Women’s lives in medieval Europe : a sourcebook

Content: Cover --
Title Page --
Copyright Page --
Dedication --
Table of Contents --
Acknowledgements --
Introduction --
A note on money --
I THE HERITAGE OF IDEAS --
A. Christian belief --
1. The Bible: Adam and Eve (1st millennium BC) --
2. The Bible: Model women in the Gospels (1st c. AD) --
3. The Bible: Epistles of St. Paul (1st c. AD) --
4. St. Jerome: Virginity and marriage (4th c. AD) --
5. St. Augustine of Hippo: On the good of marriage (ca. AD 401) --
B. Roman ideals --
6. Funeral eulogy of Turia (1st c. BC) --
7. Seneca: Letter to his mother (1st c. AD). 8. Laws of the Roman Empire (3rd-6th c. AD) --
C. Germanic custom --
9. Tacitus: The Germans (AD 98) --
10. Laws of the Salian Franks (6th c. AD) --
II WOMEN AND THE LAW --
11. Cáin Adamnáin: Irish law of women (7th c.) --
12. Gratian: Canon law on marriage (12th c.) --
13. Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) --
14. Norman laws (early 13th c.) --
15. Laws of Sicily (1231) --
16. Spanish laws (13th c.) --
17. Customs of Magdeburg (13th c.) --
18. London crimes and punishments (14th c.) --
19. Sumptuary laws (13th-14th c.) --
III MARRIAGE, SEX, CHILDBIRTH, AND HEALTH. 20. Theodore\'s penitential (ca. 690) --
21. The life of Christina of Markyate: Christina\'s rebellion (12th c.) --
22. Liturgy for the marriage service (11th-16th c.) --
23. Manorial court rolls: Unfree women\'s marriages (13th-14th c.) --
24. Holy Maidenhood: A debate on marriage (13th c.) --
25. Episcopal court records: Elizabeth Lovell sues her husband (1326-8) --
26. Dowry practices in Italy (14th c.) --
27. The householder of Paris: Manual for his wife (ca. 1392) --
28. Liturgy for mothers (11th-16th c.) --
29. The Trotula: On the conditions of women (12th c.). 30. Hildegard of Bingen: Medical writings (12th c.) --
31. University of Paris records: Case of a woman physician (1322) --
IV NOBLEWOMEN\'S LIVES --
32. Gregory of Tours: The story of Ingitrude and Berthegund (6th c.) --
33. Dhuoda: Manual for her son (841-3) --
34. Anglo-Saxon wills (10th-11th c.) --
35. Autobiography of Guibert de Nogent: Life of his mother (11th-12th c.) --
36. Matilda of Stickney: Land grants (ca. 1170-98) --
37. The roll of ladies and boys and girls (1185) --
38. The Book of the Knight of the Tower (1371) --
39. Leonor López de Córdoba: Autobiography (14th-15th c.). 40. Cristina Corner: Petition for exemption from sumptuary laws (15th c.) --
41. Christine de Pizan: Autobiographical writing (1405) --
42. Household accounts of Dame Alice de Bryene (1412-13) --
43. Margaret Paston: Letters to her husband (15th c.) --
44. A manor house: Ightham Mote (ca. 1340) --
V PEASANT WOMAN\'S LIVES --
45. Working women on Frankish royal estates (6th-8th c.) --
46. Legal status of German peasants (11th c.) --
47. Women farmworkers\' duties (ca. 1270) --
48. Survey of Alwalton: Lands and obligations (1279) --
49. Manorial court rolls (14th c.).