Writing Medieval Women’s Lives

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Author(s): Charlotte Newman Goldy, Amy Livingstone (eds.)
Series: The New Middle Ages
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Year: 2012

Language: English
Tags: History of Medieval Europe; Medieval Literature; Gender Studies

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction: Setting the Scene....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
The Foundation Legend of Godstow Abbey: A Holy Woman’s Life in Anglo-Norman Verse....Pages 13-31
Remembering Countess Delphine’s Books: Reading as a Means to Shape a Holy Woman’s Sanctity....Pages 33-49
The Letters of Princess Sophia of Hungary, a Nun at Admont....Pages 51-68
The Missing Rusian Women: The Case of Evpraksia Vsevolodovna....Pages 69-84
Leaving Warboys: Emigration from a Fifteenth-Century English Village....Pages 85-111
Women as Legal Agents in Late Medieval Genoa....Pages 113-129
Piecing Together the Fragments: Telling the Lives of the Ladies of Lavardin Through Image and Text....Pages 131-151
Front Matter....Pages 153-153
Girlindis and Alpais: Telling the Lives of two Textile Fabricators in the Carolingian Empire....Pages 155-172
Agents or Pawns? The Experiences of the Peasant Women of Roussillon in the Blanquet Family Parchments, 1292–1345....Pages 173-192
Joan de Valence: A Lady of Substance....Pages 193-208
Royal Women in Late Medieval Spain: Catalina of Lancaster, Leonor of Albuquerque, and María of Castile....Pages 209-225
Muriel, a Jew of Oxford: Using the Dramatic to Understand the Mundane in Anglo-Norman Towns....Pages 227-245
Well-Behaved Women can Make History: Women’s Friendships in Late Medieval Westminster....Pages 247-265
Back Matter....Pages 267-294