Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction: ‘Becoming bene-straw’: The Middle-Aged Woman in the Middle Ages
- 1 The Age of Discretion: Women at Forty and Beyond
- 2 Seeking the Middle-Aged Woman in Medieval Wales
- 3 Middle Age in Romance? Magic, Enchantment and Female Power
- 4 Age and Desire in the Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt: A Queerer Time and Place?
- 5 The St Albans Psalter: Sex, Desire and the Middle-Aged Woman
- 6 Speaking Volumes: the Middle-Aged Woman and the Book in Medieval England
- 7 ‘Late hir seye what sche wyl’: Older Women’s Speech and the Book of Margery Kempe
- 8 Preparing for Mature Years: the Case of Margaret of Anjou and her Books
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- Abbreviations
- Contributors
- Introduction: ‘Becoming bene-straw’: The Middle-Aged Woman in the Middle Ages
- 1 The Age of Discretion: Women at Forty and Beyond
- 2 Seeking the Middle-Aged Woman in Medieval Wales
- 3 Middle Age in Romance? Magic, Enchantment and Female Power
- 4 Age and Desire in the Old English Life of St Mary of Egypt: A Queerer Time and Place?
- 5 The St Albans Psalter: Sex, Desire and the Middle-Aged Woman
- 6 Speaking Volumes: the Middle-Aged Woman and the Book in Medieval England
- 7 ‘Late hir seye what sche wyl’: Older Women’s Speech and the Book of Margery Kempe
- 8 Preparing for Mature Years: the Case of Margaret of Anjou and her Books
- Select Bibliography
- Index
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- Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages , pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011