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| Date | Topic | Readings | Assignments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 May | Frameworks: Theory and Methodology | Judith Bennett “Patriarchal Equilibrium” | |
| 5 May | Gender Ideology: Medicine and Philosophy | Hippocrates, “Diseases of Women”; Innocent III “On the Horrors of Menstrual Blood”; Hildegard of Bingen, “Causes and Cures” | |
| 10 May | Gender Ideology: Religion and Law | Selections from the Bible; Selections from St. Augustine; Gratian “Canon Law and Marriage”; “Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council”; “Spanish Laws” | |
| 12 May | The Ages of Women | TBA | Source Analysis Due |
| 17 May | Women and the City: Genderscapes in Paris | “Paris Guild Regulations”; “Case of a Woman Physician”;Menagier de Paris | |
| 19 May | Christian Women’s Religious Lives: Nuns and Mystics | The Book of Margery Kempe; Catherine of Siena, “Letters” | Proposal Due May 23rd |
| 24 May | Jewish Women: Religion and Family | Sefer Hasidim; Maimonides, The Book of Women, Barcelona Jewish Court Documents; | Optional Essay 1 Due |
| 26 May | Women in the courts | Selections from the Consistory Registers | |
| 31 May | Women and Warfare: Debating the Female Warrior | “Warrior Women”; “Letter to the English” | |
| 2 June | Women and Power: Queens and other elite women | Selections from Epistolae; Earenfight, “Where do we go from here?” | |
| 7 June | Transwomen and Women’s Sexuality | “The Case of Rolandina Ronchaia”; “The Questioning of Eleanor (John) Rykener”; Boyd and Karras “Rykener Revisited” and “The Interrogation” | |
| 9 June | Women’s Authorial Voices: Christine de Pizan | Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies | |
| Optional Essay 2 Due (June 12th) Final Project Due (June 16th) |