Medieval women and their objects /
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University of Michigan Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Dedication to Carolyn P. Collette / Arlyn Diamond
- Introduction: Medieval Women and Their Objects / Jenny Adams and Nancy Mason Bradbury
- Part 1. Objects and Gender in a Material World
- The "Thyng Wommen Loven Moost" : The Wife of Bath's Fabliau Answer / Susanna Fein
- Zenobia's Objects / Nancy Mason Bradbury
- The Object of Miraculous Song in "The Prioress's Tale" / Howell Chickering
- Part 2. Buildings, Books, and Women's (Self-)Fashioning
- A Gift from the Queen : The Architecture of the College de Navarre in Paris / Michael T. Davis
- Anne of Bohemia and the Objects of Ricardian Kingship / Lynn Staley
- Royal Biography as Reliquary : Christine de Pizan's Livre des Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V / Nadia Margolis
- A Gift, a Mirror, a Memorial : The Psalter-Hours of Mary de Bohun / Jill C. Havens
- "Parchment and Pure Flesh" : Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of the Twelfth Earl of Oxford, and Her Book / Jocelyn Wogan-Browne
- Part 3. Bodies, Objects, and Objects in the Shape of Bodies
- Objects of the Law : The Cases of Dorigen and Virginia / Eleanor Johnson
- Galatea's Pulse : Objects, Ethics, and Jean de Meun's Conclusion / Robert R. Edwards
- Transgender and the Chess Queen in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess / Jenny Adams
- Statues, Bodies, and Souls : St. Cecilia and Some Medieval Attitudes toward Ancient Rome / C. David Benson
- Contributors.