MINERVA Bibliographies: Europe (Middle Ages/Early Modern)

Most Recommended:

• Echols, Anne and Marty Williams
  An Annotated Index of Medieval Women
  New York: Markus Wiener, 1992
  
• Fraser, Antonia
  The Warrior Queens
  New York: Knopf, 1989
  
• Hacker, Barton C.
  “Women and Military Institutions in Early Modern Europe: a Reconnaissance.”
  Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 6.4 (1981): 643-71
  
• Kates, Gary
  Monsieur d’Eon Is a Woman
  BasicBooks, 1995
  
• Marks, Claude
  Pilgrims, Heretics, and Lovers: A Medieval Journey
  New York: Macmillan, 1975
  
• McLaughlin, Megan
  “The woman warrior: gender, warfare and society in medieval Europe.”
  Women’s Studies 17. (1990): 193-209
  
• Wainwright, F. T.
  “Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians.”
  The Anglo-Saxons. Ed. Clemoes, Peter
  London: Bowes, 1959. 53-69

Additional:

• Allaire, Gloria
  “The Warrior Woman in Late Medieval Prose Epics.”
  Italian Culture 12. (1994): 33-43
                
• Anderson, Bonnie S. and Judith P. Zinsser
  A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present  Vol. 1.
  New York: Harper & Row, 1988. 2 vols.
  
• Anderson, M. S.
  War and Society in Europe of the Old Regime, 1618-1789
  New York: St. Martin’s, 1988
  
• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
  Trans. Garmonsway, G. N.
  Rev. ed.   London: Dent, 1954
  
• Bandel, Betty
  “The English Chroniclers’ Attitude Toward Women.”
  Journal of the History of Ideas 16. (1955): 113-118
  
• Bradbury, Jim
  The Medieval Siege
  Woodbridge: Boydell, 1992
  
• Butler, Pierce
  Women of Mediaeval France  Vol. 5
  Philadelphia: Barrie, 1907
  
• Castellani, Maria
  Italian Women Past and Present
  [Trans. of Donne italiane di ieri e di oggi]
  Rome: Novissima, 1939
  
• Chibnall, Marjorie
  The World of Orderic Vitalis
  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984
  
• Cockayn, G.E.
  The Complete Peerage
  new rev. ed. Vol. I.
  London: St. Catherine’s Press, 1910-59
  
• Collison-Morley, L.
  The Story of the Sforzas
  New York: Dutton, 1934
  
• Comnena, Anna
  The Alexiad of Anna Comnena
  Trans. Sewter, E. R. A.
  New York: Penguin, 1969
  
• Contamine, Philippe
  War in the Middle Ages
  Trans. Jones, Michael
  London: Blackwell, 1984
  
• Crim, Brian
  “Silent Partners: Women and Warfare in Early Modern Europe.”
  A Soldier and A Woman: Women in the Military.
  Eds. DeGroot, Gerard J. and Corinna Peniston-Bird.
  Longman, 2000. 18-32
  
• Cuénin, Micheline
  La derniére des Amazones, Madame de Saint-Baslemont
  Nancy: 1992
  
• Dekker, Rudolf M. and Lotte C. van de Pol.
  The Tradition of Female Transvestism in Early Modern Europe
  Trans. Pol, Judy Marcure and Lotte van de.
  New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989
  
• Dill, Samuel
  Roman Society in Gaul in the Merovingian Age
  London: MacMillan and Co., 1926
  
• Dugaw, Dianne
  “Balladry’s Female warriors: women, warfare and disguise in the Eighteenth Century.”
  Eighteenth-Century Life 2. (1985): 1-20
  
• Dugaw, Dianne
  Warrior women and popular balladry, 1650-1850
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989
  
• Eads, Valerie
  “Mighty in War: The Role of Matilda of Tuscany in the War between Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV.”
  Ph.D. Dissertation. City University of New York, 2000
  
• Eads, Valerie
  “The Geography of Power: Matilda of Tuscany and the Strategy of Active Defense.”
  Medieval Mediterranean Warfare. Eds. Kagay, Donald and J. L. Andrew Villalon.
  Leiden, 2002
  
• Erler, Mary and Maryanne Kowaleski
  Women and Power in the Middle Ages
  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1988
  
• Evans, Michael
  “The Crusades and Society in the English Midlands 1160-1307.”
  University of Nottingham, 1997?
  
• Fell, Christine, Cecily Clark, and Elizabeth Williams
  Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the impact of 1066
  Colonnade, 1984
  
• Finucane, Ronald C.
  Soldiers of the Faith: Crusaders and Moslems at War
  London: Dent, 1983
  
• Fittis, Robert Scott
  Heroines of Scotland
  London: Alexander Gardner, 1889
  
• Flodoard of Rheims
  Les Annales de Flodoard
  Paris: A. Picard, 1905
  
• Fraser, Antonia
  The Weaker Vessel: Woman’s lot in seventeenth-century England
  London: Weidenfeld, 1984
  
• Fryde, Natalie
  The Tyranny and Fall of Edward II 1321-1326
  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979
  
• Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
  History of the Great Civil War 1642-1649. vol. I. (1642-1644)
  London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1904
  
• Gerberding, Richard
  The Origins of France
  London: MacMillan Press, 1982
  
• Gies, Frances
  Joan of Arc: The Legend and the Reality
  NY: Harper, 1981
  
• Gies, Frances and Joseph Gies
  Women in the Middle Ages
  NY: Crowell, 1978
  
• Gribble, Francis
  Women in War
  New York: Dutton, 1917
  
• Jones, Michael
  “The Breton Civil War.”
  Froissart: Historian. Ed. Palmer, J. J. N.
  Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1981. 64-81, 169-72
  
• Jones, Michael
  The Creation of Brittany: A Late Medieval State
  London: Hambledon, 1988
  
• Kates, Gary
  “The transgendered world of the Chevalier/Chevaliere d’ Eon.”
  The Journal of Modern History 67.3 (1995): 558(37)
  
• King, Margaret L.
  Women of the Renaissance
  Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1991
  
• Lewis, Archibald R.
  The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050
  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965
  
• Lucas, Angela
  Women in the Middle Ages: Religion, Marriage and Letters
  NY: St. Martin’s, 1983
  
• Maddicott, J.R.
  Thomas of Lancaster, 1307-22: A Study in the Reign of Edward II
  London: Oxford University Press, 1970
  
• Mattingly, Garrett
  Catherine of Aragon
  New York: Random House, 1941
  
• McKisack, M.
  The Fourteenth Century
  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959
  
• McNamara, JoAnn and Suzanne F. Wemple
  “Sanctity and Power: The Dual Pursuit of Medieval Women.”
  Becoming Visible: Women in European History
  Eds. Bridenthal, Renate and Claudia Koonz
  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. 90-118
  
• McNamara, Jo Ann and Suzanne Wemple
  “The Power of Women Through the Family in Medieval Europe, 500-1100.”
  Clio’s Consciousness Raised: New Perspectives on the History of Women
  Eds. Hartman, Mary S. and Lois Banner
  New York: Harper, 1974. 103-118
  
• Neville, Cynthia J.
  “Widows of War: Edward I and the Women of Scotland during the War of Independence.”
  Wife and Widow in Medieval England.
  Ed. Walker, Sue Sheridan
  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993
  
• Norwich, John Julius
  The Kingdom in the Sun: 1130-1194
  New York: Harper, 1970
  
• Norwich, John Julius
  The Normans in the South, 1016-1130
  New York: Solitaire, 1981
  
• Pisan, Christine de.
  The City of Ladies
  London: 1521
  
• Pizan, Christine de.
  The Book of Deeds of Arms and of Chivalry
  Trans. Sumner Willard, edited by Charity Cannon Willard
  University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1999
  
• Powicke, Sir Maurice
  The Thirteenth Century. 2nd ed.
  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991
  
• PuyLaurens, William of
  Chronique 1203-1275
  Trans. Duvernoy, Jean.
  Paris: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1976
  
• Rader, Joan Newlon, Ed.
  Fragmentary Annals of Ireland
  Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1978
  
• Richard, Jules-Marie
  “Les Livres de Mahaut, Comtesse d’Artois et de Bourgogne, 1302-29.”
  Revue des Questions Historiques 40 (1886): 135-41
  
• Richard, Jules-Marie
  Une Petit-Niece de Saint Louis: Mahaut Comtesse d’Artois et de Bourgogne
  1887
  
• Riché, Pierre
  The Carolingians:  A Family Who Forged Europe
  Trans. Allen, Michael Idomir
  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
  
• Romain, Charles Armand (pseud. for Armand Charmain)
  Les guerrières
  Paris: 1931
  
• Salzman, L. F.
  English Life in the Middle Ages
  London: Oxford University Press,
  
• Saxo Grammaticus
  The History of the Danes
  Trans. Fisher, Peter
  Suffolk: Brewer, 1979
  
• Stafford, Pauline
  Queens, Concubines, and Dowagers: The King’s Wife in the Early Middle Ages
  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1983
  
• Stafford, Pauline
  Unification and Conquest: A Political and Social History of England in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
  London: Arnold, 1989
  
• Sumption, Jonathan
  The Albigensian Crusade
  London: Faber and Faber, 1978
  
• Sumption, Jonathan
  The Hundred Years War: Trial by Battle
  London: Faber and Faber, 1990
  
• Tallett, Frank
  War and Society in Early-Modern Europe, 1495-1715
  London: Routledge, 1992
  
• Tilly, Louise A.
  “Women and Collective Action in Europe.”
  The Role of Women in Conflict and Peace. Ed. McGuigan, Dorothy G.
  Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan, 1977. 31-44
  
• Trease, Geoffrey
  The Condottieri: Soldiers of Fortune
  New York: Holt, 1971
  
• Tudela, William of and Anonymous
  The Song of the Cathar Wars: A History of the Albigensian Crusade
  Trans. Shirley, Janet
  Great Britain: Scolar Press, 1996
  
• The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis
  [trans. Thomas Forester]
  London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854
  
• Wakefield, Walter L.
  Heresy, Crusade and Inquisition in Southern France 1100-1250
  London: Allen & Unwin, 1974
  
• Wallace-Hadrille, J. M.
  The Long-Haired Kings
  London: Methuen Ltd., 1962
  
• Wedgwood, C. V.
  The Thirty Years War
  Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Cape, 1938
  ed. London: Jonathan Cape, 1971
  
• Wernham, R. B.
  Before the Armada
  New York: Norton, 1972