Reflections of a stormy petrel

Not corrections, but glosses.

I thought I had made a comment that these were all later than the period you were discussing.

Some of it came from Regine Pernoud's little gem: "Those Terrible Middle Ages!" followed by the usual web searches on the individuals she mentioned and picking up other stuff en passant. Pernod also wrote a book entirely on women in the Middle Ages: Women in the Days of the Cathedrals
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?qsort=&page=1&matches=10&author=Pernoud%2C+Regine&browse=1&qwork=7272715&full=1

She also wrote a series of "A day in the life of a..." books about medieval stone cutter, weaver, noblewoman... These I have not read.