{"product_id":"women-of-the-medieval-world-isbn-9780631154921","title":"Women of the Medieval World","description":"This fascinating volume breaks new ground in examining the status and lives of women in Europe during the Middle Ages, offering revealing new insights into the role of women in a wide range of religious, sexual and domestic affairs.  \u003cp\u003eAs this book amply demonstrates, women were central to the spiritual life of the medieval Church: Jo Ann McNamara writes on the legacy of miracles in the nunneries of Merovingian Gaul, Suzanne Wemple on one of the most important female monasteries in northern Italy, and Phyllis Roberts on the ideal of the virginal life. But the book is equally concerned with the family and relations between men and women. Leah Lydia Otis, for example, looks at the practice of prostitution in late medieval Perpignan; Helen Rodnite Lemay discusses medieval gynecology; and Julius Kirshner provides a revolutionary study of wives' claims against insolvent husbands, challenging the notion that the legal rights of women deteriorated in late medieval Italy.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePreface vii\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJulius Kirshner and Suzanne F. Wemple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Hine Mundy: An Appreciation 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEugene Rice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Teste David cum Sibylla: The Significance of the Sibylline Tradition in the Middle Ages 7\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBernard McGinn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A Legacy of Miracles: Hagiography and Nunneries in Merovingian Gaul 36\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJo Ann McNamara\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Bishops as Marital Advisors in the Ninth Century 54\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJane Bishop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 S. Salvatore\/S. Giulia: A Case Study in the Endowment and Patronage of a Major Female Monastery in Northern Italy 85\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSuzanne F. Wemple\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Stephan Langton’s Ermo de Virginibus 103\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhyllis B. Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Ancilla Dei: The Servant as Saint in the Late Middle Ages 119\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMichael Goodigh\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Prostitution and Repentance in Late Medieval Perpignan 137\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLeah Lydia Otis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Female Imagery: A Clue to the Role of Joachim’s Order of Fiore 161\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStephen Wessley\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Queen Sancia of Naples (1286-1345) and the Spiritual Franciscans 179\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRonald G. Musto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 ‘Of the Gift of her Husband’: English Dower and its Consequences in the year 1200 215\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJanet Senderowitz Loengard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Wives’ Claims against Insolvent Husbands in Late Medieval Italy 256\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJulius Kirshner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 On the Status of Women in Medieval Sardinia 204\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn Day\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Anthonius Guainerius and Medieval Gynocology 317\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHelen Rodnite Lemay\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Problem of Feminism in the Fifteenth Century 337\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBeatrice Gottlieb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelect Bibliography of the Writings of John H. Mundy 365\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Contributors 367\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex 371\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eJulius Kirshner and Suzanne Wemple are the authors of Women of the Medieval World, published by Wiley.   This fascinating volume breaks new ground in examining the status and lives of women in Europe during the Middle Ages, offering revealing new insights into the role of women in a wide range of religious, sexual and domestic affairs.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs this book amply demonstrates, women were central to the spiritual life of the medieval Church: Jo Ann McNamara writes on the legacy of miracles in the nunneries of Merovingian Gaul, Suzanne Wemple on one of the most important female monasteries in northern Italy, and Phyllis Roberts on the ideal of the virginal life. But the book is equally concerned with the family and relations between men and women. 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