Gender in medieval places, spaces and thresholds

Chapters

• Foreword. The Virgin of Bethlehem, gender and space
  Anthony Bale
• Introduction
  Victoria Blud, Diane Heath, 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
  Clare 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