Table of Contents:
  • The power and the weakness of women in Anglo-Norman romance / Judith Weiss
  • Women as lovers in early English romance / Flora Alexander
  • Mothers in Middle English romance / Jennifer Fellows
  • 'Clerc u lai, muïne u dame' : women and Anglo-Norman hagiography in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
  • Women in no man's land : English recluses and the development of vernacular literature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Bella Millett
  • 'Women talking about the things of God' : a late medieval sub-culture / Felicity Riddy
  • ' ... alle the bokes that I haue of latyn, englisch, and frensch' : laywomen and their books in late medieval England / Carol M. Meale
  • Women authors and women's literacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England / Julia Boffey
  • Women and their poetry in medieval Wales / Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan.