The Medieval Family
Seminar and Essay Questions
- How restricted was the role of women in medieval society?
- How and why did attitudes towards marriage change in the middle ages?
- Was there any place for affection in medieval family life?
Documents
Articles on John Rykener:
Karras, Ruth Mazo, and David Lorenzo Boyd, : A Male transvestite prostitute in fourteenth century London' in Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay (eds), Sexualities in History: A reader (London,1996)
Karras, Ruth Mazo and Tom Linkinen, in Founding Feminisms in Medieval Studies, ed. L.E. Doggett and D.E. O'Sullivan (cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016), pp. 114-124.
Goldberg, Jeremy, Leeds Studies in English, vol. 45 (2016), p. 49-70.
Introductory Reading
Barber, , 41-43
Bartlett, . No readings.
Herlihy, David, (New York, 1995), Chapters 4, 7, and 11.
Power, , 47-54
Waley and Denley, , 295-309
e-resources
- The Internet Medieval Sourcebook has a section on .
- See the module HI391 'Gender in Europe, 1350-1650' for , , , .
- Salisbury, Eve, ed., (Kalamazoo, MI, 2002)
- . Searchable e-text.
Further Reading
Alberti, L. B., The Family in Renaissance Florence, trans. R.N. Watkins (Columbia, SC, 1969)
Ari猫s, Philippe, Centuries of Childhood, trans. Robert Baldick (London, 1962)
Atkinson, C. W., (Ithaca, NY, 1991)
Beattie, Cordelia, 'Gender and Femininity in Medieval England', in Writing Medieval
History, ed. Nancy Partner (London: Hodder Arnold, 2005), pp.153–70.
Bennett, H.S., The Pastons and their England, 2nd ed. (London, 1968)
Bennett, Judith M. and Shannon McSheffrey, 'Early, Erotic and Alien: Women Dressed
as Men in Late Medieval London' History Workshop Journal 77 (2014), pp. 1–25.
Bennett, Judith and Ruth Karras (eds), (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2013)
Brooke, Christopher, (Oxford, 1989)
Brown, Judith C., and Davis, Robert, (eds), Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy (Harlow, 1998)
Brucker, Gene, Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence (Berkeley, 1986, 2nd ed 2005)
Brundage, James A., (1987).
Chojnacki, Stanley, (Baltimore, 2000)
Cohn, Samuel K., Jr., Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy (Baltimore and London, 1996)
de Pizan, Christine, Selected Writings, ed. Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski (New York, 1997) [A useful collection of primary sources]
Dean, Trevor, Crime in Medieval Europe, 1200-1550 (London, 2001)
Dronke, Peter, (Cambridge, 1984)
Duby, Georges, Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages, trans. Jane Dunnett (Cambridge, 1994)
Duby, Georges, The Knight, the Lady, and the Priest, trans. Barbara Bray (London, 1983)
Ennen, Edith, (Blackwell, 1989)
Goldberg, P.J.P. (ed. and trans.), (Manchester, 1995) [A useful collection of documents]
Hadley, D.M. (ed.), Masculinity in Medieval Europe (Harlow, 1999)
Hanawalt, Barbara, 鈥楪olden Ages for the History of Medieval English Women鈥�,in Women in Medieval History and Historiography, ed. S. Mosher Stuart (Philadelphia, 1987), pp. 1–24.
Herlihy, David, and Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, (New Haven, 1985)
Irigaray, Luce, This Sex Which is Not One (Itaca, NY, 1985)
Karras, Ruth Mazo, and David Lorenzo Boyd, : A Male transvestite prostitute in fourteenth century London' in Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay (eds), Sexualities in History: A reader (London,1996)
Karras, Ruth Mazo, Unmarriages: Women, Men and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages (2012).
Karras, Ruth Mazo, Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing unto others (2005).
Karras, Ruth Mazo, (1998).
Karras, Ruth Mazo, 'Knighthood, Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Sodomy' in The Boswell Thesis: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, Mathew Kuefler (ed.), (University of California Press, 2005), pp.273-86.
Kent, F.W., Household and Lineage in Renaissance Florence (Princeton, 1977)
Kirshner, J., and S. Wemple (eds.), Women of the Medieval World (Oxford, 1985)
Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 1985)
Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, Montaillou, trans. Barbara Bray (London, 1978)
Leyser, H., Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England, 450-1500 (London, 1995)
McDougall, Sara, Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230 (OUP, 2016)
Macfarlane, Alan, The Origins of English Individualism (Oxford, 1978)
Mate, Mavis E., (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999)
McCarthy, Conor, (ed. and trans.), : A Sourcebook (London, 2004)
Paterson, Linda, 'Gender Negotiations in France during the Central Middle Ages: The Literary Evidence', in P. Linehan and J. Nelson (eds), The Medieval World (London, 2001), pp. 246-66.
Rocke, Michael, (New York, 1996)
Sauer, Michelle, (London: Bloomsbury, 2015)
Shahar, Shulamith, Childhood in the Middle Ages (London, 1990)
Shahar, Shulamith, The Fourth Estate: A History of Women in the Middle Ages, rev. ed. (London, 2003)
Strozzi, Alessandra, , ed. and trans. Heather Gregory (Berkeley, 1997)
Ward, Jennifer C., English Noblewomen in the Later Middle Ages (London, 1992)
