From Adam's Rib? -- Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe

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The Wives of Henry VIII
The Wives of Henry VIII 4.11 avg rating — 18,966 ratings
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The Book of the City of Ladies
The Book of the City of Ladies 3.80 avg rating — 4,255 ratings
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The Life of Elizabeth I
The Life of Elizabeth I 4.03 avg rating — 32,631 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Six Wives of Henry VIII 4.12 avg rating — 72,136 ratings
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The Lais of Marie de France
The Lais of Marie de France 3.83 avg rating — 9,665 ratings
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The Wife of Bath
The Wife of Bath 3.60 avg rating — 4,617 ratings
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The Heptameron
The Heptameron 3.59 avg rating — 1,417 ratings
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Mary Queen of Scots
Mary Queen of Scots 3.99 avg rating — 17,292 ratings
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Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess
Katherine Swynford: The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess 3.86 avg rating — 5,711 ratings
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The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse
The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse 3.68 avg rating — 5,584 ratings
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The Warrior Queens
The Warrior Queens 3.71 avg rating — 2,784 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life 3.93 avg rating — 16,522 ratings
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The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici
The Tigress of Forlì: Renaissance Italy's Most Courageous and Notorious Countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de Medici 4.07 avg rating — 2,809 ratings
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Saint Joan
Saint Joan 3.78 avg rating — 9,495 ratings
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The Sisters Who Would Be Queen
The Sisters Who Would Be Queen 3.90 avg rating — 5,763 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England 3.77 avg rating — 7,831 ratings
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She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth 4.04 avg rating — 8,384 ratings
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Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII 4.13 avg rating — 10,096 ratings
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Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe 3.89 avg rating — 4,568 ratings
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The Weaker Vessel
The Weaker Vessel 3.92 avg rating — 1,424 ratings
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The Book of Margery Kempe
The Book of Margery Kempe 3.30 avg rating — 4,810 ratings
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Revelations of Divine Love
Revelations of Divine Love 3.97 avg rating — 7,747 ratings
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Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne
Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne 4.01 avg rating — 15,666 ratings
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
by: Jane Dunn
4.07 avg rating — 12,140 ratings
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Women in the Middle Ages
Women in the Middle Ages 3.77 avg rating — 862 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography 4.08 avg rating — 1,375 ratings
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Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook
Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook 3.98 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France 3.96 avg rating — 8,375 ratings
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Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women 4.20 avg rating — 852 ratings
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Lucrezia Borgia
Lucrezia Borgia 3.78 avg rating — 1,040 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings
by: Amy Kelly
3.95 avg rating — 968 ratings
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The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn
by: Eric Ives
4.20 avg rating — 10,529 ratings
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The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English
The Empress Matilda: Queen Consort, Queen Mother and Lady of the English 3.93 avg rating — 135 ratings
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Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc 3.71 avg rating — 177 ratings
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The Lady in Medieval England 1000-1500
The Lady in Medieval England 1000-1500 3.78 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen 3.92 avg rating — 253 ratings
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Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias
Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias 4.02 avg rating — 465 ratings
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Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia
Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia 4.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself 4.15 avg rating — 2,901 ratings
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The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn 3.98 avg rating — 14,167 ratings
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Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World
Who Cooked the Last Supper: The Women's History of the World 3.80 avg rating — 4,175 ratings
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Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII
Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII 4.07 avg rating — 1,399 ratings
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Marie Stuart
Marie Stuart 4.21 avg rating — 5,509 ratings
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The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice
The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice 3.85 avg rating — 436 ratings
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Women of the Twelfth Century, Vol 1: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Six Others
Women of the Twelfth Century, Vol 1: Eleanor of Aquitaine and Six Others 3.80 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen 4.03 avg rating — 2,773 ratings
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My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
My Heart Is My Own: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots
by: John Guy
3.94 avg rating — 5,223 ratings
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The Vision of Christine de Pizan
The Vision of Christine de Pizan 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Medieval Women
Medieval Women 3.95 avg rating — 510 ratings
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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of her Works 3.63 avg rating — 35 ratings
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The Book of the Rewards of Life: Liber Vitae Meritorum
The Book of the Rewards of Life: Liber Vitae Meritorum really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Interior Castle
Interior Castle 4.16 avg rating — 9,144 ratings
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Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I 4.16 avg rating — 7,058 ratings
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Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts
Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: An Anthology of Medieval Texts 3.96 avg rating — 90 ratings
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Hadewijch: The Complete Works
Hadewijch: The Complete Works
by: Hadewijch
4.17 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art
Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art 4.39 avg rating — 322 ratings
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Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth I 3.95 avg rating — 245 ratings
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Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy
Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy 3.68 avg rating — 910 ratings
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Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue
Catherine of Siena: The Dialogue 4.37 avg rating — 1,047 ratings
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Hildegard Of Bingen: Mystical Writings (Crossroad Spirtual Classics Series)
Hildegard Of Bingen: Mystical Writings (Crossroad Spirtual Classics Series) 3.96 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age
Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age 3.72 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing
Hildegard von Bingen's Physica: The Complete English Translation of Her Classic Work on Health and Healing 4.17 avg rating — 269 ratings
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Collected Works
Collected Works 4.38 avg rating — 224 ratings
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The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England 4.06 avg rating — 461 ratings
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The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy
The Deadly Sisterhood: A Story of Women and Power in Renaissance Italy 3.38 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Tuscan Countess: The Life and Extraordinary Times of Matilda of Canossa (Mark Magowan Books)
Tuscan Countess: The Life and Extraordinary Times of Matilda of Canossa (Mark Magowan Books) 3.58 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy 3.72 avg rating — 4,657 ratings
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Sofonisba Anguissola: A Renaissance Woman
Sofonisba Anguissola: A Renaissance Woman 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Vittoria Colonna: A Woman's Renaissance; An Approach to Her Life and to Herself
Vittoria Colonna: A Woman's Renaissance; An Approach to Her Life and to Herself 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty
Margaret Beaufort: Mother of the Tudor Dynasty 3.93 avg rating — 575 ratings
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Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls
Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls 4.06 avg rating — 321 ratings
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A History of Women in the West. Vol 3. Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes
A History of Women in the West. Vol 3. Renaissance and the Enlightenment Paradoxes 4.35 avg rating — 89 ratings
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The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere
The Pope's Daughter: The Extraordinary Life of Felice della Rovere 3.74 avg rating — 646 ratings
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A History of Women: Silences of the Middle Ages (History of Women in the West, Vol 2)
A History of Women: Silences of the Middle Ages (History of Women in the West, Vol 2) 4.13 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100
Women in Early Medieval Europe, 400-1100 3.74 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France
The Sisters of Henry VIII: The Tumultuous Lives of Margaret of Scotland and Mary of France 3.92 avg rating — 2,693 ratings
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Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen
Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen 3.97 avg rating — 3,279 ratings
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Travels with a Medieval Queen
Travels with a Medieval Queen 3.21 avg rating — 97 ratings
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Women in Medieval Europe: 1200-1500
Women in Medieval Europe: 1200-1500 3.98 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I
Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I 3.90 avg rating — 1,659 ratings
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Becoming Visible: Women in European History
Becoming Visible: Women in European History 3.70 avg rating — 61 ratings
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The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey
The Nine Days Queen: A Portrait of Lady Jane Grey 3.95 avg rating — 136 ratings
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Mary Tudor: A Life
Mary Tudor: A Life 3.97 avg rating — 190 ratings
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Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism
Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism 3.79 avg rating — 205 ratings
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Vision: The Life and Music of Hildegard Von Bingen
Vision: The Life and Music of Hildegard Von Bingen 3.63 avg rating — 54 ratings
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Elizabeth and Essex
Elizabeth and Essex 3.74 avg rating — 564 ratings
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The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age
The Virgin Queen: Elizabeth I, Genius of the Golden Age 4.12 avg rating — 1,663 ratings
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love 3.75 avg rating — 30,045 ratings
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Emma: The Twice-Crowned Queen: England in the Viking Age
Emma: The Twice-Crowned Queen: England in the Viking Age 3.23 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion
Fragmentation and Redemption: Essays on Gender and the Human Body in Medieval Religion 4.34 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Alexiad
The Alexiad 4.06 avg rating — 1,272 ratings
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Elizabeth the Great
Elizabeth the Great 4.15 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook: A Sourcebook
Women and Writing in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook: A Sourcebook 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Writings of Medieval Women: An Anthology
The Writings of Medieval Women: An Anthology really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World
Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World 3.77 avg rating — 132 ratings
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Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century France
Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century France 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's Favourite Wife
Jane Seymour: Henry VIII's Favourite Wife 3.25 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses
Blood Sisters: The Women Behind The Wars Of The Roses 3.96 avg rating — 2,228 ratings
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Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII 4.15 avg rating — 2,237 ratings
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Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII
Catherine of Aragon: The Spanish Queen of Henry VIII 4.13 avg rating — 4,394 ratings
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