![]() ![]() Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University. Has a section of texts on Gender, Sex, and Sensuality. ![]() It contains primarily short texts of broad interdisciplinary interest in a variety of genres, and many of the texts have not previously been translated into English. GMS spans one thousand years (600-1600) of literary production across the medieval world (Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia). It offers a flexible online display for the parallel viewing of medieval texts in their original language, in new English translations, and in their digitized manuscript form. Global Medieval Sourcebook (GMS) is a free, open access, and open source teaching and research tool. Global Medieval Sourcebook: a Digital Repository of Medieval Texts ![]() Information on Poor Clares, female Franciscan Tertiaries and aligned groups from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries, giving scholars and interested outsiders i.) a bibliographical overview of the scholarship done thus far in the field of ‘female Franciscan studies’, ii.) a descriptive ‘geographical’ dictionary of all traceable female Franciscan communities with adequate references, and iii.) an alphabetically organized bio-bibliographical dictionary of individual nuns, tertiary sisters, beguines and anchoresses within the Franciscan fold. A project, originally, of Joan Ferrante of Columbia University. The letters, written in Latin appear under the names of the women involved, with English translations where possible, biographical sketches of the women and some description of the subject matter or the historic content of the letter. Epistolae is a collection of letters to and from women in the Middle Ages, from the 4th to 13th century. University of Edinburgh project to make digital transcriptions of works by Christine de Pizan.Įpistolae. They support research into a wide variety of subjects about women - women authors, female patronage and book ownership, women's health, education and business dealings, female spirituality, to name a few.Ĭhristine de Pizan: the Making of the Queen's Manuscript Many of these items were nominated by the readers of their blog. Easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be an invaluable resource on women in Medieval Europe.As of MaBL says 93 manuscript volumes are now online. Written by renowned international scholars, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe is the latest in the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. ![]() Entries that range from 250 words to 4,500 words in length thoroughly explore topics in the following areas: Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Moving beyond biographies of famous noble women of the middles ages, the scope of this important reference work is vast and provides a comprehensive understanding of medieval women's lives and experiences. From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status dictated all aspects of women's lives during the middle ages.Ī cross-disciplinary resource, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE, i.e., from the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of the Americas. ![]()
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