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Medieval Women to improve/ create

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Crowd Sourced Worklist
Article	Task	Sources
AEthelthryth	References and Sources section being separate is somewhat confusing.	n/a
Christina of Markyate	n/a	n/a
Elizabeth Paston	n/a	n/a
Christina of Markyate	n/a	n/a
Heloise	French speakers can find much to translate from French wikipedia into English	n/a
Hilde	Related work on the Caedmon article, with regards to historicity by Lees and Overing. they call the Caedmon story a 'patriarchal myth' p. 26. Lees and Overing note that 'Caedmon is the so-called "father" of English poetry', and discuss that 'the elevation of an illiterate laborer Caedmon to divinely inspired poet (and almost saint) has acquired the quasimythological status of an originary narrative'.	n/a
Hildegard of Bingen	n/a	n/a
Isotta Nogarola	Claire 75 worked on this in 2018	n/a
Margaret (the Lame) of Magdeburg (ca. 1210-1250)	n/a	n/a
Margery Kempe	n/a	Sarah Salih, Versions of Virginity in Late Medieval England (D.S. Brewer, 2001) Laura Varnam, ‘The crucifix, the Pietà, and the female mystic: Devotional objects and performative identity in The Book of Margery Kempe’. Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 41 (2015): 208-237. Laura Varnam, ‘The Importance of St Margaret's Church in 'The Book of Margery Kempe': A Sacred Place and an Exemplary Parishioner’. Nottingham Medieval Studies (2017) Williams, Laura K. ""Slayn for Goddys lofe": Margery Kempe's Melancholia and the Bleeding of Tears." Medieval Feminist Forum 52.1 (2016) : 84-100
Pega	* Add content from primary sources to flesh out details of her life, plus can include a few citations of contemporary scholars.	Fiona J. Griffiths, 'Siblings and the Sexes Within the Medieval Religious Life' Church History 77.1 (2008), 26-53 Wiesje Nijenhuis, 'In a Class of Their Own, Anglo-Saxon Female Saints', Mediaevistik 14 (2001), 125-48 Walter de Gray Birch, Memorials of St Guthlac of Crowland (Wisbech: 1881) Robin Norris, 'The Augustinian Theory of Use and Enjoyment in “Guthlac A” and “B”', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 104.2 (2003), 159-178 Primary sources: Chronicon ex chronicis (1140); Felix’s Life of Saint Guthlac: Text, Translation and Notes, ed. Bertram Colgrave (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); MS. Dd. Xi. 78, University Library, Cambridge; Harley Roll Y6, Roundel 15, BL; Jane Roberts, The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979)
Tamta Mqargrdzeli	n/a	Anthony Eastmond, Tamta’s World: The Life and Encounters of a Medieval Noblewoman from the Middle East to Mongolia (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017)
Guntrud	n/a	Brief mention found here: Verhoeve, Yves-Mary. “LE ROYAUME LOMBARD ET LES DUCHÉS : FORMES ET MOYENS D'UNE INTÉGRATION PROGRESSIVE.” Médiévales, no. 51, 2006, pp. 21–36.

Wikidata Redlist

The #MedievalWiki Wikidata Redlist shows women from across the globe who lived between 400-1600 CE.

Women in Green list

Check out the Women in Green list: several medieval women's pages flagged as pages to turn into Good Articles. See good article criteria here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Good_article_criteria

Eleanor of Aquitaine [Currently B-Class, EriedgenArc (talk) 12:51, 26 August 2025 (UTC)]
Fatima [Currently B-Class, EriedgenArc (talk) 12:51, 26 August 2025 (UTC)]
Isabella I of Castile [Currently B-Class, EriedgenArc (talk) 12:51, 26 August 2025 (UTC)]
Christine de Pizan [Currently B-Class, EriedgenArc (talk) 12:51, 26 August 2025 (UTC)]
Boudica has made it to GA, as of December 2022!

Medieval Texts/ Histories/ Material Culture to improve/ create

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Texts, Histories, Culture
Article	Suggested Changes
Anglo-Saxon riddles	Suggest structural reorganisation, thinking about adaptations and variety of translations, and taking into account new scholarship. Reference to The Riddle Ages blog
Bayeux Tapestry	Gale Owen Crocker's work on embroidery
Beowulf	Suggest that 'Translations' section is given its own page? Update of information to include more recent work by women across entire page Bear in mind existence of page 'list of artistic depictions of Beowulf'. Translations and artistic depictions of Beowulf?
The Canterbury Tales	~~Patience Agbabi in 'adaptations'~~ Caroline Bergvall in 'adaptations' [NB: Hard to find a source for this, please note if you can!] ~~Marvin Gaye Chetwynd in 'versions' or 'adaptations'~~
Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis
Katherine Group	so much to add here! Sarah Salih, etc.
Norse mythology	Update with information with recent scholarly work by women
Old English rune poem	Maureen Halsall is featured on this page, however further interpretations and references can be added from her major book on the poem.
Opus Anglicanum
Ravenser Odd	Very short article. Any new information that can be added following Kathryn Maude's project?
The Seafarer (poem)	General problems with structure, and update of interpretation sections
Sutton Hoo	Mercie Lack and Barbara Wagstaff, photographers Work of Angela Care Evans as curator at British Museum Helen Geake Sue Brunning as curator at British Museum Sutton Hoo Society
Wulf and Eadwacer	To add section on translations and adaptations: Kevin Crossley-Holland, Michael Alexander, Paul Muldoon, Fiona Sampson, Vahni Capildeo, Burton Raffel, FEN, Hamish Clayton, Blood Axis, Kerry Carnahan, Generally lacking in recent work by women across entire page. Update to include work by Marijane Osborne, Jane Chance, Stacy Klein, Marilynn Desmond, Christine Fell, Shari Horner, Helen Bennett.

Contemporary scholars and artists to improve/ create

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Note that some of these women have well developed pages, but missing references to work in medieval studies or medievalism.

Please observe alphabetical by first name listing. Names that appear in red require pages created for them.

Pages for Improvement
Name (and title)	Notes
Angela Care Evans	n/a
Antonette diPaolo Healey	n/a
Barbara Hanawalt	n/a
Carol Braun Pasternack	n/a
Caroline Bergvall	n/a
Carolyne Larrington	n/a
Charlotte Roueché	n/a
Clare Lees	n/a
Dyan Elliott	n/a
Elizabeth A. Clark	n/a
E. Ann Matter	n/a
Elizabeth Jeffreys	Byzantine Historian
Émilienne Demougeot	Page requires expansion
Eva Matthews Sanford	n/a
Fiona Sampson	n/a
Geraldine Heng	n/a
Haruko Momma	n/a
Heather O'Donoghue	n/a
Henrietta Leyser	n/a
Janet Bately	Major expansion needed
Julia Crick	n/a
Julia Hillner	n/a
Julia Smith	n/a
Karla Pollmann	n/a
Lavinia Greenlaw	n/a
Lellia Cracco Ruggini	n/a
Lisa C. M. Weston	n/a
Liz Herbert McAvoy	n/a
Liz James	n/a
Madeline H. Caviness	n/a
Margaret Wade Labarge	n/a
Marie Kelleher	n/a
Marijane Osborn	~~Add ref. to her work on page Translations and interpretations of Beowulf.~~ Add ref. to her work on various Medieval pages: Anglo-Saxon runes, interpretation of the Wanderer, Medieval Romance. Find evidence of her early Film making
Maureen Duffy	n/a
Maureen Tilley	n/a
Marvin Gaye Chetwynd	n/a
Monica Green (historian)	Page needs expanding, partic on her important work on medieval medicine, genetics, women's health
Nancy Campbell	n/a
Patricia Cox Miller	n/a
Patience Agbabi	n/a
Rosalind Love	Created Feb 2020, but need to add much more!
Ruth Dean	n/a
Sharon Morris	n/a
Sonia Chadwick Hawkes	n/a
Susanna Elm	n/a
Tai Shani	n/a
Vahni Capildeo	n/a
Vera I. Evison	(obituary; Festschrift; Scholia)
Virginia Burrus	n/a

Pages for Creation
Name (and title)	Notes
Barbara Raw, Professor Emeritus of the University of Keele	n/a
Bonnie Wheeler	n/a
Candace Barrington NCS President (til 2026)	n/a
Professor Elizabeth Robertson	n/a
E. Jane Burns	n/a
Emma Dillon	n/a
Jo Ann MacNamara	n/a
Kate Mary Warren, lecturer at Westfield College, University of London circa 1909.	Taught by Stopford Brook (he writes the introduction to her 'A Treasury of English Literature', and he is thanked in her introduction to her translation of 'Piers the Plowman', 1895.. Contributed to the Catholic Encyclopedia https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Kate_Mary_Warren . she is cited by Wordsworth https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xtAIAAAAQAAJ&dq=i%20ventured%20many%20battles%20in%20my%20youth&pg=PA323#v=onepage&q=i%20ventured%20many%20battles%20in%20my%20youth&f=false
Laurie Finke	n/a
Leonie Hicks	Has written a book on the Normans
Louise Wilkinson - Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Lincoln	n/a
Margot H King, translator of biographies of C13th holy women - incl. Christina Mirabilis, Marie of Oignies, Lutgard of Aywières	Involved with 1980s feminist publishing house Peregrina Publishing (Toronto)? Compiler (with Ludo Jongen) of The Holy Women of Liège: A Bibliography Died 2018 Obituary
Meghan Purvis	n/a
Michelle M. Sauer	n/a
Nellie Slayton Aurner	n/a
Queynte Laydies	n/a
Roberta (Bonnie) Krueger	n/a
Ruth Evans (medievalist) former president of NCS	n/a
Sarah Salih	n/a
Sarah Stanbury	n/a
Sonia Marzinzik	n/a
Sue Margeson	(Guardian obituary, Scholia profile)
Susan Crane (medievalist) former President of NCS	n/a
Thelma Fenster	n/a
Valerie Fenwick	New obituary, https://doi.org/10.1080/10572414.2025.2477390 (paywall) International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Volume 54, 2025 - Issue 1 free to read obituary https://maritimearchaeologytrust.org/6591-afigea/

Red List from Wikidata

Go to Wikipedia:WikiProject MedievalWiki/Wikidata Contemporary Scholars List for a list of contemporary women medievalists who do not have pages on English Wikipedia.

Journals, Societies, and Research Projects

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Dictionary of Old English

Information to be added regarding editors and scholarly work done associated with the project.

Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship

More on committee history, significant events, and prize winners.

New Chaucer Society

Information on history, committee, and the journal, 'Studies in the Age of Chaucer'.

International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England

References

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↑ Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812236289.
↑ Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. p. 11. ISBN 0812236289.
↑ Warren, Mary. "Treasury".
↑ Warren, Mary. "Piers the Plowman".

[1] Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0812236289.

[2] Lees, Clare A.; Overing, Gillian R. (2001). Double agents : women and clerical culture in Anglo-Saxon England. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. p. 11. ISBN 0812236289.

[3] Warren, Mary. "Treasury".

[4] Warren, Mary. "Piers the Plowman".