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Aachen, Nordhein- Westfalen, Germany- Marian Relics ; 
Abandoned Children ;
Abandoned Infants ;
Abbesses ;
Abbesses in Art ; 
Abbots ;
Abduction    SEE    Kidnapping ; 
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Ad Amicum Pro Consolatione Epistola ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Letters ; 
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Letters- De Auctoritate Vel Dignitate Ordinis Sanctimonialium ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Historia Calamitatum ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Letters ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Planctus Israel Super Samson ;
Abelard, Peter, Philosopher- Sermons- Sermon 30 ; 
Abortion ;
Abraham (Biblical Figure) in Literature ;
Abu Nuwas, Poet ;
Academic Politics ;
Accidia    SEE    Sloth ; 
Account Books ;
Account Books    SEE ALSO    Ricordanze ; 
Acculturation ;
Acedia    SEE    Sloth ; 
Achard of Saint Victor, Bishop of Avranches ;
Aconbury, Herefordshire, England- Priory for Women ;
Acteon (Mythological Figure) ;
Active Life    SEE    Vita Activa, Religious Ideal ;
Active Orders ;
Actresses ;
Acuna Family ;
Adab, Literary Genre ;
Adam de Cobsam, Author - Wright's Chaste Wife ;
Adam (Biblical Figure) ; 
Adam (Biblical Figure) in Art ; 
Adam (Qur'anic Figure) ;
Adaptations ;
Adaptations- Christine de Pizan, Poet- Cent Ballades- Ballade 11 Seulete suy et seulete vueil estre ;
Adela, Countess of Blois ;
Adelaide, Countess of Torino and Daughter and Heir of Olderico Manfredi ;
Adelaide d'Anjou, Wife of Etienne de Brioude, Raymond, Count of Toulouse, Louis V, Carolingian King, and Guillaume, Count of Provence ;
Adelaide of Burgundy    SEE    Adelheid, Saint and Wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Adelaide, Wife of Roger le Vieux, Count of Carcassonne ;
Adelelme, Saint and Abbot of La Chaise-Dieu ; 
Adelheid, Saint and Wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Adeliza of Louvain, Queen-Consort of Henry I of England ;
Adenet le Roi, Poet- Berte aus Grans Pies ; 
Administration ;
Admont, Styria, Austria- Benedictine Double House ;
Adolescents ;
Adomnan, Abbot of Iona ;
Adomnan, Abbot of Iona and Author- Vita Sancti Columbae ; 
Adoption ;
Adultery ;
Adultery in Literature ;
Advent Lyrics ;
Adventure ; 
Advice ;
Advice    SEE ALSO    Pastoral Care    AND    Spiritual Care ;
Aelfflaed, Noble Woman and Widow ;
Aelfgifu, Concubine of Cnut, King of England and Denmark ;
Aelfgifu, English Name of Emma    SEE    Emma, Wife of Aethelred, King of England, and Cnut, King of Denmark ;
Aelfgyfu    SEE    Aelfgifu ;
Aelfgyva (Figure in the Bayeux Tapestry) ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Homily on Judith ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Homily on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Homily on Saint Gregory ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Letter to Sigeweard ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Lives of the Saints ;
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Lives of the Saints- Life of Aethelthryth ; 
Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham- Lives of the Saints- Life of Eugenia ; 
Aelfthryth, Wife of Edgar, King of England ;
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint ;
Aelia Verina, Wife of Leo I, Byzantine Emperor ; 
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint ;
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint- De Institutione Inclusarum ; 
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint- De Sanctimoniali De Wattun ;
Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx, Saint- Speculum Caritatis ; 
Aelfgifu, English name of Emma    SEE    Emma, Wife of Aethered, King of England, and Cnut, King of Denmark ; 
Aelfgyfu    SEE    Aelfgifu ; 
Aesop, Ancient Author ;
Aesthetics ;
Aethelberht    SEE    Ethelbert, King of Kent ;
Aethelburh, Wife of Edwin, King of Northumbria ;
Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians ;
Aethelstan    SEE    Athelstan, King of Wessex ;
Aethelthryth    SEE    Etheldreda of Ely, Saint ;
Aethelweard, Chronicler ; 
Aethelwold, Bishop of Winchester ;
Affective Piety ;
African Women in Literature ;
Agatha, Daughter of Grand Prince laroslav Mudryi and Wife of Prince Edward the Exile, Atheling of England ;
Agatha, Martyr, Saint ;
Age Groups ;
Aged    SEE    Old Age ;
Agency    SEE    Women in Active Roles ;
Ages at Marriage ;
Aggression ; 
Agnes, Daughter of King Albert of Habsburg and Widow of King Andreas III of Hungary, Who Supervised the Monastery at Konigsfelden ;
Agnes de Valence, Lady of Offaly, Balliol, and Beaumont ;
Agnes, Marchioness, wife of Leopold, Margrave of Austria and Saint ;
Agnes, Nun ;
Agnes of Montepulciano, Dominican Nun and Saint ;
Agnes of Poitou, Wife of Heinrich III, Holy Roman Emperor ; 
Agnes of Prague, Saint ;
Agnes of Rome, Saint ;
Agnes (Operatic Figure in Der Arme Heinrich) ;
Agnes, Premyslid Princess    SEE    Agnes of Prague, Saint ;
Agnes, Princess of Bohemia    SEE    Agnes of Prague, Saint ;
Agnes, Wife of Andrew III, King of Hungary ;
Agnes, Wife of Heinrich III, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Agnoletti, Anna Maria Enriques, (1907-1944) ;
Agriculture ;
Agriculture in Literature ;
Aileranus Sapiens, Lector of Clonard and Author- Vita I Sanctae Brigitae ;
Airan, Calvados, France - Burials ;
A'isha Bint Abi Bakr, Third and Favorite Wife of the Prophet Muhammad ; 
Aithbe Damsa (The Lament of the Caillech Berre), Irish Poem;
Akathistos, Hymn ; 
Al-Aziz bi-Llah, Fatimid Caliph ; 
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, Fatimid Caliph ; 
Al-Sayyida al'Aziziyya, Wife or Concubine of al-Aziz bi-Llah, Fatimid Caliph ; 
Alain de Lille, Author- De Planctu Naturae ; 
Alain de Lille, Author- Summa De Arte Praedicatoria ;
Alamannus of Hautvillers, Hagiographer ;
Alan of Lille    SEE    Alain de Lille
Alatiel (Literary Figure) ;
Alba, Literary Genre ;
Alberti, Bartolomea Degli    SEE    Obizzi, Bartolomea Degli ;
Alberti, Giannozzo, Merchant and Character in His Cousin's Book, Della Famigilia by Leon Battista Alberti ;
Alberti, Leon Battista, Humanist ; 
Alberti, Leon Battista, Humanist- Della Pittura ;
Alberti, Leon Battista, Humanist- Della Famiglia ;
Albigensian Crusade ;
Albina (Legendary Figure) ; 
Albina    SEE ALSO     Albine (Literary Figure) ;
Albine (Literary Figure) ;
Albine (Literary Figure)    SEE ALSO    Albina (legendary Figure) ;
Albrecht von Eyb ; 
Alceste (Literary Figure) ; 
Aldegonde de Maubeuge, Saint ;
Aldegund    SEE    Aldegonde de Maubeuge, Saint ;
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne ; 
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, Saint- De Laudibus Virginitatis ;
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, Saint- Prosa de Virginitate ;
Aldobrandino of Siena, Physician and Author- Regime du Corps ; 
Alecis, Guillaume, Poet- Oraison Faicte a la Vierge Marie ;
Alexander III, Pope ; 
Alexander IV, Pope ; 
Alexander of Hales, Theologian- Glossa in Quatuor Libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi ;
Alexander of Hales, Theologian- Summa Theologica ;
Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Aleyde of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant ;
Aleydis of Schaerbeek    SEE    Alice of Schaarbeek, Saint ;
Alfani, Bianco, Author- Novella della Lisetta Levaldini ;
Alfons V el  Magnanimo, King of Aragon ;  
Alfonso V, the Magnanimous, King of Aragon    SEE    Alfons V el  Magnanimo, King of Aragon ;  
Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile- Cantigas de Escarnho ;
Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile- Cantigas de Santa Maria ;
Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile- Cantigas de Santa Maria- 108 ;
Alfonso X, el Sabio, King of Castile- Siete Partidas ;
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex-Domboc ;
Alfred the Great, King of Wessex- Translations- Soliloquies ;
Alibech (Literary Figure) ;
Alice de Bryene, Heiress and Wife of Sir Guy Bryan ; 
Alice de Sutton, Grandmother of Alice de Bryene ; 
Alice of Antioch, Daughter of Baldwin, King of Jerusalem, and Wife of Bohemond II, Prince of Antioch ;
Alice of Schaarbeek, Saint ;
Alison of Bath    SEE    Wife of Bath (Literary Figure) ;
Alisoun (Literary Figure) ;
Alisoun of Bath    SEE    Wife of Bath (Literary Figure) ;
Alisoun of Bathe    SEE    Wife of Bath (Literary Figure) ;
Allegory ;
Allen, Hope Emily, Literary Historian (1883- 1960) ; 
Allusion ;
Almanne de Hautvillers    SEE    Alamannus of Hautvillers, Hagiographer ;
Alms and Almsgiving ;
Alms and Almsgiving    SEE ALSO    Charity ;
Aloul, Fabliau ;
Alqama al-Fahl    SEE    Alqama B. Abada, Poet ;
Alqama B. Abada, Poet ;
Alrewas, Staffordshire, England ; 
Altarpieces ;
Altichiero, Painter ;
Amadas et Ydoine, Anglo-Norman Romance ; 
Amadi, Angelo, Hagiographer ; 
Amadi, Francesco, Art Patron ; 
Amalasuntha, Queen of the Ostrogoths ;
Amazons ;
Amazons in Literature ;
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan and Saint ; 
Ambrosius, Bishop of Milano    SEE    Ambrose, Bishop of Milan and Saint ; 
Americas ;
Amis and Amiloun, Middle English Romance ;
Amulets ;
Ancestors    SEE    Genealogy ;
Anchoresses ;
Anchoresses    SEE ALSO    Recluses ;
Anchorites    SEE    Anchoresses ;
Ancilla (Latin: Woman Slave) ;
Ancrene Riwle    SEE    Ancrene Wisse ;
Ancrene Wisse, Middle English Devotional Work ;
al- Andalus ;
Andrea del Castagno, Painter- Villa Carducci Fresco- Eve ;
Andreas Capellanus, Poet- De Amore ;
Andreas Capellanus, Poet- De Amore Libri Tres ;
Androgyny ;
Androgyny in Literature ; 
Anelida (Literary Figure) ;
Angela of Foligno, Mystic ;
Angela of Foligno, Mystic- Liber ;
Angela of Foligno, Mystic, in Literature ;
Angelico, Fra, Painter ; 
Angelico, Fra, Painter- San Marco Annunciation ;
Angelina da Corbara ; 
Angelina da Montegiove, Franciscan Tertiary ; 
Angels ;
Angels in Art ;
Anger in Literature ;
Angers, Maine- et- Loire, France- Abbey of Ronceray ;  
Angevins, Dynasty in France ;
Angevins, Dynasty in Naples and Hungary ;
Anglelucia, Nun of Fontevrault and Mystic ; 
Angles ; 
Anglo-Norman Literature ;
Anglo-Normans ;
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ;
Anglo Saxon Studies    SEE    Old English Language  ;
Anicia Juliana, Byzantine Princess ; 
Anima (Literary Figure) ; 
Animals, Image of ;
Animals in Literature ;
Annals ;
Anne of Bohemia, Queen-Consort of Richard II of England ;
Anne of Brittany, Queen-Consort of Charles VIII and Louis XII of France ;
Anne, Mother of the Virgin, Saint ; 
Anne, Mother of the Virgin, Saint- Cult ;
Anne, Mother of the Virgin, Saint in Art ;
Anna (Formerly Agnes of France), Byzantine Empress, Wife of Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor, Andronikos I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor, and Theodor Branas ; 
Annulment ;
Annunciation    SEE    Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation ;
Annunziate of Lombardy, Nuns ; 
Anorexia Nervosa ;
Anorexia Nervosa    SEE ALSO    Eating Disorders ; 
Ansa, Queen of the Lombards ; 
Anselm of Aosta, Archbishop of Canterbury ;
Anthony the Younger, Saint ; 
Anthropology ;
Anti-Christian Polemics ;
Antichrist ;
Antichrist, Anglo Norman Translation ;
Anticlericalism ;
Antikonie (Literary Figure) ;
Antiphons, Liturgical Texts Sung During Services ; 
Antioch ;
Antisemitism ;
Antisemitism in Literature ;
Antoniazzo Romano- Painter ; 
Antonino    SEE    Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence and Saint ; 
Antoninus, Archbishop of Florence and Saint ; 
Apocalypse ;
Apocalypse    SEE ALSO    Eschatology ;
Apocryphal Literature ;
Apollo (Mythological Figure) in Art ;
Apollonius of Tyre (Literary Figure) ;
Apollonius of Tyre, Old English Romance ;
Apophatic Mystics ; 
Apprentices ;
Aquitaine ;
Arabian Nights    SEE    Thousand and One Nights ;
Arabic Influences ; 
Arabic Language ;
Arabic Literature ;
Arachne (Mythological Figure) ;
Aragon ;
Aragon, Crown of ;
Archaeology ;
Archeology    SEE    Archaeology ;
Archers ;
Architecture- Domestic    SEE    Architecture- Secular ; 
Architecture, Image of ; 
Architecture- Religious ;
Architecture- Secular ;
Archives ;
Archpriest of Talavera    SEE    Arcipreste de Talavera ;
Areusa (Literary Figure) ; 
Arib Ibn Said, Author- Kitab al-Janin (Book of the Generation of the Fetus) ; 
Arienti, Giovanni Sabadino degli, Author ; 
Arienti, Giovanni Sabadino degli, Author- Gynevera de le Clare Donne;
Aristocracy    SEE    Noble Men or Noble Women or Nobility ;
Aristocrats     SEE   Noble Men or Noble Women or Nobility ; 
Aristotle, Ancient Philosopher ;
Arma Christi (Latin: Instruments of the Passion and Weapons Against the Devil) ;
Armenia ;
Armitage, Ella, Scholar (1841-1931) ;
Armor ;
Armor in Literature ;
Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France- Benedictine Abbey of St. Vaast- Chapel- Altarpiece- Presentation in the Temple ; 
Ars Moriendi Treatises (Latin: Art of Dying) ; 
Arsinde, Wife of Arnaud, Count of Comminges and Carcassonne ;
Art d' Amors, French Poem ;
Art d' Amour, Late Medieval Prose Adaptation of the De Amore ; 
Art Historians ;
Art History ;
Art History- Decorative Arts ;
Art History- General ;
Art History- Painting ;
Art History- Painting- Copies ;
Art History- Sculpture ;
Artemis (Mythological Figure) ;
Arthurian Literature ;
Arthurian Romance ;
Artisans ;
Artists ;
Artists' Sculptual Models ;
Arwen (Literary Figure) ; 
Asceticism ;
Asceticism in Literature ;
Ashkenazim ; 
Asia in Literature ;
Asian Women in Literature ;
Assembly of Ladies, Middle English Poem ;
Asseth (Middle English: Restoring, Making Good) ;
Assisi, Perugia, Italy- Basilica of S. Francesco- St. Elizabeth Chapel- Simone Martini, Painter-
Frescoes of Five Saints and the Virgin and Child with Sts. Ladislas and Elizabeth of Hungary ;
Assisi, Perugia, Italy Church of Santa Chiara Dossal Painting of Saint Clare of Assisi ;
Assisi, Perugia, Italy- Monastery of San Damiano ;
Astridr Olafsdottir, Queen and Stepmother of King Magnus Olafsson of Norway ;
Astrology ;
Astronomy ;
Athelstan, King of Wessex ;
Athelston, Middle English Romance ;
Atli (Literary Figure) ;
Atre Perilleux, Old French Romance ;
Atto, Bishop of Vercelli ;
Aube, Literary Genre ;
Aucassin et Nicolette, Chantefable ;
Auctioneers ;
Audience    SEE    Readers ;
Audio Visual Materials ;
Audree    SEE    Etheldreda of Ely, Saint ;
Audrey    SEE    Etheldreda of Ely, Saint ;
Augsburg, Bayern, Germany ;
Augustine, Archbishop of Canterbury ;
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint ;
Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint- Confessions ;
Augustinian Order ;
Auria, Saint    SEE    Oria, Saint ;
Aury, Dominique, Author (1908- )- Story of O ;
Austraberta of Pavilly, Saint ;
Austria ;
Authority ;
Authority in Literature ;
Authors ;
Authors- Collaboration ;
Authorship ;
Autobiography ;
Ava, Wife of Abbo ;
Ave- Eva Topos ;
Aventiure (Literary Motif) ;
Averroes, Philosopher- Book of Animals ;
Avicenna, Philosopher- Canon of Medicine ;
Avignon, Vaucluse, France ;
Avila, Avila, Spain ;
Avila, Avila, Spain- Church of San Vicente- Shrine of Sabina and Cristeta ;
Awards in Literature ; 
Awdyl Vraith    SEE    John of St. Davids, Poet- Ef A Wnaeth Panthon ;
Azema, Anne, Singer ;
Azzo VIII d' Este, Lord of Ferrara ;

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Babies SEE Infants ; Bachelor Knights ; Bachelors ; Baha Al-Din, Historian ; Bakhtin, Mikhail Mikhailovich, Literary Critic (1895-1975) ; Bald's Leechbook, Old English Collection of Medical Remedies ; Baldus de Ubaldis, Jurist ; Ballad, Literary Genre ; Ballymore Lough Sewdy, County Westmeath, Ireland- Plary Abbey ; Balthild, Merovingian Queen and Saint ; Baltic Crusade ; Baptisms ; Barbarians ; Barbatianus, Saint ; Barbieri, Filippo, Dominican and Author- Of the Twelve Sibyls Who Announced the Coming of Christ ; Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain ; Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain- Cathedral ; Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain- Women's Monastery of Sant Pere de les Puelles ; Barking, Greater London, England- Monastery ; Bartolomea di Matteo, Wife Who Sought a Divorce from Simone di Iacopo Lucca ; Bartolomeo da Mantova, Hagriographer ; Basil Archidenos, Author ; Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea and Saint ; Basil the Macedonian, Byzantine Emperor ; Bastards SEE Illegitimacy ; Battered Women SEE Wife Abuse ; Battista da Varona, Poor Clare ; Battle of San Ruffillo, Painting ; Baudonivia, Hagiographer ; Baudonivia, Hagiographer- Life of Saint Radegunde ; Baudri of Bourgueil, Bishop of Dol-de-Bretagne ; Bauduin de Sebourc, Chanson de Geste ; Baus Descouneus SEE Renaut de Beaujeu, Poet- Bel Inconnu ; Bavaria ; Baxter, Margery, Lollard ; Bayeux Tapestry ; Beag (Old English: Ring, Bracelet, Crown) ; Beatrice (Literary Figure) ; Beatrice of Nazareth, Abbess ; Beatrice of Nazareth, Abbess- Van Seuen Experiences van Heileger Minnen ; Beatrijs van Tienen, Abbess of Nazareth SEE Beatrice of Nazareth, Abbess ; Beatrix, Version of the Naissance du Chevalier au Cygne, Chanson de Geste ; Beatrix of Canossa, Countess of Tuscany ; Beaufort, Margaret, Countess of Richmond and Derby ; Beauty ; Beauty in Literature ; Beauvais, Oise, France ; Beccadelli, Antonio, Humanist- Hermaphroditus ; Beccadelli, Antonio, Humanist- Letters ; Bede, The Venerable, Scholar ; Bede, The Venerable, Scholar- Historia ; Bede, The Venerable, Scholar- Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum ; Bede, the Venerable, Scholar- In Canticum Abacuc Cantina ; Beds in Art ; Beerte Metten Breden Voeten, Middle Dutch Romance ; Beggars ; Beguines ; Belcari, Feo, Religious Writer ; Belisaunt (Literary Figure) ; Beltramina de Maziis, Mother of a Child Attacked by a Priest ; Belts ; Bembo, Pietro, Humanist ; Benedictine Order ; Benoit de Sainte-Maure, Poet- Roman de Troie ; Beowulf (Literary Figure) ; Beowulf, Old English Epic ; Berengar I, King of Italy ; Berenguela Alfonso, Concubine of Jaume I, King of Aragon ; Berenguela of Castile, Queen-Consort of Alfonso IX of Leon ; Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy ; Berhtgyth, Nun ; Berkley, Margaret, Noble Woman ; Berkshire Conference on the History of Women ; Berlin Rule, German Version of the Regula of Saint Benedict ; Bernard d'Angers, Schoolmaster- Liber Miraculorum Sanctae Fidis ; Bernard d'Angers, Schoolmaster and an Unknown Monk of Conques- Liber Miraculorum Sanctae Fidis ; Bernard de Ventadour SEE Bernart de Ventadorn ; Bernard of Angers SEE Bernard d'Angers ; Bernard of Cabrera, Noble Man ; Bernard of Clairvaux, Theologian, Saint ; Bernard of Clairvaux, Theologian, Saint in Literature ; Bernard of Clairvaux, Theologian, Saint- Sermons on the Song of Songs ; Bernard of Siena SEE Bernardino da Siena, Theologian and Saint ; Bernard Silvestris, Author- Cosmographia ; Bernardino da Siena, Theologian and Saint ; Bernart de Ventadorn, Troubadour ; Bernward, Bishop of Hildesheim, Saint ; Beroul, Poet- Tristan ; Bersuire, Pierre, Theologian ; Bertha SEE Berthe, Wife of Pipin the Short and Mother of Charlemagne ; Bertha of Sulzbach SEE Irene Komnena (Her Name Upon Marriage to Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor) ; Bertha of Tuscany, Wife of Rudolf II of Burgundy- Letters ; Berthe, Wife of Pipin the Short and Mother of Charlemagne in Literature ; Berthe de Bourgogne, Wife of Eudes, Count of Blois, Tours, and Chartres, and Robert II the Pious, King of France ; Bertken, Sister, Mystic ; Bertran de Born, Troubadour- Poem 24 Belh M'es Quan Vey Camjar Lo Senhoratge ; Besancon, Doubs, France ; Bessarion of Nicaea, Cardinal ; Besson, Luc, Film Director (1959- ) ; Bestiality ; Betrothal ; Betrothal SEE ALSO Spousals ; Betrothal in Literature ; Beues of Hamtoun SEE Bevis of Hampton ; Beves of Hamtoun SEE Bevis of Hampton, Middle English Romance ; Bevis of Hampton, Middle English Romance ; Bianca Maria Visconti, Duchess of Milan and Wife of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan ; Bianca of Navarre SEE Blanche, Queen of Sicily and Navarre ; Bible Exegesis ; Bible Exegesis- Genesis- Sodom ; Bible Exegesis- Habakkuk ; Bible Exegesis- Jeremiah ; Bible Exegesis- John ; Bible Exegesis- Judith ; Bible Exegesis- Judges ; Bible Exegesis- Luke ; Bible Exegesis- Matthew ; Bible Exegesis- Matthew- Parable of the Talents ; Bible Exegesis- Psalms; Bible Exegesis- Ruth Bible Exegesis- Song of Songs ; Bible in Literature ; Bible- New Testament in Art ; Bible- New Testament in Literature ; Bible- New Testament- Book of Revelation in Art ; Bible- Old Testament in Art ; Bible- Old Testament in Literature ; Bible- Old Testament- Genesis in Art ; Bible- Old Testament- Judith ; Bible- Old Testament- Leviticus 12: 1-2 ; Bible- Old Testament- Psalms ; Bible- Old Testament- Psalms in Art ; Bible- Old Testament- Women in ; Bible Study ; Bible- Translations ; Bibles Moralises ; Biblia Pauperum ; Bibliography SEARCH UNDER Article Type- Bibliography ; Bien des Fames- Oez Seignor, Je N'Otroi Pas, French Poem ; Bilhildis of Mainz, Saint ; Billon, Francois de, Author- Fort Inexpugnable de l' Honneur du Sexe Femenin ; Binary Opposites SEE Binary Opposition ; Binary Opposition ; Binchois, Gilles, Composer ; Bindings ; Biography ; Biography SEE ALSO Hagiography ; Biography Dictionaries ; Biology ; Birds in Literature ; Birgitta of Sweden, Saint SEE Bridget of Sweden, Saint ; Birth Control SEE Contraception ; Birth SEE Childbirth ; Birth Trays ; Bishops ; Bizzoche SEE Penitents ; Bjarnar Saga Hitdoelakappa, Icelandic Saga ; Bjorn Arngeirsson (Literary Figure) ; Black Death ; Black Knight (Literary Figure) ; Black Virgin from Puy-en-Velay ; Black Women ; Black Women in Literature ; Blackening ; Blackface Entertainers ; Blacks ; Blacks in Literature ; Blanca de Navarre SEE Blanche, Queen of Sicily and Navarre Blanca of Navarre, Queen- Consort of Sancho III, King of Castile ; Blanchardyn and Eglantine, Middle English Verse Romance ; Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, Wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster ; Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, Wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster SEE ALSO Blanche (Literary Figure) ; Blanche (Literary Figure) ; Blanche of Burgundy, Countess of Savoy ; Blanche of Castile, Wife of Louis VIII of France ; Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne ; Blanche, Queen of Sicily and Navarre ; Blanchefleur (Literary Figure) ; Blanche-Mains (Literary Figure) ; Blannbekin, Agnes, Mystic ; Blasphemy ; Blastares, Matthew, Canonist and Author- Alphabetical Collection ; Blind, Image of ; Blindness ; Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France ; Blonde Esmeree (Literary Figure) ; Blood ; Blood, Image of ; Blood in Literature ; Boadicea, British Queen Who Led a Revolt against the Romans ; Boarding ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- De Casibus Virorum Illustrium ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- De Mulieribus Claris ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron- Griselda ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron II, VII ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron II, IX ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron III. X ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron- IV, I ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron V, IV ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron VII- III ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Decameron IX, IX ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Esposizioni Sopra la "Comedia" di Dante ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Filostrato ; Boccaccio, Giovanni, Author- Teseida ; Body ; Body in Literature ; Boethius, Philosopher- De Consolatione Philosophiae; Bohemia ; Bohemond, Prince of Antioch ; Bohemund of Antioch ; Boileau, Etienne, Livre des Metiers ; Bokenham, Osbern, Author- Clare Roll ; Bokenham, Osbern, Author- Legendys of Hooly Wummen ; Bokenham, Osbern, Author- Legendys of Hooly Wummen- Lyf of S. Cycyle ; Bokenham, Osbern, Author- Mappula Angliae ; Bologna, Bologna, Italy ; Bonaventure, Saint SEE Bonaventure, Theologian, Saint ; Bonaventure, Theologian Saint ; Bone Density ; Bone Florence of Rome, Romance ; Bones SEE Human Remains ; Boniface, Saint ; Boniface, Saint- Letters ; Boniface VIII, Pope- Liber Sextus- Periculoso ; Boniface IX, Pope ; Bonincontro de Morigia, Chronicler ; Bonvoisin, Berangere, Actress and Author, and Philippe Clevenot- Celle Qui Ment [Modern Play about Angela of Foligno] ; Book of Ceremonies ; Book of Hours ; Book of Revelation SEE Apocalypse ; Book of Showings SEE Julian of Norwich, Mystic- Revelations of Divine Love ; Book of the Knight of the Tower, Middle English Translation of the Chevalier de la Tour Landry's Livre ; Book to a Mother, Middle English Prose Didactic Work ; Books ; Books in Art ; Books of Hours ; Borgia, Lucrezia, Wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara ; Boswell, John, Historian (1945-1994) ; Boswell, John, Historian (1945-1994)- Same Sex Unions in Premodern Europe ; Botticelli, Sandro, Painter- Madonna del Magnificat ; Botticelli, Sandro, Painter- Primavera ; Botticelli, Sandro, Painter- Uffizi Annunciation ; Botticini, Francesco, Painter- Assumption of the Virgin ; Bouchet, Jean, Poet- Oraison de Nostre Dame ; Boudicca SEE Boadicea, British Queen Who Led a Revolt Against the Romans ; Boundaries in Literature ; Bourdieu, Pierre, Sociologist (1930- ) ; Bourgeoisie ; Bourges, Cher, France- Cathedral of St. Etienne ; Boys ; Boys in Literature ; Bracteates ; Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England, Legal Treatise ; Branks, Instruments of Torture ; Bratislava (Hungarian: Pozsony), Bratislava, Slovak Republic ; Bravery SEE Courage ; Bread, Image of ; Breast Feeding ; Breast Milk SEE Breast Feeding ; Breasts ; Brescia, Brescia, Italy- Monastery of Santi Cosma e Damiano ; Bretha Crolige, Irish Legal Text ; Bretha Dein Checht, Irish Legal Text ; Breton Lays SEE Lais, Literary Genre ; Breviaries ; Brewing and Distillation ; Bride, Image of ; Bride of Christ, Image of ; Bride Price ; Bride Price SEE ALSO Dowries ; Bride Shows ; Bridegroom, Image of ; Brides ; Bridget of Sweden, Saint ; Bridget of Sweden, Saint- Revelationes Sanctae Birgittae ; Bridget of Sweden, Saint- Sunte Birgitten Openbaringe ; Bridget of Sweden, Saint in Art ; Bridget of Sweden, Saint in Literature ; Bridgettine Order SEE Brigittine Order ; Brigit, Abbess of Kildare, Saint ; Brigittine Order ; Brigstock, Northamptonshire, England ; Briseida (Literary Figure) ; Briseis (Literary Figure) ; Brittany ; Brive, Correze, France- Priory of Coyroux, a Women's House Dependent on the Male Monastery of Obazine ; Brooches ; Brothels SEE Houses of Prostitution ; Brothers ; Browne, Rye, Wife of Henry Browne, Chandler and Burgess of Calais ; Bruder Hansen, Middle Low German Poet ; Bruges, West- Vlaanderen, Belgium ; Brunham, John, Merchant and Father of Margery Kempe ; Brunhild (Literary Figure) ; Brunhild, Merovingian Queen ; Brut, Anglo Norman Prose Chronicle ; Bryennios, Nikephoros, Historian and General, Husband of Anna Komnena ; Bubonic Plague SEE Black Death ; Buddha and Buddhism ; Bulgaria ; Bulgarus, Jurist ; Bullough, Vern L., Historian (1928-) ; Buoch von dem Vechten und von der Ritterschafft, Middle High German Translation of Pizan's Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie ; Buondelmonte Family ; Burgh Laws, Scottish Legal Treatise ; Burgos, Burgos, Spain- Monastery of Las Huelgas ; Burgundy ; Burial ; Burials ; Burley, Walter, Philosopher- Abridgement of Expositio Problematum Aristotelis ; Bursfeld, Niedersachsen, Germany- Monasteries for Women ; Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England ; Busnois, Antoine SEE Busnoys, Antoine, Composer Busnoys, Antoine, Composer ; Busse-Wilson, Elisabeth, Historian (1890-1974)- Das Leben der Heiligen Elisabeth von Thuringen ; Butler, Margaret, Countess, Wife of Sir Piers Butler, Earl of Ormand ; Buzzacarina, Fina, Wife of Francesco il Vecchio da Carrara, Ruler of Padua ; Bynum, Caroline Walker, Historian (1941- ) ; Byrhtferth, Author- Passio ; Byzantine SEE Byzantium ; Byzantium ;

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Cadastres ;
Cadastres- 1427 ;
Cadoc's Lady (Literary Figure) ;
Caen, Normandy, France- Holy Trinity Abbey ;
Caesarean Birth ;
Caesarius, Bishop of Arles, Saint ; 
Caesarius von Heisterbach, Author ;
Caffari, Rosata, Wife of Stefano Caffari ;
Caffarini, Tommaso, Dominican Friar and Hagiographer ;
Caillech (Middle Irish: Veiled One) ;
Cain Adomnan    SEE    Lex Innocentium ;
Cairo, Egypt ;
Calcified Uterine Fibroleiomyomas;
Calefurnia (Literary Figure) (Roman Woman Who Misbehaved, Baring Her Genitals in Public, in a Fit of Rage Because She Was Not Allowed to Speak in Court) ;
Calisto (Literary Figure) ;
Callixtus III, Pope ;
Camaldolese Order ; 
Cambrai, Nord, France -Cathedral ;
Camilla, Huntress and Warrior (Literary Figure) ;
Camille (Literary Figure) ;
Campin, Robert (Also Known as the Master of Flemalle), Painter ;
Campsey, Suffolk, England- Monastery of Augustinian Canonesses ;
Canacee (Literary Figure) ;
Cancionero de Baena, Collection of Castilian Lyrics ;
Candlemas    SEE ALSO    Mary, Virgin, Saint- Purification ; 
Candlemas Day and the Killing of the Children of Israel, English Drama ;
Candlemas, Feast Day Commemorating the Presentation of the Infant Jesus in the Temple and the Purification of the Virgin Mary ;
Cannibalism in Literature ;
Canon Law ;
Canonesses ; 
Canonization of Saints ;
Cansos, Literary Genre ;
Cantar de Mio Cid, Epic ;
Cantare di Madonna Elena, Italian Poem ;
Cantigas de Loor, Musical Genre ;
Capgrave, John, Author- Life of Saint Katherine ;
Capital Punishment    SEE    Executions ;
Captivity ;
Caracciolo da Lecce, Roberto, Preacher ;
 Caregivers and Caregiving ;
Caretina, Queen ; 
Carew-Poyntz Hours ;
Carlo de Camerino, Painter- Madonna of Humility and the Temptation of Eve ;
Carloman, King of the Franks ;
Carmagna, Italy- Monastery of Santa Maria ; 
Carmelite Order ;
Carnivalesque ;
Carolingian Dynasty ;
Carretto, Ilaria del, Wife of Paolo Guinigi, Lord of Lucca ; 
Carruthers, Mary, Literary Historian ; 
Carthusian Order ; 
Cary, Elizabeth, Author (1585-1639)- The History of the Life, Reign, and Death of Edward II ;
Casali, Francesco di Bartolomeo de', Ruler of Cortona ; 
Cassandra (Literary Figure) ;
Cassandre (Literary Figure) ; 
Cassian, John, Patristic Writer ;
Cassianus Johannes    SEE    Cassian, John
Cassoni, Marriage Chests ;
Castles, Image of ; 
Castiglione, Baldassare, Author- Libro del Cortegiano ; 
Castile ;
Castilian Literature ;
Castles ;
Castration ;
Catalan Language ;
Catalan Literature ;
Catalina, Wife of Enrique III, King of Castile ;
Catalogs ;
Catalogs in Literature ;
Catalonia ;
Cataphatic Mystics ; 
Caterina da Siena, Saint    SEE    Catherine of Siena, Saint ;
Caterina Vegri    SEE    Catherine Vigri, Saint ; 
Catharism ;
Cathars    SEE    Catharism ;
Cathedrals ; 
Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint ;
Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint in Art ; 
Catherine of Bologna, Saint    SEE    Catherine Vigri, Saint ;
Catherine of Cleves, Duchess, Consort of Arnold van Egmond, Duke of Gelderland ;
Catherine of Genova    SEE    Catherine of Genoa, Saint ; 
Catherine of Genoa, Saint ;
Catherine of Siena, Saint ;
Catherine of Siena, Saint- Dialogo ;
Catherine of Siena, Saint in Art ;
Catherine of Siena, Saint- Letters ;
Catherine Vigri, Saint ;
Catherine Vigri, Saint- Sette Armi Spirituali ;
Cavalca, Domenico, Author- Vitae Patrum ;
Cavalcanti, Guido, Poet ; 
Cavalcanti, Guido, Poet- Donna Me Prega ; 
Cavani, Liliana, Film Director (1937- ) ;
Caviness, Madeline, Art Historian (1938- ) ;
Cavusin, Cappadocia- Pigeon House Church- Fresco Portraits ;
Caxton Abstract, Middle English Version of the Regula of Saint Benedict ;
Caxton, William, Printer ;
Caxton, William, Printer and Author- Book of the Knight of the Tower ; 
Cecilia, Saint ;
Cecilia, Saint in Literature ;
Ceffi, Filippo, Notary and Translation ;
Celestina (Literary Figure) ;
Celibacy ;  
Cemeteries ;
Censorship ;
Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles, Story Collection ;
Central Italy ; 
Cerchi, Umiliana    SEE    Umiliata dei Cerchi, Penitent and Saint ; [No cross ref necessary in Feminae]
Ceremonies ;
Ceremonies in Literature ; 
Cereta, Laura, Humanist ;
Cereta, Laura, Humanist- Letters ;
Cereta, Laura, Humanist- Letters (Epistolae Familiares) ; 
Cerisy-la-Foret, Manche, France ;
Chalice for the Eucharist from Cologne ;
Champagne, France ;
Champain, Cecily, Possible Victim of Raptus ; 
Champion, Pierre, Historian (1880-1942) ;
Chancery Courts ; 
Chanson de la Croisade Albigeoise    SEE    Canso de la Crozada ;
Chanson de Sainte Foy, Old Provencal Verse Saint's Life ; 
Chanson d'Yde et Olive, Romance ;
Chansons de Femme, Literary Genre ;
Chansons de Geste, Literary Genre;
Chansons de Malmariee, Literary Genre ;
Chansons de Toile, Literary Genre ;
Chansos, Literary Genre    SEE    Cansos, Literary Genre ;
Chapels ;
Characterization ;
Charity ; 
Charity    SEE ALSO    Alms and Almsgiving ;
Charivari, Folk Custom ;
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor ; 
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Emperor, in Literature ; 
Charles of Anjou, Duke of Anjou and King of Naples ; 
Charles II, King of Naples ;
Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Charles V, King of France ;
Charles VII, King of France ;
Charles d'Orleans, Poet- Poesies Anglaises- Ballade 59- Alone am Y and Wille to be Alone ;
Charles the Noble, King of Navarre ;
Charlotte of Savoie, Wife of Louis XI, King of France ;
Charms ;
Charter Endorsement    SEE    Middle Cornish Interlude ;
Charter Fragment    SEE    Middle Cornish Interlude ;
Charters and Diplomatics ;
Charters and Diplomatics in Literature ;
Chartier, Alain, Author- Epistola de Puella ;
Chartier, Alain, Author- Livre de l'Esperance ;
Chartier, Alain, Author- Quadrilogue Invectif ;
Chartrain, France ;
Chartres, Diocese of ; 
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France ;
Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, France- Cathedral- Marian Relics ; 
Charts and Diagrams ;
Chastellain, Georges, Author ;
Chastellain, Georges, Author- Louange a la Tresglorieuse Vierge ;
Chastellain, Georges, Author, and Jean Robertet, Author- Douze Dames de Rhetorique ;
Chastising of God's Children, Middle English Mystical Treatise ;
Chastity ;
Chastity in Literature ;
Chatelaine de Vergi, Poem ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- ABC ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Book of the Duchess ; 
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Canon's Yeoman's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Clerk's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Franklin's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- General Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Knight's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Man of Law's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Manciple's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Merchant's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Miller's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Miller's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Nun's Priest's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Pardoner's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Pardoner's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Physician's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Prioress's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Reeve's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Reeve's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Second Nun's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Second Nun's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Shipman's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Squire's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Summoner's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Tale of Melibee ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Wife of Bath's Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Canterbury Tales- Wife of Bath's Tale ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Hyd , Absalon, Thy Gilte Tresses Clere ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Legend of Good Women ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Legend of Good Women- Prologue ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Orygenes Upon the Maudeleyne ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Parliament of Fowls ;
Chaucer, Geoffrey, Poet- Troilus and Criseyde ;
Chelidonia, Recluse and Saint ;
Chess ; 
Chess in Literature ; 
Chester Family ;
Chevalier a l'Espee, Romance ;
Chevalier des Dames, du Dolent Fortune, Allegorical Poem ;  
Chiara d' Assisi    SEE    Clare of Assisi, Saint ;
Chievrefeuille    SEE    Marie de France, Poet- Chievrefoil ;
Child Abuse ;
Child Abuse    SEE ALSO    Infanticide ;
Child Care Workers ;
Childbirth ;
Childbirth, Image of ;
Childbirth in Art ;
Childbirth in Literature ;
Children ;
Children in Literature ;
Children    SEE ALSO    Infants ;
China ;
Chinese Literature ;
Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France - Chapel of Saint Radegunde ;
Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France- Chapel of Saint Radegunde- Paintings ;
Chivalry ;
Chlothild    SEE   Clotild, Wife of Clovis, King of the Franks ;
Choumnaina Palaiologina, Irene- Eulogia, Abbess of the Double Monastery Philanthropos Soter ; 
Chretien de Troyes, Poet ;
Chretien de Troyes, Poet- Cliges ; 
Chretien de Troyes, Poet- Erec et Enide ;
Chretien de Troyes, Poet- Perceval ou le Conte du Graal ; 
Chretien de Troyes, Poet- Yvain ;
Chriseyde (Literary Figure) ;
Christ I, Old English Poem ; 
Christians-Muslims- Relations ; 
Christina Mirabilis van Sint-Truiden, Mystic ;
Christina of Markyate, Recluse ;
Christina the Astonishing ; 
Christina von Stommeln    SEE    Christine of Stommeln ;
Christinae Miribilis ;
Christine de Pisan    SEE    Christine de Pizan ; 
Christine de Pizan, Poet ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Cent Ballades ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Cent Ballades D' Amant et de Dame ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Dit de la Pastoure ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Dit de la Rose ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Ditie de Jehanne d 'Arc ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epistre au Dieu d'Amours ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epistre de la Prison de Vie Humaine ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epistre d'Othea a Hector ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epitre Othea    SEE    Christine de Pizan, Poet- Epistre d'Othea a Hector ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Faits d' Armes et de Chevalerie ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Lamentacion sur les Maux de la Guerre Civile ; 
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Lavision- Christine ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Lay de Dame ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Letters ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de la Cite des Dames ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de la Paix ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de la Prod' Hommie de l'Homme ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre de Prudence ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre des Fais et Bonne Meurs du Sage Roy Charles V ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre des Trois Vertus ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre du Chemin de Long Estude ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre du Corps de Policie ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Livre du Duc des Vrais Amans ;
Christine de Pizan, Poet- Sept Psaumes Allegorises
Christine, Martyr, Saint ;
Christine of Stommeln, Mystic ;
Christine of St. Trond    SEE    Christina Mirabilis ;
Christus in Nostra Insula    SEE    Xpistus in Nostra Insula ;
Chronicles ;
Chronicles - Monastic ;
Church, Image of ;
Church and State ;
Church in Literature ; 
Church Reform    SEE    Ecclesiastical Reform ;
Churches ;
Churching ;
Cielo d'Alcamo, Poet ;
Cimabue, Giovanni, Painter ;
Cinema    SEE    Film ;
Cipolla, Bartolomeo, Jurist ;
Circumcision ;
Circumcision in Literature ;
Cistercian Order ;
Cities and Towns;
Cities and Towns in Literature ;
Cities, Image of ;
Citizenship ;
City Councils ;
Civil War ; 
Clare of Assisi, Saint ;
Clare of Assisi, Saint in Art ; 
Clare of Assisi, Saint in Film ;
Clare of Assisi, Saint- Letters ;
Clare of Montefalco, Saint ;
Clarisses    SEE    Poor Clares Order ; 
Clarke, Dorothy Clotelle, Literary Historian (1908-1993) ; 
Classical Influences ;
Claude de Armoises, Woman Who Posed as Joan of Arc ;
Claudina (Literary Figure) ; 
Claustration    SEE    Monastic Enclosure ;
Cleanness, Middle English Poem ;
Clemence of Burgundy, Countess of 
Flanders;
Clemence, Nun of Barking and Author ;
Clement VII, Pope ;
Cleopatra, Ancient Queen ;
Clergeon    SEE    Clergeoun (Literary Figure) ;
Clergeoun (Literary Figure) ;
Clergy ;
Clergy in Literature ;
Clergy- Sexual Behavior ;
Clergy- Sexual Behavior in Literature ;
Clifford, Lady Maud de, Widow of Sir Robert de Clifford ;
Clitoridectomy    SEE    Circumcision ;
Cloisters, Monastic ;
Cloth    SEE    Textiles ;
Clothild    SEE    Clotild, Wife of Clovis, King of the Franks ;
Clothing ;
Clothing, Image of ;
Clothing in Literature ; 
Clotild, Wife of Clovis, King of the Franks ;
Cloud of Unkowing, Middle English Mystical Work ;
Clovis, King of the Franks ;
Cluniac Order ;
Code of Justinian ; 
Codicology ;
Cognac, Charente, France- Church of Saint Martin- Cemetery ;
Coins ;
Col, Gontier, Author ;
Col, Pierre, Author ;
Colette of Corbie, Saint ;
Collaboration ;
Collectio Canonum Hiberensis, Law Collection ;
Collectors and Collecting ;
Colliot, Regine, Literary Historian (1914-1996) ;
Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France- Convent of Unterlinden ;
Cologne, North Rhine- Westphalia, Germany- Church of the Holy Virgins ;
Colonialism    SEE    Imperialism ;
Columba, Abbot of Iona, saint ; 
Comic Books ; 
Comic Characters ; 
Commemoration ;
Commenda Contracts ;
Commentaries ; 
Commentary, Literary Genre ;
Commercialization ; 
Common Law Courts ; 
Communication in Literature ;
Communism ;
Community Life ;
Comnena, Anna, Historian    SEE    Komnena, Anna, Historian ;
Como, Italy- Monastery of San Marco ; 
Compagnia di Santa Maria della Misericordia, Confraternity in Florence ; 
Compilation ;
Complaint in Literature ; 
Complaint of Our Lady, Anglo-French Prose Devotional Work ;
Comportment    SEE    Human Behavior ; 
Composers ;
Computers and Teaching ;  
Comrac Liadaine Ocus Cuirithic (The Meeting of Liadain and Cuirithir), Irish Prose Narrative with Poetry ;
Concilia, Legal Genre ; 
Concubines ;
Concubines in Literature ;
Concubines of Priests    SEE   Clergy- Sexual Behavior ;
Condesa Traidora, Spanish Epic ; 
Conduct    SEE    Human Behavior ; 
Conduct Literature    SEE    Handbooks ;
Conferences ;
Confession, Sacrament ;
Confessiones ;
Confessors ;
Confessors' Handbooks ;
Confessors' Handbooks    SEE ALSO    Penitential Books ;
Confidants in Literature ;
Confidentiality ; 
Confraternities ;
Confraternities- Registers ;
Confraternities- Statutes ;
Conjugal Debt ;
Consanguinity ;
Conscience ; 
Consecration Ceremonies ; 
Consent ;
Conservatism ;
Constance (Literary Figure) ;
Constance (Literary Figure in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale)    SEE    Custance (Literary Figure) ;
Constance de Rabastens, Mystic ;
Constance de Skelmanthorpe, Ward and Heiress ; 
Constance, Queen of Sicily, Wife of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ; 
Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos, Byzantine Emperor- Book of Ceremonies ; 
Constantine Africanus    SEE    Constantine the African, Translator ; 
Constantine the African, Translator ; 
Constantine the African, Translator- De Genecia ; 
Constantine the African, Translator- De Genitalibus Membris ; 
Constantinople/Istanbul ;
Constantinople/Istanbul- Church of Hagia Sophia- Clerical Tribunal (Ekklesiekdikoi) ; 
Constantinople/Istanbul- Church of Hagia Sophia in Art ;
Constantinople/Istanbul- Hagios Polyeuktos ; 
Constantinople/Istanbul- Monastery Church Founded by Constantine Lips- Inlaid Marble Plaque of Eudokia ; 
Constantinople/Istanbul- Monastery of the Mother of God of Sure Hope (Theotokos Tes Bebaias Elpidos) ; 
Constantinople/Istanbul- Relics- Mapharion of Mary, a Garment Covering the Head and Shoulders ; 
Constanza of Hohenstaufen, Wife of Pere III el Gran, King of Aragon ;
Consumerism ; 
Consumption ;
Conte du Graal Continuations, French Romances ; 
Contemplation ; 
Contemplative Life ;
Contemplative Orders ;
Contraception ;
Contraceptives    SEE    Contraception ;
Contracts ;
Contracts in Literature ; 
Conversas ;
Conversion, Religious ;
Conversion, Religious in Literature ;
Conversos    SEE    Conversas ;
Cookery ;
Cooking    SEE    Cookery ;
Coptic Language ;
Coptic Literature ;
Copying ;
Corbacho    SEE    Arcipreste de Talavera ;
Corbet, Sybil, Wife of Herbert fitz Herbert and Concubine of Henry I, King of England ;
Cornaro, Caterina, Wife of James II Lusignan, King of Cyprus ;
Cornazzano, Antonio, Poet and Courtier- De Mulieribus Admirandis ; 
Cornazzano, Antonio, Poet and Courtier- Del Modo di Regere ; 
Cornazzano, Antonio, Poet and Courtier- Libro dell' Arte del Danzare; 
Cornazzano, Antonio, Poet and Courtier- Vita della Vergine or Vita de Nostra Donna ;
Cornelia, Ancient Roman Matron ; 
Cornish Language ;
Cornish Literature ;
Cornwall ;
Coronations ;
Corporal Works of Mercy in Art ;
Corpus Christi ; 
Cortona, Tuscany, Italy ;
Corvey, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Germany- Abbey ;
Cosmas of Prague, Historian ; 
Cosmetics ; 
Cossa, Francesco del, Painter ;
Costanza de Castilla, Granddaughter of Pedro I, King of Castile, and Prioress of Santo Domingo el Real ;
Coudrette, Poet ;
Council of Trent (1545-1563) ;
Countesses ;
Country Life    SEE    Rural Conditions ;
Countryside    SEE    Rural Conditions ;
Counts ;
Courage ;
Courtesy ;
Courtesy Books    SEE    Handbooks ; 
Courtesy in Literature ;
Courtly Behavior ;
Courtly Customs ; 
Courtly Epic, Literary Genre ;
Courtly Literature ; 
Courtly Love ;
Courts ;
Courts in Literature ;
Courts- Literary Activity ;
Courts- Musical Activity ;
Courts of Law ;
Courts of Law, Ecclesiastical ;
Courts of Law, Ecclesiastical- Papal ;
Courts of Law, Royal ; 
Courtship ;
Courtship, Image of ;
Coventry Shearmen and Taylors' Pageant, English Mystery Plays ;
Coventry, West Midlands, England ; 
Creation ;
Creative Thinking ;
Creativity    SEE    Creative Thinking ;
Crescentia (Literary Figure) ;
Creseyde (Literary Figure) ; 
Creseyde    SEE ALSO    Criseyde ;
Crete ;
Creton, Raimbold, Knight, Crusader and Criminal ; 
Crime and Criminals ;
Crime and Criminals in Literature ;
Criseyde (Literary Figure) ;
Criseyde    SEE ALSO    Creseyde ;
Cristiana da Santa Croce, Saint ;
Criticism ;  
Criticism, Medieval ;
Critics ;
Critiques ;
Critiques and Replies ;
Cross Cultural Approach ;
Cross Dressing ;
Cross Dressing in Literature ;
Crosses and  Crucifixes ;
Crosses and Crucifixes in Literature ;
Crowns in Art ;
Crucifix ; 
Crusades ;
Crusades    SEE ALSO    Albigensian Crusade ;
Cuckolds ;
Cuckolds in Art ;
Cuckolds in Literature ;
Cultural Diversity    SEE    Multiculturalism ;
Cultural Studies ;
Cupid (Literary Figure) ;
Curial e Guelfa, Catalan Novella ;
Curses and Cursing in Literature ; 
Custance (Literary Figure) ;
Customary Law ; 
Cynewulf, Poet- Elene ;
Cynewulf, Poet- Juliana ;
Cyprus ;
Cywyddwyr, Welsh Poets ;

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Da Lutiano Family ; 
Dafydd Ap Gwilym, Poet ;
Dafydd Ap Gwilym, Poet- Englynion y Cusan ;
D'Ailly Hours ; 
Daily Life ;
Dairying ;
Dalassena, Anna , Mother of Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Dalassene, Anna    SEE    Dalssena, Anna, Mother of Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Dame a la Licorne, Tapestry Series ;
Damsels of the Queen's Chamber ;
Dance ;
Dance of Death (Artistic Motif) ;
Dandolo, Fantino, Bishop of Padua ;
Daniel, Monk and Author- Bios di Santa Marina ;
Danielina    SEE    Danielis, Byzantine Noble Woman
Danielis, Byzantine Noble Woman ;
Danta Gradha, Irish Poems ;
Dante Alighieri, Poet ; 
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Convivio ; 
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Divina Commedia- Inferno ;
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Divina Commedia- Paradiso ;
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Divina Commedia- Purgatorio ; 
Dante Alighieri, Poet- Vita Nuova ; 
Daphne, Egypt ;
Daphne (Mythological Figure) ; 
Daphne (Mythological Figure) in Art ;
Daret, Jacques, Painter- Presentation in the Temple ; 
Databases ;
Dati, Goro, Author ; 
Datini Family ;
Datini, Francesco, Merchant
Datini, Francesco, Merchant- Letters ; 
Datini, Ginevra, Illegitimate Daughter of Francesco Datini ; 
Datini, Margherita, Wife of Francesco Datini, Merchant ;
Daughters ;
Daughters in Literature ;
David (Biblical Figure) ;
David (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Davizzi, Lena, Widow and Nun ; 
Dawn Song    SEE    Alba, Literary Genre ;
De Bono et Malino Spiritu, Latin Polemic Against Joan of Arc ;
De Burggravin van Vergi, Dutch Romance ;
De Ceremoniis ; 
De Ilustres Mujeres en Romance ;
De Latrone Converso, Byzantine Story ;
De Lacy, Margaret, Noble Woman ;
De Passionibus Mulierum, Medical Compilation ; 
Deaconesses ;
Deaconesses    SEE ALSO    Ordination of Women ;
Dead ;
Deaf ;
Death ;
Death, Image of ;
Death in Literature ;
Death    SEE ALSO    Mortality ;
Debate, Literary Genre ;
Debate, Literary Genre    SEE ALSO    Partimens, Literary Genre ;
Debate, Literary Genre    SEE ALSO    Tensos, Literary Genre ;    
Deborah (Biblical Figure) ;
Deceit     SEE     Deception ;
Deception ;
Deception in Literature ;
Decretals ;
Dedicatees and Dedications ; 
Deeds    SEE    Charters and Diplomatics ;
Defamation    SEE    Libel and Slander ; 
Delilah (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Delteil, Joseph, Surrealist (1894-1978)- Jeanne d'Arc ;
Demandes D'Amour, Literary Genre ;
Demography ;
Demoniac Possession ;
Demoniacs ;
Demons ;
Demons in Art ;
Denmark ;
Depositions    SEE    Witnesses ;
Depression ;
Der Nersessian, Sirapie, Art Historian (1896-1989) ;
Der Von Kurenberg, Poet ;
Derrida, Jacques, Literary Critic (1930- ) ; 
Des Grantz Geanz, Anglo Norman Verse Prologue to Brut ;
Deschamps, Eustache, Poet ;
Deschamps, Eustache, Poet- Ballade 285 ;
Desco da Parto     SEE     Birth Trays ;
Descriptio, Literary Device for Describing a Character ; 
Description ; 
Desert, Image of ; 
Desiderio da Settignano, Sculptor- Mary Magdalene ; 
Desiderius, King of the Lombards ; 
Desire in Literature ; 
Detective and Mystery Stories, Literary Genre ;
Deucalion (Mythological Figure) ;
Developmental Psychology ;
Devices, Insignia Used as Liveries or Signs of Party Membership ; 
Devil ;
Devil in Art ;
Devil in the Form of a Half Woman and Half Serpent in Literature ;
Devil in the Form of a Serpent in Literature ; 
Devotio Moderna, Spiritual Movement ;
Devotional Literature ;
Devotional Objects ;
Devotional Practices ;
Dhuoda, Countess of Barcelona and Septimania ;
Di Baldese, Santina, Caregiver and Mother of Ambrogio di Baldese, Painter ; 
Dia, Countess of, Trobairitz ;
Dia, Countess of, Trobairitz- A Chantar m'Er de so Qu'Ieu Non Voloria ; 
Dialectic ;
Dialogical Criticism ;
Dialogical Reading ; 
Dialogue Between Christ and the Devil ;
Dialogue in Literature ;
Diana d'Andalo, Dominican ; 
Diana (Mythological Figure) ;
Diarmaid and Grainne Tales ;
Dictionary, Literary Genre ;
Didactic Literature    SEE    Handbooks ;
Didactic Romances ; 
Dido (Literary Figure) ;
Diego de San Pedro, Author- Carcel de Amor ;
Dietetics    SEE    Nutrition ;
Difregwawd Taliesin    SEE    John of St. Davids, Poet- Foruchel Duw 
Golochir Ympob Va ;
Digby Plays ;
Digby Plays- Conversion of Saint Paul ;
Digby Plays- Mary Magdalene ; 
Digression ;
Dindshenchas Erenn, Middle Irish Collection of Toponymic Lore ;
Dionysius the Pseudo- Areopagite, Theologian ; 
Diplomacy ;
Disabled ; 
Discerment ;
Discernment of Spirits, Determining Whether a Holy Person was Inspired by Jesus Christ or by the Devil ; 
Disease, Image of ;
Diseases ;
Diseases in Literature ; 
Disloyalty in Literature ; 
Displacement in Literature ;
Disputations ;
Distaffs ;
Dit de la Rose, French Poem ;
Dits, Literary Genre ;
Divine Heart of Jesus Christ ; 
Division of the Sexes ;
Divorce ;
Divorce in Literature ; 
Doctors    SEE    Physicians ;
Documents    SEE    Charters and Diplomatics ;
Dogaressa    SEE    Dogaresse, Wives of the Doges, Elected Heads of the Venetian Republic ;
Dogaresse, Wives of the Doges, Elected Heads of the Venetian Republic ;
Dolce of Worms, Wife of Rabbi Eleazar ben Judah ; 
Dolls ;
Domenico di Bartolo Ghezzi, Painter- Madonna of Humility ;
Domestic Abuse    SEE    Child Abuse  and SEE  Wife Abuse ; 
Domestic Life, Image of ;
Domestic Space ;
Domestic Space in Art ;
Domesticity ;
Domination ;
Dominican Order ;
Dominican Order- Tertiaries ; 
Domitilla, Vallombrosan Nun and Mystic ;
Domna (Literary Figure) ; 
Domne Eafe, Founder and Abbess of Thanet ;
Dona Endrina (Literary Figure) ; 
Donatello, Artist- David ;
Donatello, Artist- Feast of Herod Reliefs ;
Donatello, Artist- Judith and Holofernes ;
Donations    SEE    Alms and Almsgiving ;
Donatus, Bishop of Fiesole- Vita Metrica Sanctae Brigidae ;
Donegild (Literary Figure) ;
Donna Soletta (Literary Figure) ;
Donnchadh Mor O Dalaigh, Poet - Buime Trir Mathair Mhic De ;
Donnolo, a Jewish Physician ; 
Donor Portraits ; 
Donors ; 
Dorigen (Literary Figure) ;
Dorothea, Saint    SEE    Dorothy, Martyr, Saint ;
Dorothea of Montau, Mystic, Saint ;
Dorothy, Martyr, Saint ;
Douai, Nord, France ;
Double Houses ;
Double Monasteries    SEE    Double Houses ;
Douceline of Digne, Mystic and Beguine ; 
Doukaina, Irene, Byzantine Empress, Wife of Alexios I Komnenos ;
Dowager Countesses ; 
Dowager Queens ;
Dowager Queens in Literature ; 
Dower    SEE ALSO    Dowries ; 
Dower ;
Dowries    SEE ALSO    Bride Price ;
Dowries    SEE ALSO    Dower ;
Dowries ;
Dowry    SEE    Bride Price ;  Dower ;  Dowries ;
Dragons ;
Dragons in Art ;
Drapa Af Mariugrat, Skaldic Poem ;
Dream of the Rood, Old English Poem ;
Dreams in Literature ;
Dreyer, Carl-Theodor, Filmaker (1889-1968)- Passion de Jeanne d'Arc ;
Drinking of Alcoholic Beverages ;
Drogo, Monk of Saint Winocsbergen and Hagiographer ;
Drouart  La Vache, Author- Livre D' Amour ;
Du Chevalier Qui Fist les Cons Parler, French Fabliau ;
Dubois, Pierre, Lawyer and Author- De Recuperatione Terre Sancte ; 
Dubrovnik    SEE    Ragusa ;
Duccio di Boninsegno, Painter ; 
Duccio di Boninsegno, Painter- Maesta- Annunciation of Christ's Birth ;
Duccio di Boninsegno, Painter- Rucellai Madonna ;
Duchesses ; 
Duchesses' Households ; 
Duguay, Christian, Film Director (1947(?)-     ) ;
Dunbar, William, Poet- Ane Blak Moir ; 
Duns Scotus, John, Philosopher ;
Dunstable, John    SEE    Dunstaple, John, Composer ; 
Dunstaple, John, Composer- Salve Scema Sanctitatis (Motet) ; 
Duoda    SEE    Dhuoda, Countess of Barcelona and Septimania ;
Dutch Literature ;
Dutch Translations of the Trotula and the Secreta Mulierum (Secrets of Women) ;
Dybinus, Nicolaus    SEE    Nicolaus de Dybin, Grammarian ;
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Earl, James W., Literary Historian- Beowulf and the Origins of Civilization ;
Earnshaw, Doris, Literary Historian (1924- )- Female Voice in Medieval Romance Lyric ;
Earth, Image of ;
East Anglia ;
Easton, Adam, Cardinal- Defensorium Sanctae Birgittae ;
Eaten Heart (Literary Motif) ;
Eating Disorders ; 
Eating Disorders    SEE ALSO    Anorexia Nervosa ; 
Eating, Image of ;
Eavesdropping in Literature ; 
Eberhard, Abbot of Salem ;
Ebner, Margaretha, Dominican Nun and Mystic;
Ecclesia, Image of ;
Ecclesiastical Politics ; 
Ecclesiastical Reform ;
Ecclesiastical Space ;
Ecclesiastical Vestments ; 
Ecclesiastical Vestments- Stoles ;
Ecgburg, Abbess ;
Eckenstein, Lina, Researcher (1857-1931) ;
Eckhart, Meister, Mystic ;
Ecloga Theoduli, Latin Pastoral Debate Poem ; 
Ecology ;  
Economics ;
Economics in Literature ;
Ecphrasis    SEE    Ekphrasis, Rhetorical Form ; 
Eddic Poetry ;
Edgitha, Wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Edgiva, Sister of Keonwald and Half-Sister of Athelstan, King of Wessex ;
Edith    SEE    Edgitha, Wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Edith, Daughter of Edgar, King of England, Nun at Wilton, and Saint ;
Edith, Queen Consort of Edward I, King of England ;
Editing Texts ;
Education    SEE ALSO    Handbooks ;
Education ;
Edward I, King of England ;
Edward II, King of England ;
Edward II, King of England in Art ;
Edward III, King of England ;
Edward the Confessor, King of England and Saint ;
Effeminacy ;
Effeminacy in Literature ;
Eglantine    SEE    Prioress (Literary Figure) ;
Egypt ;
Egypt- Cairo- Genizah ; 
Eikassia    SEE    Kassia, Poet ;
Eirene, Wife of Konstantin V ;
Eirene the Sevastokratorissa, Wife of Andronikos the Sevastokrator ;
Eiriks Saga Rauda, Icelandic Saga ;
Eithne in Gubai (Literary Figure) ;
Eithne, Mother of Furbaide ;
Eiximenis, Francesc, Bishop of Elne- Libre de les Dones ;
Ekbert of Schonau, Monk and Brother of Elisabeth ;
Ekkehard IV, Monk of St. Gall and Author- Casus Sancti Galli ; 
Ekphrasis, Rhetorical Form ; 
Elaine of Astolat (Literary Figure) ;
Elderly    SEE    Old Age ;
Eleanor of Aquitaine Vase ;
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Wife of Louis VII of France and Henry II of England ;
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Wife of Louis VII of France and Henry II of England in Art ;
Eleanor of Castile, Queen- Consort of Edward I of England ;
Eleanor of Provence, Queen- Consort of Henry III of England ;
Eleanor of Scotland, Wife of Sigmund, Archduke of Tyrol    SEE 
Elegiac in Art ;
Elections ; 
Elena y Maria, Spanish Debate Poem ; 
Eleonora d'Aragona    SEE    Eleonora of Aragon, Wife of Giovanni Chiaromonte, Count of Modica ;
Eleonora d'Aragona, Wife of Ercole d'Este, Duke of Ferrara ;
Eleonora of Aragon, Wife of Giovanni Chiaromonte, Count of Modica ;
Eleonore von Schottland ; 
Eleonore von Osterreich    SEE    Eleonore von Schottland ;
Eleonore von Schottland, Author- Pontus und Sidonia ;
Elfgifu    SEE    Aelfgifu ; 
Elie de Bourdeilles, Bishop of Perigueux ;
Elijah (Biblical Figure) ;
Elioxe, Version of the Naissance du Chevalier au Cygne, Chanson de Geste ; 
Elisabeth of Schonau, Mystic ;
Elisabeth van Spalbeek, Mystic ;
Elisabeth von Nassau- Saarbrucken, Author ;
Elisabeth von Nassau- Saarbrucken, Author- Huge Scheppel ;
Elisabeth von Nassau- Saarbrucken, Author- Konigin Sibille ;
Elisabeth von Oye    SEE    Elsbeth von Oye ;
Elisabeth von Thuringen, Saint    SEE    Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint ; ;
Elissa (Literary Figure) ;
Elite Women ; 
Elizabeth (Biblical Figure) ;
Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare ;
Elizabeth Kotromanic, Wife of Louis of Anjou, King of Hungary and Poland ; 
Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint ;
Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint in Art ;
Elizabeth of Luxemburg, Queen of Hungary ; 
Elizabeth of York    SEE    Elizabeth, Queen- Consort of Henry VII of England ;
Elizabeth Plantagenet, Wife of Jan I, Count of Holland ;
Elke von Repgow, Jurist- Sachsenspiegel ;
Enguerrand de Quarton, Painter- Coronation of the Virgin ; 
Elizabeth, Queen-Consort of Edward IV, King of England ; 
Elizabeth, Queen- Consort of Edward IV of England ;
Elizabeth, Queen- Consort of Henry VII of England ;
Ellington, Cambridgeshire, England ;
Elsbeth von Oye, Mystic ;
Else (Literary Figure) ;
Elstob, Elizabeth, Scholar (1683-1756) ;
Elyot, Thomas, Sir, Writer- Defence of Good Women ; 
Emaré, Middle English Breton Lay ;
Embroidery ;
Emilia (Literary Figure) ;
Emilye (Literary Figure) ;
Emma of Normandy    SEE    Emma, Queen of England and Denmark ;
Emma, Queen of England and Denmark ;
Emma, Wife of Aethelred, King of England, and Cnut, King of Denmark    SEE    Emma, Queen of England and Denmark ;
Emotions ;
Emotions in Literature ;
Emperors ;
Empress of Rome (Literary Figure) ;
Empresses ;
Empresses in Art ;
Encina, Juan del, Poet- Cancionero ;
Encomia    SEE    Laudatory Literature ;
Encyclopedia, Literary Genre ;
Endogamy (Marriage Within the Group) ; 
Enide (Literary Figure) ;
Enite (Literary Figure) ;
Enoch (Biblical Figure) ;
Enrico Rampina, Archbishop of Milan ; 
Enrique IV, King of Castile ; 
Entrances    SEE    Processions ;
Environment    SEE    Ecology ;
Envy ;
Eowende (Old English: Testicles) ;
Eowyn (Literary Figure);
Ephesian Matron    SEE    Widow of Ephesus (Literary Motif) ; 
Epic, Literary Genre ;
Epigraphy ;
Epiphany ;
Episkepsis (Visitation/ Protection)    SEE    Mary, Virgin, Saint - Image Of - Orans Virgin with Christ Child Medallion ;
Epistemology ;
Epistolae, Database of Medieval Women's Letters ;
Epistolae Duorum Amantium, Collection of Letters in Latin ; 
Epitaphs ;
Epithalamium, Literary Genre ;
Equity Courts    SEE    Chancery Courts ;
Erhard, Saint ;
Erizzo, Anna, Supposed Daughter of Antonio Erizzo ; 
Erizzo, Benedetto ; 
Erizzo, Elena ;
Erkanfrida, Wife of Nithad of Trier ;
Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne ;
Ermentrude, Queen Consort of Charles II the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Eroticism ;
Eroticism    SEE ALSO    Sexuality
Errores Gazariorum, Latin Tract Against Witches ;
Eschatology ;
Eschatology    SEE ALSO    Apocalypse ;
Essen, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Germany- Monastery for Canonesses ;
Essen, Nordrhein- Westfalen, Germany- Monastery for Women ; 
Essentialism ;
Este Family ;
Esther (Biblical Figure) ;
Esther (Biblical Figure) in Literature ; 
Estrif de ii Dames, French Dream Vision Poem ; 
Ethelbert, King of Kent ;
Etheldreda of Ely, Saint ;
Etheldreda of Ely, Saint- Cult ;
Etheldreda of Ely, Saint in Art ;
Ethelfled    SEE    Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians ;
Ethics ;
Ethnic Relations ;
Etiquette ;
Etupe (French-Jewish: Plugged up, Uncircumcised) ;
Etymology ;
Eucharist, Sacrament ;
Eudokia, Wife of Konstantin V ; 
Eudokia Baiane, Saint and Wife of Leo VI, Byzantine Emperor ;
Eugenius IV, Pope ;
Eulalia, Saint ;
Eulalie, Saint    SEE    Eulalia, Saint ;
Eunuchs ;
Eunuchs in Literature ;
Euphemism ;
Euphrosine, Old French Saint's Life ;
Euphrosyne, Saint ;
Euphrosyne, Wife of Alexios III Angelos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Euriaut (Literary Figure) ;
Eustace, Martyr, Saint in Art ;
Eustathios of Thessalonike, Archbishop and Author ;
Eva, Recluse ; 
Evangiles des Quenouilles, Comic Text ;
Eve (Biblical Figure) ;
Eve (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Eve (Biblical Figure) in Literature ;
Eve (Qur'anic Figure) ;
Evfrosiniia Khovanskaia, Wife of Andrei Staritskii, Younger Brother of Grand Prince Vasilii III of Moscow ;
Evil ;
Evil Eye ;
Evora, Alto Alentejo, Portugal ;
Exchange of Women ;
Exchange of Women in Literature ; 
Excommunication ;
Executions ;
Exempla, Literary Genre ;
Exemplars    SEE    Role Models ;
Exeter Book- Advent, Old English Poem ;
Exhibitions ; 
Exogamy (Marryiage Outside the Group) ; 
Exorcism ;
Exoticism ; 
Experience ; 
Eyne Gude Lere Van Einer Junchvrowen (Good Counsel for a Young Lady), Middle Low German Handbook ;

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Fabia Eudokia, Wife of Herakleios, Byzantine Emperor, and Saint ; 
Fables, Literary Genre ;
Fabliaux, Literary Genre ;
Facet, Catalan Didactic Text ;
Fairies ;
Fairies in Literature ;
Faits and the Passion of Our Lord Jesu Christ, Middle English Devotional Work Written by an Unknown Woman for a Nun ;
Falcon, Image of ; 
Fall of Humankind ;
Fall of Humankind in Art ;
Fall of Humankind in Literature ; 
Fall of Man    SEE    Fall of Humankind ;
Family ;
Family, Image of ;
Family in Literature ;
Family of Ealdorman Uhtred of Northumbria ; 
Family of Ralph of Tosny ; 
Family of William FitzOsbern ;
Family Planning    SEE    Contraception ;
Famines ;
Famous Women ; 
Fantasy ;
Fantasy Fiction ;
Fantasy Novels    SEE    Fantasy Fiction ;
Farce, Literary Genre ;
Farmer's Daughter (Literary Figure in Der Arme Heinrich) ;
Fashion ;
Fasting ;
Fastnachtspiel, Literary Genre ;
Fastnachtsspiel    SEE    Fastnachtspiel ;
Father, Image of ; 
Fathers ;
Fathers in Art ;
Fathers in Literature ;
Fathers    SEE ALSO    Parents ;
Fatwas, Legal Pronouncements ;
Favorites, Royal ;
Fear ;
Fear in Literature ;
Feastdays- Mary, Virgin, Saint- Nativity (September 8) ;
Feastdays    SEE ALSO    Holidays and Festivals ;
Feasts and Feasting in Literature ;
Fedele, Cassandra, Author ;
Fees ;
Female Adolescents ;
Female Biology, Image of ;
Female Divinity ;
Female Gaze ;
Female Voice in Literature ;
Femina, Nurse of the Daughter of Justin II, Byzantine Emperor ; 
Femininity ;
Femininity in Art ;
Femininity in Literature ;
Feminist Theory ;
Fernando de Rojas, Author- Celestina ;
Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy ;
Fertility ;
Festivals ;
Festschriften ;
Feudalism ;
Feudalism in Literature ;
Feuds ;
Feuds    SEE    Vendetta ;
Ficino, Marsilio, Humanist ; 
Fides    SEE    Foy, Martyr, Saint ; 
Fiesole, Firenze, Italy ;
Fighting ;
Filelfo, Mario, Author ; 
Filius Getronis, Monastic Play from the Fleury Playbook ;
Fille du Comte de Ponthieu, Romance ;
Film ;
Film Directors ;
Fina Buzzacarini, Wife of Francesco il Vecchio da Carrara, Ruler of Padua ;
Fina of San Gimignano ; 
Fines and Penalties ;
Finland ;
Fire, Image of ; 
Firumbras, Middle English Poem, Translation of Fierabras, French Chanson de Geste ; 
Fish, Image of ;
Fitzherbert, Anthony, Author- Boke of Husbandry ;
Fitzthomas, John, Lord of Offaly ;
Flagellation ;
Flamenca (Literary Figure) ;
Flamenca, Occitan Romance ;
Flanders ;
Flemish Literature ;
Flexippe, Niece of Criseyde (Literary Figure) ;
Fliessende Lichte der Gottheit     SEE    Mechthild von Magdeburg, Mystic ;
Fljotsdla Saga [Saga of the People of Fljotsdalr] ;
Floire et Blancheflor, Old French Romance ;
Flora, Martyr, Saint ;
Florence ;
Florence, Abbess of the Benedictine Abbey in Saintes ;
Florence- Church of S. Francesco al Monte (Also Known as S. Salvatore al Monte), a Male Monastery of Franciscan Observants- Annunciation ; 
Florence- Church of S. Niccolo dei Frieri, A Monastery for Jerusalemite Nuns ; 
Florence- Church of S. Trinita ; 
Florence- Church of San Giovanni Evangelista- Humility Polyptych ;
Florence- San Pier Maggiore, Benedictine House for Women ;
Florence- Church of Santa Croce, Holy Confessors Chapel ;
Florence- Church of Santo Spirito- Nerli Chapel Altarpiece- Virgin and Child with Saints and Donors ; 
Florence- Le Murate, Benedictine House for Women ;
Florence- Male Dominican Monastery of San Marco- Annunciation Painting ;
Florence- Monastery of S. Benedetto Fuori della Porta Pinti, a Male Camaldolese House ; 
Florence- Monastery of San Giovanni Evangelista ;
Floris and Blauncheflur, Middle English Verse Romance ;
Flowers ;
Flowing Light of the Godhead    SEE    Fliessende Lichte der Gottheit ;
Foi, Martyr, Saint    SEE    Foy, Martyr, Saint ; 
Folie Tristan, Poem ;
Foligno, Perugia, Italy- Santa Anna Monastery ; 
Folk Tales ; 
Folklore ;
Folly ;
Fonte Frida, Spanish Romance ;
Fontevraud    SEE    Fontevrault- l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, France- Abbey, Double House Founded by Robert d'Arbrissel ;
Fontevrault- l'Abbaye, Maine-et-Loire, France- Abbey, Double House Founded by Robert d'Arbrissel ;
Fool (Literary Figure) ;
Footprints, Image of ; 
Forgeries ;
Fortescue, John, Sir, Lawyer ;
Fortress    SEE    Castles ; 
Fostering ;
Foster Mothering ;
Fotine, Saint    SEE    Photeine, Saint ;
Foucault, Michel, Philosopher (1926-1984) ;
Foy, Martyr, Saint ;
Fra Arnaldo, Angela of Foligno's Confessor and Scribe ;
Frame Stories, Literary Genre ;
Franca of Vitalta, Saint ;
France, Anatole, Author (1884-1924)- Vie de Jeanne 'Arc ;
Frances of Rome, Saint    SEE    Francesca Bussa dei Ponziani, Saint ;
Francesca Bussa dei Ponziani, Saint ;
Francesca da Rimini ;
Francesca Venusta, Widow of a Bolognese Knight ;
Francesco da Barberino, Author- Reggimento e costumi di Donna ;
Francesco di Simone Ferrucci, Sculptor- Virgin and Child with Angels ; 
Francis of Assisi, Saint ;
Francis of Assisi, Saint in Film ;
Franciscan Order ;
Franciscan Order- Tertiaries ; 
Frankfurt Passion Play ;
Franklin (Literary Figure) ;
Frantzen, Allen J., Literary Historian (1947- ) ; 
Frau Minne (Literary Figure) ;
Frauenfrage ;
Fredegar, Chronicler- Chronicarum ;
Fredegond    SEE    Fredegund, Wife of Chilperic I, Merovingian King ;
Fredegund, Wife of Chilperic I, Merovingian King ;
Frederick III, King of Sicily ;
Fregoso, Giovan Battista, Author- Anteros Sive Tractatus Contra Amorem ;
French Language ; 
French Studies ;  
Freydis Eiriksdottir, Sister of Leifr ;
Freyja (Mythological Figure) ;
Freyr (Mythological Figure) ;
Friars ; 
Frideswide, Saint ;
Friedrich von Hausen, Poet ; 
Friendship ;
Friendship in Literature ;
Fro Laichdenman (Literary Figure) ;
Froissart, Jean, Chronicler- Chroniques ;
Froissart, Jean, Chronicler- Espinette Amoureuse ; 
Froissart, Jean, Chronicler- Joli Buisson de Jonece ;
Frund, Johann, Chronicler of Lucerne ;
Fueros, Spanish Codes of Law ;
Fujiwara Michitsuna's Mother, Poet- Kagero Diary ;
Fulbert, Bishop of Chartres- Sermons- Approbate Consuetudinis ;
Functionalism ;
Fund Raising ;
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Funerals ;
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Gabriel, Giovanni, Who Successfully Denied His Marriage to Orsa Dolfin ;
Gabrina, Witch ; 
Gaddi, Taddeo, Painter ;
Galadriel (Literary Figure) ;
Galehot (Literary Figure) ;
Galen, Ancient Physician ;
Galeran de Meulan    SEE    Waleran II, Count of Meulan and Earl of Worcester ;
Galfredus de Vinosalvo    SEE    Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Rhetorician and Author ;
Galician- Portugese Literature ;
Galla Placidia, Wife of Constantinus, Roman Emperor, and Regent for Her Son, Valentinian III ; 
Galleries (Architecture) ;
Gallus Anonymus, Chronicler ; 
Galos, Elisabeth Louise Josephine, Comtesse de Houdetot, Author- Page de Jehenne, a Novel for Young Adults ; 
Gambacorta, Chiara, Prioress of San Domenico of Pisa ;
Games ;
Gangulphus    SEE    Gongolf, Saint ;
Ganna, Varese, Italy- Church of San Gemolo- Image of the Madonna della Misericordia ;
Ganola, Ludovica, Disciple of Stefana Quinzani ; 
Ganymede (Mythological Figure) ;
Garden, Image of ;
Garden of Eden in Literature ;
Gardens in Art ;
Garnier de Rouen, Author- Moriuht ; 
Garson, Jean, Theologian ;
Gascony ;
Gast of Gy, Middle English Poem ; 
Gaufridus Anglicus    SEE    Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Rhetorician and Author ;
Gautier de Coinci, Poet- Miracles de Nostre Dame ;
Gautier of Chatillon, Poet- Alexandreis ;
Gauvain (Literary Figure) ;
Gaveston, Amie de, Damsel of the Queen's Chamber ;
Gaveston, Piers, Earl of Cornwall and Favorite of Edward II, King of England ;
Gaveston, Piers, Earl of Cornwall and Favorite of Edward II, King of England, in Art ;
Gay Theory    SEE    Queer Theory ;
Gaze ;
Gem, Image of ;
Gemona del Friulu, Udine, Italy ; 
Gender ;
Gender and Medieval Studies Group ;
Gender in Art ;
Gender in Literature ;  
Gender Reversal ;
Gendered Pronouns ;
Genealogy ;
General Church Councils ; 
Generydes, Middle English Verse Romance ; 
Genesis A, Old English Poem ; 
Genesis B, Old English Poem ;
Genesis, Old English Poem ;
Genital Mutilation    SEE    Circumcision ;
Genitals, Display of ; 
Genius (Literary Figure) ;
Genoa, Genova, Italy ;
Genoa, Genova, Italy- Monastery of San Genesio di Vado ; 
Genoa, Genova, Italy- Monastery of San Tomasso ; 
Genoa, Genova, Italy- Monastery of Sant' Andrea della Porta ; 
Genoa, Genova, Italy- Monastery of Santo Stefano ; 
Genoa    SEE ALSO    Genoese ;
Genoese ;
Genoese    SEE ALSO    Genova ;
Genova    SEE    Genoa ;
Gent, Oost-Vlaannderen, Belgium ;
Gentry ;
Gentry Women ; 
Gentucca (Literary Figure) ; 
Geoffrey, Abbot of Saint Albans ; 
Geoffrey, Brother of Henry II, King of England ;
Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Rhetorician and Author ;
Geoffroi de Vinsauf    SEE    Geoffrey of Vinsauf, Rhetorician and Author ;
Geography ;
George, Martyr and Saint ;
Georgia ; 
Geraint ab Erbin, Romance ;
Gerald of Aurillac, Saint ;
Gerald of Wales    SEE    Giraldus Cambrensis, Historian ;
Gerbert de Montreuil, Poet- Roman de la Violette ;
Gereint vab Erbin, Middle Welsh Romance ;
German Language ;
Germanus, Bishop of Paris, Saint ; 
Germanus, Saint ; 
Gernrode, Saxony- Anhalt, Germany- Convent of St. Cyriacus ;
Gerson, Jean, Theologian ;
Gerson, Jean, Theologian- De Mirabili Victoria ;
Gertrud die Grosse von Helfta    SEE    Gertrude the Great of Helfta ;
Gertrude, Abbess of Nivelles, Saint ;
Gertrude the Great of Helfta, Mystic, Saint ;
Gertrude the Great of Helfta, Mystic, Saint- Exercises ;
Gertrude the Great of Helfta, Mystic, Saint- Legatus Divinae Pietatis ;
Geste Francor- Berta Ai Piedi Grandi, Franco-Italian Chanson de Geste ; 
Gesture ; 
Gesture in Art ; 
Ghent    SEE    Gent- Oost-Vlaannderen, Belgium ;
Gherardesca of Pisa, Recluse ;
Ghirlandaio, Domenico, Painter- San Gimignano, Collegiat, Chapel Dedicated to Santa Fina- Two Frescoes, The Annunciation of Santa Fina's Death by Saint Gregory the Great and The Funeral of Santa Fina ; 
Ghismonda, Literary Figure ; 
Ghismonda, Princess of Salerno    SEE    Scismonde, Princess of Salerno (Literary Figure) ;
Ghosts ; 
Gibson, Mel, Actor and Director (1956-  )- Braveheart ;
Giburc (Literary Figure) ; 
Giburc (Literary Figure)    SEE ALSO    Guibourc (Literary Figure) ; 
Giburc (Literary Figure) in Art ; 
Gifts ;
Gilbertine Order ;
Gilbert of Sempringham, Saint ; 
Gilbertus Anglicus, Physician- Sekeness of Wymmen ; 
Gilla Mo- Duta O Caiside- Banshenchas (Lore of Women) ;
Gilles de Bins    SEE    Binchois, Composer ;
Ginevra, Courtesan ;
Gioacchino da Fiore     SEE     Joachim of Fiore, Theologian ;
Giotto di Bondone, Painter ;
Giovanna I d'Angio    SEE    Jeanne d'Anjou, Queen of Naples ;
Giovanna of Signa, Recluse and Saint ;
Giovanni, Priest of the Diocese of Faenza, Hagiographer ;
Giovanni de Biondo, Painter ; 
Giovanni Colombini, Founder of the Gesuati ; 
Giovanni dalle Celle, Florentine Notary ;
Giovanni delle Celle, Confessor of Domitilla, Vallombrosan Nun and Mystic ; 
Giovanni Dominici, Dominican Vicar General ;
Giraldus Cambrensis, Historian ;
Giraldus Cambrensis, Historian- Topographia Hibernica ; 
Girart de Roussillon, Chanson de Geste ;
Girls ;
Gisela, Wife of Konrad II, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Gisla Saga Surssonar, Icelandic Saga ;
Giuliana di Collalto, Abbess ;
Giunta Bevegnati, Franciscan and Hagiographer ;
Giusto de' Menabuoi, Painter ;
Glass Windows ;
Glosses ;
Glosses in Literature ;
Gloves ;
Gnomic Poetry ;
Goat, Image of ;
Go-Betweens in Literature ;
God- Motherhood    SEE    Jesus Christ as Mother ;
God the Father ; 
God the Father as Father ;
God the Father as Mother ;
God the Father as Mother    SEE ALSO    Jesus Christ as Mother ;
Goddesses ;
Godefridus, Monk of Disibodenberg, and Theodoricus, Monk of Echternach- Vita Sanctae Hildegardis ;
Godelieve of Gistel, Saint ;
Godmothers ;
Godparents ;
Gold ;
Goldeborw (Literary Figure) ;
Golden Legend    SEE    Legenda Aurea ;
Gongolf, Saint ;
Gonzalez, Isabel, Poet ;
Gonzalo de Berceo, Poet ;
Gonzalo de Berceo, Poet- Milagros de Nuestra Senora ;
Gonzalo de Berceo, Poet- Milagros de Nuestra Senora- La Abadesa Encinta ;
Goodness in Literature ;
Gorini, Fioretta, Mother of Giuliano de' Medici's Illegitimate Son ; 
Goscelin of Saint- Bertin (also of Canterbury), Hagiographer ;
Goscelin of Saint- Bertin (also of Canterbury), Hagiographer- Liber Confortatorius ; 
Goscelin of Saint- Bertin (Also of Canterbury), Hagiographer- Vita Deo Dilectae Virginis Mildrethae ;
Goscelin of Saint-Bertin (also of Canterbury), Hagiographer- Vita Sanctae Edithe ;
Gospel- Books ;
Gospel Lectionaries ;
Gospel of Nicodemus, Anglo-French Prose Devotional Work ;
Gossips ;
Gossips and Gossiping in Literature ;
Gossip's Bridles    SEE    Branks ;
Goswin de Bossut, Monk of Villers and Hagiographer ;
Gothic Style ;
Gothic War    SEE    De Bello Gothico ;
Goths ;
Gottfried, Monk of Saint Disibod- Vita Sanctae Hildegardis ;
Gottfried von Strassburg, Poet ;
Gottfried von Strassburg, Poet- Tristan ;
Government    SEE    Politics ; 
Government Finances ;
Gower, John, Poet- Confessio Amantis ;
Gower, John, Poet- Confessio Amantis- Episode of Apollonius of Tyre ; 
Gower, John, Poet- Mirour de l'Omme ;
Gower, John, Poet- Tale of Florent ;
Gower, John, Poet- Vox Clamantis ;
Grace, Theological Virtue ;
Graduate Students ;
Graelent, Breton Lai ;
Grain Goddesses ;
Grammar ;
Grandchildren ;
Grandes Chroniques de France, Chronicle ;
Grandmothers ;
Gratian, Canonist- Decretum ; 
Grave Goods ;
Great Harlot    SEE    Great Whore of Babylon ;
Great Schism, 1378-1417 ;
Great Whore of Babylon ;
Greece ;
Greek Literature ;
Greeks ;
Greenblatt, Stephen, Literary Historian (1943- )- Renaissance Self-Fashioning ; 
Gregorian Chants ; 
Gregorian Reform    SEE    Ecclesiastical Reform ;
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint ;
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint- Decem Libri Historiarum ;
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint ;
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint- Homiliae in Evangeliza ;
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint- Letters ; 
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint- Libellus Responsionum ;
Gregory I the Great, Pope, Saint in Art ; 
Gregory VII, Pope ;
Gregory IX, Pope ;
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint ; 
Gregory, Bishop of Tours, Saint- Decem Libri Historiarum ;
Grendel's Mother (Literary Figure);
Grief    SEE    Mourning ;
Griselda ;
Griselda (Literary Figure) ;
Groenlendinga Saga, Icelandic Saga ;
Grosse Selentrost, Der (Low German Devotional Book) ; 
Grotesque ;
Grottaferrata, Roma, Italy- Abbey ;
Group Identity ; 
Gualdrada, Wife of Count Guido Guidi and Exemplar of Chastity ;
Guardians ;
Guarini, Guarino, Humanist ;
Gudmundar Arason ;
Gudmundar Saga ;
Gudrun Osvifrsdottir (Literary Figure) ;
Guelfa, Literary Figure ;
Guenevere, Queen (Literary Figure) ;
Guibert of Gembloux, Monk and Secretary to Hildegard ;
Guibert of Nogent, Benedictine Monk and Chronicler ;
Guibourc (Literary Figure) ; 
Guibourc (Literary Figure)    SEE ALSO    Giburc (Literary Figure) ; 
Guigo II, Prior of the Grande Chartreuse ;
Guildeluec (Literary Figure) ; 
Guilds ;
Guile    SEE    Deception ; 
Guilhem de Tudela, Author, and Anonymous Continuator- Canso de la Crozada ;
Guilhem IX    SEE    Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitaine ;
Guillaume d' Auvergne, Bishop of Paris ;
Guillaume d'Auxerre, Theologian- Summa Aurea ;
Guillaume de Lorris, Poet- Roman de la Rose ;
Guillaume de Lorris, Poet- Roman de la Rose- Illuminations of ; 
Guillaume de Saint-Pathus, Hagiographer- Miracles de Saint Louis ;
Guillaume de Tyr    SEE    William of Tyre, Archbishop of Tyre and Historian ;
Guillaume Firebrace (Literary Figure) ;
Guillaume IX, Duke of Aquitane ;
Guillaume le Marechal    SEE    William Marshal ;
Guillaume Machaut, Poet- Voir Dit ;
Guilliadun (Literary Figure) ; 
Guinevere    SEE    Guenevere, Queen (Literary Figure) ;
Guingamor, Old French Lai ;
Guinigi, Nicolao, Bishop of Lucca ; 
Guinigi, Paolo, Lord of Lucca ;
Guta- Sintram Codex, Manuscript Created by a Nun from Schwartzenthann and a Monk from Marbach ; 
Gunnor, Countess of Normandy, Wife of Richard I, Duke of Normandy ; 
Gynaecea    SEE    Women's Workshops ;
Gynecology    SEE ALSO    Medicine ;
Gynecology ;

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Hachette, Jeanne, Heroine of the Siege of Beauvais ;
Hadewijch, Mystic ;
Hadewijch, Mystic- Mengeldichten ;
Hadewijch II, Mystic ; 
Hadith, Literary Genre ;
Hadith of the Slander ; 
Hag (Literary Figure) ;
Hagiography ;
Hagiography in Art ;
Hagiography    SEE ALSO    Biography ;
Hair Color ;
Hairstyles ;
Hali Meidenhad, Middle English Devotional Work ;
Hallaert, M.- The "Sekenesse of Wymmen": A Middle English Treatise on Diseases in Women (Omirel, 1982) ; 
Hammond, Eleanor Prescott, Literary Historian (1866- 1933) ;
Handbooks     SEE ALSO    Confessors' Handbooks ;
Handbooks    SEE ALSO    Education ;
Handbooks ;
Handicapped    SEE    Disabled ;
Hardham, Sussex, England- Church- Adam and Eve Cycle ; 
Harrowing    SEE    Jesus Christ- Descent into Hell ; 
Hartlieb, Johan, Translator ; 
Hartmann von Aue, Poet ;
Hartmann von Aue, Poet- Der Arme Heinrich ;
Hartmann von Aue, Poet- Erec ;
Hartmann von Aue, Poet- Iwein ;
Hathumoda, Abbess of Gandersheim ;
Hathumoda, Saint ;
Hatzlerin, Clara, Scribe ;
Haukdaela Thattr- Thora Episode, Icelandic Saga ;
Hausmann, Anna, Lover of Oswald von Wolkenstein ;
Hautvillers, Marne, France- Monastery for Men ;
Havelok the Dane, Middle English Poem ;
Hawkes Petkovic, Sonia Elizabeth Chadwick, Archaeologist (1933-1999) ;
Hawwa    SEE    Eve ;
Headdresses ;
Healers and Healing ;
Healers and Healing in Literature ;
Heaven ;
Heavy Metal Music ; 
Hebrew Literature ; 
Heckington, Lincolnshire, England- Parish ; Church of St. Andrew ;
Hector (Mythological Figure) ;
Height    SEE    Stature, Human ;
Heinrich III, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Heinrich IV, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Heinrich V, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Heinrich I, King of Germany ;
Heinrich Seuse, Mystic ;
Heinrich von Laufenberg, Cleric and Author- Regimen ;
Heinrich von Morungen, Poet ;
Heinrich von Veldeke, Poet- Eneas ;
Heinrich von Veldeke, Poet- Eneit ;
Heiresses ;
Heldris de Cornualle, Poet- Roman de Silence ;
Helen of Troy (Mythological Figure)    SEE    Helena (Literary Figure) ;
Helena (Literary Figure) ; 
Helena Dragas, Wife of Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Helena Notara Gateliousaina of Ainos, Wife of Giorgio Gattilusio Ruler of Ainos ;
Helena, Saint ;
Helena, Saint in Literature ;
Heliand, Old Saxon Poem ;
Helfta, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany- Monastery;
Helfta, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany- Monastery of Saint Mary ;
Hell in Art ;
Hell in Literature ;
Heloise, Abbess of Le Paraclet ;
Heloise, Abbess of Le Paraclet- Letters ;
Heloise, Abbess of Le Paraclet- Problemata ;
Henri d'Arci, Knight Templar ;
Henry I, King of England ;
Henry II, King of England ;
Henry III, King of England ;
Henry IV, King of England ;
Henry V,  King of England ;
Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor ; 
Henry VI, King of England ;
Henry of Ghent, Theologian ;
Henry of Ghent, Theologian- Summa Quaestionum Ordinarium ; 
Henry of Saltrey, Cistercian Monk and Author- Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii ; 
Henry Suso, Mystic ;
Henry the Wrangler, Duke of Bavaria ;
Heraldry ;
Herbs ;
Herebert, William, Poet ;
Heresy    SEE ALSO    Catharism ;
Heresy    SEE ALSO    Lollard Movement ;
Heresy ;
Herlihy, David, Historian (1930-1991) ;
Hermann, Brother, Author- Leben der Grafin Iolande von Vianden ;
Hermann von Sachsenheim, Poet- Die Morin ;
Hermaphrodites ;
Hermaphrodites in Literature ;
Herodis (Literary Figure) ; 
Heroes ; 
Heroes in Art ;
Heroes in Literature ;
Heroines    SEE    Heroes ;
Herrad of Landsberg, Abbess of Hohenberg ;
Herrad of Landsberg, Abbess of Hohenberg- Hortus Deliciarum ;
Hersende, Abbess of Fontevrault ;
Hervarar Saga, Icelandic Saga ;
Herzeloyde (Literary Figure) ;
Heterosexism ; 
Heterosexuality ;
Hierarchy ;
High School Students ;
Hilaria    SEE    Ilaria, Saint ; 
Hild, Saint ;
Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, Saint ;
Hildebert of Lavardin, Archbishop of Tours ; 
Hildeburh (Literary Figure) ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Causae et Curae ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Expositiones Evangeliorum ; 
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Letters ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Letters- 70 and 70R ; 
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Liber Divinorum Operum ; 
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Liber Simplicis Medicinae ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Liber Subtilitatum Diversarum Naturarum Creaturarum ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Lyrics ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- O Ignis Spiritus ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Ordo Virtutum ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Ordo Virtutum- O Ignis Spiritus Paracliti ; 
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Physica ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Scivias;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Symphonia ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Symphonia Armonie Celestium Revelationum ;
Hildegard of Bingen, Abbess of Rupertsberg- Symphonia- Spiritui Sancto ;
Hildegund (Literary Figure) ;
Hildegurls- Electric Ordo Virtutum ;
Music ;
Hildesheim, Niedersachsen, Germany- Monastery of St. Michael- Bronze Doors ;
Hilton, Walter, Mystic- Scale of Perfection ;
Hincmar, Archbishop of Rheims ; 
Hindu Tantrism ; 
Hippocratic Oath ;
Hippolytus, Franciscan Friar and Hagiographer ; 
Hirsau, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany- Benedictine Abbey for Men ;
Histoire Ancienne Jusqu'a Cesar, Old French Prose Work;
Historia Augusta, Continuation of Suetonius ;
Historia Calamitatum    SEE    Ad Amicum Pro Consolatione Epistola ;
Historia de la Linda Melosina, Old Spanish Translation of Jean d'Arras' Melusine ;
Historians ;
Historical Fiction    SEE    Historical Novels ;
Historical Novels ;
Historiebijbel van 1360, Prose Bible Translation ;
Historiography ;
History ; 
History- Sources ;
History- Study and Teaching ;
Hjalmpes Saga ; 
Hobbes, Thomas, Philosopher  (1588-1679) ;
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet ; 
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Balade to the Virgin and Christ ; 
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Complaint of the Virgin ;
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Dialogue with a Friend ; 
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Letter of Cupid ; 
Hoccleve, Thomas, Poet- Mother of God ;
Hocktide, Holiday ;
Hodgson, Phyllis, Religion Historian (1909-2000) ; 
Holidays and Fesitvals;
Holidays and Festivals     SEE ALSO     Feastdays ;
Holofernes (Biblical Figure) ;
Holy Family ;
Holy Ghost    SEE    Holy Spirit ;
Holy Grail ;
Holy Name of Jesus Christ, Devotion to ; 
Holy Spirit ;
Holy Spirit in Music ; 
Holy Vernicle    SEE    Veronica's Veil ;
Home ;
Home, Image of ;
Home in Literature ;
Homer, Ancient Poet- Iliad ; 
Homilies, Literary Genre ;
Homoeroticism ;
Homoeroticism in Art ;
Homoeroticism in Literature ; 
Homophobia ;
Homophobia in Literature ;
Homosexuality ;
Homosexuality in Art ;
Homosexuality in Film ;
Homosexuality in Literature ;
Homosexuality in Music ;
Homosociality ; 
Homosociality in Literature ; 
Honor ;
Honor in Literature ;
Horseback Riding ;
Horses in Literature ; 
Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem Order ;
Hospitallers    SEE    Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem Order ;
Hospitals ;
Hours of Jeanne of Navarre, Queen of Navarre and Wife of Philippe, Comte d'Evreux ; 
Hours of the Guardian Angel ;
House of Anjou    SEE    Angevins, Dynasty in France    AND    Angevins, Dynasty in Naples and Hungary ; 
House of Burgundy ;
House of York ;
Housebook Master, Artist- Falconer ; 
Household Staff ; 
Households ;
Households- Accounts ;
Households in Literature ; 
Houses ; 
Houses of Prostitution ;
Housewives    SEE    Housework ;
Housework ;
How a Lover Praiseth His Lady, Middle English Poem ;
Hrabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz ;
Hrafnista Sagas ; 
Hrothgar (Literary Figure) ;
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, Dramatist ;
Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim, Dramatist- Passio Sancti Gongolfi Martyris ;
Hucbald, Monk of Saint Amand-les-Eaux and Author- Vita Rictrudis ; 
Hue de Rotelande, Poet- Ipomedon ;
Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln, Saint ;
Hugh of Fouilloy, Prior of Saint-Laurent-aux-Bois and Author- De Claustro Animae ;
Hugh of St. Victor, Theologian ; 
Hugh, Monk of Floreffe, Hagiographer ;
Hugo von Langenstein, Poet- Martina ;
Hull, Eleanor, Mystic ;
Human Behavior ; 
Human Dissection ;
Human Remains ;
Human Reproduction ;
Humanism ;
Humiliati ; 
Humility ;
Humor ;
Humor, Bawdy ;
Humor in Art ;
Humoral Medicine    SEE    Humors, Medical Concept ;
Humors, Medical Concept ;
Humours    SEE    Humors, Medical Concept ;
Hungary ;
Hunger, Image of ; 
Hunger    SEE    Famines ;
Huns, People ;
Hunting ; 
Hunting in Art ;
Husbands ;
Husbands in Art ;
Husbands in Literature ;
Hussite Movement ; 
Huy, Liege, Belgium- Saint Victor, Cluniac Monastery for Women ; 
Hyena, Image of ; 
Hygd (Literary Figure) ; 
Hymns ;
Hypertext ;
Hysteria ;

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Ibn Khalfun, Isaac, Poet ;
Ibn Rushd    SEE    Averroes ;
Ibn-Sina    SEE    Avicenna, Philosopher ;
Iceland ;
Iconoclasm ;
Iconography ;
Iconophiles ; 
Icons ;
Ida, Countess of Boulogne, Saint ;
Ida of Leau, Mystic ;
Ida of Leeuw    SEE    Ida of Leau, Mystic ;
Ida of Nivelles, Mystic ;
Ida the Gentle (Dulcis) of Lea ;
Identity ;
Ides Aglaecwif (Noble Woman Hero) ;
Ignatios, Patriarch of Constantinople ; 
Ikasia    SEE    Kassia, Poet ;
Ilaria, Saint ; 
Illegitimacy ;
Illegitimacy in Literature ;
Illnesses    SEE    Diseases ;
Illumination of Manuscripts ;
Imad Al-Din, HistoIbn Khalfun, Isaac, Poet ;
Image ;
Imagery ;
Imagery    SEE    Garden, Image of ; 
Imagery    SEE    Queen, Image of ; 
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Architecture, Image of ; 
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Blood, Image of  ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Bride, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Castle, Image of ; 
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Church, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Cities and Towns, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Cities, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Courtship, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Desert, Image of ; 
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Disease, Image of 
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Domestic Life, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Earth, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Eating, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Ecclesia, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Falcon, Image of ; 
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Family, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Fish, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Footprints, Image of ; 
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Knight, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Lord, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Mary, Virgin, Saint- Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Mirror, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Moon, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Pearl, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Rose, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Sloth, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Water, Image of ;
Imagery    SEE ALSO    Wilderness, Image of ; 
Images ;
Imitatio Christi    SEE    Jesus Christ, Imitation of ;     
Imitation ;
Immaculate Conception ;
Immaculate Conception in Art ; 
Immathchor NAilella Ocus Airt, Old Irish Legal Text ;
Imperialism ;
Impostors and Imposture ; 
Impotence ;
Impotence in Literature ;
Impruneta, Firenze, Italy- Church of Santa Maria- Shrine ;
Impurity     SEE     Ritual Purity ;
In Primis Debet Sacerdos, Confessors' Handbook ;
Incarnation, Doctrine ; 
Incest ;
Incest in Literature ;
Independent Scholars ; 
Indexes ;
Individual ;
Individual    SEE ALSO    Self ;
Indulgences ;
Ineffable ;
Infant Jesus    SEE    Jesus Christ- Infancy ;
Infanticide ;
Infanticide in Literature ;
Infanticide    SEE ALSO    Child Abuse ;
Infants ;
Infants in Literature ;
Infants    SEE ALSO    Children ;
Infibulation    SEE    Circumcision ;
Infidelity    SEE    Adultery ;
Influences ;
Ingeborg of Denmark, Wife of Philippe II, King of France ;
Inheritance ;
Inheritance in Literature ;
Initiation Rites ;
Inlaid Marble Plaque of Eudokia ;
Innocent III, Pope ;
Innocent III, Pope- Letters ;
Innocent IV, Pope ; 
Inquisition ;
Insanity    SEE    Mental Illness ;
Inscriptions    SEE    Epigraphy ;
Insinuationes    SEE    Legatus Divinae Pietatis ;
Insulting Gestures ; 
Insults ;
Insults in Literature ;
Intellectual Property ; 
Intellectuals ;
Intelligence ;
Intention ;
Intercession ;
Intercession in Art ;
Intercession in Literature ;
Interludes, Literary Genre ;
International Marie de France Society ;
International Trade ;
Internet Computer Network ;
Interpersonal Relationships ;
Interpolation ;
Intertextuality ;
Interviews ;
Intimacy ;
Intimidation ; 
Invective    SEE    Insults ;
Inventories ;
Investments ;
Ioasaph, Metropolitan of Ephesos ; 
Ireland ;
Irene, Byzantine Empress ;
Irene Komnena (Formerly Bertha of Sulzbach), Byzantine Empress and Wife of Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ; 
Irigaray, Luce ; 
Irish Language ;
Irish Literature ;
Irony ;
Isabeau of Bavaria, Queen-Consort of Charles VI, King of France ;
Isabel I la Catolica, Queen of Castile- Letters ;
Isabel de Byron, Wife of Robert I de Neville of Hornby Manor ;
Isabel de Clare, Wife of William Marshal I, Earl of Pembroke ;
Isabel de Villena, Author and Abbess of La Trinita (Valencia), a Franciscan House ;
Isabel of Portugal, Wife of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy ;
Isabel, Wife of Enguerrand VII of Coucy ;
Isabella I, la Catolica    SEE    Isabel I la Catolica, Queen of Castile ; 
Isabella I, la Catolica, Queen of Castile ;
Isabella d'Aragona, Wife of Gian Galeazzo Sforza II, Duke of Milan ;
Isabella d'Este, Wife of Francesco II Gonzaga, Marquis of Mantua ;
Isabella of France, Wife of Edward II, King of England ;
Isabella of Scotland, Wife of Francis, Duke of Brittany ;
Isabelle of Hainaut, Wife of Philippe II, King of France ;
Isabelle of Longchamp, Sister of Louis IX ; 
Isabetta di Luigi of Perugia, Mystic ;
Iseult (Literary Figure) ;
Isidore of Seville, Theologian- Etymologiae ;
Isidorus of Sevilla    SEE    Isidore of Seville ;
Islam ;
Isle of Ladies, Middle English Satire ;
Iso of St. Gall, Monk ; 
Isolde (Literary Figure) ;
Isolt    SEE    Iseult (Literary Figure) ;
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey- Chora Monastery- Kariye Camii Church ;
Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey- Monastery Church Founded by Constantine Lips- Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey- Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus ;
Istorietta Amorosa fra Leonora de' Bardi e Ippolito Bondelmonti, Italian Novella ; 
Isucan, Irish Poem ;
Ita, Saint ;
Italian Language ; 
Itinerarium Peregrinorium, Chonicle of the Third Crusade ;
Ivetta of Huy    SEE    Yvette of Huy, Anchoress ;
Ivo, Bishop of Chartres ; 
Ivo, Bishop of Chartres- Letters ; 
Ivories ;
Ivory    SEE    Ivories ;
Izumi Shikibu, Poet ;

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J. Paul Getty Museum ;
Jacob of Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa- Legenda Aurea ;
Jacob of Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa- Legenda Aurea- Huntington Library HM 3027 ;
Jacobs, Bertha    SEE    Bertken, Suster, Mystic ;
Jacopo da Varagine    SEE    Jacob of Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa ;
Jacopone da Todi, Poet ;
Jacqueline de Hacqueville, Possibly a Lady-in-Waiting at the French court or the Daughter of a Wealthy Cloth Merchant, Who Wrote Poems/Songs to Antoine Busnoys - Ja que Lui ne Pour les Biens ;
Jacques de Vitry, Cardinal ;
Jacques Legrand, Augustinian Hermit- Livre de Bonnes Meurs ;
Jalousie (Literary Figure) ;
Jan van Eyck, Painter- Annunciation ;
Jankyn (Literary Figure) ;
Januarie (Literary Figure) ;
Japanese Literature ; 
Jauchelette, Brabant, Belgium- Convent of la Ramee ;
Jaume I, King of Aragon ;
Jealousy in Literature ;
Jean d'Arras, Author ;
Jean d'Arras, Author- Roman de Melusine ;
Jean d'Aulon, Bodyguard of Joan of Arc ;
Jean de Burgogne, Count d'Etampes ;
Jean de Meun, Poet- Roman de la Rose ;
Jean de Meun, Poet- Roman de la Rose- Illuminations of ; 
Jean de Meung    SEE    Jean de Meun ;
Jean de Montreuil, Author ;
Jean, Duke of Berry ;
Jean Le Fevre, Poet- Lamentations de Matheolus ;
Jean Le Fevre, Poet- Livre de Leesce ;
Jean le Viste, President of the Cours des Aides and Commissioner of the Dame a la Licorne Series ;
Jean Maillart, Royal Secretary- Roman du Comte d'Anjou ;
Jean Pucelle, Illuminator ;
Jean Sans Peur, Duke of Burgundy ;
Jeanne d' Arc    SEE    Joan of Arc, Saint ;
Jeanne d' Evreux, Queen- Consort of Charles IV of France ;
Jeanne de Bourgogne, Queen- Consort of Philippe V le Long, King of France ;
Jeanne de Laval, Wife of Rene I d' Anjou, King of Naples ;
Jeanne de Navarre, Wife of Philippe IV, King of France ; 
Jeanne I d'Anjou, Queen of Naples ;
Jeanne of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders ;
Jeanne, Queen of Naples and Countess of Provence ;
Jefimija, Wife of Jovan Ugljesa, Ruler of Serbia ; 
Jelena, Empress of Serbia ; 
Jephthah's Daughter (Biblical Figure) ;
Jephthah's Daughter (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Jerome, Theologian and Saint ; 
Jerome, Theologian, Saint- Adversus Jovinianum ;
Jerusalem, Israel/West Bank ;
Jerusalem, Kingdom of ;
Jesse Tree ;
Jesus Christ ;
Jesus Christ as Mother ;
Jesus Christ as Mother    SEE ALSO    God the Father as Mother 
Jesus Christ- Birth ;
Jesus Christ- Descent into Hell ;
Jesus Christ- Genitals of in Art ;
Jesus Christ- Humanity of ;
Jesus Christ, Imitation of ;
Jesus Christ, Imitation of in Art ;
Jesus Christ in Art ;
Jesus Christ in Literature ;
Jesus Christ- Infancy ;
Jesus Christ- Passion ;
Jesus Christ- Passion in Art ;
Jesus Christ- Passion in Literature ;
Jesus Christ- Wounds ;
Jeu d'Adam, Anglo Norman Play ;
Jeux- Partis, Literary Genre ;
Jewelry ;
Jewish Law ; 
Jews ;
Jews in Literature;
Jezebel, Image of ; 
Jezebel, Latin Poem ;
Joachim of Fiore, Theologian ; 
Joan, Daughter of Eustace le Seler ;
Joan, Legendary Pope in Literature ;
Joan, Master, Physician, and Author- Trotula ; 
Joan of Arc, Saint ;
Joan of Arc, Saint in Film ;
Joan of Arc, Saint in Literature ;
Joan of Kent, Princess of Wales, Wife of Edward the Black Prince ;
Joan of Navarre, Wife of Henry IV, King of England ;
Job Hunting ; 
Johan Rodriguez, Musician ;
Johanna of Rozmital, Wife of George Podebrady, King of Bohemia ; 
John Marienwerder, Canon and Confessor to Dorothea of Montau ;
John of Freiburg, Dominican Friar- Confessionale ;
John of Garland, Author- Stella Maris ;
John of St. Davids, Poet- Ef A Wnaeth Panthon ;
John of St. Davids, Poet- Goruchel Duw Golochir Ympob Va ;
John the Baptist, Saint- Birth ;
John VII, Pope ;
Joie (Literary Figure) ;
Jonah (Biblical Figure) ;
Jonas of Orleans, Bishop- De Institutione Laicali ;
Jonathan (Biblical Figure) ;
Jones, David, Artist- Four Queens of 1941 ; 
Jordan of Saxony, Dominican ;
Jordanus von Sachsen    SEE    Jordan of Saxony, Dominican Master General ;  
Joseph, Saint ;
Joseph, Saint as Mother ;
Joseph, Saint in Art ;
Joseph, Saint in Literature ;
Josephus, Flavius, Jewish Historian-  Antiquitates Judaicae ;
Josian (Literary Figure) ;
Josquin de Pres    SEE    Josquin Desprez ;
Josquin Desprez, Composer ;
Joufroi de Poitiers, Poem ;
Joy ;
Juan II, King of Navarre ;
Juan de Flores, Author- Coronacion de la Senora Gracisla ;
Juan de Flores, Author- Cronica Incompleta de los Reyes Catolicos ; 
Juan de Flores, Author- Grimalte y Gradissa ;
Juan Gil de Zamora, Author ;
Juan Manuel, Infante Don, Author- Conde Lucanor ;
Juana, Wife of Enrique IV, King of Castile, and Sister of Alfonso V, King of Portugal ;
Jubilee Years ;
Judah ben Salomo ha-Cohen Ibn Matqu, Author- Midrash ha-Hokhma (The Exposition of Science) ;
Judaism ; 
Judaizers ;
Judgement of Paris (Mythological Figure) ;
Judges ;
Judith (Biblical Figure) ;
Judith (Biblical Figure), Image of ;
Judith (Biblical Figure) in Art ;
Judith, Countess of Flanders ; 
Judith, Old English Poem ;
Judith, Queen Consort of Aethelwulf, King of the West Saxons ;
Juette of Huy, Saint    SEE    Yvette of Huy, Anchoress ;
Jugando Estaba el Rey Moro, Spanish Frontier Ballad ;
Julian of Norwich, Mystic ;
Julian of Norwich, Mystic- Revelations of Divine Love ;
Juliana, Martyr, Saint ;
Juliana, Martyr, Saint in Literature ;
Juliana of Mont Cornillon ; 
Juliana of Nicomedia, Saint ;
Juliana of Warwick, Chamberlain to Matilda de Percy, Countess of Warwick, and Wife of Nigel of Plumpton, a Yorkshire Knight ;
Juliana, Old English Poem ;
Juliene, Saint    SEE    Juliana, Martyr, Saint ; 
Jung, Carl Gustav, Psychiatrist (1875-1961) ;
Junto al Vado de Xenil, Spanish Frontier Ballad ;
Jury ;
Jus Primae Noctis, Legal Principle ;
Justice of Trajan (Literary Topos) in Art ; 
Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor ;
Justinian I, Byzantine Emperor in Art ;
Jutes ; 
Jutt of Huy    SEE    Yvette of Huy, Anchoress ;
Jutta von Sponheim, Recluse, Saint ;
Juvenal, Ancient Poet ; 

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Kabbalah, Jewish Theosophic Movement ;
Kaiserchronik, Early Middle High German Chronicle ; 
Kalliope, Literary Figure ; 
Kassia, Poet ;
Kassiane    SEE    Kassia, Poet ;
Katherine Group, Middle English Hagiographical Works ;
Katherine Group    SEE ALSO   Names of Individual Works and Saints Whose Lives Are Included in the Group: Hali Meidenhad ; Sawles Warde ; Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint ; Juliana, Martyr, Saint ; and Margaret of Antioch, Saint ; 
Katherine, Saint    SEE    Catherine of Alexandria, Martyr, Saint ;
Katillus Thornberni, Brigittine Brother- Letters ;
Kaufringer, Heinrich- Literature- Verse ;
Kempe, Margery, Mystic ;
Kempe, Margery, Mystic- Book of Margery Kempe ; 
Kennings, Figure of Speech ;
Keonwald, Bishop of Worcester ;
Kerr, Katharine, Science Fiction and Fantasy Novelist (1944- ) ;
Ketubbah, Jewish Women's Marriage Portion ;
Khayal Motif (A Vision of the Beloved Woman Seen by the Poet in His Dreams) ; 
Kidnapping ;
Kilculliheen, Waterford, Ireland- Augustinian Convent for Women ;
King Horn, Middle English Romance ;
King, Margot H., Religion Historian (1934- ) ;
King of France ;
King of Tars, Romance ;
Kings ;
Kings in Art ;
Kings in Literature ;
King's Lynn, Norfolk, England ;
Kingship ;
Kinship    SEE    Family ;
Kisses in Literature ;
Klaeber, Frederick, Philologist (1863-1954) ;
Klosterneuburger Evangelienwerk, German Prose Narrative of the Childhood of Christ ;
Knight, Image of ;
Knight (Literary Figure) ;
Knights ;
Knights in Art ;
Knights in Literature ; 
Knowledge ; 
Komnena, Anna, Historian ;
Komnena, Anna, Historian- Alexiad ;
Komnene, Anna, Historian    SEE    Komnena, Anna, Historian ;
Komnenian Dynasty ;
Konigsfelden, Aargau, Switzerland- Franciscan Double Monastery- Church- Eastern Choir and Western Gallery ;
Konrad II, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Konrad von Wurzburg, Poet ;
Konstantinos Hermionakos, Poet ; 
Kontakion, Literary Genre ;
Koran    SEE    Qur'an ;
Kormaks Saga ;
Kottanner, Helene, Attendant to Elizabeth of Luxemburg and Author- Denkwurdigkeiten der Helene Kottanner ; 
Kramer, Heinrich, Inquisitor and Jacob Sprenger, Preacher- Malleus Maleficarum ;
Kreupel Margriet    SEE    Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg, Recluse ;
Kriemhild (Literary Figure) ;
Kristeva, Julia, Theorist (1941- ) ;
Kroeupel Margreit, Hermit ;
Kublai Khan, Mongol Ruler of China ;
Kudrun, Middle High German Epic ;
Kunigunde, Dutchess of Poland and Nun ; 
Kyteler, Alice, Wealthy Businesswoman ;

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La Chaise-Dieu, Haute-Loire, France- Abbey for Benedictine Monks ;
La Sauve Majeure, Gironde, France- Monastery- Carved Corbel ;
Labalme, Patricia, Historian (1927-2002) ;
Lacan, Jacques, Psychoanalyst (1901-1981) ;
Lacnunga, Old English Collection of Medical Remedies ;
Ladern- sur- Lauquet, Aude, France- Monastery of Rieunette, a Cistercian House for Women ;
Ladies-in-Waiting ; 
Lady Meed (Literary Figure) ;
Lady of Hochfelden, Tomb of a Hunnish Woman Whose Skeleton Gives Evidence of Extensive Horseback Riding ;
Lady of the Lake (Literary Figure) ; 
Lafontaine-Dosogne, Jacquline, Art Historian (1928-1994) ;
Lagorio, Valerie M., Literary Historian (1925-  ) ;
Lai du Trot, French Verse Tale ; 
Lais, Literary Genre ;
Lament, Literary Genre ;
Lament of the Caillech Berre    SEE   Aithbe Damsa ;
Lamprecht von Regensburg, Author ; 
Lancelot, French Romance ;
Lancelot (Literary Figure) ;
Lancelot en Prose, Romance ; 
Land Tenure ;
Landais, Indre, France ; 
Landry, Chevalier de la Tour, Author ; 
Langland, William, Poet- Piers Plowman ;
Langland, William, Poet- Piers Plowman- Passus 9 ; 
Language ;
Language (Forms of Addressing Women) ; 
Languedoc ;
Lantfrid and Cobbo, Latin Poem ;
Lapo da Castiglionchio, Humanist- De Commodes Curiae ; 
Latin Language ;
Latin Literature ;
Latin Poetry ;
Laudatory Literature ;
Laudine (Literary Figure) ;
Laughter ;
Laughter in Literature ;
Laura (Literary Figure) ;
Lauzengiers (Jealous, Slandering Courtiers in Troubadour Verse) ;
Lavain (Literary Figure) ;
Lavine (Literary Figure) ;
Law ;
Law Enforcement ;
Law in Literature ;
Law- Language ; 
Law of Women, Welsh Law Book ;
Laxdaela Saga    SEE    Laxdaoela Saga ;
Laxdaoela Saga ;
Lay le Freine, Middle English Romance ;
Lay Piety ;
Lay Piety in Literature ;
Layamon, Poet- Brut ;
Layla Al-Akhyaliyyah, Muslim Poet ;
Le Irish, Jack, Anglo-Irish Soldier and Yeoman of the Royal English Household ; 
Leadership ;
Learning and Scholarship ;
Leather ;
Lectio Divina
Leechbook, Old English Collection of Medical Remedies ;
Leechbook III, Old English Collection of Medical Remedies ; 
LeFranc, Martin, Poet- Champion des Dames
Legal Guardians    SEE    Guardians ;
Legend of Orihuela ;
Leges Visigothorum, Visigothic Law Code ;
Legitimation ;
Leizla Rannveigar [Rannveig's Vision] ;
Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor- Novelles ;
Leo VI the Wise, Byzantine Emperor- Procheiron ;
Leo da Perego, Franciscan Friar ;
Leo the Philosopher, Author ;
Leoba, Abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, Saint ;
Leon (Kingdom) ;
Leon Megistos, Poet ; 
Leonardo de Laserrata, Priest Accused of Sodomy ; 
Leonardo da Vinci, Humanist- Medusa ;
Leonardo da Vinci, Humanist- Virgin of the Rocks ;
Leonessa, Italy- Monastery of Santa Lucia ;
Leoninus, Canon and Poet ; 
Leonor de Acuna, Daughter of Juan de Acuna y de Portugal, Duke of Valencia ;
Leonor of England, Queen-Consort of Alfonso VIII of Castile ;
Leprosy ;
Les Douze Dames de Rhetorique, Literary Collection of Letters, Allegory, and Emblems ;
Lesbian-Like as a Category ; 
Lesbians ;
Lesbians in Literature ;
Letter of Prester John, Italian Translation ; 
Letters ;
Letters in Literature ;
Letters of Recommendation ;
Levaldini, Lisetta de (Literary Figure) ;
Lex Innocentium ;
Lex Salica (Legal Text in Latin) ; 
Leyrwite, Fine on Peasant Women for Sexual Misdemeanors ;
Li Baus Descouneus    SEE    Renaut de Beaujeu, Poet- Le Bel Inconnu ;
Libel and Slander ;
Liber de Causis, Pseudo- Aristotelian Work ; 
Liber de Modo Bene Vivendi ad Sororem, Latin Handbook for Nuns ;
Liber Divisionis ;
Liber Eliensis, Chronicle ;
Liber Gomorrhianus    SEE    Book of Gomorrah ; 
Liber Historiae Francorum, Chronicle ;
Liber Miraculorum, Devotional Work ;
Liber Sancti Iacobi, Liturgical Book ;
Libraries, Medieval ;
Libro    SEE    Catherine of Siena, Saint - Dialogo ;
Libro del Arcipreste   SEE    Libro de Buen Amor ;
Libro del Caballero Zifar, Romance ;
Libro della Divina Dottrina    SEE    Catherine of Siena, Saint- Dialogo ;
Lichfield, Stafford, England ;
Lieb und Leid, Alliterating Word Pair ;
Liege ; 
Lienor (Literary Figure) ;
Life Cycle ;
Life Expectancy ;
Light ; 
Liguria ; 
Lille, Nord, France ;
Lincolnshire, England ; 
Lineage    SEE    Genealogy ;
Linen ;
Linguistics ;
Lioba    SEE    Leoba, Abbess of Tauberbischofsheim, Saint ;
Lippi, Filippino, Painter ; 
Listening ;
Listserves    SEE    Electronic Discussion Groups ; 
Literacy ;
Literacy    SEE ALSO    Readers ;
Literacy    SEE ALSO    Writing ;
Literalism  ;
Literary Contests ;
Literary Criticism ;
Literary Criticism    SEE    Criticism ;
Literary Criticism, Medieval ;
Literary Critics ;
Literary Critics    SEE    Critics ;
Literary Form    SEE    Literary Genres ;
Literary Genres ;
Literary Historians ;
Literary Theory    SEE    Literature-Theory ;
Literature ;
Literature- Canon ; 
Literature- Drama ;
Literature- History and Criticism ;
Literature- Prose ;
Literature- Reception ; 
Literature- Study and Teaching ;
Literature- Theory ;
Literature- Verse ;
Lithuania ;
Litters ;
Little Office of the Virgin ; 
Liturgical Books ;
Liturgical Books    SEE ALSO    Liturgy ;
Liturgical Drama ;
Liturgical Vestments    SEE    Ecclesiastical Vestments ;
Liturgy ;
Liturgy- Offices ; 
Liturgy    SEE ALSO    Liturgical Books ;
Liturgy- Sequences ; 
Liudolf, Duke of Swabia, Son of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Liutbirg, Saint ; 
Livre des Fais du Bon Messire Jehan le Maingre Dit Bouciquaut, Chronicle ;
Llewelyn ap Iowerth, Prince of Wales ;
Llull, Ramon, Theologian- Book of the Lover and the Beloved ; 
Llull, Ramon, Theologian- Doctrine d'Enfant ;
Llull, Raymond    SEE    Llull, Ramon ;
Llywarch Hen Cycle- Heledd Poems, Welsh Poetic Cycle ;
Loano, Savona, Italy- Monastery of San Giovanni ; 
Loathly Lady (Literary Figure) ;
Loenge des Bonnes Femmes, French Poem ;
Logic ; 
Lollard Movement ;
Lollard Movement in Literature ;
Lombardo, Pietro, Sculptor- Madonna and Child ; 
Lombards ;
London ;
London, England ;  
Long Distance Trade    SEE    International Trade ;
Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire, England ;
Lopez de Mendoza, Inigo, Marques de Santillana, Poet- Serranillas ;
Lord, Image of ;
Lordship ;
Lorenzetti, Pietro, Painter ; 
Lorenzetti, Pietro, Painter- Humility Polyptych ;
Lorenzetti, Pietro, Painter- Virgin and Child with Saints (Arezzo Polyptych) ;
Lorenzo Giacomini, Dominican and Hagiographer ; 
Lothar Crystal ;
Lothar II, King of Lotharingia ;
Louis de Male, Count of Flanders ;
Louis, Duke of Orleans ;
Louis II, Duke of Bourbon ;
Louis III, King of West Francia ;
Louis IX, King of France, Saint ;
Louise of Savoie, Wife of Charles d'Orleans, Count of Angouleme ;
Love ;
Love- Maternal ;
Love- Religious Aspects ;
Love Charms ;
Love in Art ;
Love in Literature ;
Love in Music ; 
Love Letters ;
Lovesickness ;
Lucca, Lucca, Italy ;
Lucilla, Martyr, Saint ;
Lucina, Aristocratic Matron (Literary Figure) ;
Lucrece (Ancient Figure) ;
Lucretia (Ancient Figure) ; 
Lucy, Saint ;
Luitprand, Bishop of Cremona ;
Luitprand, Bishop of Cremona- Antapodosis ; 
Luke, Apostle and Saint ;	
Luke, Evangelist and Saint as Painter ; 
Lunete (Literary Figure) ;
Lupi, Margareta, Daughter of Corradino Lupi, an Agent of the Condottiere Bonifacio Lupi ; 
Lupo di Francesco, Sculptor ;
Lutgard, Saint ;
Lutgardis of Aywieres, Saint    SEE    Lutgard, Saint ;
Luxuria ; 
Luxuria (Latin: Sexual Pleasure) ; 
Luxury Trade ;
Lyarde, Middle English Comic Poem ;
Lydgate, John, Poet ;
Lydgate, John, Poet- Fabula Duorum Mercatorum ;
Lydgate, John, Poet- Isopes Fabules ;
Lydgate, John, Poet- Life of Our Lady ;
Lydgate, John, Poet- Reson and Sensuallyte ;
Lyf of Saint Katharin of Senis the Blessed Virgin, a Middle English Translation of Raymond of Capua's Legenda Major ;

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Maastrichter Passion Play ;
Mabinogion, Welsh Collection of Tales ;
Mabinogion, Welsh Collection of Tales- First Branch- Pwyll, Prince of Dyfed ;
Mabinogion, Welsh Collection of Tales- Four Branches ;
MacCarthy, Eleanor, Lady, Wife of Sir Donal McCarthy, Lord of Carbery ;
Machiavelli, Niccolo, Political Theorist- Discourses ; 
Machiavelli, Niccolo, Political Theorist- Estratto di Lettere al Dieci di Balia- Post Mortem Cosimi ; 
Machiavelli, Niccolo, Political Theorist- Florentine Histories ; 
Madame Marie, Owner of a Devotional Picture Book ; 
Maddalena di Sicilia, a Nun Who Contested Her Marriage to Giorgio Zaccarotto ; 
Madelberta of Maubeuge, Saint ;
Madness    SEE    Mental Illness ;
Madog ap Gwallter, Franciscan Friar and Author- Mab a'n Rhodded [A Son was Given] ;
Madonna ; 
Madonna, Figure in Art ; 
Madonna Lactans (Artistic Motif) ;
Madonna of the Firescreen- Attributed to a Follower of Robert Campin, Possibly the Master of the Merode Triptych ;
Maeren    SEE    Maren, Literary Genre ; 
Magic ;
Magic in Literature ;
Magistra:  A Journal of Women's Spirituality in History ;
Magnificat ;
Mahmals    SEE    Litters ;
Maidstone, Richard, Carmelite Friar- Concordia Facta Inter Regem Riccardum II et Civitatem Londonie ;
Maine, France ;
Makouraino, Female Archer ;
Malatesta, Annalena, Wife of Baldaccio Anguillara d'Anghiari and, as a Devout Widow, Founder of the Annalena Convent ; 
Malatesta, Cleopa, Wife of Theodore Palaiologos, Despot of Morea ;
Male Adolescents ; 
Male Authority ;
Male Authors ;
Male Friendship ;
Male Friendship in Literature ; 
Male Menstruation ;
Male Monasticism    SEE    Monks ;
Male Pregnancy ;
Male Sexuality ;
Male Sexuality in Literature ;
Male Virginity ;
Malmariees (French: Wives Married to Cruel Husbands) ; 
Malory, Sir Thomas, Author ;
Malory, Sir Thomas, Author- Morte Darthur ;
Mamluks, Egyptian Dynasty ;
Man in Black (Literary Figure) ;
Manciple (Literary Figure) ;
Manere of Good Lyvyng, Middle English Translation of the Devotional Text, Liber de Modo Bene Vivendi ad Sororem ; 
Mankind, Middle English Play ;
Man of Law (Literary Figure) ;
Man Man Relationships ;
Man Woman Relationships ;
Man Woman Relationships in Literature ;
Mangana Poems ;
Manganeios Prodromos    SEE    Mangana Poems ;
Manly, John Matthews, Literary Historian (1865-1940) ;
Manors ;
Mantegna, Andrea, Painter- Pallas Expelling the Vices From the Garden of Virtue ;
Manuel, Infante of Castile, Brother of Alfonso X, el Sabio ;
Manuscripts ;
Manuscripts in Art ;
Manuscripts- Commission of ;
Manuscripts- Ownership of ;
Manuscripts- Production ;
Mara Brankovic, A Wife of Murad II, Ottoman Emperor ;
Marbach, Haut-Rhin, France- Augustinian House of Male Canons ; 
Marbod, Bishop of Rennes ; 
Marburg an der Lahn, Hesse, Germany- Church of St. Elisabeth.
Marc, King    SEE    Mark, King (Literary Figure) ;
Marcabru, Troubadour ;
Marcabru, Troubadour- L'Autrier Jost' una Sebissa ; 
Marcella, Widow and Biblical Scholar ; 
Marcellina, Virgin ;
Marchiennes, Nord, France - Benedictine Double House ; 
Marcigny, Saone-et-Loire, France- Monastery for Women ; 
Maren, Literary Genre ; 
Margaret Colonna ; 
Margaret de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln ;
Margaret of Anjou, Wife of Henry VI, King of England ;
Margaret of Antioch, Saint ;
Margaret of Antioch, Saint in Art ;
Margaret of Antioch, Saint in Literature ;
Margaret of Citta di Castello, Dominican Tertiary ; 
Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan Penitent, and Saint ;
Margaret of Hungary, Princess and Dominican Nun ; 
Margaret of Hungary, Princess, Dominican Nun, and Saint ; 
Margaret of Provence, Queen of Louis IX of France ;
Margaret of Scotland, Wife of Louis XI, King of France ; 
Margaret, Queen of Scotland, Saint ;
Margaret Stuart    SEE    Margaret of Scotland, Wife of Louis XI, King of France
Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg, Recluse ;
Margaretha von Ebner    SEE    Ebner, Margaretha ;
Margarethe von Schwangau, wife of Oswald von Wolkenstein ;
Margherita da Citta di Castello    SEE    Margaret of Citta di Castelo, Dominican Tertiary ; 
Margherita da Cortona    SEE    Margaret of Cortona, Franciscan Penitent and Saint ;
Margherita Lambertenghi ;
Margherita of Faenza, Abbess ;
Monasticism ; 
Marginalia ;
Marginality ;
Marguerite d'Ecosse    SEE    Margaret of Scotland, Wife of Louis XI, King of France
Marguerite d'Oingt, Author ;
Marguerite d'Oingt, Poet ;
Marguerite of Constantinople, Countess of Flanders ;
Marguerite Porete, Mystic ;
Marguerite Porete, Mystic- Miroir des Simples Ames ; 
Maria (Forename) ; 
Maria, Wife of Konstantin V ; 
Maria de Ajofrn, Beata and Mystic ;
Maria Lekapana, Wife of Peter, Tsar of Bulgaria ;
Maria of Alania, Wife of Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Maria of Castile, Queen-Consort of Alfons V el Magnanimo, King of Aragon ;
Maria of Jerusalem, Popular Tale of a Mother Who Ate Her Own Infant During a Siege ;
Maria of Pozzuoli, Female Soldier ;
Maria of Venice    SEE    Sturion, Maria ;
Maria Regina, Iconographic Type ;
Marie, Countess of Champagne ;
Marie de Beaumont de Meulan, Wife of Hugues de Talbot, Lord of Cleuville ;
Marie de Bretagne, Wife of Gui IV de Chatillon, Count of St. Pol ;
Marie de France, Poet ;
Marie de France, Poet- Espurgatoire Seint Patriz ;
Marie de France, Poet- Fables ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Bisclavret ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Chaitivel ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Chievrefoil ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Deus Amanz ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Eliduc ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Equitan ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Fresne ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Guigemar ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Lanval ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Laustic ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Milun ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Prologue ;
Marie de France, Poet- Lais- Yonec ;
Marie de Rethel, Wife of Wautier d'Enghien ; 
Marie d'Oignies, Mystic ;
Marie of Antioch, Wife of Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor ;
Marie of Bourbon, Princess of Morea-Achaia and Titular Latin Empress of Constantinople, Wife of Guy de Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, and Robert, Prince of Tarento ;
Marie of Brabant , Queen-Consort of Philippe III, King of France ;
Marienstern, Sachsen, Germany- Cistercian House for Women ;
Marina of Antioch, Saint ;
Marina of Scanio, Saint ; 
Marino de Perugia, Artist- Dominican Choir Book- Historical Initial for the Office of the Feast of the Assumption ;  
Maritagium (Latin: Dowry from the Bride's Family) ;
Marital Affection ;
Marital Separations ;
Mark, King (Literary Figure) ;
Marquard von Stein, Translator of the Buch der Ritter vom Turn (Written by the Chevalier de la Tour Landry) ; 
Marriage ;
Marriage- Annulment ;
Marriage- Clandestine ;
Marriage- Contested ;
Marriage- Forced in Literature ;
Marriage Contracts ;
Marriage Debt    SEE    Conjugal Debt ;
Marriage, Image of ;
Marriage in Art ; 
Marriage in Literature ;
Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhone, France ;
Martha and Mary (Biblical Figures) ; 
Martha of Bethany, Saint (Biblical Figure) ;
Martin V, Pope ; 
Martin of Tours, Saint ;
Martinez de Toledo, Alfonso, Author- Aripreste de Talavera ;
Martini, Neria, Bride Who Contested Her Marriage to Giacobi Baldassino ;
Martino I, (the "Younger"), King of Sicily ;
Martyrs ;
Martyrs in Art ;
Martyrs in Literature ;
Marxist Literary Theory ;
Mary Magdalene, Saint ;
Mary Magdalene, Saint- Cult ; 
Mary Magdalene, Saint in Art ;
Mary Magdalene, Saint in Literature ;
Mary, Mother of Jesus ; 
Mary of Egypt, Saint ;
Mary of Egypt, Saint in Art ;
Mary of Egypt, Saint in Literature ;
Mary of Hungary, Wife of Charles II of Anjou ; 
Mary of Oignies    SEE    Marie d'Oignies ;
Mary, Queen of Hungary and Wife of Sigismund of Luxemburg ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint ;
Mary, Virgin , Saint    SEE ALSO    Maryam, Mother of Isa (Jesus) in the Qur'an ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint and Child in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Annunciation in Literature ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint as Blachernitissa (Of the Blachernai (One of the most Prominent Marian Churches in Constantinople)) ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint as Madonna del Soccorso, a Club-Wielding Figure Who Saves Children from the Devil ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint as Reader ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint as the Virgin Hodegetria, Named for the Famous Icon of the Virgin Believed to Have Been Painted by Saint Luke ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Assumption in Art ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Assumption in Music ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Birth in Literature ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Coronation in Art ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Coronation in Literature ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Cult ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Dormition ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Dormition in Art ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Dormition in Literature ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Image of ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Image of - Orans Virgin with Christ Child Medallion ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint in Art ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint in Literature ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint in Music ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Purification    SEE ALSO    Candlemas ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Purification in Art ; 
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Purification in Literature ;
Mary, Virgin, Saint- Veil of ; 
Maryam, Mother of Isa (Jesus)  in the Qur'an ;
Maryam, Mother of Isa (Jesus) in the Qur'an    SEE ALSO    Mary, Virgin, Saint ;
Masculinity ;
Masculinity in Art ; 
Masculinity in Film ;
Masculinity in Literature ;
Masculinization ;
Maso di Banco, Painter ;
Mass ; 
Massacio, Painter- Expulsion from the Garden of Eden ; 
Massacre of the Innocents ;
Master of Flemalle, Painter    SEE    Robert Campin  [No cross ref in Feminae necessary] ;
Master of the Andre Madonna, Painter ;
Master of the Bartholomew Altar, Painter- Deposition ;
Master of the Franciscan Temperas- Four Paintings on Canvas- Madonna and Child with Saints Clare and Mary Magdalene and the Annunciation, Crucifixion, Stigmatization of St. Francis, and Flagellation ;
Master of the St. Ursula Legend, Painter- Virgin and Child with St. Anne Presenting a Woman (Identified as Anna de Blasere, Wife of Jan van Nieuwenhove) ;
Masturbation ;
Masturbation in Literature ;
Matchmakers in Literature ;
Matchmaking    SEE    Matchmakers ;
Matelda, (Literary Figure) ;
Matellica, Italy- Monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena ; 
Material Culture ; 
Maternal Imagery    SEE    Mother, Image of ;
Mathewson, Jeanne T., Literary Historian (1925-1992) ;
Mathilda of Flanders, Wife of William I, King of England ;
Mathilda, Countess of Tuscany ;
Mathilda    SEE ALSO    Matilda ;
Mathilde, daughter of Beatrix of Canossa ;
Mathilde, Wife of Heinrich I, King of Germany ;
Mathilde, Wife of Henry I, Holy Roman Emperor ;
Matilda of Canossa    SEE    Matilda, Countess of Tuscany ;
Matilda of Scotland, Queen- Consort of Henry I of England ;
Matilda, Abbess of Essen ;
Matilda, Abbess of the Abbey of La Trinite, Caen ;
Matilda, Countess of Tuscany ;
Matilda the Empress, Queen of England ;
Matriarchy ;
Matrilineage ;
Matthew of Boulogne ;
Matthew of Vendome    SEE Matthieu de Vendome ;
Matthieu de Vendome, Poet- Ars Versificatoria ;
Mattiotti, Giovanni, Hagiographer ;
Matzli Ruerenzumph (Literary Figure) ;
Mauss, Marcel, Sociologist (1872-1950) - Essay on the Gift ;
Maxims I, Old English Poem ;
Maxims II, Old English Poem ;
May (Literary Figure) ;
Mayors, Administrators of Monastic Estates, and Their Wives ;
Mazzei, Lapo, Notary and Friend of Francesco Datini ; 
McGuire, Brian Patrick, Historian (1946- ) ;
McNamara, Jo Ann, Historian (1931- ) ;
Mechain, Gwenful, Female Welsh Poet ; 
Mechthild of Hackeborn    SEE    Mechthild von Hackeborn, Mystic ; 
Mechthild von der Pfalz, Wife of Ludwig I of Wurttemberg and Albrecht VI of Austria ;
Mechthild von Hackeborn, Mystic ;
Mechthild von Hackeborn, Mystic- Liber Specialis Gratiae ; 
Mechthild von Magdeburg, Mystic ;
Mechthild von Magdeburg, Mystic- Fliessendes Licht der Gottheit ;
Mechtild    SEE    Mechthild ;
Medea (Literary Figure) ;
Medea (Mythological Figure) ; 
Medical Instruments and Apparatus ;
Medical Manuscripts ; 
Medical Manuscripts- Ownership of ; 
Medici, Florentine Family ; 
Medici, Giuliano De', Brother of Lorenzo ("Magnifico") ; 
Medici, Giulio De'    SEE    Clement VII, Pope ; 
Medici, Lorenzo ("Magnifico") de' ; 
Medici, Piero di Cosimo de' ;
Medicine    SEE ALSO    Gynecology ;
Medicine    SEE ALSO    Healers and Healing ;
Medicine    SEE ALSO    Healing ;
Medicine ;
Medicine in Literature ;
Medieval Feminist Forum, Formerly Medieval Feminist Newsletter ;
Medieval Feminist Index ;
Medieval Feminist Newsletter ;
Medieval Studies ;
Medieval Studies- Study and Teaching ;
Medievalism ;
Medievalists ;
Meditacion Sur la Sollempniteit de l'Apparicion Nostre Seigneur Aus Trois Roys, French Devotional Text ;
Meditation ;
Meditation, Literary Genre ;
Medusa (Mythological Figure) ;
Meeting of Liadain and Cuirithir    SEE    Comrac Liadain Ocus Cuirithir ;
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan ; 
Melibea (Literary Figure) ;
Melisende, Queen of Jerusalem and Wife of King Fulk of Anjou ; 
Melusine (Literary Figure) ;
Memling, Hans, Painter- Annunciation ;
Memmo, Girolamo ;
Memmo, Lucia ;
Memorialization ;
Memorialization of the Dead ;
Memory