Gendering the Middle Ages A Gender and

This book brings together a group of leading historians of the European middle ages. It ranges widely from the late Antique/Medieval transition to the early sixteenth century. Nine essays and four thematic reviews cover such topics as memory, sanctity, nunneries, the transformation of the Roman world, the Black Death, canon law, the Christian challenge to late Antique masculinity, the transmission of knowledge, visionaries' childhoods, late medieval courts, Byzantine coinage, the Norman Conquest of southern Italy and the proceedings of the Papal penitentiary.

Pauline Stafford is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Liverpool and the author of Queen Emma and Queen Edith: queenship and women's power in eleventh-century England (Blackwell, 1997) and Queens, concubines, and dowagers: the king's wife in the early Middle Ages (2nd edn., 1998).

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker is senior lecturer in Medieval History and Medieval Studies at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (Netherlands). She has published on historiographical and hagiographical topics, including Sanctity and Motherhood (1995) and is presently working on a book on female anchorites (recluses) in the Low Countries.

Introduction

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Pauline Stafford

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

The Gender of Grace: Impotence, Servitude, and Manliness in the Fifth-Century West

6

(16)

Kate Cooper

Conrad Leyser

Did Women Have a Transformation of the Roman World?

22

(20)

Julia M. H. Smith

The Gender of Money: Byzantine Empresses on Coins (324-802)

42

(23)

Leslie Brubaker

Helen Tobler

`Ex utroque sexu fidelium tres ordines' - The Status of Women in Early Medieval Canon Law

65

(27)

Eva M. Synek

`Halt! Be Men!': Sikelgaita of Salerno, Gender and the Norman Conquest of Southern Italy

92

(20)

Patricia Skinner

The Metamorphosis of Woman: Transmission of Knowledge and the Problems of Gender

112

(23)

Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

Visions of My Youth: Representations of the Childhood of Medieval Visionaries

135

(20)

Rosalynn Voaden

Stephanie Volf

Female Petitioners in the Papal Penitentiary

155

(19)

Ludwing Schmugge

Gendering Princely Dynasties: Some Notes on Family Structure, Social Networks, and Communication at the Courts of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach around 1500

174

(18)

Cordula Nolte

Thematic Reviews

Gender, Memory and Social Power

192

(13)

Janet L. Nelson

Memory and Gender in Medieval Europe 900-1200 (1999); Lynda Garland, Byzantine Empresses: Women and Power in Byzantium AD 527-1204 (1999)

Elisabeth van Houts

Gender and Sanctity in the Middle Ages

205

(10)

Katherine J. Lewis

Saints' Lives and the Rhetoric of Gender: Male and Female in Merovingian Hagiography (1998); Catherine M. Mooney (ed.), Gendered Voices: Medieval Saints and their Interpreters (1999)

John Kitchen

Gendering the Black Death: Women in Later Medieval England

215

(10)

S. H. Rigby

Daughters, Wives and Widows after the Black Death: Women in Sussex, 1350-1535 (1998)

Mavis E. Mate

Nunneries, Communities and the Revaluation of Domesticity

225

(8)

Felicity Riddy

Medieval Women in Their Communities (1997); Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Nuns as Artists: The Visual Culture of a Medieval Convent (1997); Marilyn Oliva, The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England: Female Monasteries in the Diocese of Norwich, 1350-1540 (1998)

Diane Watt

Notes on Contributors

233

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Index

235

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