Gender in Debate From the Early Middle Ages to the Renaissance

THELMA FENSTER is Professor of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham University.CLAIRE LEES is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Program in Comparative Literature at the University of Oregon.

• Medieval Christian Debates about Female Nature; A.Matter Debating Women in Anglo-Saxon England; C.Lees & G.R.Overing Legal Discourses and the Encoding of the Debate about Women; R.Karras Declarations of Freedom: Franchise and the Querelle des Femmes; H. Solterer Framing the Debate about Women, Men, and Gender in the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Courtly Fictions; R.Krueger Refiguring the 'Scandalous Excess' of Medieval Woman; A.Blamires The Debate in Play: Gender as Ludic Drama; T.Fenster Editorial Compilation and the Debate about Women in Medieval German Literature; A.M.Rasmussen Debating Gender in Early Modern Spain; J.Weiss The Effects of Female Sovereignty on the Debate about Women in Fifteenth-Century Spain; B.Weissberger Looking Backwards: A Renaissance Scholar's View of the Debate about Women in the Italian Middle Ages; P.J.Benson

'...essential reading for any medievalist who works on issues related to gender.' - Lisa Perfetti, South Atlantic Review '...accessible and informative...' - C.S. Cox, Choice