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This series investigates the representation and construction of masculinity and femininity in the Middle Ages from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. It aims in particular to explore the diversity of medieval genders, and such inter-related contexts and issues as sexuality, social class, race and ethnicity, and orthodoxy and heterodoxy.

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18 results in Gender in the Middle Ages

Female Devotion and Textile Imagery in Medieval English Literature
  • Anna McKay
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    15 May 2024
    Print publication:
    05 March 2024
  • Uncovers the female voices, lived experiences, and spiritual insights encoded by the imagery of textiles in the Middle Ages.

Premodern Masculinities in Transition

Women and Devotional Literature in the Middle Ages

Women's Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages

Gender and Petty Crime in Late Medieval England
  • The Local Courts in Kent, 1460-1560
  • Karen Jones
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    23 March 2023
    Print publication:
    20 July 2006
  • First full-length study of the relations between gender and crime in late medieval England.

Monsters, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval English Literature

Reconsidering Gender, Time and Memory in Medieval Culture

Middle-Aged Women in the Middle Ages
  • Edited by Sue Niebrzydowski
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 February 2023
    Print publication:
    15 December 2011
  • New research into medieval women from the Anglo-Saxon to the late medieval period demonstrates their energy, defiance and wit.

Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300-1640
  • Negotiating the Steps of Faith
  • Lynneth Miller Renberg
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 December 2022
    Print publication:
    15 November 2022
  • A lively exploration of the medieval and early modern attitudes towards dance, as the perception of dancers changed from saints dancing after Christ into cows dancing after the devil.

Medicine, Religion and Gender in Medieval Culture
  • Edited by Naoë Kukita Yoshikawa
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    04 June 2021
    Print publication:
    16 July 2015
  • An exploration of the relations between medical and religious discourse and practice in medieval culture, focussing on how they are affected by gender.

Holy Harlots in Medieval English Religious Literature
  • Authority, Exemplarity and Femininity
  • Juliette Vuille
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    06 April 2021
    Print publication:
    21 May 2021
  • First comprehensive investigation of the major significance of female sinners turned saints in medieval literature.

Authority, Gender and Space in the Anglo-Norman World, 900–1200

Treason and Masculinity in Medieval England
  • Gender, Law and Political Culture
  • E. Amanda McVitty
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    16 September 2020
    Print publication:
    20 November 2020
  • Groundbreaking new approach to the idea of treason in medieval England, showing the profound effect played by gender.

Female Desire in Chaucer's Legend of Good Women and Middle English Romance

Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England
  • Men, Women and Testimony in the Church Courts, c.1200–1500
  • Volume 13
  • Bronach C. Kane
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    03 September 2019
    Print publication:
    17 May 2019
  • An exploration of the influence of gender on the workings of memory in the Middle Ages.

The Unspeakable, Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Literature, 1000–1400
  • Victoria Blud
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 August 2017
    Print publication:
    11 August 2017
  • Amid saints and sinners, open secrets and queer codes, the mechanisms of confession and the infliction of torture, what is unspeakable in the Middle Ages - and who decides? Aspiring to the ineffable glories of heaven or plunging down to the murky depths of "unmentionable sin", this very functional concept becomes attached to the very good and the very bad in medieval literature and culture. This book investigates the concept and use of the trope of unspeakability from pre-Conquest to late medieval literature in England, and the relationship between that which cannot be said and cultural and social understandings of gender and sexuality. The question of how the unspeakable returns to the realm of discourse drives the exploration of texts, including the Exeter Book, Old English hagiography, Ancrene Wisse, Old French romance, Gower's Confessio Amantis and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Legend of Good Women. Theorising the work this concept performs, asking who the unspeakable works for and who it works on, this study takes in the compulsive confessions of penitent whores and anchorites, the tales of could-be sodomites and crypto-lesbians, the howls of wolf-men (and wolf-women), and the rebellion and rhetoric of the tongueless. These texts show how in representations of gender and sexuality in medieval literature, the unspeakable challenges the voiceless to overcome silence, showing the limits of language, the workings of power and the desire to be heard. Victoria Blud gained her PhD from King's College London and is currently a Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.

Religious Men and Masculine Identity in the Middle Ages
  • Edited by P. H. Cullum, Katherine J. Lewis
  • With contributions by James G. Clark , Kirsten A. Fenton , Joanna Huntington , Matthew Mesley , Catherine Sanok , Michael L. Satlow , Rachel Stone , Jennifer D. Thibodeaux and Marita von Weissenberg
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 September 2013
    Print publication:
    15 August 2013
  • The complex relationship between masculinity and religion, as experienced in both the secular and ecclesiastical worlds, forms the focus for this volume, whose range encompasses the rabbis of the Babylonian and Palestinian Talmud, and moves via Carolingian and Norman France, Siena, Antioch, and high and late medieval England to the eve of the Reformation. Chapters investigate the creation and reconstitution of different expressions of masculine identity, from the clerical enthusiasts for marriage to the lay practitioners of chastity, from crusading bishops to holy kings. They also consider the extent to which lay and clerical understandings of masculinity existed in an unstable dialectical relationship, at times sharing similar features, at others pointedly different, co-opting and rejecting features of the other; the articles show this interplay to be more far more complicated than a simple linear narrative of either increasing divergence, or of clerical colonization of lay masculinity. They also challenge conventional historiographies of the adoption of clerical celibacy, of the decline of monasticism and the gendered nature of piety. Patricia Cullum is Head of History at the University of Huddersfield; Katherine J. Lewis is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield. Contributors: James G. Clark, P.H. Cullum, Kirsten A. Fenton, Joanna Huntington, Katherine J. Lewis, Matthew Mesley, Catherine Sanok, Michael L. Satlow, Rachel Stone, Jennifer D. Thibodeaux, Marita von Weissenberg

Married Women and the Law in Premodern Northwest Europe
  • Edited by Cordelia Beattie, Matthew Frank Stevens
  • With contributions by Lars Ivar Hansen , Shennan Hutton , Lizabeth Johnson , Gillian Kenny , Mia Korpiola , Miriam Muller , S. C. Ogilvie , Alexandra Shepard and Cathryn Spence
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 July 2013
    Print publication:
    18 July 2013
  • There has been a tendency in scholarship on premodern women and the law to see married women as hidden from view, obscured by their husbands in legal records. This volume provides a corrective view, arguing that the extent to which the legal principle of 'coverture' applied has been over-emphasized. In particular, it points up differences between the English common law position, which gave husbands guardianship over their wives and their wives' property, and the position elsewhere in northwest Europe, where wives' property became part of a community of property. Detailed studies of legal material from medieval and early modern England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Ghent, Sweden, Norway and Germany enable a better sense of how, when, and where the legal principle of 'coverture' was applied and what effect this had on the lives of married women. Key threads running through the book are married women's rights regarding the possession of moveable and immovable property, marital property at the dissolution of marriage, married women's capacity to act as agents of their husbands and households in transacting business, and married women's interactions with the courts. Cordelia Beattie is Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Edinburgh; Matthew Frank Stevens is Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea University. Contributors: Lars Ivar Hansen, Shennan Hutton, Lizabeth Johnson, Gillian Kenny, Mia Korpiola, Miriam Muller, S. C. Ogilvie, Alexandra Shepard, Cathryn Spence.