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303 items

A. Primary sources (35 items)

The ecclesiastical history of the English people: the greater chronicle ; Bede's letter to
Egbert - Bede, McClure, Judith, Collins, Roger, 1994
Book | recommended translations: either L Sherley Price (1955) or B. Colgrave and
R.A.B. Mynors (1969) or J. McClure and R. Collins (1994)

The history of the Franks - Gregory, Thorpe, Lewis, 1974

Book | entertaining tales from late 6C Gaul

The fourth book of the chronicle of Fredegar: with its continuations - Wallace-Hadrill, J. M.,
1981
Book

English historical documents: [Vol.1]: c.500-1042 - Whitelock, Dorothy, Douglas, David

Charles, 1979
Book | important collection, including the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Sainted women of the Dark Ages - Jo Ann McNamara, John E. Halborg, E. Gordon Whatley,
1992
Book | collection of hagiographies, many of them royal. Available in the library and as
an e-book.

Handbook for William: a Carolingian woman's counsel for her son - Dhuoda, Neel, Carol,
c1991
Book | translated and with an introduction by C. Neel

Or

Dhuoda, Handbook for her warrior son: Liber manualis - Dhuoda, Thibaux, Marcelle, 1998
Book | unique text from mid-9C Francia

Encomium Emmae Reginae - Campbell, Alistair, 1949

Book | from the cosmopolitan royal court of 11C England

Carolingian civilization: a reader - Dutton, Paul Edward, 2004

Book | Good collection

Life of Liutberga
Webpage

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Life of Margaret of Scotland - Turgot

Chapter | Also available in L. Huneycutt, Matilda of Scotland: a Study in Medieval
Queenship (2003) (ebook). See below.

Matilda of Scotland : a study in medieval queenship / Lois L. Huneycutt. - Huneycutt, Lois

L.
Book | Read: Turgot, Life of Margaret of Scotland. Available in the library and as an
e-book.

Edward the Confessor - Barlow, Frank, 1970

Book

Queenship and sanctity: The lives of Mathilda and The epitaph of Adelheid - Gilsdorf, Sean,
Odilo, 2004
Book

Deeds of Otto - Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim

Chapter | royal politics as written by a woman, possibly royal herself

The complete works of Liudprand of Cremona - Liudprand, Squatriti, Paolo, 2007

Book

OR (for emergencies ONLY)

The embassy to Constantinople and other writings - Liutprand, Norwich, John Julius, Wright,
F. A., 1993
Book | contains much on the sexual antics of powerful families in 10C Italy

On the Divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga - Hincmar of Rheims, R. Stone, C.
West
Website | [NB this is a work in progress, not yet fully organised or checked but useful
nonetheless]

The annals of Flodoard of Reims, 919-966 - Flodoardus Remensis, Bachrach, Bernard S.,
Fanning, Steven, 2004
Book | the only contemporary chronicle for France in the early-mid 10C

Chronicle - Regino of Prm

Chapter | the last major Carolingian history, written 908 in Trier

Epistol: Medieval Women's Letters

Website | Epistolae: a selection of letters written by and to queens of the middle ages
(including some of the figures were looking at, such as Radegund, Judith and Theutberga;
see the list of biographies for other Merovingian, Carolingian and Ottonian womens lives
and letters)

The annals of St-Bertin - Janet L. Nelson, Lon Levillain, Flix Grat, 1991
Book | key 9C annals from west Francia find queens in index (ebook via Medieval
sources online). Available in the library and as an e-book.

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The Annals of Fulda - Timothy Reuter, 1992

Book | key 9C annals from east Francia find queens in index (ebook via Medieval
sources online). Available in the library and as an e-book.

Ottonian Germany: the `Chronicon' of Thietmar of Merseburg - Thietmar, Warner, David A.,
2001
Book | Full translation of the Chronicle by Bishop Thietmar of Merseburg, with a full
introduction

Venantius Fortunatus: Personal and political poems - Venantius Honorius Clementianus

Fortunatus, trans. Judith W. George, 1995
Book | Translated texts. Available in the library and as an e-book.

Glory of the confessors - Gregory of Tours, trans. Raymond Van Dam, 1988
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

Medieval monarchy in action: the German Empire from Henry I to Henry IV - Hill, Boyd
Howard, 1972
Book | varied collection of texts from the Ottonian period and after

Life of Conrad II - Wipo

Chapter

Life of Conrad II - Wipo

Chapter

The letters of Gerbert, with his papal privileges as Sylvester II - Harriet Pratt Lattin,
Sylvester, 1961
Book | Letters to correspondents including Adelheid and Theophanu. Available in the
library and as an e-book.

Charlemagne and Louis the Pious: the lives by Einhard, Notker, Ermoldus, Thegan, and the
Astronomer - Noble, Thomas F. X., 2009
Book | useful compendium of key Carolingian biographies.

Late Merovingian France: history and hagiography, 640-720 - Paul Fouracre, Richard A.
Gerberding, 1996
Book | Includes the Life of Balthild (a Merovingian queen). Available in the library and as
an e-book.

Dissolving royal marriages: a documentary history, 860-1600 - D. L. D'Avray, 2014

Book

B. Medieval Queenship: key general works / collections of essays (10

items)

Queens, Concubines and Dowagers - Pauline Stafford, 1983, 1998

Book | essential starting point

Queens and queenship in medieval Europe: proceedings of a conference held at King's

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College London, April 1995 - Duggan, Anne J., 1997

Book | useful collection of essays

Medieval queenship - Parsons, John Carmi, 1994

Book

Gender in the early medieval world: east and west, 300-900 - Brubaker, Leslie, Smith, Julia
M. H., 2004
Book

Rulers and ruling families in early medieval Europe: Alfred, Charles the Bald, and others -
Nelson, Janet L., 1999
Book | collection of essays by leading specialist

Politics and ritual in early medieval Europe - Janet L. Nelson, 1985

Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

The Frankish world,750-900 - Janet L. Nelson, 1996

Book | Another important collection. Available in the library and as an e-book.

Gender, family and the legitimation of power: England from the ninth to early twelfth
century - Stafford, Pauline, 2006
Book | and another

Medieval Queenship - J.L. Nelson

Chapter

Courts, elites, and gendered power in the early Middle Ages: Charlemagne and others -
Nelson, Janet L., 2007
Book | collection of essays

C. Social/ political background (key general works) (21 items)

The new Cambridge medieval history: Vol. 1: c.500-c.700 - Paul Fouracre, 2005
Book | Excellent summaries and analyses of many topics great place to start.
Available in the library and as an e-book.

The New Cambridge medieval history: Vol. 2: c.700-c.900 - Rosamond McKitterick, 1995
Book | Likewise. Available in the library and as an e-book.

The New Cambridge medieval history: vol. 3: c. 900-c. 1024 - Timothy Reuter, 1999
Book | Likewise. Available in the library and as an e-book.

Early medieval Europe, 300-1000 - Collins, Roger, 1999

Book

Unification and conquest: a political and social history of England in the tenth and eleventh
centuries - Stafford, Pauline, 1989
Book

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The origins of France: from Clovis to the Capetians, 500-1000 - James, Edward, 1982
Book

Living in the tenth century: mentalities and social orders - Fichtenau, Heinrich, c1991
Book | esp chaps 4-6

Daily Life in the World of Charlemagne - Pierre Rich, 1978

Book | chaps 7-8

The Merovingian kingdoms, 450-751 - Wood, Ian, 1994

Book

The Anglo-Saxons - Campbell, James, John, Eric, Wormald, Patrick, 1991, c1982
Book

Europe after Rome: a new cultural history, 500-1000 - Smith, Julia M. H., 2005
Book | has a particular focus on gender

The rise of Western Christendom: triumph and diversity, AD 200-1000 - Brown, Peter
Robert Lamont, c2003
Book

An introduction to early medieval Western Europe, 400-900: the sword, the plough and the
book - Innes, Matthew, 2007
Book

Atlas of medieval Europe - MacKay, Angus, Ditchburn, David, MyiLibrary, 1997

Book | contains some useful maps for orientation

The Frankish kingdoms under the Carolingians, 751-987 - McKitterick, Rosamond, 1983
Book | standard textbook - a bit dense, but full of information

The Carolingians: a family who forged Europe - Rich, Pierre, Idomir Allen, Michael, c1993
Book | also useful

Germany in the early Middle Ages c.800-1056 - Reuter, Timothy, 1991

Book | best textbook on the Ottonians (and the eastern Carolingians)

Italy in the early Middle Ages, 476-1000 - La Rocca, Maria Cristina, 2002
Book | sweeping overview

From the Vikings to the Normans - Davies, Wendy, 2003

Book | good overview of Britain

The inheritance of Rome: illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000 - Wickham, Chris, 2010,
c2009
Book | excellent overview

The Carolingian world - Costambeys, Marios, Innes, Matthew, MacLean, Simon, 2011
Book | good political survey chapters and thematic chapters.

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D. Women's history / feminist history (24 items)

Marriage and the family in the Middle Ages - Gies, Frances, Gies, Joseph, 1989
Book

Opera muliebria: women and work in medieval Europe - Herlihy, David, 1990
Book | esp chap. 2

Women in Frankish society: marriage and the cloister, 500 to 900 - Wemple, Suzanne
Fonay, 1981
Book | innovative work, though the overall thesis is not now completely accepted

Women in Anglo-Saxon England - Fell, Christine E., Clark, Cecily, Williams, Elizabeth, c1984
Book

Medieval women: a social history of women in England, 450-1500 - Leyser, Henrietta, 1995
Book

'Ex utroque sexu fidelium tres ordines' - The Status of Women in Early Medieval Canon Law
- Eva M. Synek, 2000
Article

Women in medieval society - Brenda Bolton, Susan Mosher Stuard, 1976

Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

Medieval women - Baker, Derek, Hill, Rosalind Mary Theodosia, 1978

Book

Women of the medieval world: essays in honor of John H. Mundy - Kirshner, Julius,
Wemple, Suzanne Fonay, Mundy, John Hine, 1985
Book

Women in early medieval Europe, 400-1100 - Bitel, Lisa M., 2002

Book | useful, but a bit patchy

Becoming Visible: Women in European History - R. Bridenthal, 1987, 1998

Book

The chase after theory: considering medieval women - S.M. Stuard, 1992
Article

The Problematic in the Private - Review by:Janet L. Nelson, 1990

Article

The majority finds its past: placing women in history - Lerner, Gerda, 1979
Book

Feminism and history - Scott, Joan Wallach, 1996

Book | esp chapters 1, 4, 6

Women, history, & theory: the essays of Joan Kelly - Joan Kelly, 1984

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Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

Placing Women's History in History - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, 1982

Article

A lop-sided view: feminist history or the history of women? - D. Thom

Chapter

"History That Stands Still": Women's Work in the European Past - Review by:Judith M.
Bennett, 1988
Article

with criticism by B. Hill

Women's history: a study in change, continuity or standing still? - Bridget Hill, 1993
Article

and Bennett's reply

Women's history: a study in continuity and change - Judith Bannett, 1993

Article

The Lady Vanishes: Dilemmas of a Feminist Historian after the "Linguistic Turn" - Elizabeth
A. Clark, 1998
Article

E. Gender and history (18 items)

Europe after Rome: a new cultural history, 500-1000 - Smith, Julia M. H., 2005
Book | Read: pp. 114-25: incisive introduction to the issues: good starting point

Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis - Joan W. Scott, 1986

Article | classic article, highly influential (also in D15)

Companion encyclopedia of anthropology - Tim Ingold, 1994

Book | Read: H.L. Moore, 'Understanding sex and gender'. Available in the library and as
an e-book.

Companion encyclopedia of anthropology - Tim Ingold, MyiLibrary, 2002

Book | Read: H.L. Moore, 'Understanding sex and gender'. (Chapter 29)

Sexual meanings: the cultural construction of gender and sexuality - Ortner, Sherry B.,
Whitehead, Harriet, University of St. Andrews, 1981
Book

Womens history and gender history: aspects of an international debate - G. Block, 1989

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Article

Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity - J. Butler, 1990, 1999, 2006
Book

Companion to historiography - Michael Bentley, 1997

Book | Read: J.L. Nelson, 'Family, gender and sexuality in the Middle Ages'. Available in
the library and as an e-book.

Did Women Have a Transformation of the Roman World? - Julia M. H. Smith, 2000-11
Article

Masculinities - R. W. Connell, 1995, 2005

Book

Third sex, third gender: beyond sexual dimorphism in culture and history - Herdt, Gilbert H
, 1993
Book

The Frankish world,750-900 - Janet L. Nelson, 1996

Book | Read: J.L. Nelson, Women and the Word in the Earlier Middle Ages', chapter 12.
Available in the library and as an e-book.

Gender and Ideology in the Early Middle Ages - J.M.H. Smith

Chapter | Extremely useful on applications of gender to this period, especially the
Carolingians.

Masculinity in medieval Europe - Hadley, Dawn M, 1999

Book | Good collection of essays

Gender in the early medieval world: east and west, 300-900 - Brubaker, Leslie, Smith, Julia
M. H., 2004
Book | likewise

Introduction: Gendering the Early Medieval World - J.M.H. Smith

Chapter

Persuasive Voices: Clerical Images of Medieval Wives - Sharon Farmer, 1986

Article

Gendering the middle ages - P. Stafford, A.B. Mulder-Bakker, 2000, 2001

Book | another very interesting collection

F. Hagiography (10 items)

Early medieval hagiography in the late twentieth century - Julia M. H. Smith, 2007
Article | Good place to start

The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe c. 780-920 - Julia M. H. Smith, 1995
Article | Key article

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Saints: studies in hagiography - Sticca, Sandro, 1996

Book

Gendered voices: medieval saints and their interpreters - Mooney, Catherine M., Bynum,
Caroline Walker, c1999
Book

Late Merovingian France: history and hagiography, 640-720 - Paul Fouracre, Richard A.
Gerberding, 1996
Book | Texts and discussion. Available in the library and as an e-book.

Medieval hagiography: an anthology - Head, Thomas, 2000

Book | introductory discussion plus texts

Performing virginity and testing chastity in the Middle Ages - Kelly, Kathleen Coyne, 2000
Book

Sacred biography: saints and their biographers in the Middle Ages - Thomas J Heffernan,
1988
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

Soldiers of Christ: Saints and Saints Lives from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages -
T. Head, T. Noble, 1995
Book | key texts translated and introduced (inc Life of St Martin)

Hagiography - Thomas Head

Webpage | Thomas Heads website, with helpful essays and bibliographies on
hagiography

G. The Roman and Early Christian inheritance (12 items)

Insinuations of Womanly Influence: An Aspect of the Christianization of the Roman
Aristocracy - Kate Cooper, 1992
Article

The virgin and the bride: idealized womanhood in late antiquity - Cooper, Catherine Fales,
1996
Book

Gender and the Fall of Rome - K. Cooper

Chapter

Theodosian empresses: women and imperial dominion in late antiquity - Kenneth G. Holum
, 1982
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

A history of women in the West: Vol. 1: From ancient goddesses to Christian saints - Duby,
Georges, Perrot, Michelle, Pantel, Pauline Schmitt, Goldhammer, Arthur, 1992
Book

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The body and society: men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity - Peter
Robert Lamont Brown, 1988
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

The body and society: men, women and sexual renunciation in early Christianity - Peter
Robert Lamont Brown, 2008
Book

Religion and sexism; images of woman in the Jewish and Christian traditions - Ruether,
Rosemary Radford, [1974]
Book

Her share of the blessings: women's religions among pagans, Jews, and Christians in the
Greco-Roman world - Kraemer, Ross Shepard, 1993
Book | esp chs 10-13

This female man of God: women and spiritual power in the Patristic Age, AD 350-450 -
Cloke, Gillian, 1995
Book

Women in late antiquity: pagan and Christian lifestyles - Clark, Gillian, 1993
Book

The family in Late Antiquity: the rise of Christianity and the endurance of tradition -
Nathan, Geoffrey S., 2000
Book

H. Sex and Marriage (20 items)

The medieval idea of marriage - Christopher Nugent Lawrence Brooke, 1989
Book | general overview. Available in the library and as an e-book.

Medieval marriage: symbolism and society - D'Avray, D. L., 2005

Book | some early medieval material introductory

Marriage in the Western Church: the Christianization of marriage during the patristic and
medieval periods - Reynolds, Philip Lyndon, 1994
Book

The Carolingian Moment (Eighth-Tenth Century) - P. Toubert

Chapter

The history of marriage and the myth of Friedelehe - Ruth Mazo Karras, 2006
Article | Dismantles a key feature of the older literature on marriage

Bound from Either Side: The Limits of Power in Carolingian Marriage Disputes, 840870 -
Rachel Stone, 2007
Article

From Brideprice to Dowry - Hughes, Diane Owen, 1978

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Article

Medieval marriage: two models from twelfth-century France - Duby, Georges, Forster,
Elborg, 1991
Book | A classic, but NB the central thesis is now largely discarded

To the Limits of Kinship: Anti-Incest legislation in the early Medieval West (500-900) - M.
de Jong
Chapter

Culture and religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751 - Hen, Yitzhak, 1995
Book | esp pp. 122-137 for summary of Merovingian marriage practices

Concubinage in Anglo-Saxon England - Margaret Clunies Ross, 1985

Article

Women in medieval society - Brenda Bolton, Susan Mosher Stuard, 1976

Book | Read: J.A. McNamara and S. Wemple, Marriage and divorce in the Frankish
Kingdom. Available in the library and as an e-book.

Sex in married life in the early Middle Ages: the Churchs teaching and behavioural reality
- J-L Flandrin
Chapter

Law, sex, and Christian society in medieval Europe - James A. Brundage, 1987
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

Before the closet: same-sex love from 'Beowulf' to 'Angels in America' - Frantzen, Allen J,
c1998
Book

Constructing medieval sexuality - Lochrie, Karma, McCracken, Peggy, Schultz, James A,

1997
Book

Sexuality in Medieval Europe: doing unto others - R.M. Karras, 2005, 2012
Book

The Invention of a Theology of Abduction: Hincmar of Rheims on Raptus - Rachel Stone,

2009
Article | On the theological condemnation of abduction for marriage.

Morality and masculinity in the Carolingian empire - Rachel Stone, 2012

Book

Dissolving royal marriages: a documentary history, 860-1600 - D. L. D'Avray, 2014

Book

I. Women Writers of the Early Middle Ages (9 items)

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Women writers of the Middle Ages: a critical study of texts from Perpetua
(

203) to Marguerite Porete
(

1310) - Peter Dronke, 1984
Book | Includes chapters on Dhuoda and others. Available in the library and as an
e-book.

God and Man in Dhuoda's Liber Manualis - M.A. Claussen

Chapter

Fathers of Power and Mothers of Authority: Dhuoda and the Liber manualis - M. A.
Claussen, 1996
Article

One Heart and One Soul (Acts 4.32 and 34) in Dhuoda's Manual - Glenn W. Olsen, 2009
Article

Keeping it in the Family: Women and Aristocratic Memory, 700-1200 - M. Innes

Chapter | has an excellent short section on Dhuoda

Dhuoda - J.L. Nelson

Chapter

The Frankish world,750-900 - Janet L. Nelson, 1996

Book | Read: . J.L. Nelson, Gender and Genre in Women Historians of the Early Middle
Ages'. discusses whether there was a specifically female way of writing history. Available
in the library and as an e-book.

Memory and gender in medieval Europe, 900-1200 - Van Houts, Elisabeth M. C., 1999
Book

Women and the writing of history in the early Middle Ages: the case of Abbess Matilda of
Essen and Aethelweard - Elisabeth Van Houts, 2007
Article

J. Anglo-Saxon England (Age of Bede) (18 items)

[for orientation, see J1 and J1a and the general works listed in section C]

The coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England - Mayr-Harting, Henry, 1991

Book

The conversion of Britain: religion, politics, and society in Britain, c.600-800 - Yorke,

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Barbara, 2006
Book

Feminae gloriosae: women in the age of Bede - J. Nicholson

Chapter

Anglo-Saxon women and the church: sharing a common fate - Hollis, Stephanie, 1992
Book

Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon royal houses - Yorke, Barbara, 2002

Book | has quite a lot to say on queens

The Frankish world,750-900 - Janet L. Nelson, 1996

Book | Read: J.L. Nelson, Women and the Word. Available in the library and as an
e-book.

Women and the Word - J.L. Nelson

Chapter

Oswald: Northumbrian king to European saint - Stancliffe, Clare, Cambridge, Eric, 1995
Book

The Anglo-Saxons - Campbell, James, John, Eric, Wormald, Patrick, 1991, c1982
Book

Saints and relics in Anglo-Saxon England - Rollason, D. W., 1989

Book

The royal saints of Anglo-Saxon England: a study of West Saxon and East Anglian cults -
Ridyard, Susan J., 1988
Book

Signs of devotion: the cult of St. thelthryth in medieval England, 695-1615 - Blanton,
Virginia, c2007
Book

The narrators of barbarian history (A.D. 550-800): Jordanes, Gregory of Tours, Bede, and
Paul the Deacon - Walter A. Goffart, c1988
Book | Influential chapter on Bede. Available in the library and as an e-book.

(Re-)reading Bede: the ecclesiastical history in context - Higham, Nick, 2006

Book | not a starting point, but a novel approach

From Bede to Orderic Vitalis: changing perspectives on women in the Anglo-Saxon and
Anglo-Norman churches - J. Truax
Article

Reading women in annals: Eadburg, Cuthburg, Cwenburg and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -
P. Stafford
Chapter | Includes discussion of Eadburg, on whom Asser blamed the absence of the
title of queen in Wessex.

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(see section K below for later Anglo-Saxon England.)

K. Merovingian Gaul (20 items)

[for orientation, see K1 and the general works listed in section C]

The Merovingian kingdoms, 450-751 - Wood, Ian, 1994

Book

Culture and religion in Merovingian Gaul, A.D. 481-751 - Hen, Yitzhak, 1995
Book

Female spirituality and mysticism in Frankish monasteries: Radegund, Balthild and

Aldegund - S.F. Wemple
Chapter

St Radegund and the early development of her cult at Poitiers - B. Brennan, 1985
Article

A legacy of miracles: hagiography and nunneries in Merovingian Gaul - J.A. McNamara

Chapter

Regendering Radegund? Fortunatus, Baudonivia and the problem of female sanctity in

Merovingian Gaul - S. Coates
Article

Gender and conversion in the Merovingian era - C. Nolte

Chapter

Politics and ritual in early medieval Europe - Janet L. Nelson, 1985

Book | Read: Queens as Jezebels: the careers of Brunhild and Balthild in Merovingian
history - J.L. Nelson. Available in the library and as an e-book.

Female sanctity: public and private roles, 500-1100 - J.T. Schulenberg

Chapter

Gendering Courts in the Early Medieval West - J.L. Nelson

Chapter

The age of Charles Martel - Fouracre, Paul, 2000

Book | For the 8th century- use the index.

The Problem of Female Sanctity in Carolingian Europe - Julia M. H. Smith, 1995

Article | About a later period, but raises some ways of thinking about Radegund and
other royal saints.

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Women in medieval society - Brenda Bolton, Susan Mosher Stuard, 1976

Book | Read: J.A. McNamara and S. Wemple, Marriage and divorce in the Frankish
Kingdom. Available in the library and as an e-book.

Venantius Fortunatus: a Latin poet in Merovingian Gaul - George, Judith W., 1992
Book

Venantius Fortunatus: Personal and political poems - Venantius Honorius Clementianus

Fortunatus, trans. Judith W. George, 1995
Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

Saints' lives and the rhetoric of gender: male and female in Merovingian hagiography -
Kitchen, John, 1998
Book

Provisatrix optima: St. Radegund of Poitiers' relic petitions to the east - Isabel Moreira,
1993
Article

Auctoritas as sanctitas: Balthild's depiction as 'queen-saint' in the Vita Balthildis - Sarah

Tatum, 2009
Article

Radegundis Peccatrix: Authorizations of Virginity in Late Antique Gaul - J.M.H. Smith

Chapter

L. The Carolingian Empire (38 items)

[for orientation, see the general works listed in section C, esp. C2, C13 and C15]

Gender and Ideology in the Early Middle Ages - J.M.H. Smith

Chapter | discusses the anti-queen rhetoric of the 9th century in the context of wider
ideas about womens roles. See digitised in section E.

Women and the Word in the Earlier Middle Ages - J.L. Nelson
Chapter

The Frankish world,750-900 - Janet L. Nelson, 1996

Book | Read: J.L. Nelson, Women and the Word in the Earlier Middle Ages', chapter 12.
Available in the library and as an e-book.

Bertrada - Janet L. Nelson

Chapter

Bertrada - Janet L. Nelson

Chapter | On the first Carolingian queen.

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Making a difference in eighth-century politics: the daughters of Desiderius - J.L. Nelson

Chapter

The Frankish world,750-900 - Janet L. Nelson, 1996

Book | Read: J.L. Nelson, Women at the court of Charlemagne. Available in the library
and as an e-book.

The siting of the council at Frankfort: some reflections on family and politics - J.L. Nelson
Chapter

Caesars wife: the career of the Empress Judith, 819-29 - E. Ward

Chapter

Agobard and Paschasius as critics of the Empress Judith - E. Ward

Chapter | on the criticisms levelled against the wife of Louis the Pious

Bride shows revisited: praise, slander and exegesis in the reign of the empress Judith - M.
de Jong
Chapter | excellent article on Louis the Piouss second wife

Exegesis for an Empress - M. de Jong

Chapter | Again, on Judith

Queens and beauty in the early medieval west: Balthild, Theodelinda, Judith - M. de Jong
Chapter

Private Bodies and the Pody Politic in the Divorce Case of Lothar II - S. Airlie, 1998
Article

Bishops as marital advisers in the ninth century - J. Bishop

Chapter

The Susanna Crystal of Lothar II: Chastity, the Church, and Royal Justice - Genevra
Kornbluth, 1992
Article

Magic and Marriage in Ninth-Century Francia: Lothar, Hincmar -- and Susanna - V.I.J. Flint
Chapter

Susanna and the Lothar Crystal: a liturgical perspective - Valerie I. J. Flint, 2007
Article

The divorce of Lothar II: Christian marriage and political power in the Carolingian world -
Heidecker, Karl Josef, Guest, Tanis M., 2010
Book

Why should bishops be involved in marital affairs? Hincmar of Rheims and the divorce of
Lothar II (855-869) - K. Heidecker
Chapter

Charles the Bald - Nelson, Janet L., 1992

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Book | use the index (under Ermentrude and Richildis)

Ermentrude and Richildis - J. Hyam

Chapter | On what good queens did

Regina nitens sanctissima Hemma: Queen Emma (827-876), Bishop Witgar of Augsburg
and the Witgar Belt - E. Goldberg
Chapter | Excellent study with general implications for Carolingian queenship

Early Medieval Rites of Queen-Making - J.L. Nelson

Chapter | and in Nelson, Rulers and Ruling Families: on the development of queenship
as an office

Queenship, Nunneries and Royal Widowhood in Carolingian Europe - S. MacLean, 2003

Article

Learned Women? Liutberga and the Instruction of Carolingian Women - V. Garver

Chapter | on aristocratic women rather than queens, but good for broader comparison

S. Salvatore/ S.Giulia: A Case Study in the Endowment and Patronage of a Major Female
Monastery in Northern Italy - S. Wemple
Chapter | basic introduction to the relationship between royal women and religious
houses

The Empress Engelberge - Charles E. Odegaard, 1951

Article | a good study of one of the more celebrated Carolingian queens

The Palace of Memory: Carolingian Palaces as Political Centres - S, Airlie

Chapter | useful insights into the role of the palace (with which queenly power was
associated) in Carolingian politics

Struggle for empire: kingship and conflict under Louis the German, 817-876 - Goldberg,
Eric Joseph, 2006
Book | first-rate study of this east Frankish king, with useful material on his wives and
daughters

Courts, elites, and gendered power in the early Middle Ages: Charlemagne and others -
Nelson, Janet L., 2007
Book | latest collection of her essays

Medieval polities and modern mentalities - Timothy Reuter, Janet L. Nelson, 2006
Book | Read: T. Reuter, Sex, lies and oath-helpers: the trial of Queen Uota. Available in
the library and as an e-book.

Kingship and politics in the late ninth century: Charles the Fat and the end of the
Carolingian Empire - Simon MacLean, 2003
Book | use the index for CFs wife Richgard. Available in the library and as an e-book.

Women and aristocratic culture in the Carolingian world - Garver, Valerie L., 2009
Book

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Lothar I, the man and his entourage - E. Screen

Chapter | includes discussion of empress Irmingard.

The legacy of paradise: marriage, motherhood, and woman in Carolingian edifying

literature - Katrien Heene, 1997
Book

Hincmar of Rheims: life and work - Rachel Stone, Charles West, 2015
Book | various comments on the Lothar II divorce etc use index.

M. Ottonian Europe (France, Germany and Italy, 10-11C) (24 items)

Germany in the early Middle Ages c.800-1056 - Reuter, Timothy, 1991
Book | best introduction to the Ottonians

Queenship and sanctity: The lives of Mathilda and The epitaph of Adelheid - Gilsdorf, Sean,
Odilo, c2004
Book | contains an excellent introduction to the Lives of Mathilda and the Epitaph of
Adelheid (plus translations)

Powerful Women in the Early Middle Ages: Queens and Abbesses - P. Stafford
Chapter | insights on the changing power of women at different points in the lifecycle:
good starting point

Rule and conflict in an early medieval society: Ottonian Saxony - Karl Leyser, 1979
Book | esp. part II: Ottonian aristocratic and royal women (fundamental and influential,
though a tough place to start). Available in the library and as an e-book.

Empress Theophano: Byzantium and the West at the turn of the first millennium - Davids,
Adelbert, 1995
Book | collection of essays dealing with Ottonian queens in general, not just Theophanu

Otto III - Gerd Althoff

Book | excellent short biography with an incisive section on late 10C royal women

Ottonian book illumination: an historical study - Mayr-Harting, Henry, 1999

Book | indispensable guide to images of rulers (inc queens), with pictures and
interpretation

Making a Difference in Tenth-Century Politics: Athelstans Sisters and Frankish Queenship -

S. MacLean
Chapter | on the cross-Channel royal marriage alliances of the period c. 920-950 and
their impact on Frankish queenship

Reform, Queenship and the End of the World in Tenth-Century France: Adso's "Letter on
the Origin and Time of the Antichrist" reconsidered' - Socit pour le Progrs des tudes
Philologiques et Historiques, Simon MacLean, 2008
Article | mainly about the career of Gerberga, queen of west Francia 939-54 and sister
of Otto I.

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The complete works of Liudprand of Cremona - Liudprand, Squatriti, Paolo, c2007

Book | has an excellent intro

The dangers of ritual: between early medieval texts and social scientific theory - Buc,
Philippe, c2001
Book | chapter 1 has excellent insights on Liutprand (though not really about
queenship)

Italian Hussies and German Matrons: Liutprand of Cremona on Dynastic Legitimacy - P.

Buc, 1995
Article | analyses Liutprands portrayal of the pornocracy in context of the struggle
between Otto I and his Italian enemies

Communications and power in medieval Europe: the Carolingian and Ottonian centuries -
Karl Leyser, Timothy Reuter, 1994
Book | Read: K. Leyser, Ends and Means in Liudprand of Cremona,' chapter 8. Available
in the library and as an e-book.

Liudprand of Cremona, bishop, diplomat, historian: studies of the man and his age -
Sutherland, Jon N., 1988
Book | posthumously published; the only biography in English

Humour, history and politics in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages - Guy Halsall,
International Medieval Congress, 2002
Book | Read: R. Balzaretti, Liudprand of Cremonas Sense of Humour. Available in the
library and as an e-book.

Men and Sex in Tenth-Century Italy - R. Balzaretti

Chapter

Liudprand of Cremona: History and Debasement in the Tenth Century - R. Levine, 1991
Article

Women in medieval Italian society, 500-1200 - Skinner, Patricia, 2001

Book

Conrad II, 990-1039: emperor of three kingdoms - Wolfram, Herwig, Kaiser, Denise Adele,
2006
Book | use index to find Conrads women

The Salian century: main currents in an age of transition - Weinfurter, Stefan, Bowlus,
Barbara M., 1999
Book | painless survey of 11C Germany

Exercise of royal power in early medieval Europe: the case of Otto the Great 936-73 -
David Bachrach, 2009
Article | article comparing Ottonian and Carolingian government; no specific reference
to queens but of interest for how the Ottonians exercised their power.

Episcopal Office in the Italy of Liudprand of Cremona, c.890-c.970 - C. Leyser, 2010

Article | suggests the Antapodosis is actually all about bishops.

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Queen Mathilda of Saxony and the Founding of Quedlinburg: Women, Memory, and Power -
Helene Scheck, 2009
Article | survey of books and scholarship at Quedlinburg (including Life of Mathilda),
bookended by more theoretical sections on memory [e-journal, campus access only]

Word over Image: On the Making, Uses, and Destiny of the Marriage Charter of Otto II and
Theophanu - W. North, A. Cutler
Chapter | Includes a translation of the Theophanu marriage charter.

N. Late Anglo-Saxon England (and Scotland) (32 items)

[for orientation, see the general works listed in section C, esp. C5, C10, C19]

The King's wife in Wessex, 800-1066 - Pauline Stafford, 1981

Article | reprinted in Stafford, Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power:
fundamental article

The queen in ninth-century Wessex - J.L. Nelson

Chapter

Queen Emma and Queen Edith: queenship and women's power in eleventh-century
England - Stafford, Pauline, 1997
Book | ranges much more widely than the title suggests (including back to the 10C)

Powerful Women in the Early Middle Ages: Queens and Abbesses - P. Stafford
Chapter | insights on the changing power of women at different points in the lifecycle.

Anglo-Saxon women and the church: sharing a common fate - Hollis, Stephanie, 1992
Book | idiosyncratic, though some good material on queens use index

Nunneries and the Anglo-Saxon royal houses - Yorke, Barbara, 2002

Book | has quite a lot to say on queens

The portrayal of royal women in England, mid-tenth to mid-twelfth centuries - P. Stafford

Chapter | (and Stafford, Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power)

Queens, Nunneries and Reforming Churchmen: Gender, Religious Status and Reform in
Tenth- and Eleventh-Century England - Pauline Stafford, 1999
Article | reprinted in Stafford, Gender, Family and the Legitimation of Power: very
insightful discussion of the interaction between the tenth-century monastic reform and
Anglo-Saxon queenship

Patronage of the West Saxon royal nunneries in late Anglo-Saxon England - M.A. Meyer,
1981
Article

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Monastic reform and royal ideology in the late tenth century: lfthryth and Edgar in
continental perspective - S. MacLean
Chapter | on monastic reform and representations of queenship

The ruler portraits of Anglo-Saxon England - Catherine E. Karkov, 2004

Book | includes analysis of the manuscript illustrations of late A-S queens. Available in
the library and as an e-book.

Queen Emma and Aelfgifu of Northampton: Canute the Greats women - M.W. Campbell,
1971
Article

Encomium Emmae Reginae - Campbell, Alistair, Keynes, Simon, Royal Historical Society
(Great Britain), 1998
Book | 1998 edition contains a very good introduction by S. Keynes

Emma the conqueror - E. Searle

Chapter

The Encomium Emmae reginae: a political pamphlet of the eleventh century? - F. Lifshitz,
1989
Article

Edith, queen of England, 1045-1066 - K.E. Cutler, 1973

Article

Fictions of Family: The Encomium Emmae Reginae and Virgils Aeneid - Elizabeth M. Tyler,
2005
Article

Talking about history in eleventh-century England: the Encomium Emmae Reginae and the
court of Harthacnut - Elizabeth M. Tyler, 2005
Article

Queen Margaret of Scotland: burying the past, enshrining the future - V. Wall
Chapter

"A Nursery of Saints": Queen Margaret of Scotland reconsidered - D. Baker

Chapter

Public lives, private ties: royal mothers in England and Scotland, 1070-1204 - L. Huneycutt
Chapter

The idea of the perfect princess: the Life of St Margaret in the reign of Matilda II
(1100-1118) - L. Huneycutt, 1990
Article

Matilda of Scotland: a study in medieval queenship - Lois L. Huneycutt, 2003

Book | Available in the library and as an e-book.

From Bede to Orderic Vitalis: changing perspectives on women in the Anglo-Saxon and

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Anglo-Norman churches - J. Truax

Article

Gender, family and the legitimation of power: England from the ninth to early twelfth
century - Stafford, Pauline, 2006
Book | collected essays by one of the most important writers in the field

Chronicle D, 1067, and women: gendering conquest in Eleventh-century England - P.

Stafford
Chapter

Intercession and the high-medieval queen: the Esther topos - L. Huneycutt

Chapter

Cnut: the Danes in England in the early eleventh century - Lawson, M. K., 1993
Book

Female Advocacy and Royal Protection in Tenth-Century England: The Legal Career of
Queen lfthryth - Andrew Rabin, 2010
Article

lfgifu of Northampton: Cnut the Great's other woman - T. Bolton

Article

Edward the Confessor: the man and the legend - Mortimer, Richard, 2009
Book | essay collection, including essays by Stafford on Edith, and on Edwards career
to 1016 and the succession.

O. The Iconography of Rulership (9 items)

Ottonian book illumination: an historical study - Mayr-Harting, Henry, 1999
Book | (1991) or (1999, 2nd ed in one volume): indispensable guide to images of rulers
(inc queens), with pictures and interpretation

Kingship and Christology in Ottonian and Anglo-Saxon art - R. Deshman, 1976

Article | fascinating study of tenth-century art and political ideas, with some material on
queens

The Exalted Servant: The Ruler Theology of the Prayerbook of Charles the Bald - Deshman,
Robert, 1980
Article | gives insights into the relationship between art and ideology.

The benedictional of thelwold - Deshman, Robert, c1995

Book | discussion of Queen AElfthryth

Carolingian painting - Mtherich, Florentine, Gaehde, Joachim E., 1976

Book | good selection of full-page pictures

The ruler portraits of Anglo-Saxon England - Catherine E. Karkov, 2004

Book | Includes analysis of the manuscript illustrations of late A-S queens. Available in

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the library and as an e-book.

Studies in medieval art and interpretation - Cahn, Walter, 2000

Book | includes a drawing and discussion of the ruler image in the lost Psalter of Queen
Emma (late 10C, France)

Review article on: Koerntgen, Koeningherrschaft und Gottes Gnade; Bertelli, The King's
Body - David A. Warner, 2003
Article | reviews 2 recent German books, and in doing so provides a very useful
summary of historians arguments over Ottonian ritual, images, and royal sacrality. NB
Individual images are also discussed in works listed above, eg N3, N10

Eye and mind: collected essays in Anglo-Saxon and early medieval art - Robert Deshman,
Adam S. Cohen, 2010
Book | collection of important articles.

Useful websites: (3 items)

http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html
Webpage | (a searchable database of works on medieval women)

International Medieval Bibliography

Webpage | (find via Library webpage; click Electronic Resources searchable database
of scholarship on medieval history, mainly in English: VERY USEFUL!!!)

Dictionary of National Biography

Website | (find via Library webpage; click Electronic Resources accessible and
accurate short biographies of queens and other figures from the British Isles)

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