This collection of essays focuses attention on how medieval gender intersects with other categories of difference, particularly religion and ethnicity. It treat

As distinct from the many recent collections and studies of medieval literature and culture that have focused on gender and sexuality as their major themes, thi

Status and gender are two closely associated concepts within medieval society, which tended to view both notions as binary: elite or low status, married or sing

This collection examines gender and Otherness as tools to understand medieval and early modern art as products of their social environments. The essays, uniting

Provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E.