Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe

Elizabeth L'Estrange is lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Birmingham, UK. Alison More is a researcher in the Department of History at Radboud University in the Netherlands

• Chapter 1 Representing Medieval Genders and Sexualities in Europe: Construction, Transformation, and Subversion, 600–1530, Elizabeth L’Estrange, Alison More; Chapter 2 Multiple Performances of Male Virginity in Anglo-Saxon Saints’ Lives, Cassandra Rhodes; Chapter 3 Convergence, Conversion, and Transformation: Gender and Sanctity in Thirteenth-Century Liège, Alison More; Chapter 4 Constructing Political Rule, Transforming Gender Scripts: Revisiting the Thirteenth-Century Rule of Joan and Margaret, Countesses of Flanders, Francesca Canadé Sautman; Chapter 5 Violence on Vellum: St Margaret’s Transgressive Body and its Audience, Jennifer Borland; Chapter 6 ‘Pourquoy appellerions nous ces choses differentes, qu’une heure, un moment, un mouvement peuvent rendre du tout semblables?’: Representing Gender Identity in the Late Medieval French Querelle des femmes, Helen Swift; Chapter 7 Constructing Female Sanctity in Late Medieval Naples: The Funerary Monument of Queen Sancia of Majorca, Aislinn Loconte; Chapter 8, Elizabeth L’Estrange; Chapter 9 Fashioning Female Humanist Scholarship: Self-representation in Laura Cereta’s Letters, Jennifer Cavalli; Chapter 10 Mightier than the Sword: Reading, Writing and Noble Masculinity in the Early Sixteenth Century, Fiona S. Dunlop;

'... a wide-ranging collection that shows the maturity of the field of medieval gender studies.' Sarah Salih, King's College London, UK '... this volume is an important addition to the large and growing literature on sex and gender in the middle ages.' Comitatus 'The book’s index and well-populated bibliography will make it of use to undergraduate students starting to discover the range of approaches available for the study of gender in the medieval period... One last point bears mentioning and that is the beautifully presented dust jacket. The colour reproduction of the painting Scenes from the Life of Saint Irene on the dark green background makes the volume as handsome as it is edifying.' Parergon