Books in the Gender in the Middle Ages series

A gendered reading of monster and the monstrous body in medieval literature.

Fresh approaches to how premodern women were viewed in legal terms, demonstrating how this varied from country to country and across the centuries.

New research into medieval women from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit.

Essays offering new approaches to the changing forms of medieval religious masculinity.

An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.

An investigation of the motif of the unspeakable as manifested in a wide range of medieval texts, from the Exeter Book to Chaucer.

An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages, focussing on the non-elite.

An investigation of the public image of women as presented in contemporary drama.