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History of Medieval - Women Resources Directory

• The Women Philosophers of the Middle Ages
  
  Radegund, of the 6th century AD, established one of the first Frankish convents, thereby laying the foundations for women’s spiritual and intellectual development. From these beginnings, women’s monasteries increased rapidly in number and influence, ...
  http://geocities.com/Athens/Forum/9974/middle.html

• The Women Left Behind
  
  When thinking about the Crusades, few people consider the dramatic effect on women in these unsettling times. At first women, as ill prepared as men, set off for the Holy Lands, eager to wash away their sins and receive special glory for their effort ...
  http://womeninworldhistory.com/heroine3.html

• The Medieval Women Writers
  
  Supported by a small grant awarded by the Five Colleges of Ohio Foreign Language and Technology Project, this site focuses on Medieval Women who wrote in Latin and French. The purpos e of the project is to incorporate texts by Medieval women writers ...
  http://go.owu.edu/~o5medww/about.html

• Education of Medieval Women
  
  While education flourished in the Middle Ages for men, it was not generally encouraged for women. Those from the nobility or wealthier classes were sometimes educated either privately, or in the home schools that were established for male members of ...
  http://csupomona.edu/~plin/ls201/medieval3.html

• The Bibliography on Women Writers
  
  A comprehensive list of books and articles with information on women writers of the Middle Ages. ...
  http://fordham.edu/halsall/med/womenbib.html

• The Women in the Middle Ages
  
  This essay touches on aspects of the lives of medieval women such as childbirth, early mortality, economic status relating to marriage and religion. Presented in rich text format rather than HTML. ...
  http://brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/society/sex/prostitution....

• The Female Heroes
  
  Our heroes are women whom we consider central figures in an event or a period. They are heroic because of their abilities, achievements or qualities that helped define the age in which they lived. Our rulers are women who achieved the right to rule i ...
  http://womeninworldhistory.com/heroine.html

• An Interactive Exploration An interactive website featuring aspects of medieval womens daily lives, such as life in a religious order, or life for members of different classes of society.
  
  The scriptorium is central repository for all resources found within the Medieval Women website. There are several methods for accessing these resources, but all of them are relatively low tech, to allow all users to access the key information within ...
  http://mw.mcmaster.ca/home.html

• Apparel of Women
  
  If there existed upon earth a faith in proportion to the reward that faith will receive in heaven, no one of you, my beloved sisters, from the time when you came to know the living God and recognized your own state, that is, the condition of being a ...
  http://ewtn.com/library/SOURCES/APPAREL.TXT

• The Prostitution in the Middle Ages
  
  The Middle Ages in Europe witnessed a universal paradox of tolerance and condemnation with regards to prostitution. While technically a sin because it hinged on the act of fornication, prostitution was recognized by the church and others as a necessa ...
  http://brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/society/sex/prostitution....