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Texts
Roxane Arnold and Olive Chandler, eds.
Feminine Singular: Triumphs and Tribulations of the Single Woman, an Anthology. (hb) £6.00
Marcelle Thiébaux, trans.
The Writings of Medieval Women: An Anthology, 2nd edn. (pb) £13.50
Karen A. Winstead, ed. & trans.
Chaste Passions: Medieval English Virgin Martyr Legends. (hb) £15.00
Reference
Mary L. Hammack
A Dictionary of Women in Church History. (hb) £25.00
Guida M. Jackson
Women Rulers throughout the Ages: An Illustrated Guide. (pb) £15.00
Kathleen Parbury
Women of Grace: A Biographical Dictionary of British Women Saints, Martyrs and Reformers. (hb) £6.00
Related items
Sally Fox, ed.
The Medieval Woman: An Illuminated Book of Days. (hb) £2.00
Journals
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Secondary sources
Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser
A History of their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present. (2 vols., pb) £3.50
Ross Balzaretti
Theodelinda, 'Most Glorious Queen': Gender and Power in Lombard Italy. (pb) £5.00
Frances Beer
Women and Mystical Experience in the Middle Ages. (hb) £14.50
Lisa M. Bitel
Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100. (hb) £27.00
Judith c. Brown
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. (hb) £12.00
Jane Burns
Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature. (hb) £20.00
Madeleine Pelner Cosman
Women at Work in Medieval Europe. (pb) £14.50
Sheila Fisher and Janet E. Halley, eds.
Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings. (hb) £30.00
Vito Fumagalli
Matilde di Canossa: Potenza e solitudine di una donna del Medioevo. (pb) £5.00
Mary S. Gossy
The Untold Story: Women and Theory in Golden Age Texts. (hb) £10.00
Ferdinand Gregorovius
Lucrezia Borgia, The Daughter of Pope Alexander VI: A Chapter from the Morals of the Italian Renaissance. (hb) £6.00
Maria Teresa Guerra Medici
L’aria di città: Donne e diritti nella città medievale. (pb) £8.50
Kenneth G. Holum
Theodosian Empresses: Women and Imperial Dominion in Late Antiquity. (hb) £20.00
Sarah Hopper
Mothers, Mystics and Merrymakers: Medieval Women Pilgrims. (hb) £12.00
Shari Horner
The Discourse of Enclosure: Representing Women in Old English Literature. (pb) £18.00
Helen Jewell
Women in Medieval England. (hb) £30.00
Kathleen Jones
Women Saints: Lives of Faith and Courage. (pb) £4.50
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, ed.
Histoire des femmes en occident: 2, Le moyen age. (hb) £15.00
Rebecca Krug
Reading Families: Women’s Literate Practice in Late Medieval England. (hb) £17.00
Henrietta Leyser
Medieval Women. (hb, Presenting the Past series) £3.50
Andrea Liebers
"Eine Frau war dieser Mann": Die Geschichte der Hildegund von Schönau. (pb) £10.00
Angela M. Lucas
Women in the Middle Ages: Religion, Marriage and Letters. (pb) £6.00
Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless, eds.
Studies on Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players? (pb) £7.00
Helen Nader, ed.
Power & Gender in Renaissance Spain: Eight Women of the Mendoza Family, 1450-1650. (pb) £6.00
Camille Naish
Death Comes to the Maiden: Sex and Execution, 1431-1933. (hb) £10.00
Maria Grazia Nico Ottaviani
"Me son missa a scriver questa letera…": Lettere e altre scritture femminili tra Umbria, Toscana e Marche nei secoli XV-XVI. (pb) £8.00
Michelle Perrot, ed.
Writing Women’s History. (pb) £9.00
Eileen Power
Medieval Women; ed. M. M. Postan. (hb) £8.00
Medieval Women; ed. M. M. Postan. (pb) £5.00
Kim Power
Veiled Desire: Augustine’s Writings on Women. (pb) £10.00
Michael Roberts and Simone Clarke, eds.
Women and Gender in Early Modern Wales. (pb) £6.00
Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead, eds.
Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England. (pb) £9.00
Elizabeth Robertson
Early English Devotional Prose and the Female Audience. (hb) £15.00
Lyndal Roper
The Holy Household: Women and Morals in Reformation Augsburg. (pb) £10.00
Götz Schmitz
The Fall of Women in Early English Narrative Verse. (hb) £20.00
Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg
Forgetful of their Sex: Female Sanctity and Society ca. 500-1100. (hb) £22.00
Shulamith Shahar
The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages. (pb) £4.50
Helen Solterer
The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture. (pb) £8.00
Susan Mosher Stuard, ed.
Women in Medieval History and Historiography. (pb) £8.00
Women in Medieval Society. (pb) £7.50
Theresa M. Vann, ed.
Queens, Regents and Potentates. (hb) £25.00
Jennifer C. Ward
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages. (hb) £6.00
English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages. (pb) £6.00
Diane Watt, ed.
Medieval Women in their Communities. (pb) £10.00
Merry E. Wiesner
Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe. (pb) £7.50
Diana Wood, ed.
Women and Religion in Medieval England. (pb) £12.50
Books & journals containing related material
[Journal].
Essays and Studies, no. 55 (2002); ed. Elaine Treharne. Writing and Gender in Old and Middle English Texts. (hb) £6.00
[Journal].
Medieval History, vol. 1, no. 2 (1991). (pb) £4.50
[Journal].
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th series, vol. 36 (1986). (hb) £4.50
[Journal].
Yale French Studies, no. 70 (1986). Kevin Brownlee and Stephen G. Nichols, eds. Images of Power: Medieval History/Discourse/Literature. (pb) £12.50
Barbara K. Altmann and Carleton W. Carroll, eds.
The Court Reconvenes: Courtly Literature across the Disciplines. (hb) £25.00
Richard Barber
The Knight and Chivalry. (hb) £5.00
The Knight and Chivalry; 2nd edn. (pb) £2.50
Peter Birks, ed.
The Life of the Law: the 10th British Legal History Conference, 1991. (hb) £5.00
Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Duncan Robertson, and Nancy Warren, eds.
The Vernacular Spirit: Essays on Religious Literature. (hb) £25.00
Tracy Borman
Elizabeth’s Women: The Hidden Story of the Virgin Queen. (pb) £2.50
Richard Britnell, ed.
Daily Life in the Late Middle Ages. (hb) £12.00
G. F. Browne
The Importance of Women in Anglo-Saxon Times; The Cultus of St. Peter & St. Paul; & other addresses. (hb) £15.00
Charles H. Carter, ed.
From the Renaissance to the Counter-Reformation: Essays in honour of Garrett Mattingly. (hb) £6.00
Marilyn Corrie, ed.
A Concise Companion to Middle English Literature. (hb) £12.00
C. G. Crump and E. F. Jacob, eds.
The Legacy of the Middle Ages. (hb) £6.00
Terry Deary
The Measly Middle Ages; illustrated by Martin Brown. (pb) £1.00
Sheila Delany
Medieval Literary Politics: Shapes of ideology. (pb) £10.00
Ronald C. Finucane
Soldiers of Faith: Crusaders and Moslems at War. (hb) £6.00
Jerold C. Frakes
Brides and Doom: Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women’s Epic. (hb) £11.00
Kathryn Gravdal
Ravishing Maidens: Writing Rape in Medieval French Literature and Law. (hb) £20.00
Anne Isba
Gladstone and Dante: Victorian Statesman, Medieval Poet. (hb) £10.00
Terry Jones and Alan Ereira
Medieval Lives. (hb) £10.00
George Lane
Daily Life in the Mongol Empire. (hb) £20.00
Shannon McSheffrey
Gender and Heresy: Women and Men in Lollard Communities, 1420-1530. (pb) £9.50
Alison Plowden
Mistress of Hardwick. (pb) £2.00
Liam O. Purdon & Cindy L. Vitto, eds.
The Rusted Hauberk: Feudal Ideas of Order and their Decline. (hb) £10.00
Peter Stanford
The She-Pope: A Quest for the Truth behind the Mystery of Pope Joan. (hb) £4.50
John van Schaik
Why Jesus Didn’t Marry Mary Magdalene: A Short History of Esoteric Christianity. (pb) £4.50
Marina Warner
Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of the Female Form. (pb) £4.00
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