Our Mother the University: Maternal Roles and Higher Education in the Middle Ages

• Alan B. Cobban, The Medieval Universities: Their Development and Organization (London, 1975)
• C. H. Haskins, ‘The Life of Mediaeval Students as Illustrated by their Letters’ in his Studies in Mediaeval Culture (New York, 1929), pp. 1-35
• Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (Philadelphia, 2003)
• Ruth Mazo Karras, ‘Separating the Men from the Goats: Masculinity, Civilization, and Identity Formation in the Medieval University’, in Conflicted Identities and Multiple Masculinities: Men in the Medieval West, ed. Jacqueline Murray (Garland, 1999), pp. 189-214
• The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe, ed. by Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras (Oxford, 2013)

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