Women
Mittelalterliche Frauenklöster
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
German: 40
biographies of women in the 15th and 16th century by
Maike Vogt-Lüerssen
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 Selbstverständnis 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
Bettelordensklöster 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 Großen im Kontext der
frühen 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 (13th march – 19th june, 2005)
http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/index.htm?ausstellungen/frauenkloester/index.htm
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
http://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
English: 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 Frauenklöstern (13. März bis 19.
Juni 2005)
http://www.bundeskunsthalle.de/index.htm?ausstellungen/frauenkloester/index.htm [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
German: 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)
Mediävistik zwischen Frauengeschichte, Feminismus und „Gender History“
http://www.uni-mainz.de/~sschmitt/start.html
sources, links and bibliography
Mediävistische 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/index.html
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 an
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)
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
English: 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 of
the Middle Ages
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/womenbib.html
English: general sources and special topics
Women Writers Project
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)
bibliography, links, publications
