Greetings All.
This week's Links list revolves around the study of Medieval Women, a discipline which has exploded of late. At Aethelmearc's 12th night celebration I was challenged to do a list on Bad Women of the Middle Ages. This turned out to be a difficult and not entirely fruitful endeavor in the time allotted for my task, so I humbly offer this Links List as an alternative, dedicated to the study of Medieval Women in general (title it Medieval Women Who Dared, if you will :).
As always, you are welcome to pass this list along to whomever may find it useful, or to use these links to update your own webpage links lists. I make no claims as to the veracity of the web page contents: YMMV.
Enjoy!
Aoife
ST BIRGITTA OF SWEDEN AND HER REVELACIONES
http://www.umilta.net/birgitta.html
(Site Excerpt) Birgitta of Sweden (1303-1373) and Julian of Norwich
(1342-141?) were contemporaries, Julian being born the year of Birgitta's
Arras Vision of St Dionysius concerning the Hundred Years' War between the
Kings of England and France, 1342, Birgitta's Vision of the Crucifix at St
Pauls outside the Walls, in Rome, being in 1368, and Julian's Vision of the
Crucifix in 1373, the year of Birgitta's death in Rome.
Other Women's Voices: Translations of Women's writings before 1700
http://www.akron.infi.net/%7Eddisse/index.html
(Site Excerpt) Dhuoda of Septimania /of Uzes (c.806/11-aft.843)"YOU WILL
HAVE LEARNED DOCTORS TO TEACH YOU..., BUT THEY ARE NOT OF EQUAL STATUS WITH
ME."
Female Heroes: The Women Left Behind
http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine3.html
(Site Excerpt) The effect of the Crusades on women left behind to fend for
themselves was dramatic. The absence of a husband, son or guardian could be
as long as 10 years. Then there were the men who never returned. It is
reported that in the second and third crusades perhaps 500,000 were lost, a
significant drain on the male Christian population.
Matrix Monasticon
http://matrix.bc.edu/Matrix.taf
(Site Excerpt) The Monasticon is a repertory that aims to document all women
's religious communities from 400-1600 CE
Matrix Vitae
http://matrix.bc.edu/MatrixBiographies.taf
(Site Excerpt) The Vitae section collects biographical entries on persons
important to the history of religious women and communities. Here we include
both short biographies authored by modern scholars, as well as historical
lives edited or translated for electronic publication in Matrix.
Matrix Bibliographia
http://matrix.bc.edu/MatrixBibliography.taf
(Site Excerpt) Bibliographia aims to be a comprehensive database of
citations to primary secondary, published and unpublished sources related to
women's religious lives. The Bibliography currently contains over 5000
citations has drawn from a number of sources.
Feminae: Medieval Feminist Index
http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
(Site Excerpt) Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index covers journal
articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and
gender during the Middle Ages. Because of the explosion of research in
Women's Studies during the past two decades, scholars and students
interested in women during the Middle Ages find an ever-growing flood of
publications.
Bibliography on Womenin Byzantium
http://www.doaks.org/WomeninByzantium.html
Includes Primary Sources Available in Translation
Sybils: Workgroup for the Study of Medieval Women
http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mmedia/mw2.htm
See also http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~mmedia/fut_plans.htm for an
interactive website seen through the eyes of Christine , a late
medieval-period 15-year-old.
Self-portraits of Women Artists of the Medieval Period.
http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women/womenart.html
(Site Excerpt) Claricia: 12th century manuscript illuminator of Augsburg,
Germany. She painted herself as the tail of the letter Q. Judging by her
dress she was probably a lay person.
Medieval Women and Music
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/~cyrus/ORB/orbwomen.htm
(Site Excerpt) Women's involvement with medieval music took a variety of
forms; they served at times as audience, as participant, as sponsor, and as
creator. The evidence for their roles, like that for their male
contemporaries, is sporadic at best. Many musical sources have been lost,
and those sources that do survive only occasionally provide composer
attributions.
The Challenges Medieval Women Faced in their Struggle for Emancipation (An
Essay)
http://www.cyberg8t.com/gviers/medievalwomen.html
Medieval Women Mystics and the Song of Songs (an Essay)
http://www.pendlehill.org/Medieval%20Women%20Mystics.htm
Art portraying Medieval Women
http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/7863/woman.html
(Site Excerpt) These women are wearing long bliauds belted with cloaks. The
pink garment of the woman with the blue sleeves is perhaps a surcoat, a
garment which came to be worn in the fourteenth century. It was open at the
sides and in some cases belted.
Orb: Women's studies
http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/Women/femindex.html
Matilda of Tuscany
http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/culture/Women/matilda.html
(Site Excerpt) Matilda of Tuscany is one of the few women whose place in
history rests on military accomplishments. The details of her career have to
be gleaned from sources such as monastic chronicles, saints' lives and
polemics that were not intended to record military actions in a logical or
systematic manner.
Public record of the labour of Isabel de la Cavalleria
http://orb.rhodes.edu/birthrecord.html
(Site Excerpt) I, Domingo de Cuerla, notary, together with the witnesses
written and named below, were constituted there personally, having been
called with much insistence by the aforesaid Isabel to attend her labour so
that we could personally see and eyewitness the baby who would be delivered
by the aforementioned daughter Isabel. .....
International Joan of Arc Society
http://www.smu.edu/ijas/
(Site Excerpt) The International Joan of Arc Society/ Soci��Internationale
de l'�ude de Jeanne d'Arc is a WWW repository of scholarly and pedagogic
information about Joan of Arc collected by faculty, independent scholars,
and students.
Book of Margery Kempe
http://www.holycross.edu/departments/visarts/projects/kempe/text/main.htm
(Site Excerpt) Margery Kempe's spiritual biography is often called the first
autobiography in English. A married woman who attempted to live a life
devoted to Christ, Margery sought official Church recognition for her status
as a spiritual woman and mystic, while continuing to live and travel in the
secular world. She experienced intense emotional visionary encounters with
Christ, which have at times a strikingly homely quality.
Internet Women's History Sourcebook
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html
Women's Studies
http://www.pcisys.net/~lyssa/maggies/women.htm
Women's studies: History
http://www.pcisys.net/~lyssa/maggies/women.htm
ACRL Women's studies: Literature
http://libraries.mit.edu/humanities/WomensStudies/Culture2.html
Resources for the study of Women and their Hisytorical Roles
http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/women.htm
University of York LIbrary: Center for Medieval Women's Studies http://www1.york.ac.uk/services/library/subjects/womenint.htm
