Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index
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Articles and essays that rely in large part on a primary source, written or visual, have that information recorded in the category, Primary Document. The field in the Feminae record first lists one of the document types below. It then identifies the source, incuding location and identifying numbers. For example:

Author Boyd, David Lorenzo and Ruth Mazo Karras
Title Interrogation of a Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London
Source GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 1, 4 (1995): 459-465.
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London, Corporation of London Records Office, Plea and Memoranda Roll A34, m. 2 (1395)

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