List of Illustrations Introduction Sarah Stanbury and Virginia Chieffo Raguin 1. Signs of the Body: Gender, Sexuality, and Space in York and the York Cycle Ruth Evans 2. Ely's St. Aethelthryth: The Shrine's Enclosure of the Female Body as Symbol for the Inviolability of Monastic Space Virginia Blanton 3. Margery Kempe and the Arts of Self-Patronage Sarah Stanbury 4. Real and Imaged Bodies in Architectural Space: The Setting for Margery Kempe's Book Virginia Chieffo Raguin 5. The Seat under Our Lady: Gender and Seating in Late Medieval English Parish Churches Katherine L. French 6. Access to Salvation: The Place (and Space) of Women Patrons in Fourteenth-century Florence Ena Giurescu Heller 7. Gender, Celibacy, and Proscriptions of Sacred Space: Symbol and Practice Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg 8. Men on the Right/Women on the Left: (A)symmetrical Spaces and Gendered Places Corine Schleif List of Contributors Index
Virginia Chieffo Raguin is Professor of Art History at the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of many books, including The History of Stained Glass: The Art of Light Medieval to Contemporary and Stained Glass in Thirteenth-Century Burgundy. Sarah Stanbury is Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. Her previous books include Seeing the Gawain-Poet: Description and the Act of Perception and Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (coedited with Katie Conboy and Nadia Medina).
"...a wide-ranging and thoughtful volume." - Medium Aevum "The authors, largely American scholars, are very much aware of the provocations of recent scholarship and aim to consider conceptual challenges by anthropologists, geographers, and social theorists as to how we might understand space, place, and gender, and then how these concepts were moderated through patronage ... The strongest essays focus either on theory or material and are precise as to how they are examining (and distinguishing between) space or place." - English Historical Review "Everything in this volume is worth reading." - Journal of English and Germanic Philology "This collection's interdisciplinarity, with essays by art historians, historians, and literary scholars, will make it useful to a variety of scholars working on gender issues in the Middle Ages." - Elizabeth Robertson, coeditor of Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature "The topic of gender and space in the Middle Ages, particularly women's relationships to the material spaces of religious practice, is original, and its investigation here produces very satisfying results." - Theresa Coletti, author of Mary Magdalene and the Drama of Saints: Theater, Gender, and Religion in Late Medieval England
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