The Romance of the Rose, Christine de Pizan, Troubadour Song

View a manuscript of The Romance of the Rose (Roman de la Rose),  http://roseandchess.lib.uchicago.edu/view.php?doc=1380&obj=013

Christine de Pizan, "The Song of Joan of Arc," http://maidjoan.tripod.com/ditie.html

Christine de Pizan, "Like the Mourning Dove" and "I Am a Widow Lone,"  http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/medsex/cp3.htm#dove

A French troubadour song, http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/French+Troubadour+Songs/3798936

Week 5 - February 28 - Primary Sources

The Trial of Joan of Arc, 1431, http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/1431joantrial.asp

Witchcraft Documents [15th Century], http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/witches1.asp

Witchcraft Legends, http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/witch.html

Le Menagier [or Goodman] of Paris: on ideal marriage,  http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/goodman.asp

Synod of Castilian Jews, 1432, http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/1432synod-castile-jews.asp (Contains a section on forced marriages - scroll down to Section III: Defamations - FORCED BETROTHALS OR MARRIAGES. Also, see Section V - Regarding Clothing - Clothing Restrictions.)

Week 4 - February 21 - Secondary Sources

Backgrounds to Romance: "Courtly Love",  http://cla.calpoly.edu/~dschwart/engl513/courtly/courtly.htm

Christine de Pizan,  http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/christine1.html and http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/christine2.html

Week 4 - February 21 - Primary Sources

Bernard of Clairvaux letter to Queen Eleanor (of the Franks),  http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/letter/1294.html.

Peter of Blois: Letter 154 to Queen Eleanor (of England), 1173,  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/eleanor.asp.

Hildegard of Bingen letter to Queen Eleanor (of England),  http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/letter/1187.html.

Richard I, King of England, letter to his mother, Queen Eleanor, 1193,  http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/letter/148.html.

Excerpts from Christine de Pizan's, "The Poem of Joan of Arc,"  http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/medsex/cp4.htm

Excerpt from Christine de Pizan, Le Livre des Trois Vertus,  http://mw.mcmaster.ca/scriptorium/cdpizan1.html

Fiction Set in the Middle Ages - Part II

Margaret Frazer - Sister Frevisse Series set in 15th-century England

1. The Novice's Tale (1992)
2. The Servant's Tale (1993)
3. The Outlaw's Tale (1994)
4. The Bishop's Tale (1994)
5. The Boy's Tale (1995)
6. The Murderer's Tale (1996)
7. The Prioress' Tale (1997)
8. The Maiden's Tale (1998)
9. The Reeve's Tale (1999)
10. The Squire's Tale (2000)
11. The Clerk's Tale (2002)
12. The Bastard's Tale (2003)
13. The Hunter's Tale (2004)
14. The Widow's Tale (2005)
15. The Sempster's Tale (2006)
16. The Traitor's Tale (2007)
17. The Apostate's Tale (2008)
The Midwife's Tale (2010)
The Witch's Tale (2010)
The Stone-Worker's Tale (2011)
Winter Heart (2011)

Margaret Frazer - Joliffe the Player Series set in 15th-century England

1. A Play of Isaac (2004)
2. A Play of Dux Moraud (2005)
3. A Play of Knaves (2006)
4. A Play of Lords (2007)
5. A Play of Treachery (2009)
6. A Play of Piety (2010)
7. A Play of Heresy (2011)

Margaret Frazer - Bishop Pecock Tales Series set in 15th-century England

The Simple Logic of It (2010)
Heretical Murder (2011)
Lowly Death (2011)

Ellis Peters - Brother Cadfael Series set in 12th-century England

1. A Morbid Taste for Bones (1977)
2. One Corpse Too Many (1979)
3. Monk's Hood (1980)
4. St. Peter's Fair (1981)
5. The Leper of Saint Giles (1981)
6. The Virgin in the Ice (1982)
7. The Sanctuary Sparrow (1982)
8. The Devil's Novice (1983)
9. Dead Man's Ransom (1984)
10. The Pilgrim of Hate (1984)
11. An Excellent Mystery (1985)
12. The Raven in the Foregate (1986)
13. The Rose Rent (1986)
14. The Hermit of Eyton Forest (1987)
15. The Confession of Brother Haluin (1988)
16. The Heretic's Apprentice (1989)
17. The Potter's Field (1989)
18. The Summer of the Danes (1991)
19. The Holy Thief (1992)
20. Brother Cadfael's Penance (1994)

Alys Clare - Hawkenlye Series set in 13th-century England

1. Fortune Like the Moon (1999)
2. Ashes of the Elements (2000)
3. The Tavern in the Morning (2000)
4. The Chatter of the Maidens (2001)
5. The Faithful Dead (2002)
6. A Dark Night Hidden (2003)
7. Whiter Than the Lily (2004)
8. Girl in a Red Tunic (2005)
9. Heart of Ice (2006)
10. The Enchanter's Forest (2007)
11. The Paths of the Air (2008)
12. Joys of My Life (2008)
13. The Rose of The World (2011)

Alys Clare - Aelf Fen Series set in 11th-century England

1. Out of the Dawn Light (2009)
2. Mist Over the Water (2009)
3. Music of the Distant Stars (2010)
4. The Way Between the Worlds (2011)

Week 3 - February 14 - Secondary Sources

Ferraris, Zoë Alaina and Ferraris, Victor A., "The Women of Salerno: Contribution to the Origins of Surgery From Medieval Italy," The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 64:1855-1857, 1997, http://ats.ctsnetjournals.org/cgi/content/full/64/6/1855

Kowaleski, Maryanne and Bennett, Judith M., "Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 14, no. 2, 1989, http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~judithb/crafts2.pdf

Week 3 - February 14 - Primary Sources

Heloise, First Letter to Abelard, http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/heloise1.asp

Hugh Metel, Augustinian canon, letter to Heloise,  http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/letter/191.html.

Hildegard of Bingen, http://home.infionline.net/~ddisse/hildegar.html. (This website includes a brief biography of Hildegard. Scroll down to find translations of excerpts from many of her works.)

Hildegard of Bingen letter to Bernard of Clairvaux,  http://epistolae.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/letter/1188.html.

Jacques (de Vitry), Stephanus (de Borbone), Medieval Sermon-Stories, Volume 2: Monastic Tales of the XIII Century, ed. Dana Carleton Munro, The Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, PA, 1901, http://books.google.com/books?id=xLPIbzGxPq4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=medieval&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TU4sT5nmNemliQKfxNGnCg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBDge#v=onepage&q=medieval&f=false. (This link is to the entire book in electronic form. Scroll down to page 4 to the tale "2. Virgin in Place of Nun Who Had Fled From the Convent."

Week 2 - February 7 - Secondary Sources

Frank, Karen A, "From Egypt to Umbria: Jewish Women and Property in the Medieval Mediterranean," California Italian Studies, 1(1), 2010, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/9249w3hr#page-1.

Higa, Stephen M., "Exposing Virginal Bodies in Early Norman England," Thinking Gender Papers, UCLA Center for the Study of Women, UC Los Angeles, 2008, http://escholarship.org/uc/item/4gh3w92w#page-1.

Searle, Eleanor M., "Women and Marriage in Medieval Society," Engineering and Science, 44 (4). pp. 16-19, 1981, http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/583/2/Searle.pdf.

Wemple, Suzanne Fonay. "Scholarship in Women’s Communities," in Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900, (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981), http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/commentaria/article.php?textId=65.

Week 2 - February 7 - Primary Sources

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (10th century)
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, “Dulcitius,” http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/roswitha-dulcitius.asp

Women as property and as property holders
Cartulary of Saint Trond: Richelinde - A Gift of Serfs to Abbey of St. Trond, 938, http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/938Giftserf.asp
Codex Justinianus: Children of Mixed Marriages, c. 530, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/codexXl-48-xxiv.asp
The Law of Brusthem, 1175 - Marriage Between a Freewoman and a Serf, http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/1175brusthem.asp
Bills of Sale for Saracen Slave Girls, 1248, http://www.fordham.edu/Halsall/source/1248serfs5.asp

Women and religion/saints
The Life of St. Liutberga, 9th Century, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/liutberga.asp

Guilds
Joan, Countess of Flanders: Grant to Weavers of Exemption from the Taille, 1224, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1224Exmptail.asp

Fiction Set in the Middle Ages - Part I

Sharan Newman - Catherine LeVendeur Series set in 12th-century France (for the most part)

1. Death Comes as Epiphany (1993)
2. The Devil's Door (1994)
3. The Wandering Arm (1995)
4. Strong as Death (1996)
5. Cursed in the Blood (1998)
6. The Difficult Saint (1999)
7. To Wear the White Cloak (2000)
8. Heresy (2002)
9. The Outcast Dove (2003)
10. The Witch in the Well (2004)

Candace Robb - Owen Archer Series set in 14th-century England (his wife is an apothecary)

1. The Apothecary Rose (1993)
2. The Lady Chapel (1994)
3. The Nun's Tale (1995)
4. The King's Bishop (1996)
5. The Riddle of St. Leonard's (1997)
6. A Gift of Sanctuary (1998)
7. A Spy for the Redeemer (2002)
8. The Cross-Legged Knight (2002)
9. The Guilt of Innocents (2007)
10. A Vigil of Spies (2008)

Candace Robb - Margaret Kerr Series set in 13th-century Scotland

1. A Trust Betrayed (2000)
2. The Fire in the Flint (2003)
3. A Cruel Courtship (2004)

Roberta Gellis - Magdalene la Batarde Series set in 12th-century England (Magdalene runs a high-class brothel -- odd as it sounds, these books are quite good)

1. A Mortal Bane (1999)
2. A Personal Devil (2001)
3. Bone of Contention (2002)
4. Chains of Folly (2006)

Ariana Franklin - Mistress of the Art of Death Series set in 12th-century England (Adelia, trained as a doctor in Salerno, Italy, uses her knowledge of forensic medicine to solve murders -- women were, indeed, allowed to study medicine at the University of Salerno during the Middle Ages)

1. The Mistress of the Art of Death (2007)
2. The Serpent's Tale (2008) aka The Death Maze
3. Relics of the Dead (2009) aka Grave Goods
4. A Murderous Procession (2010) aka The Assassin's Prayer


Kate Sedley - Roger the Chapman Series set in 15th-century England

1. Death and the Chapman (1991)
2. The Plymouth Cloak (1992)
3. The Hanged Man (1993) aka The Weaver's Tale
4. The Holy Innocents (1994)
5. The Eve of Saint Hyacinth (1995)
6. The Wicked Winter (1995)
7. The Brothers of Glastonbury (1997)
8. The Weaver's Inheritance (1998)
9. The Saint John's Fern (1999)
10. The Goldsmith's Daughter (2001)
11. The Lammas Feast (2002)
12. Nine Men Dancing (2003)
13. The Midsummer Rose (2004)
14. The Burgundian's Tale (2005)
15. The Prodigal Son (2006)
16. The Three Kings of Cologne (2007)
17. The Green Man (2008)
18. The Dance of Death (2009)
19. Wheel of Fate (2010)
20. The Midsummer Crown (2011)
21. The Tintern Treasure (2012)

Week 1 - January 31 - Secondary Sources

Dhuoda, Handbook for her Warrior Son: Liber Manualis, Edited and Translated by: Marcelle Thiébaux, St John's University, Series: Cambridge Medieval Classics (No. 8), 1998.

Brundage, James A.,  Sex, Law and Marriage in the Middle Ages, (1993)

McKitterick, Rosamond,  The Frankish Kingdoms under the Carolingians, 750-987, (1983).

Wilson, Katharina M., ed., Medieval Women Writers, University of Georgia Press, 1984.

Lewis, Archibald R., "The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050 - The Carolingian System" - http://libro.uca.edu/lewis/sfc4.htm

Wemple, Suzanne Fonay. "Scholarship in Women’s Communities" in Women in Frankish Society: Marriage and the Cloister, 500 to 900, (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981). - http://monasticmatrix.usc.edu/commentaria/article.php?textId=65

Week 1 - January 31 - Primary Sources

Boudica, queen of the Iceni in Eastern Britain (1^st century)

Tacitus, Annals, http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/txt/ah/tacitus/TacitusAnnals14.html

Dio Cassius, Roman History, http://history-world.org/dio5.pdf

Dhuoda of Septimania (9^th century)

The Handbook of Dhuoda, Excerpts, trans. Carol Neel,                 http://www.ldysinger.com/@texts/0843_dhuoda/03_sel_c4-6_11.htm