Writing Medieval Women's Lives

Chapter 1 Introduction: Setting the Scene

Chapter 2 The Foundation Legend of Godstow Abbey: A Holy Woman’s Life in Anglo-Norman Verse

Chapter 3 Remembering Countess Delphine’s Books: Reading as a Means to Shape a Holy Woman’s Sanctity

Chapter 4 The Letters of Princess Sophia of Hungary, a Nun at Admont

Chapter 5 The Missing Rusian Women: The Case of Evpraksia Vsevolodovna

Chapter 6 Leaving Warboys: Emigration from a Fifteenth-Century English Village

Chapter 7 Women as Legal Agents in Late Medieval Genoa

Chapter 8 Piecing Together the Fragments: Telling the Lives of the Ladies of Lavardin Through Image and Text

Chapter 9 Girlindis and Alpais: Telling the Lives of two Textile Fabricators in the Carolingian Empire

Chapter 10 Agents or Pawns? The Experiences of the Peasant Women of Roussillon in the Blanquet Family Parchments, 1292–1345

Chapter 11 Joan de Valence: A Lady of Substance

Chapter 12 Royal Women in Late Medieval Spain: Catalina of Lancaster, Leonor of Albuquerque, and María of Castile

Chapter 13 Muriel, a Jew of Oxford: Using the Dramatic to Understand the Mundane in Anglo-Norman Towns

Chapter 14 Well-Behaved Women can Make History: Women’s Friendships in Late Medieval Westminster