Medieval Studies

Edited by Margaret Schaus. New York: Routledge, 2006.
[St. Michael’s 1st Floor Reference Area – HQ1147 .E85 W65 2006]
This book introduces women’s roles and activities during the Middle Ages, including devotional practices, female mysticism, medicine, politics, and patronage of the arts. Covering from 450 to 1500 A.D., and punctuated with cross-references and bibliographies, these 560-odd entries plumb general topics (e.g. Burgundian Netherlands or Ballads), as well as key themes (e.g. Economy and Society or Family and Kinship). Along with an index, and both thematic and alphabetical tables of contents, the encyclopedia includes several handy appendices: A calendar of female saints; milestones in mediaeval women’s history; recommended references; and web resources.
[Print copies available in the UofT Catalogue.]

Edited by Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras. Oxford University Press, 2013.
The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe introduces gender rules encountered in Europe between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period.

Edited by Katharina M. Wilson and Nadia Margolis. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2004. 2 volumes.
[St. Michael’s 1st Floor Reference Area – HQ1143 .W643 2004]
Multi-page scholarly articles on individual women and on broad topics relating to women. The lengthy bibliographies include primary and secondary sources.

By Anne Echols and Marty Williams. New York: Markus Wiener, 1992.
[St. Michael’s 1st Floor Reference Area – CT3220 .A56 1992]
Brief biographies of about 1,500 women who lived between 800 and 1500. Includes women engaged in a variety of activities from some thirty countries and from different social classes.

Edited by Emilie Amt. London: Routledge, 2010.
[St. Michael’s 2nd Floor – HQ1143 .W65 2010]
Primary sources relating to the experience of women in the Middle Ages between 500 and 1500 AD.