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