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Medieval Women to improve/ create

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Please add to the list below to suggest articles to edit/create. Once you've made any new pages or edits, please add your work to the 'outcomes' section on the home page. Please observe alphabetical by first name.

AEthelthryth

Catherine Karkov, ‘The Body of St. Æthelthryth’, The Cross Goes North ed. Carver (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2003)

Christina of Markyate

Elizabeth Paston

Heloise

French speakers can find much to translate from French wikipedia into English

Hilde

Related work on the Caedmon article, with regards to historicity by Lees and Overing.^[1] they call the Caedmon story a 'patriarchal myth' p. 26.
Lees and Overing note that 'Caedmon is the so-called "father" of English poetry', and discuss that 'the elevation of an illiterate laborer Caedmon to divinely inspired poet (and almost saint) has acquired the quasimythological status of an originary narrative'.^[2]

Hildegard of Bingen

Isotta Nogarola - I'm planning to work on this Claire 75 (talk) 14:20, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Margaret (the Lame) of Magdeburg (ca. 1210-1250)

Margery Kempe

Sarah Salih, Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England (D.S. Brewer, 2001)
Laura Varnam, ‘The crucifix, the Pietà, and the female mystic: Devotional objects and performative identity in The Book of Margery Kempe’. Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 41 (2015): 208-237.
Laura Varnam, ‘The Importance of St Margaret's Church in 'The Book of Margery Kempe': A Sacred Place and an Exemplary Parishioner’. Nottingham Medieval Studies (2017)
Williams, Laura K. ""Slayn for Goddys lofe": Margery Kempe's Melancholia and the Bleeding of Tears." Medieval Feminist Forum 52.1 (2016) : 84-100

Pega

Add content from primary sources to flesh out details of her life, plus can include a few citations of contemporary scholars.
Fiona J. Griffiths, 'Siblings and the Sexes Within the Medieval Religious Life' Church History 77.1 (2008), 26-53
Wiesje Nijenhuis, 'In a Class of Their Own, Anglo-Saxon Female Saints', Mediaevistik 14 (2001), 125-48
Walter de Gray Birch, Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland (Wisbech: 1881)
Robin Norris, 'The Augustinian Theory of Use and Enjoyment in “Guthlac A” and “B”', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 104.2 (2003), 159-178
Primary sources: Chronicon ex chronicis (1140); Felix’s Life of Saint Guthlac: Text, Translation and Notes, ed. Bertram Colgrave (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); MS. Dd. Xi. 78, University Library, Cambridge; Harley Roll Y6, Roundel 15, BL; Jane Roberts, The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979)

Tamta Mqargrdzeli

Anthony Eastmond, Tamta’s World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Guntrud

Brief mention found here: Verhoeve, Yves-Mary. “LE ROYAUME LOMBARD ET LES DUCHÉS : FORMES ET MOYENS D'UNE INTÉGRATION PROGRESSIVE.” Médiévales, no. 51, 2006, pp. 21–36.

Wikidata Redlist

The #MedievalWiki Wikidata Redlist shows women from across the globe who lived between 400-1600 CE.

Women in Green list

Check out the Women in Green list: several medieval women's pages flagged as pages to turn into Good Articles. See good article criteria here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria

Medieval Texts and Material Culture to improve/ create

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Bayeux Tapestry

Gale Owen Crocker's work on embroidery

Katherine Group

so much to add here! Sarah Salih, etc.

Opus Anglicanum

Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis

The Canterbury Tales

Patience Agbabi in 'adaptations'
Caroline Bergvall in 'adaptations'
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd in 'versions' or 'adaptations'

Norse mythology

Update with information with recent scholarly work by women

Sutton Hoo

Mercie Lack and Barbara Wagstaff, photographers
Work of Angela Care Evans as curator at British Museum
Helen Geake
Sue Brunning as curator at British Museum
Sutton Hoo Society

Wulf and Eadwacer

To add section on translations and adaptations: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Michael Alexander, Paul Muldoon, Fiona Sampson, Vahni Capildeo, Burton Raffel, FEN, Hamish Clayton, Blood Axis, Kerry Carnahan,
Generally lacking in recent work by women across entire page. Update to include work by Marijane Osborne, Jane Chance, Stacy Klein, Marilynn Desmond, Christine Fell, Shari Horner, Helen Bennett.

Anglo-Saxon riddles

Suggest structural reorganisation, thinking about adaptations and variety of translations, and taking into account new scholarship.
Reference to The Riddle Ages blog

Old English rune poem

Maureen Halsall is featured on this page, however further interpretations and references can be added from her major book on the poem.

Beowulf

Suggest that 'Translations' section is given its own page?
Update of information to include more recent work by women across entire page
Bear in mind existence of page 'list of artistic depictions of Beowulf'. Translations and artistic depictions of Beowulf?

List of artistic depictions of Beowulf

Insert reference to Sian Echard, 'Boom: Seeing Beowulf in Print', Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination

The Seafarer (poem)

General problems with structure, and update of interpretation sections

Contemporary scholars and artists to improve/ create

Crowd-sourced

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Note that some of these women have well developed pages, but missing references to work in medieval studies or medievalism.

Please observe alphabetical by first name listing. Names that appear in red require pages created for them.

Angela Care Evans

Antonette diPaolo Healey

Barbara Raw, Professor Emeritus of the University of Keele

Barbara Hanawalt

Bonnie Wheeler

Carol Braun Pasternack

Professor Elizabeth Robertson

E. Jane Burns

E. Ann Matter

Elizabeth Jeffreys - Byzantine Historian

Émilienne Demougeot - page requires expansion

Janet Bately - major expansion needed

Kate Mary Warren - lecturer at Westfield College, University of London circa 1909. Taught by Stopford Brook (he writes the introduction to her 'A Treasury of English Literature',^[3] and he is thanked in her introduction to her translation of 'Piers the Plowman', 1895.^[4]. Contributed to the Catholic Encyclopedia https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Kate_Mary_Warren . she is cited by Wordsworth https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xtAIAAAAQAAJ&dq=i%20ventured%20many%20battles%20in%20my%20youth&pg=PA323#v=onepage&q=i%20ventured%20many%20battles%20in%20my%20youth&f=false

Lavinia Greenlaw

Laurie Finke

Lellia Cracco Ruggini

Louise Wilkinson - Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln

Madeline H. Caviness

Margaret Wade Labarge

Margot H King

Translator of biographies of C13th holy women - incl. Christina Mirabilis, Marie of Oignies, Lutgard of Aywières
Involved with 1980s feminist publishing house Peregrina Publishing (Toronto)?
Compiler (with Ludo Jongen) of The Holy Women of Liège: A Bibliography
Died 2018?

Marie Kelleher

Marijane Osborn

Add ref. to her work on page Translations and interpretations of Beowulf DONE.
Add ref. to her work on various Medieval pages: Anglo-Saxon runes, interpretation of the Wanderer, Medieval Romance.
Find evidence of her early Film making

Monica Green (historian) - page needs expanding, partic on her important work on medieval medicine, genetics, women's health

Nancy Campbell

Nellie Slayton Aurner

Patricia Cox Miller

Patience Agbabi

Very low number of references within this article. Requires further sources for range of biographical and bibliographical details.

Queynte Laydies

Roberta (Bonnie) Krueger

Rosalind Love created Feb 2020, but need to add much more!

Sonia Chadwick Hawkes

Sonia Marzinzik

Sue Margeson (Guardian obituary, Scholia profile)

Vera I. Evison (obituary; Festschrift; Scholia)

Virginia Burrus

Red List from Wikidata

Go to Wikipedia:WikiProject MedievalWiki/Wikidata Contemporary Scholars List for a list of contemporary women medievalists who do not have pages on English Wikipedia.

Journals, Societies, and Research Projects

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Dictionary of Old English

Information to be added regarding editors and scholarly work done associated with the project.

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

More on committee history, significant events, and prize winners.

New Chaucer Society

Information on history, committee, and the journal, 'Studies in the Age of Chaucer'.

International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England

References

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^ Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812236289.
^ Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. p. 11. ISBN 0812236289.
^ Warren, Mary. "Treasury".
^ Warren, Mary. "Piers the Plowman".

[1] Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812236289.

[2] Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. p. 11. ISBN 0812236289.

[3] Warren, Mary. "Treasury".

[4] Warren, Mary. "Piers the Plowman".

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