Medieval Intersections: Gender and Status in Europe in the Middle Ages

Index\nIllustrations, Tables and Figures\nPreface\nIntroduction: Gender and Status in the Medieval World\nChapter 1 Mirrors for Margraves: Peter Damian’s Models for Male and Female Rulers\nChapter 2 Inaudito exemplo: The Abduction of Romsey’s Abbess\nChapter 3 The Corpus Christi Devotion: Gender, Liturgy, and Authority among Dominican Nuns in Castile in the Middle Ages\nChapter 4 From Villainous Letch and Sinful Outcast, to “Especially Beloved of God” Complicating the Medieval Leper through Gender and Social Status\nChapter 5 “To take a wyf” Marriage, Status, and Moral Conduct in “The Merchant’s Tale”\nChapter 6 Objectification, Empowerment, and the Male Gaze in the Lanval Corpus\nChapter 7 Pueri Sunt Pueri: Machismo, Chivalry, and the Aggressive Pastimes of the Medieval Male Youth\nChapter 8 “And much more I am soryat for my good knyghts” Fainting, Homosociality, and Elite Male Culture in Middle English Romance\nChapter 9 Wrist Clasps and Patriliny: A Hypothesis\nIndex