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Primary Sources: Medieval and Renaissance Periods: Women

approximately the 5th Century - 17th Century

Online Sources: Women

Monastic Matrix: A Scholarly Resource For The Study Of Women's Religious Communities 400-1600 CE
Her Protection for Women Jane Anger (1589)
My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem
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"The poem is one of the first autobiographical works (per se) by anyone in English, and it is certainly one of the first autobiographical poems; the fact that it is by a woman, of course, adds to its importance. It makes one of the most sweeping and radical claims for the right to equal education ever issued in the Renaissance."
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Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wwisse and associated Works by Nicholas Watson (Translator)
Call Number: PR1120 .A57 1991
ISBN: 0809132575
Translated from the Middle English.
Anne of France - Lessons for My Daughter by Anne, of France
Call Number: BJ1552 .A5613 2004
ISBN: 1843842939
Translated from the French, with introduction, notes and interpretive essay ; Sharon L. Jansen.
Armburgh Papers by Joan Armburgh
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Call Number: Online - Ebsco
ISBN: 9780851156248
The Beguine, the Angel, and the Inquisitor by Sean L. Field
Call Number: BX1720 .F54 2012
ISBN: 0268028923
App. A. Translations of the trial documents -- App. B. Translations of other contemporary sources -- App. C. Translation of Arnau of Vilanova's Epiltola ad gerentes zonam. pelliceam.
The Book of Margery Kempe
Call Number: Online - free - British Library
The book of Margery Kempe: a new translation, contexts, criticism by Margery Kempe
Call Number: PR2007.K4 A199 2001
ISBN: 0393976394
The Book of the Body Politic by Christine De Pizan
Call Number: JC393.A3 P513 1994
ISBN: 0521410509
Edited and translated by Kate Langdon Forhan.
The Book of the City of Ladies by Christine De Pizan
Call Number: PQ1575.L58 E5 1999
ISBN: 0140446893
Translated and with an introduction and notes by Rosalind Brown-Grant.
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist [ebook] by Laura Cereta; Diana M. Robin (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780226100135
Collected Letters of a Renaissance Feminist [print book] by Laura Cereta
Call Number: PA85.C4 A4 1997
ISBN: 0226100138
The Collected Works of Jane Cavendish by Alexandra G. Bennett (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781317037859
The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila by St. Teresa of Avila
Call Number: BX890 .T353 1976
ISBN: 0960087621
translated by Kieran Kavanaugh and Otilio Rodriguez
The Complete Works of Saint Teresa of Jesus by Saint Teresa of Avila
Call Number: BX890 .T35 1957
Translated and edited by E. Allison Peers from the critical ed. of P. Silverio de Santa Teresa.
A Corresponding Renaissance: Letters Written by Italian Women, 1375-1650 by Lisa Kaborycha
Call Number: HQ1149.I8 C67 2016
ISBN: 0199342431
Translated from the Latin and the Italian.
Daily Life of Women in Medieval Europe by Belle S. Tuten
Call Number: HQ1147.E85 T87 2022
ISBN: 9781440872341
Debate of the Romance of the Rose by David F. Hult
Call Number: PQ1529 .D44 2010
ISBN: 9780226670126
In English; translated from documents in Old French or Latin
The Dialogue by Catherine of Siena
Call Number: BV5080 .C2613 1980
ISBN: 0809122332
Translation and introduction by Suzanne Noffke ; preface by Giuliana Cavallini.
The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works, Part 1, Printed writings, 1500-1640 by Betty S. Travitsky and Patrick Cullen
Call Number: PR1121 .E19 1996
The Education of a Christian Woman: A Sixteenth-Century Manual (ebook) by Juan Luis Vives; Charles Fantazzi (Translator)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780226858166
The Education of a Christian Woman: A Sixteenth-Century Manual (print book) by Juan Luis Vives; Charles Fantazzi (Translator)
Call Number: B785.V63 D4713 2000
ISBN: 0226858146
English Women's Voices, 1540-1700 by Charlotte F. Otten
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Call Number: Online - Ebsco
ISBN: 0813010993
The Equality of the Sexes: Three Feminist Texts of the Seventeenth Century by Desmond M. Clarke
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780199673506
Erasmus on Women by Desiderius Erasmus
Call Number: B785.E62 E541 1996
ISBN: 0802078087
Publication Date: 1996-07-23
Edited by Erika Rummel
The Examinations of Anne Askew by Anne Askew
Call Number: BR350.A75 A3 1996
ISBN: 0195108485
In this vivid first person narrative, Anne Askew (1521-1546), a member of the Reformed church, records her imprisonment for heresy and her interrogation by officials of church and state in the last days of Henry VIII.
Famous Women by Giovanni Boccaccio
Call Number: PQ4274.D5 E5 2001
ISBN: 0674003470
Edited and translated by Virginia Brown.
"... affords a fascinating glimpse of a moment in history when medieval attitudes toward women were beginning to give way to more modern views of their potential." - Google Books
Female & Male Voices in Early Modern England by Betty S. Travitsky and Anne Lake Prescott
Call Number: PR1121 .F46 2000
ISBN: 0231100418
An Anthology of Renaissance Writing
First Feminists : British Women Writers, 1578-1799 by Moira Ferguson
Call Number: PR1111.F45 F57 1985
ISBN: 0253281202
includes selections from 27 writers
Her Immaculate Hand by Margaret L. King and Albert Rabil, Jr.
Call Number: PA8163 .H47 1997
Selected Works by and about the women Humanists of Quattrocento Italy
Jewish Women in the Medieval World by Sarah Ifft Decker
Call Number: Online - Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781003104964
Kissing the Rod: An Anthology of Seventeenth-century Women's Verse by Germaine Greer
Call Number: PR1177 .K57 1989
ISBN: 0374521646
The Lady's Travels into Spain by Madame d' Aulnoy
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
or, A genuino relation of the religion, laws, commerce, customs and manners of the country. Written by the Contess of Danois, in a series of letters to a friend at Paris.
Late-Medieval German Women's Poetry: Secular and Religious Songs by Albrecht Classen (Translator)
Call Number: PT1160.E8 C55 2004
ISBN: 9781843842965
Letters of Catherine of Siena by Suzanne Noffke (Translator)
Call Number: BX4700.C4 A4 1988 V.1
ISBN: 0866980369
The Letters of Lady Arbella Stuart by Arbella Stuart; Sara Jayne Steen (Editor)
Call Number: DA391.1.S9 A4 1994
ISBN: 0195087186
The Letters of Margaret of Anjou by Helen Maurer (Editor); B. M. Cron (Editor)
Call Number: DA247.M3 A4 2019
ISBN: 1783274247
Letters of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Documents connected with her Personal History by Agnes Strickland, editor
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou and Bishop Beckington and others (ebook) by Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI et al.
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Written in the reigns of Henry V. and Henry VI. From a ms. found at Emral in Flintshire. Ed. by Cecil Monro, esq.
Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou and Bishop Beckington and others (print book) by Cecil Monro
Call Number: DA20 .R91 1st ser., v.86
written in the reigns of Henry V and Henry VI from a ms. found at Emral in Flintshire ; edited by Cecil Monro.
Letters of Royal and Illustrious Ladies of Great Britain by Mary Anne Everett Wood
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Letters of the Queens of England, 1100-1547 by Anne Crawford
Call Number: DA170 .C73 1994
ISBN: 0750916060
Luther's Letters to Women by Martin Luther
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust Digital Library
Collected by K. Zimmermann ; translated by Mrs. Malcolm
Medieval English Prose for Women by Bella Millett (Editor); Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Editor)
Call Number: PR1120 .M374 1990
ISBN: 0198119976
Selections from the Katherine Group and Ancrene Wisse
A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor by Christine De Pizan
Call Number: PQ1575 L6913 1989
ISBN: 0892551356
Translated, with an introduction by Charity Cannon Willard ; edited, with an introduction by Madeleine Pelner Cosman.
Medieval Women Writers by Katharina M. Wilson
Call Number: PN667 .M43 1984
ISBN: 082030641X
Medieval Writings on Secular Women by Patricia Skinner and Elisabeth Van Houts
Call Number: HQ1143 .M335 2011
ISBN: 0141439912
"... brings together a host of writings from across different regions and cultures of the Middle Ages, from the ninth to the fifteenth century." From publisher description.
Memoirs of the Court of England in 1675 by Madame d' Aulnoy
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The Traditions in English by Sandra M. Gilbert (Editor); Susan Gubar (Editor)
Call Number: PS508.W7 N67 1996
ISBN: 0393968251
Obras Completas (Saint Teresa of Avila) by Saint Teresa of Avila
Call Number: BX890 .T35 1964
The Paradise of Women: Writings by Englishwomen of the Renaissance by Betty S. Travitsky
Call Number: PR1110.W6 P3
ISBN: 0313221774
Periya Puranam by C¯ekkil¯ar
Call Number: BL1280.59 .C45 1985
a Tamil classic on the great Saiva saints of South India / by Sekkizhaar ; condensed English version by G. Vanmikanathan.
The Private Life of an Elizabethan Lady: The Diary of Lady Margaret Hoby, 1599-1605 by Joanna Moody (editor)
Call Number: DA358.H63 A3 1998
ISBN: 0750913495
Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents by S.P. Cerasano and Marion Wynne-Davies
Call Number: PR1263 .R46 1996
ISBN: 0415098076
Renaissance Woman: A Sourcebook: Constructions of Femininity in England by Kate Aughterson
Call Number: HQ1149.G7 R46 1995
ISBN: 0415120462
Russian Women, 1698-1917: Experience and Expression, an Anthology of Sources by Robin Bisha (Editor); Jehanne M. Gheith (Editor); Christine C. Holden (Editor); William G. Wagner (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO Ebooks
ISBN: 9780253109385
Selected Letters of Alessandra Strozzi by Alessandra Strozzi
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780520203907
Sexuality and Gender in the English Renaissance by Lloyd Davis (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815324522
The Taming of the Shrew: Texts and Contexts by William Shakespeare; Frances E. Dolan (Editor)
Call Number: PR2832.A2 D65 1996
ISBN: 0312108362
The Trotula by Monica H. Green (Edited and Translated by)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780812218084
An English translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women's Medicine
A Woman's Life in the Court of the Sun King by Elisabeth Charlotte; Elborg Forster (Translator)
Call Number: DC130.O7 A4 1984
ISBN: 0801831598
: Letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz, Elisabeth Charlotte, Duchesse d'Orléans, 1652-1722
Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts by Alcuin Blamires (Editor); Karen Pratt (As told to); C. W. Marx (As told to)
Call Number: Online - Borrow - Internet Archive*
ISBN: 0198710399
Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook by Emilie Amt
Call Number: HQ1143 .W65
ISBN: 0415906288
Women's Political and Social Thought: An Anthology by Hilda L. Smith; Berenice A. Carroll
Call Number: Online - free - Project Muse Open Access
ISBN: 9780253337580
Women's Secrets by Helen Rodnite Lemay
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780791411445
A translation of Pseudo-Albertus Magnus's De secretis mulierum with commentaries
Women's Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England, 1580-1720 by Patricia M. Crawford (Editor); Laura Gowing (Editor)
Call Number: HQ1599.E5 W73 2000
ISBN: 0415156378
Women's Writing in Middle English by Alexandra Barratt
Call Number: PR1120 .W66 2010
ISBN: 9781408204146
Women and Murder in Early Modern News Pamphlets and Broadside Ballads, 1573-1697 by Randall Martin
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781351872355
Women and the Visual Arts in Italy C. 1400-1650 by Tinagli Rogers et al.
Call Number: N5273 .W65 2012
ISBN: 0719080991
Luxury and Leisure, Duty and Devotion : A Sourcebook / selected, translated and introduced by Paola Tinagli and Mary Rogers
Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook by Carolyne Larrington
Call Number: PN682.W6 L37 1995
ISBN: 0415106850
"... a uniquely comprehensive collection of writing by, for and about medieval women, spanning one thousand years and Europe from Iceland to Byzantiu. The extracts are arranged thematically, dealing with the central areas of medieval women's lives and their relation to social and cultural institutions." - Amazon.com
Women As Letter-Writers : A Collection of Letters by Ada M. Ingpen (editor)
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
See table of contents for list of women included.
Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect by Yael Lotan (Translator); Shulamith Shahar
Call Number: BX4881.3 .S5313 2001
ISBN: 0851158153
See the Appendix for Translation of the Interrogations of Agnes and Huguette
Women in England, c. 1275-1525: Documentary Sources by P. J. Goldberg (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: DA170 .W655 1995
ISBN: 9780719040559
Women in the Age of Shakespeare by Theresa D. Kemp
Call Number: PR2991 .K46 2010
ISBN: 9780313343049
Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066-1500 by Jennifer Ward
Call Number: DA170 W66 1995
ISBN: 0719041155
Translated and edited by Jennifer Ward
The Women of the Medici by Yvonne Maguire
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9781000005622
Women Poets of the English Civil War (print) by Sarah C. E. Ross (Editor); Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (Editor)
Call Number: PR1177 .W638 2018
ISBN: 9780719086243
Women Writers in Renaissance England by Randall Martin
Call Number: PR1110.W6 W66 1997
ISBN: 0582096200
Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century by Katharina M. Wilson (Editor); Frank J. Warnke (Editor)
Call Number: PN471 .W57 1989
ISBN: 0820311111
Women Writing Africa - The Eastern Region by Amandina Lihamba et al.
Call Number: PL8014.E22 W66 2007
ISBN: 1558615342
Women Writing Africa - The Southern Region by M. J. Daymond et al.
Call Number: PR9345 .W66 2003
ISBN: 1558614079
Women Writing Africa - West Africa and the Sahel by Esi Sutherland-Addy et al.
Call Number: PL8014.W372 W66 2005
ISBN: 1558615008
The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men (ebook) by Moderata Fonte; Virginia Cox (Translator)
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780226256825
Publication Date: 1997-08-18
The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men (print book) by Moderata Fonte; Virginia Cox (Translator)
Call Number: HQ1148 .F6513 1997
ISBN: 0226256820
The Writings of Medieval Women by Marcelle Thiébaux
Call Number: PN667 .W75 1987
ISBN: 0824094174
Translation and introductions by Marcelle Thiébaux.

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