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Arbel, Benjamin. “Le donne ebree a Candia alla luce delle fonti testamentarie (1430-1530 ca.).” Thesaurismata 45 (2015): 27-69.
------. "Independent Women in Candia's Giudecca: The Testaments of the Two Eleas." In Crusading and Trading between West and East, edited by Sophia Menache, Benjamin Z. Kedar, Michel Balard, 238-262. Abingdon: Routledge, 2019.
Beattie, Cordelia. “Married Women’s Wills: Probate, Property, and Piety in Later Medieval England.” Law and History Review 37 (2019): 29-60.
Ben-Naeh, Yaron. "Jewish Wills from Salonica: A Source for Social and Cultural History." Hispania Judaica Bulletin 11 (2015): 27-46.
Blasco Martínez, Asunción. “Mujeres judías zaragozanas ante le muerte.” Aragón en la edad media 9 (1991): 77-120.
------. “Testamentos de mujeres judías aragonesas, 1401-1418.” In Proceedings of the World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division B, Volume II: The History of the Jewish People (1989): 127-134.
Blasco Orellana, Meritxell, J. Ramón Magdalena Nom de Déu, and Miguel Ángel Motis Dolader. "Últimas voluntades de los judíos en Aragón: El testamento de Doña Oro, esposa de Samuel Rimok, judía de Monzón (1463)." Materia giudaica 14 (2009): 431-459.
Boccato, Carla. “Aspetti patrimoniali e beneficiari nei testament di donne ebree veneziane del Seicento.” In Donne a Venezia, Spazi di libertà e forme di potere (secoli XVI-XVIII), edited by Anna Bellavitis, Nadia Maria Filippini, and Tiziana Plebani, 1-10. Venice: CEISVEN, 2012.
Borgolotto, Elizabeth, and Emilia Garruto. "Testamenti femminili toscani del Quattrocento." In Donne nella storia degli ebrei d'Italia, edited by Michele Luzzati and Cristina Galasso, 61-75. Florence: Giuntina, 2007.
Bresc, Henri. Arabes de langues, Juifs de religion: L’evolution du judaisme sicilien dans l’environment latin, xiie-vve siècles. Paris: Éditions Bouchène, 2001.
Burns, Robert I. Jews in the Notarial Culture: Latinate Wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350. Berkeley: University California Press, 1996.
Caciorgna, Maria Teresa. “Presenza ebraica nel Lazio meridionale: il caso di Sermoneta.” In Aspetti e problemi della presenza ebraica nell'Italia centro-settentrionale (secoli XIV e XV), edited by Sofia Boesch Gajano, 127-173 . Rome: Istituto di scienze storiche dell Universita di Roma, 1983.
Chuecas Saldías, Ignacio. “Testamentos de judaizantes hispano-portugueses (1587-1673).” Revista de Fontes 8 (2018): 7-32. [Available here: https://periodicos.unifesp.br/index.php/fontes/article/view/9147]
Coulet, Noel. “Testaments juifs d’Aix-en-Provence (1400-1450).” In Minorités juives, pouvoirs, littérature politique en péninsule ibérique, France et Italie au Moyen Age: Etudes offertes à Béatrice Leroy, edited by Jean-Pierre Barraqué and Véronique Lamazou-Duplan, 295-307. Biarritz: Atlantica, 2006.
Davide, Miriam. "I testamenti delle donne nelle comunità ebraiche askenazite e in quelle di origine italiana dell'Italia settentrionale (XIV-XVI secolo)." In Margini di libertà: testamenti femminili nel medioevo, edited by Maria Clara Rossi, 435-455. Verona: Cierre, 2010.
De Rossi, Pier Luigi. La comunità ebraica di Terracina. Latina: Cori, 2004.
Emery, Richard. The Jews of Perpignan in the Thirteenth Century: An Economic Study Based on Notarial Records. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.
Epstein, Steven. Wills and Wealth in Medieval Genoa, 1150-1250. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984.
Galinsky, Judah D. "Commemoration and Heqdesh in the Jewish Communities of Germany and Spain during the 13th Century." In Stiftungen in Christentum, Judentum und Islam vor der Moderne, edited by Michael Borgolte, 191-203. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2005.
------. “‘And it is for the Glory of the Great that their Name be Remembered’: Commemorating the Dead and the Practice of Establishing a Hekdesh in Christian Spain,” Masekhet 2 (2004): 113-131. (Hebrew)
Garutto, Maria Emilia. “Ebrei in Valdelsa nel Quattrocento: una storia di Famiglia (I Poggibonsi).” PhD Diss. University of Pisa, cycle 11 (2001-2003).
Gasperoni, Michaël, and Davide Mano. "Les pratiques et le discours testamentaires des Juifs de Rome au début du XVIIIe siècle: premières recherches sérielles." In Un historien dans ses landemains: Pierre Chaunu, edited by Denis Crouzet and Alan Hugon, 97-124. Caen: PUC, 2021.
Gil, Moshe. Documents of the Jewish Pious Foundations from the Cairo Geniza. Leiden: Brill, 1976.
Girbal, Enrique Claudio. "Un testamento hebreo de la Edad Media," Revista de Gerona V (1881): 104-108.
Goitein, Shelomo Dov. “Dispositions in Contemplation of Death: A Geniza Study.” Proceedings of the AAJR 46 (1978): 155-178.
Juega Puig, Juan. Los Dinís, un linaje judeoconverso en la Pontevedra de los siglos XVI y XVII. A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, 2004.
Kaklamanis, Stefanos, and Stelios Lampakis, eds. Manouil Grigoropoulos, Notarios Chandaka, 1506-1532: Diathekes, Apografes, Ektimiseis. Iraklion, Crete: Vikelaia Library, 2003.
Klein, Elka. "Splitting Heirs: Patterns of Inheritance Among Barcelona's Jews." Jewish History 16 (2002): 49-71.
Lauer, Rena. Colonial Justice and the Jews of Venetian Crete. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Malkiel, David. “Jews and Wills in Renaissance Italy: A Case Study of the Jewish Christian Cultural Encounter.” Italia: Studi e ricerche sulla cultura e sulla letteratura degli ebrei d'Italia 12 (1996): 7-69.
Marín Padilla, Encarnación. “Ultimas voluntades judías: Testamentos de Duenya Falaquera, Reyna Abenardit y Davit Rodrich (siglo XV).” Anuario de estudios medievales 15 (1985): 497–512.
McKee, Sally. Wills from Late Medieval Venetian Crete, 1312-1420. 3 vols. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 1998.
Orazi, Stefano. "Gli ebrei a Cagli dal XIV al XVIII secolo," in Rivista della storia della Chiesa in Italia, 49 (1995): 448-485.
Perani, Mauro. "Le firme in ebraico e in giudeo-arabo dei Bulfarag, parenti di Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada, in atti dei notai di Sciacca e Caltabellotta e nella ketubbah di Giv'at Lot." In Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada alias Flavio Mitridate: un ebreo converso siciliano, edited by Mauro Perani and Luciana Pepi, 135-143. Palermo: Officina di Studi Medievali, 2008.
Pérez, Idan. “The Testament of a Jewish Woman named Baladre (1325): New Contributions to the Study of the Synagogues in Girona,” Materia Giudaica 17-18 (2012-2013): 229-248.
Planas Marcé, Sílvia. “Aportación al estudio de la sociedad conversa de Girona: el testamento de Blanca, esposa de Bernat Falcó.” In Judaísmo hispano: Estudios en memoria de José Luis Lacave Riaño, edited by Elena Romero, 649-663. Madrid: CSIC, 2002.
Rivlin, Yosef. Inheritance and Wills in Jewish Law [Hebrew]. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 1999.
Rollo-Koster, Joelle, and Kathryn L. Reyerson, eds. “For the Salvation of my Soul”: Women and Wills in Medieval and Early Modern France. St Andrews, UK: Centre for French History and Culture of the University of St Andrews, 2012.
Scandaliato, Angela. "Guglielmo Raimondo Moncada alias Flavio Mitridate, ebreo convertito di Caltabellotta," Sefer Yuhasin 18-19 (2002-2003):3-9.
------."Haec est ultima voluntas: Donne e costume ebraico nella Sicilia del Quattrocento." In Donne nella storia degli ebrei d'Italia, edited by Michele Luzzati and Cristina Galasso, 85-96. Florence: Giuntina, 2007.
------. L'ultimo canto di Ester: Donne ebree del Medioevo in Sicilia. Palermo: Sellerio: 1999.
Secall i Güell, Gabriel. Els jueus de Valls i la seva época. Valls: Institut d'Estudis Vallencs, 1980.
Secchieri, Laura Graziani. "Il singolare caso di Laura de Vita: Da erede del banco da Po a 'illustre signora' dei Pio di Savoia nella Ferrara di metà Seicento." Materia giudaica 19 (2014): 169-199.
Sibon, Juliette. Les Juifs de Marseille au XIVe siècle. Paris: Cerf, 2011.
Skinner, Patricia. “Women, Wills and Wealth in Medieval Southern Italy.” Early Medieval Europe 2 (1993): 133-152.
Traniello, Elisabetta. "Percorsi di donne ebree a Ferrara (XVI secolo)." In Margini di libertà: testamenti femminili nel medioevo. Edited by Maria Clara Rossi, 457-474. Verona: Cierre, 2010.
Veronese, Alessandra. "Donne ebree italiane e ashkenazite in Italia centro-settentrionale: doti, testamenti, ruolo economico." In Vicino al focolare e oltre: spazi pubblici e privati, fisici e virtuali della donna ebrea in Italia (secc. XV-XX), edited by Laura Graziani Secchieri, 153-163. Florence: Giuntina, 2015.
------. “Patterns of Inheritance Among Italian Jews in the Late Middle Ages.” Materia giudaica 25 (2020): 591-598.
Weiss, Gershon. "Legal Documents Written by the Court Clerk Halfon ben Manasse (Dated 1100-1138): A Study in the Diplomatics of the Cairo Geniza." PhD diss. University of Pennsylvania, 1970.
Wernham, Monique. La communauté juive de Salon-de-Provence d’après les actes notaries 1391-1435. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1987.
Winer, Rebecca Lynn. Women, Wealth, and Community in Perpignan, c. 1250-1300. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006.