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Women: Medieval, Renaissance, Early Modern   (rev. 8/17/08)

See also the very complete OVIEME series bibliographies available on this site: secondary and primary

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Bardsley, Sandy. Venomous Tongues : Speech and Gender in Late Medieval England. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.

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Broomhall, Susan M. Women and the Book Trade in Sixteenth-Century France. Aldershot-Burlington VT: Ashgate, 2002.

Chonajcka, Monica. Working Women of Early Modern Venice. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

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Cholakian, Patricia Francis and Rouben Charles Cholakian. Marguerite De Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.

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Crabb, Ann. The Strozzi of Florence: Widowhood and Family Solidarity in the Renaissance. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000.

Crawford, Katherine. Perilous Performances: Gender and Regency in Early Modern France. Cambridge MA: Harvard Unviersity Press, 2004.

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Harness, Kelley Ann. Echoes of Women's Voices: Music, Art, and Female Patronage in Early Modern Florence. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

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Staub, Susan C. Nature's Cruel Stepdames: Murderous Women in the Street Literature of Seventeenth-Century England. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 2005.

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Strinati, Claudio M., Carole Collier Frick, Elizabeth S. G. Nicholson, Vera Fortunati Pietrantonio, and Jordana Pomeroy. Italian Women Artists: From Renaissance to Baroque, edited by National Museum of Women in the Arts, Sylvestre Verger Art Organisation. Milan-New York: Skira; distributed in North America by Rizzoli International, 2007.

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