• Chapter 1 Prisoner, Dreamer, Martyr; Chapter 2 CHAPTER 2 A Pilgrim to the Holy Land; Chapter 3 CHAPTER 3 Calumniated Empress and Poet; Chapter 4 CHAPTER 4 An Ill-Fated Gothic Queen; Chapter 5 CHAPTER 5 Three Consecrated Women of Merovingian Gaul; Chapter 6 CHAPTER 6 “Words Flowing Like Gold Fringes”; Chapter 7 CHAPTER 7 Barbarian Women, Holy Women; Chapter 8 CHAPTER 8 A Mother to a Young Warrior; Chapter 9 CHAPTER 9 Hagiographer, Playwright, Epic Historian; Chapter 10 CHAPTER 10 A Byzantine Historian of the First Crusade; Chapter 11 CHAPTER 11 The Trobairitz in Love and Strife; Chapter 12 CHAPTER 12 “Marie Is My Name: I Am of France”; Chapter 13 CHAPTER 13 Good Queen Maud; Chapter 14 CHAPTER 14 A Benedictine Visionary in the Rhineland; Chapter 15 CHAPTER 15 Handmaid of God; Chapter 16 CHAPTER 16 Brides of the Celestial Bedchamber; Chapter 17 CHAPTER 17 A Woman of Letters at the French Court; Chapter 18 CHAPTER 18 An Anchoress of England; Chapter 19 CHAPTER 19 Four English Women of the Fifteenth Century; Index;

"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana"The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum