History 5341 Medieval Italy
John Howe
List 6: History of Women and Families
References:
Feminae:
Medieval Women and Gender Index
covers
journal articles, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and
gender during the Middle Ages. This a publically available serial bibliography,
not a full-text database. Books
written by a single author are not indexed—for these you need to consult ITER,
the International Medieval Bibliography, or library subject catalogues.
Bullough, Vern L.,
and James A. Brundage (eds.). Handbook of Medieval Sexuality.
Garland Reference Library of the Humanities 1696.
New York: Garland, 1996.
Klapisch-Zuber,
Christiane (ed.). A History of Women
in the West. Vol. 2: Silences of the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Belknap Press
of Harvard University Press, 1992.
Minnis, Alastair,
and Rosalynn Voaden (eds.) Medieval Holy Women in the Christian Tradition, c.
1100- c. 1500. Turnhout:
Brepols, 2010.
Sourcebooks and Secondary Literature
Bornstein, Daniel,
and Roberto Rusconi (eds.).
Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance
Brown, Judith C.,
and Robert C. Davis (eds.).
Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy.
London: Longman, 1998.
Brundage, James A.
Law, Sex, and Christian Society in
Medieval Europe. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Bynum, Caroline
Walker.
Holy Feast and Holy Fast:
The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Chojnacki, Stanley.
Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Cohn, Samuel K.
Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Dean, Trevor, and
K.J.P. Lowe.
Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Duby, Georges, and
Jacques Le Goff (eds.). Famiglia
e parentela nell’Italia medievale.
Translation of the sections of Famille et parenté dans l’Occident
médiéval related to Italy, made by Pina Lalli.
Bologna : Il Mulino, 1981.
Ferguson,
Margaret W., Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy Vickers
(eds.). Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses
of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1986.
Goodich, Michael.
Vita Perfecta: The Ideal
of Sainthood in the Thirteenth Century.
Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 25.
Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann,
1982.
Herlihy, David.
Medieval Households.
Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1985.
Herlihy, David.
Opera Muliebria:
Women and Work in Medieval Europe.
New York: McGraw Hill
Publishing Company, 1990.
Herlihy, David, and
Christiane Klapisch-Zuber, Tuscans and
Their Families: A Study of the Florentine Catasto of 1427.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.
Review Together:
1) Joan Kelly. “Did Women Have a Renaissance?”
1977, reprinted in Women, History,
and Theory: The Essays of Joan
Kelly. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1984 ; 2) David Herlihy.
“Did Women Have a Renaissance?
A Reconsideration.”
Mediaevalia et Humanistica: Studies in
Medieval and Renaissance Culture ns 13 (1985): 1-22.
Kertzer, David I.,
and Richard P. Saller.
The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the
Present. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1991.
King, Catherine.
Renaissance Women Patrons: Wives and Widows in Italy, c. 1300-1550.
Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1998.
King, Margaret.
Women of the Renaissance. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Klapisch-Zuber,
Christiane.
Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance
Italy. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1985.
Kuehn, Thomas.
Emancipation in Late Medieval Florence. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 1982.
Kuehn, Thomas.
Law, Family, and
Women: Toward a Legal Anthropology
of Renaissance Italy.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Kuehn, Thomas.
Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Lowe, Kate J. P.
Nuns’ Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation
Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Maclean. Ian. The
Renaissance Notion of Women: A Study in the
Fortunes of Scholasticism and Medical Science in European Intellectual Life.
Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1980.
Matter, E. Ann, and
John Coakley (eds.). Creative Women in
Medieval and Early Modern Italy: A Religious and Artistic Renaissance.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Musacchio,
Jacqueline Marie. The Art and Ritual of
Childbirth in Renaissance Italy.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.
Rogers, Mary, and Paola Tiongali (eds.). Women and the Visual Arts in Italy, c. 1400-1650: Luxury and Leisure, Duty and Devotion: A Sourcebook. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012.
Rogers, Mary, and Paola Tiongali (eds.) Women in Italy, 1350-1650: Ideals nad Realities: A Sourcebook. Manchester Medieval Sources. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Skinner, Patricia. Family Power in Soouthern Italy: The Duchy of Gaeta and Its Neighbours, 850-1139. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought, 850-1139. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Weinstein, Donald,
and Rudolph M. Bell.
Saints and Society:
The Two Worlds of Western Christendom, 1000-1700.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.