Women

Mittelalterliche Frauenkl�ster
http://www.frauenkloester.de/

German: contact list for the scientific investigation of the history, liturgy, education, art and building history of women�s religious communities in the Middle Ages, links

 

40 Frauenschicksale aus dem 15./16. Jahrhundert

http://www.kleio.org/frauenrenaissance.html

40 biographies of women in the 15th and 16th century by Maike Vogt-L�erssen

 

Bibliography on Women in Byzantium

http://www.doaks.org/WomeninByzantium.html

contents: primary sources available in translation, secondary sources, web sites

 

"Der Minne Lied, Zum Selbstverst�ndnis der Mystikerinnen im Mittelalter"

http://www.astro-sophia.de/Seiten/beginen.htm

Sabine Bauer�s paper read on the sociologists conference in Graz 1997 with footnotes and bibliography

 

Die Bettelordenskl�ster St. Maria-Magdalena und St. Johannis, Hamburg

http://www.sub.uni-hamburg.de/opus/volltexte/2002/655/pdf/dissertation.pdf

German: dissertation concerning two mendicant monasteries in Hamburg

 

Die zweite Bekehrung der Gertrud der Gro�en im Kontext der fr�hen Dt. Frauenmystik

http://www.uni-erfurt.de/theol/hochschule_allg/gastvorlesung_weiss.htm [opens in a new window]

German: detailed lecture of Bardo Weiss about the German female mysticism and Gertrude the Great, with information about literature and sources

 

Crown and Veil � The Art of female Monasticism in the Middle Ages (march 13th - june19th, 2005)

http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/

The exhibition �Crown and veil� is dedicated to all forms of female religiosity from the early Middle Ages until the Reformation.

detailed booklet (Germ./Engl.) for download (*.PDF).

 

Dominion&Domination of the gentle Sex- The lives of medieval women

http://library.thinkquest.org/12834/

The day-to-day lives of medieval women of all classes and callings. biographies, bibliography and organized link list

 

Female Heroes (Women in World History)

http://www.womeninworldhistory.com/heroine.html

article on women during the crusades, e.g. Eleanor of Aquitaine

 

FEMINAE: Medieval Women and Gender Index (former MFI: Medieval Feminist Index)

http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html

search by author, title and subject; advanced search by keyword, source, article type, geographic area, century, author's affiliation, year of publication, and/or language, as well as links and bibliographies (also in form of newsletters)

 

Feminine versions of the rule of St. Benedict

https://www.osb.org/aba/rb/feminine/

English: different versions of the rule of St. Benedict for female convents in several language (e. g. Middle High German, Old French ...), with bibliography

 

Feminist Foremothers 1400-1800

http://www.pinn.net/~sunshine/march99/whm_99.html

short biographies and writings

 

Franciscan Women: History and Culture

http://franwomen.sbu.edu/franwomen/default.aspx

English: detailed site about the research on Franciscan women (2nd and 3rd order), search by convent and by person, bibliography and links

 

Frauen im Mittelalter

http://mahan.wonkwang.ac.kr/medlink/women.htm

English: link list, description of the links on the first page in Korean, all the other information in English

 

Herstory � Medieval and Renaissance

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/1319/herstory/medieval.html

English: very short biographies of several women of the middle ages and the renaissance

 

Internet Women�s History Sourcebook

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/women/womensbook.html [opens in a new window]

English: texts and sources about women in history (unfortunately, many links don�t work any more)

 

Krone und Schleier - Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenkl�stern (13. M�rz bis 19. Juni 2005)

http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/ [opens in a new window]

The exposition �Krone und Schleier� (crown and veil) is devoted to all forms of feminine religious life from the early middles ages until the reformation in the 16th century.

 

Kurzbibliographie: Frauen im Mittelalter

http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~ohherde/fraulist.htm

bibliography: women in the Middle Ages

 

Magistra: A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History

http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/magistra.htm

tables of contents online; Magistra is a daughter publication of Vox Benedictina, a Canadian journal of monastic and women's spirituality.

 

Matrologia Latina

http://www.peregrina.com/matrologia_latina/matrologia_latina.html

Latin texts and studies of women relating to the mystical and spiritual traditions of western Christianity, E-texts, e.g. essay �The desert mothers�, Christina Mirabilis (you can order English translations for money)

 

Medi�vistik zwischen Frauengeschichte, Feminismus und �Gender History�

http://www.uni-mainz.de/~sschmitt/start.html

sources, links and bibliography

 

Medi�vistische Gender-Forschung

http://www.perspicuitas.uni-essen.de/gend/gesamtbiblio-Dateien/ges_bibliogr.pdf

German: enormous bibliography concerning gender research with special emphasis on the middle ages and the early modern times (PDF document)

 

Medieval women�s education

https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mlove/www/Bibliographies/Medieval%20Women's%20Education.htm

extensive bibliography

 

Medieval Women�s Latin Letters

http://db.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/ferrante/

data base: each letter with English translation and historical background information

 

Monastic Matrix

http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/

community profiles, biographies, bibliographies, image library, glossary, primary and secondary sources... you can browse or search in several ways

 

�Mystic Women - The Television Series�

http://mw.mcmaster.ca/tvseries/

interactive site: many articles, substantial bibliographies, time line, illustrations of manuscripts, image database, links

 

Other Women's Voices - Translations of women's writing before 1700

http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/

chronological and alphabetical listing of women writers, biographies, online texts, bibliographies, English translations of passages

 

SchleierHaft? Mittelalterliches Leben im Frauenstift Gernrode

http://www.stift-gernrode.uni-goettingen.de/AltFrameset.htm

German: detailed site concerning a exhibition in Gernrode/ Germany with many interesting information about medieval religious women, with images and photos, bibliography

 

Sistersite

http://www.maxwell.syr.edu/maxpages/faculty/msthomps/ssmax.htm

enormous link collection (among others: women�s congregations, Internet resources, essays, reviews of homepages and books)

 

The Role Of Benedictine Women Before The Gregorian Reform

http://www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu/~dvess/ids/medieval/benwom.htm

English: paper by Dr. Deborah Vess

 

Vir-benedictus.de (by Uwe Weigand)

http://www.vir-benedictus.de/

German: several bibliographies on religious women�s communities and related topics in the middle ages

 

Woman under monasticism

http://www.yale.edu/adhoc/etexts/Eckstn1.htm

English: essay written by Lina Eckenstein concerning women in convents from 500 to 1500, the new orders and feminine mysticism (essay from 1963)

 

Women�s Studies (ORB)

http://www.the-orb.net/encyclop/culture/women/femindex.html
a guide to online resources

 

Women Writers of the Middle Ages

http://www.library.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=227

English: huge bibliography of medieval women writers

 

Works by and about Women Writers ofthe Middle Ages

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/womenbib.html

general sources and special topics

 

Women Writers Project

http://www.wwp.brown.edu

a long-term research project devoted to early modern women's writing and electronic text encoding, with bibliographies and other resources

 

Women�s history (International Institute of Social History)

http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/

bibliography, links, publications

 

 

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