Representing medieval genders and sexualities in Europe : construction, transformation, and subversion, 600-1530 / edited by Elizabeth L'Estrange, Alison More.

Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2011], ©2011.

xii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p.[173]-196) and index.

Representing Medieval genders and sexualities in Europe : construction, transformation, and subversion, 600-1530 / Elizabeth L'Estrange and Alison More -- "What, after all, is a male virgin?" : multiple performances of male virginity in Anglo-Saxon saints' lives / Cassandra Rhodes -- Convergence, conversion, and transformation : gender and sanctity in thirteenth-century liège / Alison More -- Constructing political rule, transforming gender scripts : revisiting the thirteenth-century rule of Joan and Margaret, countesses of Flanders / Francesca Canadé Sautman -- Violence on vellum : St. Margaret's transgressive body and its audience / Jennifer Borland -- "Pourquoy appellerions nous ces choses differentes, qu'une heure, un moment, un mouvement peuvent rendre du tout semblables?" : representing gender identity in the Late Medieval French querelle des femmes / Helen Swift -- Constructing female sanctity in Late Medieval Naples : the funerary monument of Queen Sancia of Majorca / Aislinn Loconte -- Deschi da parto and topsy-turvy gender relations in fifteenth-century Italian households / Elizabeth L'Estrange -- Fashioning female humanist scholarship : self-representation in Laura Cereta's letters / Jennifer Cavalli -- Mightier than the sword : reading, writing, and noble masculinity in the early sixteenth century / Fiona S. Dunlop.