Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-x

List of Illustrations

pp xi-xii

List of Contributors

pp xiii-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xvi

Introduction: Taking Early Women Intellectuals and Leaders Seriously

pp 1-18

Part I - Scholarship, Law, and Poetry: Jewish and Muslim Women

pp 19-20

Preface to Part I: Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women

pp 21-24

1 - Gender, Scholarship, and the Construction of Authority in the Pre-Modern Muslim World

pp 25-36

2 - The Historiography of Absence: Preliminary Steps towards a New History of Andalusi Women Poets

pp 37-54

3 - Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women at Court

pp 55-70

Part II - Authorship, Intellectual Life, and the Professional Writer

pp 71-72

Preface to Part II: Intellectuals, Leaders, Doctores

pp 73-78

4 - Agnes of Harcourt as Intellectual: New Evidence for the Composition and Circulation of the Vie d’Isabelle de France

pp 79-96

5 - Catherine of Siena, Auctor

pp 97-112

6 - Christine de Pizan on the Jews, in Three Texts: The Heures de contemplation sur la Passion de Nostre Seigneur Jhesucrist, the Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, and the Mutacion de Fortune

pp 113-128

7 - Walking in Grandmothers’ Footsteps: Mary Ward and the Medieval Spiritual and Intellectual Heritage

pp 129-146

Part III - Recovering Lost Women’s Authorship

pp 147-148

Preface to Part III: Recovering Lost Women’s Authorship: New Solutions to Old Problems

pp 149-154

8 - A Woman Author? The Middle Dutch Dialogue between a “Good-willed Layperson” and a “Master Eckhart”

pp 155-168

9 - Recovery and Loss: Women’s Writing around Marie de France

pp 169-190

10 - The Visions, Experiments, and Operations of Bridget of Autruy (fl. 1305–15)

pp 191-210

Part IV - Multidisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Patronage, and Power

pp 211-212

Preface to Part IV: Methodological Innovations for the Study of Women’s Authorship and Agency 213

pp 213-216

11 - Written with her Own Hand: Perpetua’s Representation of Non-Binary Gender in Old English Hagiography

pp 217-226

12 - The Materialization of Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: Joan Tateshal, Robert Grosseteste, and the Tateshal Miscellany

pp 227-238

13 - Networks of Influence: Widows, Sole Administration, and Unconventional Relationships in Thirteenth-Century London

pp 239-250

Part V - Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin Ecclesiastical Culture

pp 251-252

Preface to Part V: Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and LatinEcclesiastical Culture

pp 253-260