Prehistoric and Bronze Age Images of Women

Women in ancient Mesopotamia

Women in ancient Egypt

Women of the ancient Hebrews

Women in ancient and medieval India, Hinduism and Buddhism

Women in ancient and medieval China

Women in medieval Japan

Women in ancient Greece

Women in the Roman Empire

Women in Byzantium

Women in early Christianity

Women in the Medieval Islamic World

Women in the Medieval African Kingdoms

Women in Medieval Europe

Was there a Renaissance for Women?

Women in the Protestant Reformation

General Resources

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Women in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds Main Page

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Women in Renaissance Europe

 

Interactive Exploration of Medieval and Renaissance Women

Renaissance Women Online a collection of texts

Italian Renaissance Women's Names

Renaissance Women: An Insight into 1 Henry IV

Women Artists of the Renaissance

Women Minstrels of the Renaissance and Baroque

Review of Renaissance Women Patrons

Upper class women of the Italian Renaissance excerpt from Jacob Burckhardt's Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

Transgressing Boundaries: Women's Writing in the Renaissance and Reformation by Janet Clare

Women and Art in the Renaissance

Women in the Renaissance complete texts of several articles and monographs from Questia

Famous Women of the Renaissance

Neoplatonism affected the way women were depicted in the art of the Italian Renaissance. Such artists as Botticelli, Titian, and others created various feminine representations of sacred and profone love.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Above: Bust of Nefertiti from the Berlin Museum

Below: Bust of Cleopatra