1. Erotic love in twelfth-century monasticism, as Ruth Mazo Karras argues, was not sexual, but rather an extension of a passionate spiritual love that went beyond friendship. Ruth Mazo Karras, “Friendship and Love in the Lives of Two Twelfth-Century English Saints,” Journal of Medieval History 14 (1998), 305–320.
2. Claire deTrafford, “Share and Share Alike? The Marriage Portion, Inheritance, and Family Politics,” in Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Women: Pawns or Players?, ed. Christine Meek and Catherine Lawless (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003), p. 37.
3. Ann J. Kettle, “’My Wife Shall Have It’: Marriage and Property in the Wills and Testaments of later Mediaeval England,” in Marriage and Property, ed. Elizabeth M. Craik (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1984), p. 90.
4. Janet S. Loengard, “Common Law for Margery: Separate But Not Equal,” in Women in Medieval Western Culture, ed. Linda E. Mitchell (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999), p. 123.
5. Janet Senderowicz Leongard, “Rationabilis Dos: Magna Carta and the Widow’s ‘Fair Share’ in the Earlier Thirteenth Century,” in Wife and Widow in Medieval England, ed. Sue Sheridan Walker (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), p. 60.