Index

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Aachen 90

Abelard, Peter 146–51

abortion 28

Academia delle Arti del Disegno 230

accidents 152–3

Adamnan 54–6, 59, 123

Life of St Columba 54

Adams, Thelma Croft 2–3

Adams, Warwick 2

Adelina (a jester) 139

Adrian IV, Pope 135

?bbe 61

?ffa 70

?lffl?d 44

?lfgifu 131, 132

?lfgyva of Northampton 136–7

?lfhere 71

?lfred the Great 78, 79, 108

?lfswith 70

?lfwine 44

?lfwold 70

?lfwynn 79, 81

?thelburh of Kent 43, 65

?thelfl?d (daughter of Ealhhelm) 71

?thelfl?d (daughter of Wynfl?d) 69, 73

?thelfl?d ‘Lady of the Mercians’ 67, 78–82, 128

?thelfl?d the White 72

?thelgifu 70, 72

?thelred, Ealdorman 79

?thelred of Mercia 44, 45

?thelstan, King 79, 81, 108

Agincourt (1415) 185

Al-Andalus 82–7

al-Hakam II, Caliph 83, 84

Abu al-Hassan Ibn Bassam 86

Abd al-Rahman II 91

Abd al-Rahman III 84

Alamanni 142

Albigensian Crusade (1209–29) 163

Aldfrith, King 44

Alexander Severus, Emperor 35

Alexandria 22–3

Alexius I of Constantinople 93

Alfanus, archbishop 110

Allen, Hope Emily 175n

Ambaca 197

Ambrose, Bishop of Milan 12n

Amiens, siege of (1597) 217

Amilhac, Barthelemy 169

Anacaona 204–8

Anasazi 211

Andean culture 51–4

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 80

Anglo-Saxons 43–6, 61, 64–6, 68–74, 81–2, 98, 107, 108, 121, 130, 136, 223

Angola 195–200

Anna Comnena, Alexiad 92–7

Anna of East Anglia 60

Annals of Ulster 56

Anne, Queen 243, 248

Anselm of Canterbury 147

Arabia 11

Arbella (ship) 216

Archimedes 83

Arete 31

Arezzo 8

Argenteuil 149

Aristotle 83

Arizona 210

Armagh 27

Arnarstapi farm 99

Artois 174

Asa of Lowthorpe 139

Asia Minor 8, 93

Astell, Mary 38, 148, 242–50, 252

A Serious Proposal to the Ladies for the Advancement of their True and Greatest Interest 246–7

Astell, Ralph 246

Astralabe 147

astrolabe 23

Athelney (Somerset) 78

Aud Ketilsdottir ‘the Deep-Minded’ 104

Austen, Jane

Persuasion 89

Pride and Prejudice 193n

Auti 131

Bacchus 16

Bad Gandersheim 87

Baghdad 49

Ballard, George, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain 249–50

Bandiagara (Mali) 210

baptism 21 and note

Barbara, Doña 198, 200

Bardney (Lincolnshire) 45, 80

Barford 152

Bath 252

Bayeux Tapestry 123, 136–8

Beatrix 131

bed burials 64–6

Beda 70

Bede the Venerable 60, 61, 77

Ecclesiastical History of the English People 44, 50, 119

Bedell, Isabel 151

Bedell, Matilda 151

Bedell, Walter 151

bedlinen 72, 75, 225

Beeton, Isabella 250

beguines 171 and note, 172–5, 184, 246

Behechio 204–7

Behn, Aphra 250

Belamy, Amice 153

Belamy, Robert 153

Belgium 90, 174

Benedict XII, Pope 163n

Benna 33

Bentham, Jeremy 249

Beorhtred 139

Beowulf 117–19, 121

Berkhamsted School (Herts) 2

Bernard, Count 87, 88, 90–1

Berry, Agnes 190–1

Bethlehem 8, 19

Church of the Nativity 12

the Bible 9, 18–19

Book of Daniel 233–4

Book of Genesis 11

Book of Judith 230–1

Book of Numbers 157n

Bica 70

Bidford-on-Avon (Warwickshire) 107

Birka (Sweden) 123–4

birth 115–16, 176–7

Bitel, Lisa, The Land of Women 57–8

Blanche, Beatrice 152

Blanche, Muriel 152

Blanche, William 152

Bloodmoor Hill (Suffolk) 64

bluestockings 243 and note

Bohemond I, Count 93, 94–5

Bolingtone, Matilda de 153

Bonchevaler, Sibyl 153

Booth, Tony 213n

Boston (Massachusetts) 216

Bradstreet, Anne Dudley 214–19, 235

In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen Elizabeth 214–15, 217

The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America 217–19

Bradstreet, Simon 216

Brattahlid 100, 101

Breughel, Pieter the Elder 161

Breughel, Pieter the Younger 161

brewing 152–3, 177–8

Brews, Dame Elizabeth 192

Brews, Margery 191–3

Brews, Sir Thomas 191–2

Bridport (Dorset) 255

Brig (or Brigid) (Irish goddess) 26

Brigantia 26

Brihtsige 70

Brihtwyn 73

Britannia 11

Broicsech 27

Brontë, Anne, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 193n

Brontë, Charlotte, Jane Eyre 193n

Brown, Michelle, The World of the Luttrell Psalter 159–60

Browne, Mary 191

Browne, Sir George 191

Brunhild of Austrasia 43

Brycheiniog 80–1

Buddhists 41

burials 15–17

Ana de la Calle 222

bed burials 63–6

female Viking warrior 123–8

hybrid 105–6

pagan vs Christian 77–8

Puebloan 210, 211–12

ship burials 74–8, 119–20, 125, 127

Bury St Edmunds 45

Butler-Bowdon, William 175n

Byzantium 32

Cabuco 199

Caedmon 43–4

Cain Adomnain 56–9, 128

Cairo 16

Calle, Ana de la 74

Calle, Richard 188–90

Calvary 12

Calvinism 174

Cambrensis, Giraldus 31

Cambridge (Massachusetts) 216

Canterbury 138

Capgrave, John, Nova Legenda Angliae 33

Capitulare de Villis 142

Caradoc 34

Caravaggio 229, 231

Carcassonne 169

Cardoso, Bento Banha 197

Casa Buonarroti (Florence) 230

Cathars 163, 164–5, 167, 168, 173, 234

Catholics 169, 214, 216, 219, 220, 221, 234–7, 241

Caunterbrigge, Johanna de 153

Caxton, William 187

celibacy

female 23, 60, 140, 171

male 37, 57

Cellier, Elizabeth 234–41, 248

Malice Defeated 239

The Matchless Picaro 239

Cellier, Pierre 236

Central America 200–8

Ceolthryth 72

Ceolwyn 72

cephalophore (head-carrying saint) 33–5, 45, 55 and note, 229

ceramics 52, 54, 114–16, 210–11, 212, 220

Chaco Canyon 209–13

chambre des dames 141–5, 174

Chang’an (Wei River) 38

Charlemagne the Great 90

Charles the Bald 90

Charles I 216, 217, 219, 230

Charles II 240

Charles River 216

Charles V 180

Château de Saumur (Loire Valley) 157

Châtelet, Emilie du 259

Chaucer, Geoffrey 176

Chelsea 247–8

Chester 80, 139

Chicago, Judy 188n

Dinner Party 30n, 87n, 114n

children 27 and note, 137, 152, 155, 161, 176, 193n, 204n

Chilperic I 42

China 38–42, 49, 213

Chretien de Troyes, Yvain: The Knight with the Lion 144–5, 184

Christians, Christianity 18–22, 65, 68, 76, 77, 109, 121, 128n, 134

Christina of Markyate 131–5, 139, 174

Christine de Pizan 157n, 180–8 and note, 227, 233, 247

‘The Book of Mutability of Fortune’ 182

‘The Book of the Path of Long Study’ 182

‘Christine’s Vision’ 182

Le Livre des fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V 182

‘Song of Jeanne d’Arc’ 185–6, 233

The Book of the City of Ladies 158, 182–5

Civil War (1642–51) 235, 244, 245

Clergue, Pierre 166, 167

Clergue, Raimond 165, 166

Clergues family 165 and note, 167

cloth production 47–51, 141, 156, 174

clothing 71–2, 105, 107, 141, 157 and note, 158, 169, 206–7, 225, 228

Cnut, King 137

Cogitosus, Vita 28

coins 68 and note

Coleshill 69, 70

Collins, Wilkie, No Name 193n

Colon, Bartolome 204–7

Colorado Plateau 209

Columbus, Christopher (Cristobal Colon) 204

commercial fraud 153

Confucians 38, 41

Conleth, bishop 28

Constantine the Great 11–12, 18, 120

Constantinople 8, 24, 93

Constantius, Emperor 11

convents 172, 181

Corday, Charlotte 259

Cordoba 82–7, 89

Coroners’ Rolls 152, 156, 161

Cortes, Hernan 201, 202–3

Cortes, Martin 203

Council of Nic?a (325 CE) 12

Coventry 2

Coyoacan 203

Crick (Northants) 1, 3

crime 151, 151–2

Croft, Constance Alexandra Corinna Johnson 1, 3

Croft, Kathleen 1

Croft, ‘Little’ Anne 2

Croft, Walter 1

Crofts, Harry Charles 1, 3

Cromwell, Oliver 219

Cuanza River 195, 196, 199

Cuba 203

cunning-women 107–9, 169

Cynelufu 73

Cynewulf 120, 121

Cyril, bishop of Alexandria 24, 26

Daedalus 144 and note

Danelaw 41, 80

Dangerfield, Thomas (‘Willoughby’) 237–8, 239

death 151–2

Defoe, Daniel 247, 252

Derby 81

Dhuoda 87–92

Dias de Novais, Paulo 195–6

Diaz del Castillo, Bernal, True History of the Conquest of New Spain 201–2

Dickens, Charles, Hard Times 145

Dickinson, Dr Tania 108

Diocletian, Emperor 18, 121

Dioscorides 83

Dissolution of the Monasteries (1536–41) 247

Dogon 210

Domesday survey 130, 138–40

Dominican Republic 204

Dorrud 121–2, 123

Doukakis, Constantine 95

Drake, Judith, ‘An essay in defence of the female sex’ 249

Drevlians 128n

drinking horns 70, 71

druids 27, 108–9

Dubthach 27

Dudley, Thomas 217

Dumbarton Oaks (Washington D.C.) 31

Dunaway, Faye 160

Durham Cathedral 49

Eadburg 72

Eadgar, King 68

Eadgifu (daughter of Wynfl?d) 69, 72

Eadgifu (weaver) 70

Eadm?r 69, 73

Eadwold 69, 73

Ealhswith 78

Eanfl?d of Northumbria 43, 44, 65–6

Early Medieval period 27, 36, 45, 47–51, 57–9, 68, 73, 114, 116, 128, 141, 212

East Anglia 64, 78, 119–20, 252

Easter 8, 12, 14, 65, 151

Ebbesborne 69

Ecgfrith of Northumbria 44, 60, 61

Edict of Milan (313 CE) 12

Edington, battle of (878) 78

Edith, Queen 136

education 84, 181, 184–5, 235, 243, 246–8, 250, 259

Eduvigia (slave girl) 224

Edward the Confessor 136

Edward the Elder 78, 79–80, 81

Edward II 160

Edward, King 73

Edwin of Northumbria 43, 65, 119, 120

Egeria the pilgrim 7–14, 19, 21, 24, 120, 178, 179, 227, 252

Egypt 8, 16–17

Eirik the Red 102

Eirik the Red’s Saga 99, 100, 103, 106

Elene see St Helena

Elizabeth I 214–16, 219

Elstob, Elizabeth 243, 248

Ely (East Anglia) 60, 61, 62, 252–3

Enlightenment, Age of 4, 38, 227, 259

Ermine Street 131

Etienne du Castel 181

Euclid 23, 83

Elements 22

Eulogia 31

Euochia 31

Euphrosyne 31

Faccombe 69

Fayum portraits 16–17, 19, 31

female deacons 21

Feng 41

Ferdinand, King 204, 206

Fiennes, Celia 14, 250–7

First Crusade (1095–9) 93

First World War 1

Five Boroughs 80, 81

Flambard, Ranulf, Bishop of Durham 132

Flamstead 133–4

Florence 230, 232n

Foix, Comte de 164

folk remedies 110–14

fonts (baptismal ‘tanks’) 20–1

Forster, E.

M., Howards End 193n

fosterage (fostering) 27 and note, 99

Foting, Godieyva 153

Foting, Sarra 153

Fournier, Jacques, bishop of Pamiers 163 and note

Francia 90

Freawaru 118

Fredegunda, Queen 42–3

Freja (goddess) 106

Freydis 102–3, 123

Fulbert, canon 147, 149

Fyrkat (Jutland) 105

Galen 111

Galicia 8

Gamurrini, J. F. 8

Gandersheim (Lower Saxony) 86

Gaozong, Emperor 40, 41

Gaozu, Emperor 38

Garrard, Mary 228

Gaul 8

Gentileschi, Artemisia 187, 227, 228–34

Judith and her Maidservant 232

Judith Slaying Holofernes 229

Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting 228 and note, 229

Susanna and the Elders 229, 233

Gentileschi, Orazio 229

Gentileschi, Prudentia 229

Geoffrey, abbot of St Albans 134–5

Germany 175, 176

Gibbons, Edward 26

Gisla (widow) 143–4

Glaumbaer (Iceland) 104

Gloucester 80

Gloucester, Sir Walter 159

Gloys, Sir James 189

Godwin, William 249

Goldington (Bedfordshire) 152

Goneril 33

Grantchester 62

grave-goods see burials

Great Ouse, River 13

Green, Monica 112–13

Greenland 99, 101

‘Greenlandic Lay of Atli’ 126

Gregory of Tours 42

Grendel 117, 118, 119

Groot Begijnhof (Leuven) 175

Gudrid Thorbjarnardottir 14, 98, 99–105, 106, 203n, 212–13, 227

Gulf of Suez 11

Gurhann 70

Gytha Thorkelsdottir 139

Hadrian, Emperor 12

Halldis 99

Halstock (Dorset) 33–4

Han Dynasty 42

handmaids of God 18–22

Hari (puppet king) 196

Harold, King 136, 137

Hartlepool 43

Harvard University 216

Hastings, Battle of (1066) 130, 137

Hawara 17

Hedenstierna-Jonson, Charlotte 125

Helena, Empress 11, 12

Heloïse 146–51

Henry III 151

Henry V 185

Herlihy, David 155

Opera Muliebria: Women and Work in Medieval Europe 51, 141, 142–3

hermits 134, 172 and note

heroic queens 117–23

Hestia Polyolbus (hearth-goddess) 17, 31–3

Hexham 61

Hispaniola (now Haiti) 204

Hobbes, Thomas 249

Hobro (Jutland) 105

Holofernes (Old Testament) 121, 229, 230–2

Holy Land 8, 12, 93, 120, 178

Holy Roman Empire 90, 173

Holywell (Flintshire) 34

Honduras 203

Hopi 210

horses 73, 178

Hospital of St Cross (Rugby) 1, 2

Hrothgar, King 117

Hrotsvitha 86–7 and note

Huaca Cao Viejo (Peru) 51

Humilitate movement 175 and note

Huntingdon 131

Hutchinson, Anne 216–17

hydrometer 23

Hygd, Queen 117

Hygelac, King 117

Hypatia of Alexandria 22–6

Iamcilla 18

Ibn Zaydun 85–6

Iceland 99–105

Igor, King 128n

illuminations see paintings, illuminations

Inglesham 69

inheritance 35–6, 59, 61, 69–70, 85, 139, 190, 212, 222–3

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