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According to Wikipedia, Ruth Mazo Karras is an American historian and author of the Middle Ages whose interests are masculinity and sexuality in Christian and Jewish society during the Middle Ages. Her book, Unmarriages: Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages, was named co-winner of the American Historical Association's Joan Kelly Memorial Prize in Women's History for 2012.

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Common Women: Prostitution and Sexuality in Medieval England (1998) (149)
From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe (2002) (138)
Sexuality in Medieval Europe : Doing Unto Others (2012) (123)
The Midwife and the Church: Ecclesiastical Regulation of Midwives in Brie, 1499-1504 (2011) (90)
Holy Harlots: prostitute saints in medieval legend. (1990) (73)
Active/Passive, Acts/Passions: Greek and Roman Sexualities (2000) (71)
The Oxford handbook of women and gender in medieval Europe (2013) (71)
Slavery and society in medieval Scandinavia (1988) (55)
The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England (1989) (46)
Gendered Sin and Misogyny in John of Bromyard's ‘Summa Predicantium’ (1992) (38)
Prostitution and the Question of Sexual Identity in Medieval Europe (1999) (36)
Sexuality in Medieval Europe (2005) (36)
Concubinage and Slavery in the Viking Age (1990) (31)
Thomas Aquinas’s Chastity Belt: Clerical Masculinity in Medieval Europe (2008) (19)
The Interrogation of a Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London (1995) (17)
Sex and the Singlewoman (1999) (13)
Friendship and love in the lives of two twelfth-century English saints (1988) (13)
Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England: A Study of the Memoriale Presbiterorum (2001) (13)
The regulation of sexuality in the late Middle Ages: England and France. (2011) (12)
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe (2008) (12)
Women's Labors: Reproduction and Sex Work in Medieval Europe (2004) (10)
Ut Cum Muliere: A Male Transvestite Prostitute in Fourteenth-Century London (1996) (10)
The history of marriage and the myth of Friedelehe (2006) (10)
Homoeroticism and Chivalry: Discourses of Male Same-Sex Desire in the Fourteenth Century (2005) (9)
This Skill in a Woman is By No Means to Be Despised (2004) (9)
Quantitation of circulating wild-type alpha-1-antitrypsin in heterozygous carriers of the S and Z deficiency alleles (2015) (9)
The Latin Vocabulary of Illicit Sex in English Ecclesiastical Court Records (1992) (7)
John/Eleanor Rykener Revisited (2016) (6)
Desire, Descendants, and Dominance: Slavery, the Exchange of Women, and Masculine Power: Servitude, Slavery, and Labor in Medieval England (1994) (6)
Marriage and the creation of kin in the sagas (2003) (5)
Thou Art the Man (2021) (5)
The Making of Romantic Love: Longing and Sexuality in Europe, South Asia, and Japan, 900–1200 CE, by William M. Reddy (2015) (5)
William Langland's "Piers Plowman": The C Version (1997) (4)
The Lechery That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Sodomy and the Vices in Medieval England: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages (2005) (4)
Servitude And Sexuality In Medieval Iceland (1992) (4)
Sexuality in the middle ages (2001) (4)
Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century (2016) (4)
Invisible Women (2009) (4)
Sex, Money, and Prostitution in Medieval English Culture (1996) (4)
Marriage, Concubinage, and the Law (2008) (4)
Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians (2013) (3)
The Regulation of “Sodomy” in the Latin East and West (2020) (3)
Review of Friendship and Love, Ethics and Politics: Studies in Mediaeval and Early Modern History, by Eva Österberg (2010) (3)
‘Because the other is a poor woman, she shall be called his wench’: Gender, Sexuality, and Social Status in Late Medieval England (2003) (3)
Two Models, Two Standards: Moral Teaching and Sexual Mores: Intersections of Literature and History in Fifteen (1996) (3)
Sharing Wine, Women, and Song: Masculine Identity Formation in Medieval European Universities (1997) (3)
The Aerial Battle in the Toledot Yeshu and Sodomy in the Late Middle Ages (2013) (3)
Review of Prostitution i Helsingfors--en studie i kvinnokontroll [Prostitution in Helsinki: A Study in Control of Women] by Margaretha Järvinen (1992) (3)
Seventh-Century Jewellery from Frisia: A Re-Examination (1985) (2)
Response: Identity, Sexuality, and History (1999) (2)
The Virgin and the Pregnant Abbess: Miracles and Gender in the Middle Ages (1991) (2)
Power over the Body, Equality in the Family: Rights and Domestic Relations in Medieval Canon Law (review) (2006) (2)
Separating the Men from the Goats: Masculinity, Civilization, and Identity Formation in the Medieval University (1999) (2)
Chapter 4. Rabbis, Readers, and the Paris Book Trade: Understanding French Halakhic Literature in the Thirteenth Century (2016) (2)
A Life of Ill Repute: Public Prostitution in the Middle Ages. By Maria Serena Mazzi (trans. Joyce Meyerson) (Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press, 2020) 160 pp. $110.00 cloth $29.95 paperback and e-book (2020) (2)
Young Knights Under the Feminine Gaze: Youth in Society 1150-1650 (2002) (1)
Using Women to Think With in the Medieval University (2004) (1)
Chapter 3. Bible and Politics: A Correspondence Between Rabbenu Tam and the Authorities of Champagne (2016) (1)
Review of The Lord’s First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage, by Alain Boureau (1999) (1)
Chapter 10. Matter, Meaning, and Maimonides: The Material Text as an Early Modern Map of Thirteenth-Century Debates on Translation (2016) (1)
Leccherous Songys: Medieval Sexuality in Word and Deed: Social Control and Artistic Creation in the Europe (1998) (1)
Birgit Sawyer and Peter Sawyer. Medieval Scandinavia: From Conversion to Reformation, circa 800–1500. (The Nordic Series, number 17.) Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1993. Pp. xvi, 265. Cloth $44.95, paper $19.95 (1995) (1)
Reproducing Medieval Christianity (2014) (1)
Chapter 2. Nahmanides’ Four Senses of Scriptural Signification: Jewish and Christian Contexts (2016) (1)
Early Twelfth-Century Bohemian Coinage in Light of a Hoard of Vladislav I (1985) (1)
Prostitution in Medieval Europe: A Book of Essays (1996) (1)
Sex and the Middle Ages (2017) (1)
Books under Suspicion: Censorship and Tolerance of Revelatory Writing in Late Medieval England. Introduction (2007) (1)
Chapter 7. From Christian Devotion to Jewish Sorcery: The Curious History of Wax Figurines in Medieval Europe (2016) (1)
Chapter 6. Jews in and out of Latin Notarial Culture: Analyzing Hebrew Notations on Latin Contracts in Thirteenth-Century Perpignan and Barcelona (2016) (1)
Linda Olson and Kathryn Kerby‐Fulton, editors. Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages. :Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages. (2006) (1)
13.01.09, Simons, The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe (2013) (1)
Disciplines, Institutions—and Desires (2016) (1)
14.10.03, Beattie and Stevens, Married Women and the Law (2014) (0)
Olaf Pedersen, The First Universities: “Studium generale” and the Origins of University Education in Europe . Trans. Richard North. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 310; 3 diagrams and 2 tables. $64.95. (2002) (0)
Masculine Sexuality and a Double Standard in Early Thirteenth-Century Flanders? (2010) (0)
Knighthood, Compulsory Heterosexuality, and Sodomy: Essays on Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homo (2006) (0)
Review of Sodomy, Masculinity, and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050-1230, by William E. Burgwinkle (2008) (0)
Chapter 11. Pollution and Purity in Near Eastern Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Crusading Rhetoric (2016) (0)
Leslie Brubaker and Julia M. H. Smith, editors. Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300–900. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 333. Cloth $80.00, paper $29.99 (2005) (0)
Albrecht Classen. The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process. (The New Middle Ages.) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2007. Pp. x, 222. $69.95 (2009) (0)
Kathleen Biddick, The Shock of Medievalism. Duke University Press, 1998 (1999) (0)
‘A Scandal to the Whole Clergy’: Priests and their Partners (2008) (0)
Review of Woman is a Worthy Wight: Women in English Society c. 1200-1500, ed. P.J.P. Goldberg (1992) (0)
Review of Medieval Marriage: Symbolism and Society by David d’Avray (2006) (0)
Review of Holiness and Masculinity in the Middle Ages, ed. P.H. Cullum and Katherine J. Lewis (2006) (0)
Recent Work on Medieval English Society (1996) (0)
Afterword 1 (2019) (0)
Marriage in Medieval Europe (2021) (0)
Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900–1300, by Elisabeth van Houts (2020) (0)
AUTHORSHIP AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE: (2020) (0)
Sex and Marriage (2017) (0)
Deviance and Power in Late Medieval London. Frank Rexroth , Pamela E. Selwyn (2008) (0)
Chapter 9. Marriage, Concubinage, and the Law (2008) (0)
Man to Man: Desire, Homosociality, and Authority in Late-Roman Manhood by Mark Masterson (review) (2015) (0)
Reviews of Books: Europe: Ancient anf Medieval (1999) (0)
:The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process.(The New Middle Ages.) (2009) (0)
The christianization of medieval marriage (2014) (0)
David and Bathsheba: Masculine Sexuality in Medieval Judaism and Christianity (2018) (0)
Review of Harvey, The Creation of a Community: The City of Wells in the Middle Ages, by David Gary Shaw, and Wife and Widow in Medieval England, ed. by Sue Sheridan Walker (1996) (0)
Jenny Jochens, Women in Old Norse Society . Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. xv, 266; black-and-white frontispiece. (1997) (0)
Review of The Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power, and Social Change 1000-1300, by Orri Vésteinsson (2001) (0)
Reviewo f The Other Economy: Pastoral Husbandry on a Medieval Estate, by Kathleen Biddick (1990) (0)
13.09.16, Schmugge, Marriage on Trial (2013) (0)
The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings (review) (2003) (0)
Appendix: Table of Major Additions, Omissions, and Transpositions of Material in the C Version (1997) (0)
Analyses of Silver Content in a Hoard of Twelfth-Century Bohemian Pennies (1988) (0)
English Aristocratic Women, 1450-1550: Marriage and Family, Property and Careers. Barbara J. Harris (2004) (0)
Review of Hochon's Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts, by Paul Strohm (1994) (0)
Papacy, Monarchy and Marriage, 860–1600 by D. L. D’Avray (review) (2016) (0)
Review of Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern, by Carolyn Dinshaw (2001) (0)
Chapter 12. Adoption and Adaptation: Judah ha-Levi’s ציון הלא תשאלי לשלום אסיריך in Its Ashkenazic Environment (2016) (0)
Love, Sex, and Sexuality (2020) (0)
A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age (2019) (0)
Working Together with E-Mail (1991) (0)
Review of Youth in the Middle Ages, ed. P.J.P. Goldberg and Felicity Riddy (2004) (0)
Chapter 5. The Madrasa and the Non-Muslims of Thirteenth-Century Egypt: A Reassessment (2016) (0)
P.J.P. Goldberg, ed., Woman is a Worthy Wight: Women in English Society, c. 1200-1500. Alan Sutton Publishing, 1992 (1992) (0)
Scott L. Waugh. England in the Reign of Edward III . (Cambridge Medieval Textbooks.) New York: Cambridge University Press. 1991. Pp. xi, 303. $44.50 cloth, $12.95 paper. (1992) (0)
The Identity of the Slave in Scandinavia (2017) (0)
Maryanne Kowaleski and P. J. P. Goldberg, eds. Medieval Domesticity: Home, Housing, and Household in Medieval England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xiv+317. $99.00 (cloth). (2010) (0)
Servitude and Sexuality in Medieval Iceland: Comparative Approaches to Early Iceland (1992) (0)
Linda Olson, Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, editors. Voices in Dialogue: Reading Women in the Middle Ages. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press. 2005. Pp. xvii, 508. $50.00. (2006) (0)
The Sexuality of Chastity (2017) (0)
Claes Gejrot, ed., Diarium Vadstenense: The Memorial Book of Vadstena Abbey . (Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Studia Latina Stockholmiensia, 33.) Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1988. Paper. Pp. iv, 395. SKr 197. (1990) (0)
Chapter 2. Unequal Unions (2012) (0)
Noreen Giffney, Michelle M. Sauer, and Diane Watt, eds. The Lesbian Premodern . The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Pp. 256. $85.00 (cloth). (2012) (0)
04.07.10, Goldberg and Riddy, eds., Youth in the Middle Ages (2004) (0)
Message from the Editor, no.25 1998 (1998) (0)
Review of Chaos and Love: The Philosophy of the Icelandic Family Sagas, by Thomas Bredsdorff, trans. John Tucker (2002) (0)
Review of Speaking of Slavery: Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy, by Steven Epstein (2002) (0)
Review of Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy, by Judith Brown, and Holy Anorexia, by Rudolph Bell (1987) (0)
Orri Vésteinsson. The Christianization of Iceland: Priests, Power, and Social Change 1000–1300. New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 318. $80.00 (2001) (0)
Ruth Mazo Karras, From Boys to Men: Formations of Masculinity in Late Medieval Europe. (Middle Ages series.) University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003 (2009) (0)
Review of How To Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians, by Rudolph M. Bell (2004) (0)
The Wife of Bath (2014) (0)
Review of Women in Medieval History and Historiography, edited by Susan Mosher Stuard (1989) (0)
Review of Medieval Prostitution, by Jacques Rossiaud, (1990) (0)
Review of Humiliation and Other Essays on Honor, Social Discomfort, and Violence, by William Ian Miller (1994) (0)
Chapter 3. Priests and Their Partners (2012) (0)
Review o fDeviance and Power in Late Medieval London, by Frank Rexroth (2008) (0)
God and Man in Medieval Iceland: Writing Women Out of Conversion History (1997) (0)
The Wealth of Wives: Women, Law, and Economy in Late Medieval London (review) (2010) (0)
Joint seminar of the German Historical Institutes in London and Wash- ington at the GHI London, October 10-12, 2013. Organized by Cornelia Linde (GHI London) and Stefan Hördler (GHI Washington). Conveners: (2014) (0)
Review of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe, ed. T.F. Earle and K.J.P. Lowe (2006) (0)
Review of Profit, Piety and the Professions in Later Medieval England, edited by Michael Hicks (1991) (0)
98.05.07, Keiser, Courtly Desire & Medieval Homophobia (1998) (0)
Announcements (1975) (0)
Christina’s Tempting (2004) (0)
Review of Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years, by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (1998) (0)
:Gender in the Early Medieval World: East and West, 300900 (2005) (0)
Chapter 1. The Church and the Regulation of Unions between Women and Men (2012) (0)
‘Goliath Thought David Rather Boastful’: Royal Masculinity in Kingless Societies (2017) (0)
Preface to Part I: Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women (2020) (0)
Review of The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings, by Colin Richmond (2003) (0)
A Life of Ill Repute: Public Prostitution in the Middle Ages by Maria Serena Mazzi (review) (2020) (0)
Chapter 1. Rabbinic Conceptions of Marriage and Matchmaking in Christian Europe (2016) (0)
Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome: Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe by Gary Ferguson (review) (2019) (0)
Katherine J. Lewis. Kingship and Masculinity in Late Medieval England. (2015) (0)
Message from the Editor, no.24 1997 (1997) (0)
95.04.07 Gurevich, Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages (1995) (0)
Lars Hermanson. Bärande band: Vänskap, kärlek och brödraskap i det medeltida Nordeuropa, ca 1000–1200 [A Solid Bond: Friendship, Love, and Brotherhood in Medieval Northern Europe, ca. 1000–1200]. Lund, Sweden: Nordic Academic Press. 2009. Pp. 319. Skr.199.00 (2010) (0)
The Invention of Heterosexual Culture by Louis-Georges Tin (review) (2014) (0)
Review of The Language of Sex: Five Voices from Northern France Around 1200, by John W. Baldwin (1996) (0)
Boswell’s Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: A Roundtable (2007) (0)
Introduction. Marriage and Other Unions (2012) (0)
Review o fSuspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment in Medieval Culture, by Robert Mills (2008) (0)
Review of The Medieval Chastity Belt: A Myth-Making Process, by Albrecht Classen (2009) (0)
Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment in Medieval Culture (2008) (0)
Review of Historical Anthropology of the Middle Ages, by Aaron Gurevich (1995) (0)
Review of The Virgin and the Bride: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity, by Kate Cooper (1998) (0)
Thomas Bredsdorff, Chaos and Love: The Philosophy of the Icelandic Family Sagas. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2001 (2002) (0)
Chapter 9. Cultural Identity in Transmission: Language, Science, and the Medical Profession in Thirteenth-Century Italy (2016) (0)
Review of Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire c. 1300-1520, by P.J.P. Goldberg (1994) (0)
Book Review: Sex and Pleasure in Western Culture (2005) (0)
Barbara A. Hanawalt and Anna Grotans, Living Dangerously: On the Margins in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (2011) (0)
P. J. P. Goldberg, Women, Work, and Life Cycle in a Medieval Economy: Women in York and Yorkshire, c. 1300-1520. Clarendon Press, 1992 (1994) (0)
Chapter 4. On the Margins of Marriage (2012) (0)
Review of Women in the Viking Age, by Judith Jesch (1993) (0)
Review of The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga, by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1998) (0)
Love and Marriage in the Middle Ages, by Georges Duby (1995) (0)
Hicks Michael A., editor. Profit, Piety and the Professions in Later Medieval England. Wolfeboro Falls, N.H.: Alan Sutton Publishing, Ltd. 1990. Pp. xxii, 170. $30.00. (1991) (0)
Writing About--And Around--Medieval Women (1993) (0)
The Sexual Body: In the Medieval Age (2010) (0)
Women Outside of Marriage (2017) (0)
Michael Haren. Sin and Society in Fourteenth-Century England: A Study of the Memoriale Presbiterorum. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York: Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. xviii, 254. $65.00. ISBN 0-19-820851-0. (2001) (0)
10.09.05, Sterberg, Friendship and Love (2010) (0)

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