Contents

pp v-vi

Foreword

pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements

pp ix-x

List of Abbreviations

pp xi-xii

Introduction

pp 1-20

1 - Comparison and Dialogue

pp 21-22

1 - Speaking Across the Stars: Parallel Affective Communities in Islamic and Christian Hagiography

pp 23-42

2 - Women's Mystical Friendships: Margery Kempe and Mirabai

pp 43-60

3 - Women's Writing in the Japanese Heian Period: A Medieval Dialogue Between the East and West

pp 61-80

2 - Constructing Gender and Genre

pp 81-82

4 - The Genre of the Late Medieval Personalised Orthodox Slavic Women's Miscellany: Three ‘Existential’ Questions

pp 83-102

5 - The Role of Kisaeng Sijo Poets in Medieval Korean Literature

pp 103-122

6 - Rābi‘a Al-‘Adawiyya: Gender, Authority and Paradox in ‘Attār's Tadhkirat Al-Awliyā’ and the Mantiq Al-Tayr

pp 123-140

7 - Deception, Infanticide, and the Making of a Female Saint: A Look at the Gädl Krəstos Śämra

pp 141-154

3 - Saintly Performance and Marian Piety

pp 155-156

8 - ‘Of Our Lady Thassumpcion’: A European Context for the Worshipful Wives of Chester and Their Marian Play

pp 157-174

9 - Mary and Elizabeth: Male Perspectives of Female-Coded Piety in Offices for the Visitation

pp 175-192

10 - Speaking Internationally in Female Communities on the Eastern Borders of Medieval Europe

pp 193-208

11 - Textual Phantoms and Spectral Presences: The Coming to Rest Of Mechthild of Hackeborn's Writing in the Late Middle Ages

pp 209-224

12 - Negotiating the Abject and the Sublime: The Centrality of Discourse Communities Within Women's Mystical Experience

pp 225-240

4 - Evidence and the Archives: Revisiting and Reconsidering

pp 241-242

13 - ‘IC þæt Secgan Mæg’: Women, Song, Story, Presence

pp 243-260

14 - In the Undergrowth: Llwyn a Pherth and Sexual Deviancy in Medieval Wales

pp 261-276

15 - ‘I Shall Send YW Money to by Such Stufe as i Wull Haue’: The Paston Shoppers

pp 277-292

Afterword: Intersectionality and Coalitions

pp 293-302

List of Contributors

pp 303-308

Bibliography

pp 309-342

Index

pp 343-346

Gender in the Middle Ages

pp 347-348