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Primary Sources in Medieval Women's Studies

These sites offer documents and physical evidence from the medieval period relating to individual women, women's lives and the status of women in medieval society.
Primary Sources in Women's History
Collections of and directories to original speeches, articles, books, quotations and poems by women of history, plus photographs and other clipart and images of notable women, provided by About Guide to Women's History Jone Johnson Lewis.
The Goodman of Paris
The Goodman's text was written by a merchant as a guide to wifely duties, particularly in buying and preparing food, for his much younger bride. Eileen Power's translation of the late 14th-century text is provided by Paul Halsall at the Medieval Sourcebook.
Paston letters and papers of the fifteenth century
Collection of documents from the Paston family, online at the Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library.

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