Gender in medieval places, spaces and thresholds

Foreword. The Virgin of Bethlehem, gender and space
Anthony Bale Introduction Victoria Blud, Diane Heath and Einat Klafter I. Sacred space

1. Religious women in the landscape: their roles in medieval Canterbury and its hinterland ** Sheila Sweetinburgh **2. Space and place: archaeologies of female monasticism in later medieval Ireland Tracy Collins 3. Making space for leprous nuns: Matthew Paris and the foundation of St. Mary de Pré, St. Albans Philippa Byrne 4. On the threshold? The role of women in Lincolnshire’s late medieval parish guilds Claire Kennan 5. Beyond the sea: medieval mystic space and early modern convents in exile Victoria Blud II. Going places 6. Men on pilgrimage – women adrift: thoughts on gender in sea narratives from early medieval Ireland Eivor Bekkhus 7. ‘Yfallen out of heigh degree’: Chaucer’s Monk and crises of liminal masculinities ** Martin Laidlaw **8. The feminine mystic: Margery Kempe’s pilgrimage to Rome as an imitatio Birgittae ** Einat Klafter **III. A woman’s place? 9. ‘Unbynde her anoone’: The Lives of St. Margaret of Antioch and the lying-in space in late medieval England ** Róisín Donohoe **10. Gendered spaces and female filth: Auda Fabri’s mystical heresy Kathryn Loveridge 11. Shopping or scrimping? The contested space of the household in Middle English devotional literature Louise Campion 12. Tombscape: the tomb of Lady Joan de Mohun in the crypt of Canterbury cathedral Diane Heath IV. Watch this space! 13. Women’s visibility and the ‘vocal gaze’ at windows, doors and gates in vitae from the thirteenth-century Low Countries Hannah Shepherd 14. Women in the medieval wall paintings of Canterbury cathedral Jayne Wackett 15. Commanding un-empty space: silence, stillness and **{::}scopic authority in the York Christ before Herod ** Daisy Black Afterword Leonie V. Hicks Index

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Victoria Blud (Editor)

Diane Heath (Editor)

Einat Klafter (Editor)

“Across these chapters, the reader encounters archaeology, dramaturgy and memorialisation in the gendered spaces of childbirth; tombscape; dramatic and artistic space, and soundscape. Like the array of outstanding contributors to this collection, this prestigious volume is aimed as much at postgraduate and early career researchers, as it is those long established and highly esteemed scholars, or those who are new to the field of scholarship.”
-Nottingham Medieval Studies

Nottingham Medieval Studies

“The sheer range of topics and methodological approaches represented in the volume will undoubtedly prove instructive for those looking to develop comparative studies of gender, place and space, thus inviting us to continue this ever-growing conversation.”
-English Historical Review

English Historical Review

Subject: History, Medieval History

BISAC codes: HIS015010, HIS015020

Thema codes: NHDJ

Keywords: domestic history, gender, medieval history, place, public history, space, spatial studies, women

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