Note: centuries are indicated by the notation C plus a number. Thus C11 means she lived in the 11th century.

Women of the Early Middle Ages (200-1050)
     Saint Radegund (C6)
     Queen Emma of England (C11)
     Saint Foi (aka St Foy or St Faith) (C4, but material from C11)
     Fredegund (and other Frankish queens) (C6)
     St Perpetua (C3)
     Hrotswitha (aka Rotswitha) of Gandersheim (C10)
     Dhuoda (C9)

Women of the High Middle Ages (1050-1300)
     Eleanor of Aquitaine (queen of England) (C12)
     Eleanor of Castile (queen of England) (C13)
     Blanche of Castile (queen of France) (C13)
     Matilda of Tuscany ? (C11-12)
     Heloise (C12)
     Marie de France (C12)
     the trobairitz (female troubadors) (C11-13)
     Hildegard of Bingen (C12)
     Elisabeth of Schönau
     St Clare of Assisi (C13)
     Mechtild of Magdeburg
     Beatrijs of Nazareth
     Marie d’Oignies
     Christina the Astonishing (aka Christina Mirabilis)

Women of the Late Middle Ages (1300-1500)
     St Catherine of Siena (C14)
     Joan of Arc (C15)
     Margaret of Anjou (English queen) (C15)
     Christine de Pisan (C14-15)
     Margery Kempe (C15)
     Margery Paston and other women of the Paston family (C15)
     Isabella of France, wife of King Edward II of England (C14)
     Julian of Norwich (C14)

Concepts or ideas applied to a specific texts (e.g., “gender in ....”, “legal status of women in ....”):
     anything by Christine de Pizan (C12)
     the Roman de la Rose (C13-14, with debate C14-15)
     Chretien de Troyes’ romances (C12)
     Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks (C6)
     Orderic Vitalis on the Norman aristocracy (C11-12)
     Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (C13)
     Fabliaux or tales of Renard the Fox (raunchy comic tales from C12-C14)
 

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