Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Contributors viii
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction 1
7. PART I: GENDER, DOCUMENTARY MEMORY AND LAY COMMUNITY
8. 1. Gender, Justice, and Community: Women’s Legal Networks in Early Medieval England 15
9. 2. The Peasant Widows of Early Medieval Castile 32
10. 3. Women, Seals, and Charters: Gendered Affirmation and Legitimation at the Hospital of St John Brussels 52
11. PART II: GENDERED APPROACHES TO CHARTERS: MEMORY AND ERASURE
12. 4. Enough Facts to Forge a Memory: the charters of Queen Matilda III (1135‒52) 73
13. 5. Confronting the Void: Countess Ermengarde of Brittany (c. 1070–1147) and Medieval Charters 88
14. 6. Remembering Female Lordship: the Case of Queen Berengaria of Navarre, Lord of Le Mans (1204/05–1230) 105
15. PART III: GENDER, DYNASTY AND HISTORICAL WRITING
16. 7. Ottonian Women, Textual Memory, and Dynastic Legitimacy 145
17. 8. Emma of Normandy and the Gendered Iconography of Crowns 163
18. 9. Not all chroniclers? Orderic Vitalis and Women in the Historia Ecclesiastica 182
19. 10. Anger, Violence, and the Exercise of Power in High Medieval French Chronicles 198
20. PART IV: GENDER AND DOCUMENTARY CULTURE IN MONASTIC CONTEXTS
21. 11. Women, Memory and Benedictine reform: the monasteries of Santa María de Piasca and San Salvador de Oña 217
22. 12. Women and Memory in Burgundian Charters 235
23. 13. Memory and Documentary Culture at Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries 254
24. 14. Encased in Silk. The Women of Bouxières and Their Archives 271
25. Index 289