannon Willard. New York: Bard Hall Press, Persea Books, 1989.

Delany, Shiela. Writing Woman: Woman Writers and Women in Literature, Medieval to Modern. New York: Schocken Books, 1983.

Delaruelle, Étienne. "Sainte Radegonde, son type de sainteté et la chrétienté de son temps," Etudes Mérovingiennes. Paris: Picard, 1953.

Desmond, Marilynn, ed. Christine de Pizan and the Categories of Difference. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Dhuoda. Handbook for William: A Carolingian Woman's Counsel for Her Son. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1991.

Dor, Juliette, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, eds. New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and their Impact, in ser. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999.

Drew, Katherine Fischer, trans. Laws of the Salian Franks. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Dronke, Peter. Women Writers of the Middle Ages: A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Duby, Georges. Medieval Marriage: Two Models from Twelfth-Century France. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1978.

----. The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest: The Making of Modern Marriage in Medieval France, trans. Barbara Bray. New York: Pantheon Books, 1983.

----. Women of the Twelfth Century, trans. Jean Birrell. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Earnshaw, Doris. The Female Voice in Medieval Romance Lyric, American University Studies, Ser. II: Romance Languages and Literature, Vol. II, New York: Peter Lang, 1988.

Echols, Anne, and Marty Williams. Annotated Index of Medieval Women. New York: M. Weiner; Oxford, Berg, 1992.

Eckenstein, Lina. Woman Under Monasticism: Chapters of Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500. New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.

Elkins, Sharon K. Holy Women of Twelfth-Century England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Engbring, Gertrude M. "Saint Hildegard, Twelfth Century Physician," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, Vol. 8, 1940, pp. 770-784.

Ennen, Edith. The Medieval Woman, trans. Edmund Jephcott. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989.

Erler, Mary, and Maryanne Kowaleski. Women and Power in the Middle Ages. Athens, GA and London: University of Georgia Press, 1988.

Evans, Ruth, and Lesley Johnson, eds. Feminist Readings in Middle English Literature: The Wife of Bath and all her Sect. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

Evergates, Theodore, ed. Aristocratic Women in Medieval France. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999.

Fell, Christine, Cecily Clark, and Elizabeth Williams. Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of 1066. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984.

Fellows, Jennifer, "Mothers in Middle English Romance," in Carol M. Meale, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 41-60.

Ferrante, Joan M. To the Glory of her Sex: Women's Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.

----. Woman as Image in Medieval Literature, from the Twelfth Century to Dante. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975.

Fiero, Gloria K., Wendy Pfeffer, and Mathe Alain, trans. and ed. Three Medieval Views of Women: La Contenance des fames, Le Bien des fames, Le Blasme des fames. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989.

Finke, Laurie A. Women's Writing in English: Medieval England. London and New York: Longman, 1999.

Finkel, Helen Roth, "The Portrait of the Woman in Christine de Pisan," Les bonnes feuilles, Vol. III, no. 2, Fall, 1974, pp. 138-151.

Fisher, Sheila, and Janet E. Halley, eds. Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criticism. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.

Flack, Isaac Harvey. Eternal Eve. New York: Doubleday, 1951.

Flanagan, Sabina. Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A Visionary Life. New York and London: Routledge, 1989.

----, ed. and trans. Secrets of God: Writings of Hildegard of Bingen. Boston and London: Shambhala, 1996.

Fonquerne, Yves-René, and Alfonso Esteban, eds. La Condición de la Mujer en la Edad Media: Actas del Coloquio Celebrado en la Casa de Velázquez, del 5 al 7 de noviembre de 1984. Madrid: Casa de Velázquez: Universidad Complutense, 1986.

Fossier, Robert. La Femme dans les sociétés occidentales. Poitiers: Université de Poitiers, Centre d'Études Superieures de la Civilisation Médiévale, 1977.

Furlong, Monica. Visions and Longings: Medieval Women Mystics. Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1996.

Galvani, Christiane Mesch, trans., with introduction by Susan L. Clark. The Flowing Light of the Divinity: Mechthild von Magdeburg. New York: Garland Publishing, 1991.

Ganck, Roger de. Beatrice of Nazareth in Her Context. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1991.

Garber, Rebecca L.R., "Where is the Body? Images of Eve and Mary in the Scivias," in Maud Burnett McInerney, ed. Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998, pp. 103-132.

Gardner, Jane F. Women in Roman Law and Society. London: Routledge, 1986.

Gertrude of Helfta. The Herald of Divine Love, trans. and ed. Margaret Winkworth. New York: Paulist Press, 1993.

Gies, Frances and Joseph. Marriage and the Family in the Middle Ages. New York: Harper & Row, 1987.

----. Women in the Middle Ages. New York: Crowell, 1978.

Gilson, Etienne. Héloïse and Abélard. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960.

Glover, Terrot Reaveley. Life and Letters in the Fourth Century. New York: Russell and Russell, 1901, reissued 1968.

Gold, Barbara and Paul Allen Miller, Charles Platter, eds. Sex and Gender in Medieval and Renaissance Texts: The Latin Tradition. Albany, 1997.

Gold, Penny Schine. The Lady and the Virgin: Image, Attitude, and Experience in Twelfth-Century France. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.

Gravdal, Kathryn. Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Green, Rosalie, et al. Herrad of Hohenbourg, Hortus Deliciarum Reconstructed. London: Wartburg Institute, University of London, 1979.

Grendler, Paul. Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300-1600. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989.

Hadewijch. The Complete Works, trans. Columba Hart. New York: Paulist Press, 1980.

Haight, Anne Lynn, ed. Hroswitha of Gandersheim: Her Life, Times, and Works, and a Comprehensive Bibliography. New York: The Hroswitha Club, 1965.

Hambly, Gavin R. G. Women in the Medieval Islamic World. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Hanawalt, Barbara A. Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.

Harksen, Sibylle. Women in the Middle Ages. New York: Abner Schram, 1975.

Harris, William V. Ancient Literacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989.

Hartman, Mary S., and Lois Banner, eds. Clio's Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

Haskell, Ann S. "The Paston Women on Marriage in Fifteenth-Century England," Viator, Vol. 4, 1973, pp. 459-471.

Henisch, Bridget Ann. Fast and Feast: Food in Medieval Society. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1976.

Herlihy, David. Medieval Households. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985.

----. Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990.

Hildegard of Bingen. Causae et Curae. Paul Kaiser, ed. Leipzig: Teubner, 1903.

----. Symphonia, trans. Barbara Newman. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Hill, Barbara, "A Vindication of the Rights of Women to Power by Anna Komnene," in Byzantinische Forschungen, Vol. 28, 1996, pp. 45-54.

Holloway, Julia Bolton. Saint Bride and Her Book. Newburyport, MA: Focus Texts, 1992.

----, Constance S. Wright, and Joan Bechtold, eds. Equally in God's Image: Women in the Middle Ages. New York: Peter Lang, 1990.

Hopkins, Andrea. Most Wise and Valiant Ladies: Remarkable Lives: Women of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Collins and Brown, 1997.

Howell, Martha C. Women, Production, and Patriarchy in Late Medieval Cities. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

Hughes, Muriel Joy. Women Healers in Medieval Life and Literature. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1943.

Huppert, George. Public Schools in Renaissance France. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984.

Hurd-Mead, Kate Campbell. "Trotula," Isis, Vol. 14, 1930, pp. 349-367.

Jansen, S.M. Murk. The Measure of Mystic Thought: A Study of Hadewijch's Mengeldichten. Goppingen: Kummerle, 1991.

Jesch, Judith. Women in the Viking Age. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1991.

Jewell, Helen. Women in Medieval England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.

Johnson, Lynn Staley. "The Trope of the Scribe and the Question of Literary Authority in the Works of Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe," Speculum, Vol. 66, no. 4, October, 1991, pp. 820-838.

Johnson, Penelope D. Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France. Chicago: University of Chicago Pres, 1991.

Julian of Norwich. Showings, trans. Edmund Colledge and James Walsh. New York: Paulist Press, 1978.

Kay, Sarah. Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Kelly, Joan. Women, History and Theory: The Essays of Joan Kelly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.

Kenyon, Olga. 800 Years of Women's Letters. Boston: Faber and Faber, 1992.

Kirshner, Julius, and Suzanne F. Wemple, eds. Women of the Medieval World: Essays in Honor of John H. Mundy. Oxford and New York: B. Blackwell, 1985.

Kitchen, John. Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, ed. A History of Women in the West. Vol. II: Silences of the Middle Ages. Cambridge and London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992.

Krueger, Roberta L. Women Readers and the Ideology of Gender in Old French Verse Romance. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Labarge, Margaret Wade. A Small Sound of the Trumpet: Women in Medieval Life. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986.

Labalme, Patricia H., ed. Beyond Their Sex: Learned Women of the European Past. New York, 1980.

Lagorio, Valerie Marie and Ritamary Bradley. The Fourteenth-Century English Mystics: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1981.

Larrington, Carolyne, ed. Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook. London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

León, Vicki. Uppity Women of Medieval Times. Berkeley: Conari Press, 1997.

Levin, Carole, and Jeanie Watson, eds. Ambiguous Realities: Women in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1987.

Lewis, Gertrud Jaron. By Women, For Women, About Women: The Sister-Books of Fourteenth-Century Germany. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1996.

Leyser, Henrietta. Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Lochrie, Karma. Margery Kempe and Translations of the Flesh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.

Lucas, Angela M. Women in the Middle Ages: Religion, Marriage, and Letters. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.

Maltese, Enrico B. "Donne e letteratura a Bisanzio," Rose di Pieria, ed. Francesco de Martino, "Le Rane," 9. Bari: Levante Editori, 1991.

Martindale, Jane, "The Nun Immena and the Foundation of the Abbey of Beaulieu: A Woman's Prospects in the Carolingian Church," in W.J. Shiels and Diana Wood, eds. Women in the Church: Papers Read at the 1989 Summer Meeting and the 1990 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 27-42.

Mason, Eugene, trans. The Lays of Marie de France and Other French Legends. Everyman's Library. New York: Dutton, 1911, reprinted 1964.

Mason, Mary G. "The Other Voice: Autobiographies of Women Writers," Autobiography: Essays Theoretical and Critical, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980, pp. 207-235.

Mason-Hohl, Elizabeth, trans. The Diseases of Women by Trotula of Salerno. Ward Ritchie Press, 1940.

Matter, E. Ann and John Coakley, eds. Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

McAuslan, Ian, and Peter Walcot, eds., Women in Antiquity, Greece and Rome Studies, Vol. III. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

McCash, June Hall, ed. The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women. Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1996.

McInerney, Maud Burnett, ed. Hildegard of Bingen: A Book of Essays. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1998.

McKitterick, Rosamond. "Nuns' scriptoria in England and Francia in the eighth century," Francia 19 (1992), pp. 1-35.

----. The Uses of Literacy in Early Medieval Europe. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

McNamara, Jo Ann and John E. Halborg, Sainted Women of the Dark Ages. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1992.

McNamara, Jo Ann and Suzanne Wemple, "The Power of Women Through the Family in Medieval Europe: 500-1100," in Mary S. Hartman and Lois Banner, eds. Clio's Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women. New York: Harper and Row, 1974.

Meale, Carol M., ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Mechthild of Magdeburg. The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297); or, The Flowing Light of the Godhead, trans. Lucy Menzies. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1953.

Migiel, Marilyn, and Juliana Schiesari, eds. Refiguring Woman: Perspectives on Gender and the Italian Renaissance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.

Millett, Bella, "English Recluses and the Development of Vernacular Literature," in Carol M. Meale, ed. Women and Literature in Britain, 1150-1500. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. 86-103.

Miner, Dorothy Eugenia. Anastaise and her Sisters: Women Artists of the Middle Ages. Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1974.

Mitchell, Linda, ed. Women in Medieval Western European Culture. Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, Vol. 2007, New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999.

Mooney, Catherine, "The Authorial Role of Brother A. in the Composition of Angela of Foligno's Revelations," in E. Ann Matter and John Coakley, eds. Creative Women in Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994, pp. 34-63.

Morewedge, Rosmarie Thee. The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 6-7 May 1972. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1975.

Moriarty, Catherine, ed. The Voice of the Middle Ages in Personal Letters 1100-1500. Oxford: Lennard Publishing, 1989.

Mulder-Bakker, Anneke B., "The Prime of their Lives: Women and Age, Wisdom and Religious Careers in Northern Europe," in Juliette Dor, Lesley Johnson, and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, eds. New Trends in Feminine Spirituality: The Holy Women of Liège and their Impact, in ser. Medieval Women: Texts and Contexts. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999, pp. 215-236.

Mumford, Marilyn R., "A Feminist Prolegomenon for the Study of Hildegard of Bingen," in Ronald Dotterer and Susan Bowers, eds., Gender, Culture and the Arts: Women, the Arts, and Society. Selinsgrove: Susquehanna University Press, 1993.

Nelson, Janet L., "Women and the Word in the Earlier Middle Ages," in W.J. Shiels and Diana Wood, eds. Women in the Church: Papers Read at the 1989 Summer Meeting and the 1990 Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society. Oxford and Cambridge: Basil Blackwell, 1990, pp. 53-78.

Newman, Barbara. From Virile Woman to WomanChrist: Studies in Medieval Religion and Literature. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.

----. Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.

Nichols, David. The Domestic Life of a Medieval City: Women, Children, and the Family in Fourteenth-Century Ghent. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

Nichols, John A. and Lillian T. Shank, eds. Medieval Religious Women. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1995.

Nisard, Charles, "Des Poésies de Sainte Radegonde attribueés jusqu'ici a Fortunat," in Revue Historique, Vol. 37, 1888, pp. 49-57.

Noffke, Suzanne. The Letters of St. Catherine of Siena, Vol. I. Binghamton, NY: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, Vol. 52, 1988.

Offen, Karen, Ruth Roach Pierson, and Jane Rendall, eds. Writing Women's History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991.

Origo, Iris. The Merchant of Prato: Francesco di Marco Datini 1335-1410. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.

Paden, William D., ed. The Voice of the Trobairitz: Perspectives on the Women Troubadours. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.

Partner, Nancy F., ed. Studying Medieval Women. Cambridge: The Medieval Academy of America, 1993.

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