Medievalists demonstrate how a focus on gender can transform an approach to literary texts and genres. The essays in this annual English Association volume prov

Wide-ranging study of gender and the underlying ideologies of Old French and Occitan literature.

"A volume of the first importance to the scholarship of medieval women writers.... An ambitious attempt to understand hat 'gender' and 'text' might have meant i

Taking as its guiding emblem Christine de Pizan's metaphor of a city of ladies, this volume refuses to treat the medieval woman writer as an anomaly, a lone gen