Writing Medieval Womens Lives [Paperback]

A collection of essays representing the growing variety of approaches used to write the history of medieval women. They reflect the European medieval world socially, geographically and across religious boundaries, engaging directly with how the medieval women's experience wa reconstructed, as well as what the experience was.Introduction; Charlotte Newman Goldy and Amy Livingstone The Foundation Legend of Godstow Abbey: A Holy Woman's Life in Anglo-Norman Verse; Emilie Amt Remembering Countess Delphine's Books: Reading as a Means to Shape a Holy Woman's Sanctity; Nicole Archambeau The Letters of Princess Sophia of Hungary, a Nun at Admont; Jonathan R. Lyon The Missing Rusian Women: The Case of Evpraksia Vsevolodovna; Christian Raffensperger Leaving Warboys: Emigration from a Fifteenth-Century English Village; Anne R. DeWindt Women as Legal Agents in Late Medieval Genoa; Jamie Smith Piecing Together the Fragments: Telling the Lives of the Ladies of Lavardin through Image and Text; Amy Livingstone Girlindis and Alpais: Telling the Lives of Two Textile Fabricators in the Carolingian Empire; Valerie L. Garver A Peasant Family in Roussillon: Understanding the Experiences of Women in the Blanquet Parchments, 1292-1345; Rebecca Lynn Winer Joan de Valence: A Lady of Substance; Linda E. Mitchell Royal Women in Late Medieval Spain: Catalina of Lancaster, Leonor of Albuquerque, and Mar?a of Castile; Theresa Earenfight Muriel, a Jew of Oxford: Using the Dramatic to Understand the Mundane in Anglo-Norman Towns; Charlotte Newman Goldy Well-Behaved Women Can Make History: Women's Friendships in Late Medieval Westminster; Katherine L. French

This collection of thirteen essays by North American scholars provides a series of micro-biographies of individual medieval women's 'lived experience,' ones that aim to recover some of the nuance and emotion of women's relationships and their political connections. In their introduction, editors Charlotte Newman Goldy and Amy Livingstonl#'