From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status

Ten interdisciplinary essays provide detailed, small-scale studies of a variety of medieval female communities from Germany to Wales between 1200 and 1500, exam

This collection of essays asks contributors to take the capaciousness of the word "queer" to heart in order to think about what medieval queers would have looke

This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist