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
Chapter 1 / The “Thyng Wommen Loven Moost”: The Wife of Bath’s Fabliau Answer - Susanna Fein
Chapter 2 / Zenobia’s Objects - Nancy Mason Bradbury
Chapter 3 / The Object of Miraculous Song in “The Prioress’s Tale” - Howell Chickering
Part 2 / Buildings, Books, and Women’s (Self-)Fashioning
Chapter 4 / A Gift from the Queen: The Architecture of the Collège de Navarre in Paris - Michael T. Davis
Chapter 5 / Anne of Bohemia and the Objects of Ricardian Kingship - Lynn Staley
Chapter 6 / Royal Biography as Reliquary: Christine de Pizan’s Livre des Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V - Nadia Margolis
Chapter 7 / A Gift, a Mirror, a Memorial: The Psalter-Hours of Mary de Bohun - Jill C. Havens
Chapter 8 / “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
Chapter 9 / Objects of the Law: The Cases of Dorigen and Virginia - Eleanor Johnson
Chapter 10 / Galatea’s Pulse: Objects, Ethics, and Jean de Meun’s Conclusion - Robert R. Edwards
Chapter 11 / Transgender and the Chess Queen in Chaucer’s Book of the Duchess - Jenny Adams
Chapter 12 / Statues, Bodies, and Souls: St. Cecilia and Some Medieval Attitudes toward Ancient Rome - C. David Benson
Contributors
Index