Contents: Jacqueline Murray, "Introduction"; Vern L. Bullough, "Sex in history: a redux"; James A Brundage, "Playing by the rules: sexual behaviour and legal norms in medieval Europe"; Roberto J. Gonzalez-Casanovas, "Gender models in Alfonso X's Siete partidas: the sexual politics of 'nature' and 'society'"; Ivana Elbl, "'Men without wives': sexual arrangements in the early Portuguese expansion in West Africa"; Carol Kazmierczak Manzione, "Sex in Tudor London: abusing their bodies with each other"; Robert Shephard, "Sexual romours in English politics: the cases of Elizabeth I and James I"; Joseph Cady, "The 'masculine love' of the 'princes of Sodom' 'practising the art of Ganymede' at Henry III's court: the homosexuality of Henry III and his mignons in Pierre de L'Estoile's Memoires-Journaux"; Guy Poirier, "Masculinities and homosexualities in French Renaissance accounts of travel to the Middle East and North Africa"; Dyan Elliott, "Bernardino of Siena versus the marriage debt"; Ruth Mazo Karras, "Sex, money, and prostitution in medieval English culture"; Rona Goffen, "Wives and mothers: adultery, madness, and maritial miserty in Titian's Padual frescoes"; Barrie Ruth Straus, "Freedom through renunciation? Women's voices, women's bodies, and the phallic order"; Garrett P.J. Epp, "Learning to write with Venus's pen: sexual regulation in Matthew of Vendome's Ars versificatoria"; Andrew Taylor, "Reading the dirty bits"; Nancy F. Partner, "Did mystics have sex?"
Selected contents: Nadia Margolis, "The cry of the chameleon: evolving voices in the epistles of Christine de Pisan"; Yvonne LeBlanc, "Queen Anne in the lonely, tear-soaked bed of Penelope: rewriting the Heroides in the sixteenth century"; Albrecht Classen, "Female explorations of literacy: epistolary challenges to the literary canon in the late Middle Ages"; Malcolm Richardson, "Women, commerce, and writing in late medieval England"; J. Luehring and R. Utz, "Letter writing in the late Middle Ages (c. 1250-1600): an introductory bibliography of critical studies".
- Appendix lists 254 women vowed between 1231 and 1537.
- Contents: Susan Groag Bell, "Preface"; Liliane Dulac, "L'autorite dans les traites en prose de Christine de Pizan: discours d'ecrivain, parole de prince"; Christine Reno, "Le Livre de Prudence/Live de la Prod'hommie de l'homme: nouvelles perspective"; Simone Pagot, "Du bon usage de la compilation et du discours Christine de Pizan"; Eric Hicks, "Situation du debat didactique: analyse du theme 'guerre et paix' chez sur le Roman de la Rose"; Kevin Brownlee, "Hector and Penthesilea in the Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune: Christine de Pizan and the politics of myth"; Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet, "Sexualite et politique: le mythe d'Acteon chez Christine de Pizan"; Francoise Autrand, "Memoire et ceremonial: la visite de l'empereur Charles IV a Paris en 1378 d'apres les Grandes Chroniques de France et Christine de Pizan"; Claude Gauvard, "Christine de Pizan et ses contemporains: l'engagement politique des ecrivains dans le royaume de France aux XIVe et Xve siecles"; Christine Moneera Laennec, "Prophetie, interpretation et ecriture dans L'Avision-Christine"; Marie-Therese Lorcin, "Le Livre de Trois Vertus et le sermo ad status"; Andrea Tarnowski, "Autobiography and advice in the Livre des Trois Vertus"; Kenneth Varty, "Autour du Livre des Trois Vertus ou si rayson, droicture et justice faiisaient des cours d'introduction a la civilisation francaise du moyen age?"; Monique Closson, "Plaidoyer pour Christine et le Livre des Trs Vertus"; Christine Clark-Evans, "Christine de Pizan's feminist strategies: the defense of the African and Asian ladies in the Book of the City of Ladies"; Glynnis M. Cropp, "Les personnages feminins tires de l'histoire de la France dans le Livre de la Cite des Dames"; Jean-Claude Muhlethaler, "Problemes de recriture: amour et mort de la princesse de Salerne dans le Decameron (IV,1) et dans la Cite des Dames (II,59)"; Anna Slerca, "Dante, Boccace, et le Livre de la Cite des Dames de Christine de Pizan"; Jean-Louis G. Picherit, "Les references pathologiques et therapeutiques dans l'oeuvre de Christine de Pizan"; Bernard Ribemont, "Christine de Pizan: entre espace scientifique et espace imagine (le Livre du Chemin de long estude)"; Ch. Brucker, "Le monde, la foi et le savoir dans quelques oeuvres de Christine de Pizan: une quete"; Earl Jeffrey Richards, "In search of a feminist patrology: Christine de Pizan and 'Les glorieux dotteurs'"; Nadia Margolis, "La progression polemique, spirituelle et personelle dans les ecrits religieux de Christine de Pizan"; Charity Cannon Willard, "Christine de Pizan's allegorized psalms"; Barbara K. Altmann, "L'art de l'autoportrait litteraire dans les Cent Ballades de Christine de Pizan"; Margarete Zimmermann, "Les Cent Balades d'Amant et de Dame une reecriture de L'Elegia di Madonna Fiammetta de Boccace?"; Jeanette M.S. Beer, "Christine et les conventions dans le Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune: 'abriger en parolles voires'"; Armand Strubel, "Le style allegorique de Christine"; Michele Weil, "'Je suis comme toy': dialogie de Christine de Pizan"; Gaston Zink, "La phrase de Christine de Pizan dans le Livre du Corps de Policie"; James C. Laidlaw, "Un manuscrit original du Livre des Trois Vertus: Londres, British Library, Ms Additonal 31841"; Jacques Lemaire, "Manuscrits proches parents ou manuscrits simplement semblables" Reflexions codicologiques et philologiques a propos de deux temoins du Livre des Trois Vertus de Christine de Pizan"; Gabriella Parussa, "Arbitraires, systematiques, accidentelles? A propos des variantes entre deux familles de manuscrits de l'Epistre d'Othea"; Susan Groag Bell, "A lost tapestry: Margaret of Austria's Cite des Dames"; Rosalind Brown-Grant, "Des hommes et des femmes illustres: modalites narratives et transformations generiques chez Petrarque, Boccace et Christine de Pizan"; Thelma Fenster, "Simplece et sagesse: Christine de Pizan et Isotta Nogarola sur la culpabilite d'Eve"; Angus J. Kennedy and James Steel, "L'esprit et l'epee ou la resistance au feminin: Christine de Pizan, Jeanne d'Arc et Edith Thomas"; Anna Slerca, "Le Livre de la Mutacion de Fortune, source du Labyrinth de Fortune de Jean Bouchet".
- Contents: George Ulysse, "Preface"; Ottavia Niccoli, "Forme di cultura e condizioni di vita in due epistolari femminili de Rinascimento"; Olga-Silvana Casale, "Le scritture femminili tra strumenti di recerca e edizioni"; Mario Martelli, "Lucrezia Tornabuoni"; Mario Pozzi, "'Andrem di pari all'amorosa face': appunti sulle lettere di Maria Savorgnan"; Maria-Luisa Doglio, "Scrittura e 'Offizio di parole' nelle 'lettere familiari' di Vernonica Franco"; Thea Picquet, "Profession: courtisane"; Giulio Ferroni, "L'io e gli altri nelle lettere di Caterina da Siena"; Cesare Vasoli, "Caterina de'Ricci, una mistica savonaroliana del Cinquecento"; Georges Ulysse, "Un couple d'ecrivains: les 'Sacre Rappresentazioni' di Bernardo et Antonia Pulci"; Elissa Weaver, "Una cultura marginale al teatro"; Carlo Vecce, "Vittoria Colonna: il codice epistolare della poesia femminile"; Jose Guidi, "Vittoria Colonna: les poesies funeraires en l'honneur du Marquis de la Pescara"; Maurice Javion, "Chiara Matraini: un 'tombeau' pour Petrarque"; Matteo Palumbo, "Lo 'stil ruvido e frale' di Isabella di Morra"; Francesco Bausi, "Le rime di e per Tullia d'Aragona"; Carla-Chiara Perrone, "'So che donna amo donna': 'la Calisa'di Maddelena Campiglia"; Marie-Francoise Piejus, "Les poetesses siennoises entre le jeu et l'ecriture".
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- Contents: Deborah Everhart, "Criseyde through her own eyes"; Stephen Stallcup, "With the 'Poynte of Remembraunce'; re-viewing the complaint in Anelida and Arcite"; Jennifer Goodman, "Dorigen and the falcon: the element of despair in Chaucer's Squire's and Franklin's Tale"; Bonnie Wheeler, "Trouthe without consequences: rhetoric and gender in the Franklin's Tale"; Jean E. Jost, "May's mismarriage of youth an delde: the poetics of sexual desire in Chaucer's Merchant's Tale"; Jo Goyne, "Pleasing virtue: the problem of word and will in Chaucer's Clerk's Tale"; Renee Justice Standley, "The role of the empress Theodora in the imperial panels at the church of San Vitale in Ravenna"; Derek Baker, "Politics, precedence and intention: aspects of the imperial mosaics at San Vitale, Ravenna"; Samuel Lyndon Gladden, "Hildegard's awakening: a self-portrait of disruptive excess"; Paula Martin, "A brightness of purple lightning: Hildegard of Bingen's self-perception"; Patricia Stirnemann, "Women and books in France: 1170-1220"; Donna J. Oestreich, "Christine de Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies: paradigmatic participation and eschewal"; Marianne Sinram, "Faith and bondage: the spiritual and political meaning of chains at the church of Ste Foy de Conques"; Elizabeth Nightlinger, "The female Imitatio Christi and medieval popular religion: the case of St. Wilgefortis"; Ann Hutchison, "Eyes cast down, but self revealed: letters of a recusant nun"; Michael Holahan, "Eve's eyes: places for beauty and equality in Paradise Lost".
- Contents: Editors, "Introduction"; Nancy A. Jones, "By woman's tears redeemed: female lament in St. Augustine's Confessions and the correspondence of Abelard and Heloise"; Barbara K. Gold, "Hrotswitha writes herself: Clamor Validus Gandeshemensis"; Phyllis Culham, "Gender and negotiating discourse: mediated autobiography and female mystics of medieval Italy"; St. John E. Flynn, "The saint of the womanly body: Raimon de Cornet's Fourteenth-century male poetics"; Donald Gilman, "Petrarch's Sophonisba: seduction, sacrifice, and patriarchal politics"; Paul Allen Miller, "Laurel as the sign of sin: Laura's textual body in Petrarch's Secretum"; Diana Robin, "Woman, space, and Renaissance discourse"; Diane S. Wood, "In praise of woman's superiority: Henrich Cornelius Agrippa's De nobilitate (1529)"; Charles Platter, "The artificial whore: George Buchanan's Apologia pro Lena"; Elizabeth Garza-Richmond, "'She never recovered her senses': Roxana and dramatic representations of women at Oxbridge in the Elizabethan age"; Holt Parker, Latin and Greek poetry by five Renaissance Italian women humanists".
- Contents: Daniel Bornstein, "Women and religion in late medieval Italy: history and historiography"; Antonio Rigon, "A community of female pentitents in thirteenth-century Padua"; Clara Gennaro, "Clare, Agnes, and their earliest followers: from the poor ladies of San Damiano to the Poor Clares"; Mario Sensi, "Anchoresses and pentitents in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Umbria"; Anna Benvenui Papi, "Mendicant friars and female pinzochere in Tuscany: from social marginality to models of sanctity"; Enrico Menesto, "The apostolic canonization proceedings of Clare of Montefalco, 1318-1319"; Chiara Frugoni, "Female, mystics, visions, and iconography"; Fernanda Sorelli, "Imitable sanctity: the legend of Maria of Venice"; Roberto Rusconi, "St. Bernadino of Siena, the wife, and possessions"; Anna Esposito, "St. Francesca and the female religious communities of fifteenth-century Rome"; Gabriella Zarri, "Living saints: a typology of female sanctity in the early sixteenth century"; Roberto Rusconi, "Afterward: women religious in late medieval Italy: new sources and directions".
- Contents: Jaynie Anderson, "Rewriting the history of art patronage"; Cordelia Warr, "Painting in late fourteenth-century Padua: the patronage of Fina Buzzacarini"; Rupert Shepherd, "Francesca Venusta, the Battle of San Ruffillo and Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti"; Catherine King, "Margarita Pellegini and the Pellegrini chapel at San Bernardino Verona, 1528-1557"; Caroline P. Murphy, "Lavinia Fontana and Le Dame della Citta: understanding female artistic patronage in late sixteenth-century Bologna"; Anne Marie Legare, "Reassessing women's libraries in late medieval France: the case of Jeanne de Laval"; Thomas Tolley, "States of independence: women regents as patrons of the visual arts in Renaissance France"; Dagmar Eichberger, "Margaret of Austria's portrait collection: female patronage in the light of dynastic ambitions and artistic quality"; Margaret Ellis, "The Hardwick wall hangings: un unusual collaboration in English sixteenth-century embroidery".
- Partial contents: Debra L. Stoudt, "Medieval German women and the power of healing"; Nancy P. Nenno, "Between magic and medicine: medieval images of the woman healer"; Esther Zago, "Women, medicine, and the law in Boccaccio's Decameron"; Michael Solomon, "Women healers and the power to disease in late medieval spain"; William Kerwin, "Where have you gone, Margaret Kennix? Seeking the tradition of healing women in English Renaissance drama"; Holt T. Parker, "Women doctors in Greece, Rome, and the Byzantine Empire".
- Contents: Editors' Introduction; Patricia Skinner, "Women, literacy, and invisibility in southern Italy, 900-1200"; Philip E. Bennett, "Female readers in Froissart: implied, fictive and other"; Jennifer R. Goodman, "'That wommen holde in ful greet reverence': mothers and daughters reading chivalric romances"; Charity Cannon Willard, "Pilfering Vegetius? Christine de Pizan's Faits d'armes et de chevalerie"; Benjamin Semple, "The consolation of a woman writer: Christine de Pizan's use of Boethius in Lavision-Christine"; Anne Birrell, "In the voice of women: Chinese love poetry in the early Middle Ages"; Jeanette Beer, "Women, authority and the book in the Middle Ages"; Mark Balfour, "Francesca da Rimini and Dante's women readers"; Beverly Kennedy, "The variant passages in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the textual transmission of The Canterbury Tales: the 'Great Tradition' revisited"; Carol J. Harvey, "Philippe de Remi's Manekine: joie and pain"; Heather Arden, "Women as readers, women as text in the Roman de la Rose"; Karen K. Jambeck, "Reclaiming the woman in the book: Marie de France and the Fables"; Jula Boffey, "Lydgate's lyrics and women readers"; Jennifer Summit, "William Caxton, Margaret Beaufort and the romance of female patronage"; Margarita Stocker, "Apcryphal entries: Judith and the politics of Caxton's Golden Legend"; Index of manuscripts.
- In addition to articles by Fradenburg, Lees, and Lochrie, Lisa Schnell, "Breaking 'the rule of Cortezia': Aemilia Lanyer's dedications to Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum," pp. 77-101 and Diane Purkiss, "Desire and its deformities: fantasies of witchcraft in the English Civil War," pp. 103-132.
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