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Argues that a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century.

From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status

This bilingual edition, based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literatu

First published in 2006, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 15

Despite the fact that William Blake summarises the plot of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) in just eight lines in the prefatory ‘Argument,’ there