| Contents |
Gender, power, and patronage : the impact of Penelope D. Johnson on medieval studies ; Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell thesis, and Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe / Katherine Allen Smith, Scott Wells -- Living with a saint : monastic identity, community, and the ideal of asceticism in the life of an Irish saint / Diane Peters Auslander -- A tale of two dioceses : prologues as letters in the Vitae authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré / Christina Roukis-Stern -- "Within the walls of paradise" : space and community in the Vita of Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219-1246) / Anne M. Schuchman -- Architectural mimesis and historical memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel / Katherine Allen Smith -- Holy women and the needle arts : piety, devotion, and stitching the sacred, ca. 500-1150 / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- The politics of gender and ethnicity in East Francia : the case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950 / Scott Wells -- Noble women's power as reflected in the foundations of Cistercian houses for nuns in thirteenth-century Northern France : Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres / Constance Hoffman Berman -- "Inseparable companions" : Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise / Susan Valentine -- Book, body, and the construction of the self in the Taymouth hours / Kathryn A. Smith -- Abbott Erluin's blindness : the monastic implications of violent loss of sight / Susan Wade -- Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault / Elizabeth A.R. Brown -- The matter of others : menstrual blood and uncontrolled semen in thirteenth-century kabbalists' polemic against Christians, "bad" Jews, and Muslims / Alexandra Cuffel. |
