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Women were healers and engaged in medical practices. In 12th-century Salerno, Italy, Trota, a woman, wrote one of the Trotula texts on diseases of women. [30] Her text, Treatments for Women, addressed events in childbirth that called for medical attention. The book was a compilation of three original texts and quickly became the basis for the ...
Elisabeth van Houts (born 1952) – medieval European history; Rosamond McKitterick (born 1949) – Frankish and Carolingian history; Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker (born 1940) – specialist in the position of women during the Middle Ages; Mayke de Jong (born 1950) – political and religious history of the early Middle Ages; Eileen Power (1889 ...
Women of the Tudor period, a category for women who were of significance in Tudor controlled lands from 1485–1603. See also: female members of the House of Tudor . See also the preceding Category:Women of medieval England and the succeeding Category:Women of the Stuart period
The study of the role of women in the society of early medieval England, or Anglo-Saxon England, is a topic which includes literary, history and gender studies.Important figures in the history of studying early medieval women include Christine Fell, and Pauline Stafford.
"The woman warrior: gender, warfare and society in medieval Europe" Women's Studies – an Interdisciplinary Journal 17 (1990), pp. 193–209. Nicholson, Helen. "Women on the Third Crusade", Journal of Medieval History 23 (1997), pp. 335–449. Solterer, Helen. "Figures of Female Militancy in Medieval France," Signs 16 (1991), pp. 522–549 ...
In medieval Europe, there was a geographic contrast in the proportions of single women. In England in 1377, about one-third of adult women were single women. [ 1 ] In Florence city of Italy, in 1427, about one-fifth of adult women were single.
Medieval women poets (2 C, 39 P) Women scholars of the medieval Islamic world (11 P) 0–9. 6th-century women writers (9 P) 7th-century women writers (2 C, 10 P)
Female saints of medieval Wales (1 C, 30 P) Pages in category "Christian female saints of the Middle Ages" The following 131 pages are in this category, out of 131 total.