"This book is the fourth volume of essays arising from the now annual conference held in Trinity College, Dublin..."--Jacket. Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-232) and index.
Contents:
Gendering viragos : medieval perceptions of powerful women / Kimberly A. LoPrete -- Mothers and sons : Emma of Normandy's role in the English succession crisis, 1035-42 / Maria Sheridan -- Merito nominetur virago : Matilda of Tuscany in the polemics of the Investiture Contest / Patrick Healy -- Women and the First Crusade : prostitutes or pilgrims? / Conor Kostick -- Secondary offenders? English women and crime c. 1220-1348 / Richard J. Sims -- Representation, imitation, rejection : Chiara of Montefalco (d. 1308) and the passion of Christ / Cordelia Warr -- Women's prospects in early sixteenth-century Germany : did Martin Luther's teaching make a difference? / Helga Robinson-Hammerstein -- "The weaker vessel"? : the impact of warfare on women in seventeenth-century Ireland / Bernadette Whelan -- The mistress and matrimony : attitudes to marriage at the court of Louis XIV / Linda Kiernan -- Spanish queens and aristocratic women at the court of Madrid, 1598-1665 / Alistair Malcolm -- John Millar's peculiar footnote : the "science of man" and the "condition of women" / Michael Brown -- Women and divorce legislation : a quest for liberty during the French Revolution / Colm Ó Conaill.
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