Misogyny is of course not the whole story of medieval discourse on women: medieval culture also envisaged a case for women. But hitherto studies of profeminine

Alcuin Blamires examines the relatively unstudied field of profeminine traditions extending back from the Middle Ages to the 4th century. Her sources include Ch

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

A new economy of power relations: female agency in the middle ages / Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski -- Women and power through the family revisited / Jo A

The first complete look at the social status and daily life of medieval Jewish women.