Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia

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A
Abbesses
Abortion
Adela of Blois
Adelheid
Administration of Estates
Adolescence
Aethelflaed
Aethelthryth of Ely
Agnes of Prague
Agriculture
Alewives and Brewing
Almsgiving and Charity
Amalasuntha
Amazons
Anchoresses
Ancrene Wisse
Angela of Foligno
Annales School of History
Anne of Beaujeu
Anne of Bohemia
Anne, Saint
Apprentices
Archaeology
Architecture, Domestic
Architecture, Ecclesiastical
Architecture, Monastic
Aristotelian Concepts of Women and Gender
Arms and Armor
Art, Representations of Women in
Arthurian Literature
Artisan Families, Women of
Artists, Women
Asceticism
Audience, Women in the
Augustine, Influence of
Autohagiography
Ava

B
Bake, Alijt
Ballads
Barbarian Law Codes
Beast Epic
Beatrice
Beatrice of Nazareth
Beaufort, Margaret
Beauty
Beguines
Belle Dame Sans Merci
Beowulf
Berenguela
Betrothals
Bible, Women in
Birgitta of Sweden
Birgittine Order
Blanche of Castile
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Body in Literature and Religion
Body, Visual Representations of
Bokenham, Osbern
Book Ownership
Books of Hours
Breastfeeding and Wet-Nursing
Bride of Christ: Imagery
Brigit
Brunhild and Fredegund
Burgundian Netherlands
Burials and Tombs
Business
Byzantium

C
Caesarean Section
Canonesses
Canonization of Saints
Captivity and Ransom
Castles and Palaces
Castro, Inés de
Caterina Sforza
Caterina Vigri
Cathars
Catherine of Alexandria
Catherine of Genoa
Catherine of Siena
Celibacy: Clerical and Priests’ Concubines
Cereta, Laura
Charivari
Charters
Chastity and Chaste Marriage
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Children, Betrothal and Marriage of
Chivalry
Chrétien de Troyes
Christina of Markyate
Christina the Astonishing
Christine de Pizan
Chronicles of the Northern Low Countries
Church
Churching
Cistercian Order
Cities and Towns
Clare of Assisi
Clare of Montefalco
Clemence of Barking
Clothing
Clothing for Religious Women
Clothwork, Domestic
Clotilda
Cluniac Order
Coinage
Colette of Corbie
Compiuta Donzella
Concubines
Conduct Literature
Confraternities
Conjugal Debt
Constance
Constance of Sicily
Consumption
Contraception
Conversae and Conversi
Conversion, Religious
Cornaro, Caterina
Cosmetics
Courtly Love
Courtship
Crime and Criminals
Criseyde
Cross-Cultural Approaches
Cross-Dressing
Crusades and Crusading Literature
Cuckold

D
D’Este, Isabella and Beatrice
Dance
Danse Macabre des Femmes
Dante Alighieri
Datini, Margherita
Dawn Song (Alba)
Death, Mourning, and Commemoration
Debate Literature
Defenses of Women
Demography
Devotional Art
Devotional Literature
Devotional Practices
Dhuoda
Diplomacy and Reconciliation
Disabilities
Division of Labor
Divorce and Separation
Doctors and Healers
Dogaresse
Dolce of Worms
Domestic Abuse
Domesticity
Dominican Order
Dorothea of Montau
Double Monasteries
Douceline of Digne
Dowry and Other Marriage Gifts
Drama

E
Eastern Europe
Ebner, Margaretha
Economy
Edith
Education, Beguine
Education, Lay
Education, Monastic
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Scotland
Elisabeth of Hungary
Elisabeth of Schönau
Empresses: Byzantium
England
Epic, Italian
Epic, Old French
Epic, Spanish
Ermengard
Eroticism in Art
Eroticism in Literature
Eunuchs
Evangiles des Quenouilles
Eve
Exemplum

F
Fabliau
Family (Earlier Middle Ages)
Family (Later Middle Ages)
Fasting and Food, Religious Aspects of
Fedele, Cassandra
Feme Covert
Feme Sole
Femininity and Masculinity
Feminist Theories and Methodologies
Festivals of Misrule
Fina of San Gimignano
Flanders
Floire and Blancheflor
Fontevrault, Abbey and Order of
Fosterage
Foy
France, Northern
Frances of Rome
Frankish Lands

G
Gaze
Gender Ideologies
Gender in Art
Gender in History
Genealogy
Gentry, Women of: England
Germanic Lands
Gerson, Jean
Gertrude of Hackeborn
Gertrude of Nivelles
Gertrude of Ortenberg
Gertrude the Great
Gilbertine Order
Girls and Boys
Godelieve of Gistel
Godparents
Goscelin of St. Bertin
Gossip and Slander
Gottfried von Strassburg
Grave Goods
Griselda
Guibert of Nogent's Mother
Guild Members and Guilds
Guinivere
Gynecology

H
Hadewijch
Hagiography
Hagiography, Iconographic Aspects of
Heiresses
Helena
Heloise
Heraldry
Heretics and Heresy
Hermaphrodites
Herrad of Hohenburg
Hild of Whitby
Hildegard of Bingen
History of Women
Holy Kinship
Home Manufacturing
Honor and Reputation
Hospitals
Household Accounts
Household Management
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Humanism
Humiliati
Humility of Faenza
Hunting and Falconry
Husbands and Husbandry

I
Iberia
Icons, Byzantine
Ida of Boulogne
Illegitimacy
Immaculate Conception, Doctrine of
Impotence
Incest
Infants and Infanticide
Infertility
Inheritance
Intercession
Investment and Credit
Ireland
Irene
Isabel I
Isabel of Aragon
Isabelle of France
Isolde
Italy

J
Jacobus of Voragine's Golden Legend
Jacqueline of Bavaria
Jadwiga
Jerome, Influence of
Jesus/ God as Mother
Jewelry
Jewish Mystical Thought, Body and Soul in
Jewish Women
Jewish Women: Latin and European Vernacular Literature
Joan I
Joan of Arc
Joseph, Step-father of Jesus
Jouarre and Chelles
Judith
Julian of Norwich

K
Katherine Group
Kempe, Margery
Kinship
Komnene, Anna
Kottaner, Helene

L
Ladies-in-Waiting
Landholding and Property Rights
Langmann, Adelheid
Laughter
Law
Law, Canon
Law, Customary: French
Law, English Secular Courts of
Law, German
Law, Islamic: Iberia
Law, Jewish
Lay Piety
Laywomen, Religious
Legal Agency
Leoba
Lepers
Letter Writing
Literacy and Reading: Latin
Literacy and Reading: Vernacular
Literature, German
Literature, Hebrew
Literature, Iberian
Literature, Irish
Literature, Italian
Literature, Latin
Literature, Middle English
Literature, Occitan
Literature, Old English
Literature, Old French
Literature, Old Norse
Lollards
López de Córdoba, Leonor
Lovesickness
Lutgard of Aywieres
Lying-in

M
Madness
Magic and Charms
Margaret of Anjou
Margaret of Antioch
Margaret of Cortona
Margaret of Scotland
Margaret of York
Margaret "the Cripple" of Magdeburg
Marginalia, Manuscript
Margrethe
Marguerite Porete
Maria of Venice (Maria Sturion)
Marie de France
Marie of Oignies
Market and Tradeswomen
Marozia of Rome
Marriage Ceremonies
Marriage, Christian
Marriage and Concubinage in Scandinavia
Marriage, Impediments to
Marriage, Islamic: Iberia
Marriage, Jewish
Marriage Preaching
Mary and Martha
Mary Magdalen
Mary of Burgundy
Mary the Egyptian
Mary of Hungary I
Mary of Hungary II
Mary the Younger
Mary, Virgin
Mary, Virgin: in Art
Mary, Virgin: in Literature
Mary, Virgin: in Music
Mathilda and the Monastery at Essen
Matilda the Empress
Matilda of Tuscany
Mead-Giver
Mechthild of Hackeborn
Mechthild of Magdeburg
Medicine
Meditation
Mélusine
Menstruation
Merchant Families, Women of
Merchet and Leyrwite
Mermaids and Sirens
Midwives
Migration and Mobility
Mikveh
Minnesang
Miracles and Miracle Collections
Misericords
Misogyny
Modern Devotion
Monastic Enclosure
Monastic Rules
Monastic Visitation
Monasticism and Nuns
Monasticism and Nuns, Byzantine
Monasticism and Nuns, Celtic
Monasticism, Women's: Papal Policy
Mothers as Teachers
Music, Women and
Muslim Women: Iberia
Muslim Women: Western Literature
Mysticism and Mystics
Mystics' Writings
Mythology, Medieval Reception of

N
Naming
Natural World
Necrologies and Mortuary Rolls
Nine Worthy Women
Noble Women
Nogarola, Isotta
Nuns as Illuminators
Nuns as Musicians
Nuns as Scribes

O
Oblates and Oblation
Obscenity
Observant Movement
Occitania
Old Age
Olga
Ordination of Women as Priests
Ottonian Royal Women
Ovid, Medieval Reception of

P
Paganism
Parishes
Paston Letters
Pastourelle
Patriarchy and Patrilineage
Patronage, Artistic
Patronage, Ecclesiastical
Patronage, Literary
Peasants
Penitentials and Pastoral Manuals
Performance in Lyric
Performance Theory
Personifications Visualized as Women
Petitions
Petrarch
Petronila of Aragón
Pilgrims and Pilgrimage
Plague
Poor Clares Order
Pope Joan
Portrait Medals
Postcolonial Theory
Postmodernism and Historiography
Poverty
Poverty, Religious
Power, Eileen
Pregnancy and Childbirth: Christian Women
Pregnancy and Childbirth: Jewish Women
Premonstratensian Order
Private and Public Spheres
Procreation and Ideas of Conception
Prophets
Prophets, Nordic
Prosopography
Prostitutes
Proverbs, Riddles, and Gnomic Literature
Psychoanalytic Theory

Q
Qasm?na Bint Ism?’?l
Queens and Empresses, Consorts of
Queens and Empresses: the West
Queer Theory

R
Radegund
Rape and Raptus
Reader-response Criticism
Records, Ecclesiastical
Records, Rural
Records, Urban
Regents and Queen-Lieutenants
Relics and Reliquaries
Remarriage
Renaissance, Historiography of
Réponse du Bestiaire d'Amour
Roman de Flamenca
Roman de la Rose and Its Reception
Roman Law
Romance de Silence
Romance, English
Romance, French
Romance, German
Romancero
Romances of Antiquity
Rosary
Rose of Viterbo
Russia

S
Sanuti, Nicolosa Castellani
Satan
Scandinavia
Scholasticism
Scotland
Seals and Sigillography
Secrets of Women
Sentimental Romance
Sermons and Preaching
Servants
Sexuality: Extramarital Sex
Sexuality: Female Same-Sex Relations
Sexuality: Male Same-Sex Relations
Sexuality, Regulation of
Sexuality: Sex in Marriage
Sheela Na Gigs
Shekhinah
Singlewomen
Sister-Books and Other Convent Chronicles
Skáldkonur
Slaves
Social Status
Song of Songs, Medieval Interpretations of
Sophia Palaiologina
Soul
Space, Sacred: and Gender
Space, Secular: and Gender
Spirits: Discernment of and Possession by
Spiritual Care
Spirituality, Christian
Stagel, Elsbeth
Strozzi, Alessandra
Succession, Royal and Noble
Sumptuary Law: Early Modern Europe
Supernatural Women
Syon Abbey

T
Teresa de Cartagena
Tertiaries
Textile Production for the Market
Theodora
Theology
Tornabuoni de'Medici, Lucrezia
Tournaments
Translation
Trobairitz and Trobadors
Trota of Salerno
Trousseau
Trouvères, Women
Typology and Women

U
Unicorn
Universities
Urraca
Ursula and Her Companions

V
Valkyries
Veronica's Veil
Villon, François
Violence
Virgin Martyrs
Virginity
Virile Women
Voice, Female: in Literature
Vowesses

W
Waldensians
Wales
Wall?da Bint al-Mustakf?
Wardship
Warfare
Wergild
Widows
Widows as Guardians
Wife of Bath
Wild Women
Wills
Wisdom
Witches
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Woman on Top
Woman's Song
Women Authors: German Texts
Women Authors: Italian Texts
Women Authors: Latin Texts
Women Authors: Middle English Texts
Women Authors: Old French Texts
Women Authors: Spanish Texts
Women Medievalists in the Academy
Woodville, Elizabeth
Work

Y
Yvette of Huy

Z
Zita and Other Servant Saints

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