SEVEN Gender, Celibacy, and Proscriptions of Sacred Space: Symbol and Practice

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Signs of the Body: Gender, Sexuality, and Space in York and the York Cycle 23
6. Ely’s St. ÆThelthryth: The shrine’s Enclosure of the Female Body as Symbol for the Inviolability of Monastic Space 47
7. Margery Kempe and the Arts of Self-Patronage 75
8. Real and Imaged Bodies in Architectural Space: The Setting for Margery Kempe’s Book 105
9. The Seat Under Our Lady: Gender and Seating in Late Medieval English Parish Churches 141
10. Access to Salvation: The Place (And Space) of Women Patrons in Fourteenth-Century Florence 161
11. Gender, Celibacy, and Proscriptions of Sacred Space: Symbol and Practice 185
12. Men on the Right—Women on the Left: (A)Symmetrical Spaces and Gendered Places 207
13. Contributors 251
14. Index 253