Medieval women and the sources of medieval history

by: Rosenthal, J.T.

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Medieval women and the sources of medieval history

Author:Joel T. Rosenthal

Summary:The 15 essays in this volume attempt to show that familiar medieval sources can be read in new ways to yield more information about the status and role of women. The topics examined include: women in Old Norse sources, evidence of women in English legal records and Italian commercial documents.

xvii, 384 pages ; illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents:
Medieval women in French sigillographic sources / Brigitte Bedow- Rezak
Exempla / Jacques Berlioz and Marie Anne Polo de Beaulieu
Sexual equality in medieval canon law / James A. Brundage
German source collections : the Archdiocese of Salzburg as a case study / John B. Freed
The charters of Le Ronceray d'Angers / Penny S. Gold
Women and the sources of medieval history / David Herlihy
Old Norse sources on women / Jenny Jochens
Women and the literature of obstetrics and gynecology / Helen Lemay
"Legal history and the medieval Englishwoman" / Janet Senderowitz Loengard. (Cont) De quibusdam mulieribus : reading women's history from hostile sources / Jo Ann McNamara
Anglo-Saxon attitudes / Joel T. Rosenthal
Saints' lives as a source for the history of women, 500-1100 / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg
Coinage in the name of medieval women / Alan M. Stahl
Sources on medieval women in Mediterranean archives / Susan Mosher Stuard

Medieval women and the sources of medieval history

by: Rosenthal, J.T.

• ISBN-13: 9780820312149 / 978-0-8203-1214-9
• ISBN-03: 0820312142 / 0-8203-1214-2
• The University of Georgia Press, Athens and London, 1990

Price: 56,94 EURO

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