Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ILLUSTRATIONS ix
4. CONTRIBUTORS xiii
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xv
6. Introduction: The Work of E. Jane Burns and the Feminisms of Medieval Studies 1
7. E. JANE BURNS: A BIBLIOGRAPHY 15
8. PART I Debating Gender
9. Natural and Unnatural Woman: Melusine Inside and Out 21
10. Nurturing Debate in Le Roman de Silence 33
11. The Man Backing Down from the Lady in Trobairitz Tensos 45
12. Having Fun with Women: Why a Feminist Teaches Fabliaux 61
13. PART II Sartorial Bodies
14. Hats and Veils: There’s No Such Thing as Freedom of Choice, and It’s a Good Thing Too 73
15. When the Knight Undresses, His Clothing Speaks: Vestimentary Allegories in the Works of Baudouin de Condé (c. 1240–1280) 97
16. John/Eleanor Rykener Revisited 111
17. PART III Mapping Margins
18. Women’s Healing: From Binaries to a Nexus 125
19. Silk in the Age of Marco Polo 141
20. Another Land’s End of Literature: Honorat Bovet and the Timbuktu Effect 153
21. PART IV Female Authority: Networks and Influence
22. Anne de Bretagne and Anne de France: French Female Networks at the Dawn of the Renaissance 171
23. Staging Female Authority in Chantilly MS 522: Marguerite de Navarre’s La Coche 187
24. Babies and Books: The Holy Kinship as a Way of Thinking about Women’s Power in Late Medieval Northern Europe 205
25. Page Layout and Reading Practices in Christine de Pizan’s Epistre Othea: Reading with the Ladies in London, BL, MS Harley 4431 219
26. Afterword: A Response to the Volume
27. Feminism and Medieval Studies: Where Have We Been, Where Are We Now, and Where Are We Going? Or, What Has Happened to Women in Feminist Studies of the Middle Ages? 237
28. INDEX 247
29. Tabula Gratulatoria 255