The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe

Judith M. Bennett teaches women's history and medieval history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of a number of books and articles on medieval women and on the feminist practice of history, as well as a popular textbook on medieval European history.Ruth Mazo Karras teaches history at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of five books and numerous articles in medieval history and the history of gender and sexuality. She is a co-editor of the journal Gender and History, General Editor of the Middle Ages Series at the University of Pennsylvania Press, and a former president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

• PART I GENDERED THINKING; PART II LOOKING THROUGH THE LAW; PART III DOMESTIC LIVES; PART IV LAND, LABOR, ECONOMY; PART V BODIES, PLEASURES, DESIRES; PART VI ENGENDERING CHRISTIAN HOLINESS; PART VII TURNING POINTS AND PLACES

a monumental undertaking. It has to be stated straight away, though, that this book is also an intellectually monumental and much-needed project that brings together the latest scholarship and thinking on women and gender studies... Bennett and Karras are to be congratulated on establishing a handbook that brings together an exciting range of the most up-to-date research on gender.