Books in the New Middle Ages series

This volume of original essays employs the latest tools of historical analysis, literary criticism, and feminist inquiry to reveal why Joan of Arc was such an important figure.

In this text, scholars reveal why veterans of Joan of Arc's military campaigns found her to have been a remarkable comander and why so many of her contemporaries and near-contemporaries, churchman and poets alike, found it possible to accept the validity of her mission and her voices.

This book combines critical work in feminism, gender studies, queer theory and cultural studies and explores the relationship between Christian and masculine identity, between male and animal bodies, transvestism and knighthood and more.

First published in 1996, this study offers a range of approaches to medieval undertanding of mothering and the uses to which the practice of mothering could be assumed by females and males alike. In 19 original essays, medical and literary sources investigate the biologistics of maternity which were often replaced by images of nurturing mothers.

This book combines critical work in feminism, gender studies, queer theory and cultural studies and explores the relationship between Christian and masculine identity, between male and animal bodies, transvestism and knighthood and more.