medieval books
womens studies & sex

 

A History of Private Life
Book II: Revelations of the Medieval World

General editors Phillipe Aries and Georges Duby
translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Belknap Press
Harvard University, 1988
A Medieval Home Companion.
Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century

Translated and edited by Tania Bayard
Harper Trade
New York, 1991
A Small Sound of the Trumpet
Women in Medieval Life

by Margaret W Labarge
Beacon Press
Boston, 1986
Between Pit and Pedestal-
Women in the Middle Ages

by Marty Williams and Anne Echols
Markus Wiener Publishers,
Princeton, NJ 1994
  But to Foule Lust and Likynge of Lecherye
by Rachel Esa Scott
USA
February 2, 2019
Fasciculus Morum. A Fourteenth-Century Preacher’s handbook.
Edition and translation by Siegfried Wenzel.
The Pennsylvania State University Press.
1989.
  Female Sodomy:
The Trial of Katherina Hetzeldorfer (1477)

by Helmut Puff
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30
Winter, 2000: 42 & 46
Here Begins The Seeing Of The Urines
an original 13th-15th Century Urine Diagnosis Pamphlet

Theophrastus von oberstockstall
The Restoreres of Alchemical Manuscripts Society
2014
Letters to Fransciso Datini
Volume 16 of Other voice in early modern Europe: Toronto series
by Margherita Datini

Translated by Carolyn James, Antonio Pagliaro
Contributors Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Iter (Toronto, Ont.)
Little Sermons on Sin:
The Archpriest of Talavera

by Alfonso Martínez de Toledo
translated by Lesley Byrd Simpson
University of California Press
February 1, 1959
Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages
by George Duby
Translated by Jane Dunnett.
The University of Chicago Press
1994
Love Locked Out
A Survey of Love, Licence and Restriction in the Middle Ages

by James Cleugh
Spring Books. The Hamlyn Publishing Group.
Original edition 1963.
London
Marriage in Medieval England
Law, Literature and Practice

By: Conor McCarthy
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
1st November 2004
Marriage Litigation in Medieval England
by R. H. Helmholz
Cambridge Studies in English Legal History
Cambridge University Press
1 May 2007
Marriage, Sex and Civic Customs in Late Medieval London
By Shannon McSheffrey
University of Pennsylvania Press
06 July, 2006
Medieval Handbooks of Penance
A Translation of the Principal Libri Poenitentiales

Translated by John Thomas McNeill & Helena M. Gamer
Records of Western Civilization Series
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
United States, 1 November, 1990
Medieval Marriage
Symbolism and Society

By David D'Avray
Oxford University Press
Oxford, UK, 01 March, 2008
Medieval Marriage Sermons
Mass Communication in a Culture without Print

Edited by David D'Avray
Oxford University Press
Oxford, UK
13 September, 2001
Medieval Women
A Social History of Women in England 450 - 1500

by Henrietta Leyser
Pheonix Giant Paperback
Orion Books
London

Medieval Writings on Secular Women
by Patricia Skinner and Elizabeth van Houts.
Penguin Classics
1st edition, May 31, 2011

Mistress, Maids and Men
Baronial Life in the Thirteenth Century

by Margaret Wade Labarge
Pheonix
Great Britain. 1965
Montaillou
Cathars and Catholics In A French Village. 1294-1324

by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie
Translated by Barbara Bray
Scholar Press.
Penguin Books.
England, 1978
Most Wise & Valiant Ladies-
Remarkable Lives, Women of the Middle Ages

by Andrea Hokins
Welcome Rain / Collins
London. 2000
Plucked, Shaved & Braided
Medieval and Renaissance Beauty and Grooming Practices 1000-1600

by Daniela Turudich and Laurie J. Welch
Vintage Living series
June 1, 2003
Sister of Wisdom:
St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine

Barbara Newman
University of California Press
1998

Stolen Women in Medieval England
Rape, Abduction, and Adultery, 1100–1500

Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series, Book 87
by Caroline Dunn
Campridge, October 4, 2012

The Amorous Antics Of Old England
by Nigel Cawthorne
Portrait
1st edition, 9 November, 2006
The Art of Courtly Love
by Andreas Capellanus
Records of Western Civilization Series
Columbia University Press
New York, May 16, 1990

The Artifice of Beauty
A History and Practical Guide to Perfumes and Cosmetics

by Sally Pointer
The History Press Ltd
2005

THE BOOK OF THE CITY OF LADIES. Christine de Pizan.
(Le Livres des Trois Vertus, 1405. The Treasury of The City of Ladies. by Christine de Pizan)

A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor
Translated by Charity Cannon Willard,
Bard Hall Press,
Persea Books. 1989
The Book of the Knight of La Tour-Landry Compiled for the Instruction of His Daughter. by Geoffroy de la Tour (the younger)
Edited by Thomas Wright,
Alpha Editions, 2020
The City of Ladies
by Christine de Pizan

Penguin Great Ideas
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
London, United Kingdom
01 October, 2005
The Distaff Gospels:
A First Modern English Edition of Les Evangiles des Quenouilles

Edited by Madeleine Jeay , Edited by Kathleen Garay
Broadview Press Ltd
Peterborough, Canada
30 May 2006
The Enclyclopedia of Concentrated Aphrodisiacs
By William H. Lee R.Ph., Ph.D. & Lynn Lee
Instant Improvement, Inc. Trading as Bookman Home Library
Melbourne. 1994
The Fourth Estate
A History of Women in the Middle Ages (Revised edition)

By Shulamith Shahar
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Routledge
London, United Kingdom, 01 May 2003
The Goodman of Paris. Le Menagier de Paris
A Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy by A Citizen of Paris. c.1393

Translated by Eileen Power
George Routeledge A Sons Ltd 1928
The Folio Society. 1992
The Letters of Abelard and Heloise.
Translated with an introduction by Betty Radice
Penguin Books
London. 1974
The Lady in Medieval England
1000-1500

by Peter Coss.
A Sutton Publishing Book.
Wren's Park Publishing
U.K. 1998.
The Medieval Housewife
& Other Women of the Middle Ages
by Toni Mount
Amberley Publishing
November 15, 2014
The Medieval Woman's Guide to Health:
The first english gynecological handbook.
Middle English Text with introduction and Modern English Translation

By Beryl Rowland
Kent State University Press,
Kent, Ohio: 1981.

The Merchant of Prato's Wife:
Margherita Datini and Her World, 1360-1423

by Ann Crabb
2015

To Get

The Very Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Women
by Rosalie Gilbert
Mango Publishing, USA
November, 2020
The Scorcery Trial of Alice Kyteler
A contemporary Account (1324)
Together with Related Documents in Engllish Translation,
with Introduction and Notes

Edited by L.S. Davidson and J.O. Ward
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies
Bingham, New York, 1993

Women and Gender in Medieval Europe
An Encylcopedia
edited by Margaret Schaup
Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group
New York and London. 2015

Women, Family and Society in Medieval Europe
Historical Essays, 1978-1991

by David Herlihy
Berghahn Books
USA, 1995

Women and Power in the Middle Ages
by editors Mary Erler & Maryanne Kowaleski
Univ of Georgia Pr, Athens, Georgia,
U.S.A. 1988

Women in England, c.1275-1525
Documentary Sources

Edited by P.J.P. Goldberg
Translated by P.J.P. Goldberg
Manchested University Press
20 November, 2002

Women in the Medieval English Countryside
Gender & Household in Brigstock Before the Plague

by Judith M Bennett
Oxford University Press
New York, 1987
Women in the Middle Ages
The Lives of Real Women in a Vibrant Age of Transition

by Frances & Joseph Gies
Harper & Row
New York, 1980.

Women of the English Nobility and Gentry
1066-1500

by Jennifer Ward
Medieval Sources
Manchester

Women's Secrets:
A Translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus' De Secretis Mulierum
with Commentaries

by Helen Rodnite Lemay
SUNY series in Medieval Studies
October 14, 1992

Women Writers of the Middle Ages. A Critical Study of Texts from Perpetua to Marguerite Porete
Peter Dronke.
Cambridge University Press.
March 1984

 

 

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