Women's Lives in Medieval Europe

A Sourcebook

Emilie Amt

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN: 9781134720675
• Edition: 2
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Praise for the first edition:

'It is difficult to imagine another book in which one could find all this diverse material, and no doubt Amt's collection, in its richness, and in its genuine clarity and simplicity will takes prominent place in our expanded, diversified medieval curriculum, a curriculum that takes class, gender, and ethnicity as central to an understanding of world cultural history.' - The Medieval Review

Long considered to be a definitive and truly groundbreaking collection of sources, Women's Lives in Medieval Europe uniquely presents the everyday lives and experiences of women in the Middle Ages. This indispensible text has now been thoroughly updated and expanded to reflect new research, and includes previously unavailable source material.

This new edition includes expanded sections on marriage and sexuality, and on peasant women and townswomen, as well as a new section on women and the law. There are brief introductions both to the period and to the individual documents, study questions to accompany each reading, a glossary of terms and a fully updated bibliography. Working within a multi-cultural framework, the book focuses not just on the Christian majority, but also present material about women in minority groups in Europe, such as Jews, Muslims, and those considered to be heretics. Incorporating both the laws, regulations and religious texts that shaped the way women lived their lives, and personal narratives by and about medieval women, the book is unique in examining women's lives through the lens of daily activities, and in doing so as far as possible through the voices of women themselves.

Index

abbesses 197–8

abduction 62, 70

Abrahams, Israel: Hebrew Ethical Wills 237–9

Adam and Eve 10–12

Adamnan 34–5

adultery: accusations 56; canon law 37–8; Jews 240–2; Muslim women 245–6; penance 68; rape 53–4; Roman Empire 25; Sicilian law 51

Agnes the Beguine, Dame 87, 92–4

agricultural workers 65

Alvilda Petroff, Elizabeth: Medieval Women’s Literature 135–8

Alwalton 151–2

Amt, E.: Cartulaire du Beguinage de Sainte-Elisabeth á Gand 213–16; Chartularium universitatis parisiensis 103–6; Corpus Juris Canonici 35–8; Coutumiers de Normandie, I: Le Très Ancien Coutumier de Normandie 41–5; Explication du Capitulaire De Villis 148; Gli statuti Veronesi del 1276 colle correzioni e le aggiunte fino 1323 164–5; Le Livre des Métiers, XIIIe Siécle 162–4; Les Mètiers et Corporations de la Ville de Paris 173–4; Lo statuto inedito delle nozze veneziane emanato nell’anno 1229 134–5; Maire of Bristowe is Kalendar, The 166–8; Marriage Litigation in Medieval England 83–5; Recueil de Documents Relatifs á l’Histoire de l’Industrie Drapière en Flandre 166–73; Rotuli de Dominabus et Pueris de Xii Comitabus 125–7; Sancti Caesarii Episcopi Arelatensis Opera Omnia, vol. II 183–90; Select Pleas, Starrs and Other Records from the Rolls of the Exchequer of the Jews, AD 1220-1284 165–6

anchoresses 206–13

anchorites 206–13

Ancrene Riwle 206–13

Anglo-Saxon Wills 114–18

apprenticeships 166–8

Armstrong, Regis J.: Clare of Assisi: Early Documents 195–201

Asheri, Judah: family history 237–8

assault 31–2

Autobiography of Guibert of Nogent, The 118–23

banquets: Household Book of Dame Alice de Bryene, The 140

Barley, Maurice: Houses and History 158–9

Barnes, Patricia M.: Medieval...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I THE HERITAGE OF IDEAS
• II WOMEN AND THE LAW
• III MARRIAGE, SEX, CHILDBIRTH, AND HEALTH
• IV NOBLEWOMEN’S LIVES
• V PEASANT WOMEN’S LIVES
• VI TOWNSWOMEN’S LIVES
• VII RELIGIOUS LIVES
• VIII JEWISH, MUSLIM, AND HERETIC WOMEN
• Glossary
• Further reading
• Index