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Introduction: Where are the Women? | 1 | |
1 | The End of the Roman World, 508-602 | 18 |
Women in Cassiodorus's letters | 19 | |
The Liber Portificalis and the letters of Gregory I | 23 | |
2 | Lombard Life, 568-774 | 34 |
Women in the Lombard laws | 35 | |
Charter evidence: the 'real' picture? | 43 | |
Women and the Church: an ambivalent relationship | 49 | |
Paul the Deacon: writing misogyny? | 54 | |
Epigraphy | 59 | |
3 | Rise of the Dynasties, 774-888 | 68 |
Political change: Carolingian emperors and empresses | 68 | |
The sources: narrowing horizons | 70 | |
Women's religious houses: dynastic rule and the Church | 80 | |
The legal evidence: fluid laws and jurisdictions | 82 | |
Women's land and women's work | 85 | |
4 | The Long Tenth Century, 888-1000 | 97 |
The fragmentation of power | 97 | |
Women and family politics: sex and the struggle for power | 99 | |
Bishops and women: Rather of Verona | 109 | |
Women and work in the tenth century | 111 | |
Reform of the religious life | 113 | |
Women and the saints: the southern hagiography | 118 | |
The minority view: female sainthood | 122 | |
5 | The Age of Great Women or a Great Age for Women? 1000-1115 | 127 |
Sources | 129 | |
Women and power: the early eleventh century | 130 | |
Marriage and power: repudiation and remarriage | 132 | |
Sons and mothers: Sikelgaita of Salerno | 134 | |
Women as rulers: Matilda of Tuscany | 136 | |
Women, property and power | 141 | |
Women, property and law | 143 | |
Women and inheritance rights: the beginnings of exclusion | 146 | |
Economic opportunities: women and work | 147 | |
Religious life: reform, revival and resistance | 149 | |
6 | The Twelfth Century: Renaissance or Repression? | 159 |
Dynastic politics: the south | 160 | |
Dynastic politics: the north | 162 | |
Marriage, lineage and property | 164 | |
Women's property and women's work | 167 | |
Women and the guilds | 169 | |
Marginal workers: slaves and children | 173 | |
Religious life | 174 | |
7 | The Thirteenth-century Epilogue | 191 |
Communal laws and women's status | 191 | |
Case study: Bologna | 193 | |
City and countryside: the case of Umbria | 195 | |
The rural situation: Sassovivo | 197 | |
A different framework? The south | 199 | |
Case study: Sicily | 201 | |
Women's work and opportunity: a regional picture | 202 | |
Marginal workers: slaves | 203 | |
Marginal groups: prostitutes | 204 | |
Religious life | 205 | |
Epilogue: women in medieval Italian society | 206 | |
Bibliography | 211 | |
Index | 225 |
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