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Hadassah International Research Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University. Has a section of texts on Gender, Sex, and Sensuality. It contains primarily short texts of broad interdisciplinary interest in a variety of genres, and many of the texts have not previously been translated into English. GMS spans one thousand years (600-1600) of literary production across the medieval world (Europe, North Africa, the Middle East, and Asia). It offers a flexible online display for the parallel viewing of medieval texts in their original language, in new English translations, and in their digitized manuscript form. Global Medieval Sourcebook (GMS) is a free, open access, and open source teaching and research tool. Global Medieval Sourcebook: a Digital Repository of Medieval Texts Information on Poor Clares, female Franciscan Tertiaries and aligned groups from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries, giving scholars and interested outsiders i.) a bibliographical overview of the scholarship done thus far in the field of ‘female Franciscan studies’, ii.) a descriptive ‘geographical’ dictionary of all traceable female Franciscan communities with adequate references, and iii.) an alphabetically organized bio-bibliographical dictionary of individual nuns, tertiary sisters, beguines and anchoresses within the Franciscan fold. A project, originally, of Joan Ferrante of Columbia University. The letters, written in Latin appear under the names of the women involved, with English translations where possible, biographical sketches of the women and some description of the subject matter or the historic content of the letter. Epistolae is a collection of letters to and from women in the Middle Ages, from the 4th to 13th century. University of Edinburgh project to make digital transcriptions of works by Christine de Pizan.Įpistolae. They support research into a wide variety of subjects about women - women authors, female patronage and book ownership, women's health, education and business dealings, female spirituality, to name a few.Ĭhristine de Pizan: the Making of the Queen's Manuscript Many of these items were nominated by the readers of their blog. Nuns were appreciated as valuable members of the community, and this occupation was one of the few ways a woman could get an education.As of MaBL says 93 manuscript volumes are now online. These institutions often ran schools for girls, provided health care, and employed women from the community. In spite of being excluded from running their own spaces, many women still got a lot out of convents. Women (nuns) in the convents were now cloistered, meaning they were forbidden to leave the convent grounds. By the 1300s, a succession of popes ordered that men (priests) should run the convents. That's when women's authority in convents-which could be vast estates with hundreds of people employed-came to an end. But the Catholic Church became more powerful, wealthy and centralized with the pope's authority in Rome. She might even become the Abbess, and run the place 2 ^2 2 squared. An elite woman could join one of the region's many convents-especially in the early middle ages (c. Women had different ways to interact with Christianity depending on their social status.
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