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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: Sex and Gender
Contents
- Women's Roles
- General
- Women in Religion
- Women as Writers
- Women in Politics
- Noblewomen
- "Middle" Class Women
- Towns Women
- Peasant Women
- Jewish Women
- Women at Home
- Women at Work Outside the Home
- Women in Business Activities
- Woman and Misogyny
- Men's Roles
- Constructions of Sexuality and
Gender
- General
- Legal Control of Sexualuty
- Theological Norms
- Homoerotic/Transgendered Subcultures
- Marriage
- General
- Theology
- Law and Marriage
- Married Lives
Women's Roles
- General
- Women in Religion
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WEB Matrix: A collection of resources for the study of
women's religious communities, 500-1500, [At USC].
This includes a database of 1146 women's communities and a Documents page,
with documents from women's communities at Laycock (13th century), San Sisto (13th
century), Santa Francesca Romana (15th century).
- Socrates Scholasticus: The Murder of Hypatia.
A leading female philosopher, Hypatia was murdered by a Christian mob in Alexandria, urged
on by St. Cyril.
- Gregory of Nyssa (c.335-d.c.395): Life of Macrina,
trans. W.K. Lowther Clarke. Full text.
One of the most important lives of a female saint. This is an account of Gregory's
strongminded sister, Macrina (c.327-379).
- Life of Matrona of Perge, d.c. 510-515, trans Khalifa
Ben Nasser, [full text of Metaphrastic Life: selections from Vita Prima].
An example of a "transvestite" saint who was also a historical figure.
- Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives
in English Translation [At DO]
Complete texts of translations of female saints lives.
The texts are all in PDF form [for which you need the free Acrobat reader,
downloadable from the index page]. Although it is possible to read these within the
browser with Acrobat as a plugin, that often seems to destabilize a system. I recommend
downloading the files onto a hard disk, and then opening them with Acrobat running
independantly of the Browser.
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The Life of Liutberga, 9th Century, trans, Jo Ann
McNamara. Full text.
- Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend (Aurea
Legenda) 1275, As englished by William Caxton, 1483
The full text of the 7 volume Temple Classics edition, available in large volume files,
and individual feast/saint files, inlcuding a number of women saints.
- Life of Irene, Abbess of the Convent of
Chrysobalanton, trans. Jan Olof Rosenqvist.
- Life of Mary the Younger, d.c. 903, trans Paul
Halsall, [First five chapters, and concluding prayer].
- Byzantine Monastic Foundation Documents [At DO]
A Complete Translation of the Surviving Founder's Typika and Testaments.
Contains many documenst by women monastic founders, and about female monasticism.
- Ancrene Wisse, In Middle
English, with some Latin. [At Google Books] A collection of rules and advice for English nuns.
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Rule of the Lady
Hospitallers of the Royal Monastery of Sigena, 1188, in Latin, [At Internet Archive, from Kansas]
The Royal Monastery of Sigena was an institution of Lady Hospitallers and enjoyed a great
deal of independence and influence. It would appear that its Rule was the work of Sancha,
Queen of Aragon.
- Women as Writers
- WEB Bibliography of Works by and About
Women Writers of the Middle Ages (Robbins Library)
- Egeria. Description of the
Liturgical Year in Jerusalem: Translation [At Oxford]
- Egeria: Travelogue,
Translated by M.L. McClure, The Pilgrimage of Etheria, (New York, 1915) [At Yale]
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Saint Brigid of Ireland (ascribed)-
The Heavenly Banquet [At Eircom]
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Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (c.930/40-c-2): St. John.
[At Internet Archive, from Millersville]
See also
Catholic Enclopedia:
Hroswitha
- Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (c.930/40-c.1002): The Plays
of Roswitha
Including Full texts of Gallicanus and Dulcitius
- Huneberc of Heidenheim: The Hodoeporican of St. Willibald,
8th Century
- Huneberc of Heidenheim. Prologue
to the Hodoeporicon of St. Willibald. c. 750-75CE. Alternate trans. by Thomas Head [At
ORB]
- Anna Comnena (1083-after 1048): The Alexiad.
[Full text]
The account of her father, the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, by Princess Anna
Comnena is perhaps the most important historical work by a woman writer written before the
modern period.
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Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179): Lyrics, Latin and English.
[At irupert].
- WEB See also the Hildegard of
Bingen page [At Internet Archive, from Millersville]; and the
Catholic Encyclopedia article.
- Heloise: Letter to Abelard, trans. C.K. Scott
Moncrief. The text is also available in Latin. [At
Georgetown]
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WEB
Photographs of Tomb of
Abelard and Heloise, Père-Lachaise (Cemetery: Paris, France).
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Hadewijch
of Antwerp, d.c. 1260. [At Internet Archive, from Millersville]
The page contains links to five of her letters and four of her poems.
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Marguerite Porète: The Mirror of
Simple Souls, (written 1296/1306), trans. Bonnie Duncan and Ellen L Babinsky. [At
Internet Archive, from Millersville]
Porète's book, a mystic account of the ascent of the soul, was condemned in 1306, and was
burned in her presence!
- [Tierney 90.1] Catherine of Siena (1347-1380): Dialogue, available soon
- Catherine of Siena (1347-1380): Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin,
1370, full text now available [At CCEL]. See also
Treasure of
the City of Ladies. [At Internet Archive, from Women Writers of the Middle Ages/Millersville]
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Julian of Norwich: Shewings [Full
Text]
]. See also
Catholic Encycloped-Juliana of
Norwich, and WEB Julian of Norwich Page. [At
Luminarium]
- [Geary 37] The Book of Margery Kempe, copyrighted? [but see next items]
- Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery
Kempe: The Birth of Her First Child and Her First Vision. [At luminarium.org]
WEB see the Luminarium: Margery Kempe Page [with a picture of Margery]
- Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery
Kempe: Her Pride and Attempts to Start a Business. [At luminarium.org]
- Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery
Kempe: Margery and Her Husband Reach a Settlement. [At luminarium.org]
- Margery Kempe: The Book of Margery
Kempe: Pilgrimmage to Jerusalem. [At luminarium.org]
- Margery Kempe: Treatise of
Contemplation, from her Book as reprinted in The Cell of Self-Knowledge.
[At CCEL]
For many centuries this was the only well-known part of Margery's writing.
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Margery Kempe: Boo- Margery
Kempe (1413-1415). (Text--Butler-Bowden translation of Chapter 26-34, 37-41)[At
Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado]
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Marie de France: Lays. -Project Gutenberg]
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Laura Certa: Letter
to Bibulus Sempronius, 13 January 1488 [At Internet Archive, from CCNY]
- Women in Politics
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Queen Matilda: To Archbishop
Anselm, c. 1100. [At Internet Archive, from Millersville]
- Peter of Blois: Letter 154, to Queen Eleanor, 1173,
trans. M. Markowski [M-Markow@wcslc.edu].
- Johann Nider: On Joan of Arc, (d. 1438). See
also
Catholic Encyclopedia:
St.Joan of -/a>.
- Joan of Arc: Letter to
the King of England, 1429.
- The Trial of Joan of Arc, 1431
- Nicolas, Nicholas Harris: The
Privy Purse Expenses of Elizabeth of York: The Wardrobe Accounts of Edward IV [At
R3]
Nicolas's introductory memoirs of Yorkist royalty, with commentary on the
Ricardian controversies of the time; the privy purse expenses of Elizabeth of York. To
come: the Wardrobe Accounts. A lengthy series of documents, consisting of 24 interlinked
files.
- Noblewomen
- "Middle" Class Women
- Towns Women
- Peasant Women
- Jewish Women
- Women at Home
- Women at Work Outside the Home
- [Tierney 89] Trial of Jacqueline Felice: A Woman Doctor, 1322, copyrighted
- Women in Business Activities
- Women and Misogyny
Men's Roles
- Charters relating to Judicial Duels, 11th - 12th Century, trans. Richard Barton
- Duel between Engelardus and the monks of Saint-Serge of Angers, c.1100
- Abbots Daibert and Otbrannus prevent a battle between their monks, 27 and 28
April, 1064
- Trouble between St Martin of Tours and Holy Cross of Talmont leads to a judicial
battle, 1098
- Abbot Robert of Mont-Saint-Michel seeks the right to determine where duels are
held.
- Statuta Armorum (The Statutes of Arms),
c. 1260
An attempt to forbid jousting, etc.
- WEB Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments Resource
Library. [At Chronique]
- To Cry a Joust:
Abillement for the Joust, 15th Century. [At Chronique]
- Challenge
of John Astley, Squire, to Philip Boyle, Knight of Aragon, On the occasion of his
knighting, 1442. [At Chronique]
Constructions of Sexuality and
Gender
- General
- Legal Control of Sexuality
- Justinian I:
Novel 77, [538 CE] and Novel
141, [544 C-a>. [At PWH]
Includes texts of earlier Roman legislation on homosexuality.
- Theodore of Studium (d.826): Reform Rules,
contains interesting references to adelphopoiia and dangers of monastic
friendships.
- Theological Norms
- Homoerotic/Transgendered Subcultures
Marriage
- General
- Theology
- Law and Marriage
- Corpus Iuris Civilis: The Digest and Codex on
Marriage. See also
Catholic
Encyclopedia: History of Marriage.
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- Codex Justinianus: Protection of Freewomen Married
to Servile Husbands, c. 530 [Vll.24.i.]
- Codex Justinianus: Children of the Unfree, c.
530 [Xl.48.xxi.]
- Codex Justinianus: Children of Mixed Marriages,
c. 530 [Xl.48.xxiv.]
- The Contract of Marriage, in the Ecloga of Leo
III, (726).
- A Husband's Endowment Of His Future Wife On Their Betrothal
- Southern Burgundy, 994.
- Council Legislation on Marriage.
- Tables of Kindred and Degrees - both Roman and German
methods of calculation.
- The Law of Brusthem, 1175, on a mixed marriage
between a slave and a freewoman.
- Gratian: On Marriage.
- Innocent III (r.1198-1216): Letters on
Marriage, and Women, 1203-1204
- Manorial Marriage and Sexual Offense Cases.
- Church Courts Pursue Adulterers, 1289
- Robert of Flamborough: Summa Confessorum: on Luxuria..
- Married Lives
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