Project Status: Ongoing

Searchable bibliography/index of articles in over 500 journals, book reviews, and essays in books about women, sexuality, and gender during the middle ages published from c.1990 onwards. Excludes books by a single author (e.g., monographs). Many items include  brief annotations. Some images also indexed. Provides links to other resources on medieval women and gender (including masculinity and homosexuality).

 

Resource details:

Resource Type: Bibliography, Images, Searchable Bibliography

License: No Fee

Modern Language: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Medieval content details:

Dates: 450 - 1500

Extends coverage of Russia to 1613

Subject: Agriculture, Anticlericalism, Apocalypticism, Archaeology, Art, Asiatic Nomads, Byzantium, Carolingians, Chivalry, Christology, Church Fathers, Civil Law, Clergy, Confession, Penance, Conversion, Courtly Love, Crafts, Industry, Crime, Crusades, Death, Burial, Early English Studies, Early Germanic Peoples, Economy, Education, Universities, Family, Children, Marriage, Food and Drink, Gender, Government, Guilds, Labor, Heresy, Heretical, History, History, Jews, Judaism, Law, Lay, Magic, Witchcraft, Manuscript Studies, Mariology, Material Culture, Medicine, Mendicants, Monasticism, Monks, Moral, Ethics, Music, Muslims, Islam, Mysticism, Nobility, Gentry, Nuns, Papacy, Peasants, Piety, Plague, Disease, Poverty, Charity, Priests, Bishops, Canons, Recreation, Entertainment, Religion - Institutional Church, Religious Law, Revolt, Royalty, Monarchs, Saints, Seals, Sex, Sexuality, Slavery, Social Groups, Theology, Towns, Cities, Trade, Travel, Pilgrimage, Vikings, War, Women, Women Religious

Geopolitical Region: Africa, Algeria, Armenia, Asia, East and South, Austria, Balkans, Belgium, Bohemia, British Isles and Ireland, Bulgaria, Byzantium, Crete, Croatia, Crusader States, Denmark, Eastern Europe, Egypt, England, Europe, Finland, Flanders, France, German Lands, Germany, Greece, Holland, Holy Roman Empire, Hungary, Iberian Peninsula, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Estonia, Low Countries, Middle East, Netherlands, North Africa/Maghreb, Norway, Palestine, Persia, Poland, Portugal, Prussia, Russia, Scandinavia, Scotland, Serbia, Sicily, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, Wales

The geographic area is Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East as well as areas in which Europeans travelled.

Most indexed items are in English, but also indexes many foreign-language journals (particularly in Europe).

Medieval Creators: Marie de France, Hildegard of Bingen, Brunhild

Site includes scholarly works about all known medieval female authors/creators and male authors who wrote about women or gender.