Describes the dangers of pregnancy and child birth faced by expectant mothers during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
Medieval Sourcebook provides a text from 1392 relating cooking and marriage expectations of an elderly Parisian to his new young wife.
Source Book provides a document from 944 in which Ulric declares his matrimonial longings toward Ermengarde.
Katherine Rogers offers an outline of the misogynistic attitudes regarding marriage, women's rights, and sex in the Medieval world.
Medieval Sourcebook offers a translated excerpt from the Monumenta Iuris Canonici regarding the legalities of the sale of a daughter.
Medieval Sourcebook offers a translation of two sermons given by St. Bernardino in 1427 aimed at giving marriage advice to women.
Medieval Sourcebook offers a translation of a legal document regarding a Medieval love triangle. Taken from the Letter Book of William of Hoo.