The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women is the first volume exclusively devoted to an examination of the significant role played by women as patrons in the evo

Power in medieval society has traditionally been ascribed to figures of public authority--violent knights and conflicting sovereigns who altered the surface of

Twenty selected papers from the Sixteenth Annual Conference of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature, Universite de Montreal, May 1991, ar

This volume offers a literary and cultural history of the idea of crusading over the last millennium.

This study sheds light on the development of female authorship in the sixteenth century, through a close analysis of the female patronage and manuscript product