Writing Medieval Women's Lives

Introduction; Charlotte Newman Goldy and Amy Livingstone The Foundation Legend of Godstow Abbey: A Holy Woman's Life in Anglo-Norman Verse; Emilie Amt Remembering Countess Delphine's Books: Reading as a Means to Shape a Holy Woman's Sanctity; Nicole Archambeau The Letters of Princess Sophia of Hungary, a Nun at Admont; Jonathan R. Lyon The Missing Rusian Women: The Case of Evpraksia Vsevolodovna; Christian Raffensperger Leaving Warboys: Emigration from a Fifteenth-Century English Village; Anne R. DeWindt Women as Legal Agents in Late Medieval Genoa; Jamie Smith Piecing Together the Fragments: Telling the Lives of the Ladies of Lavardin through Image and Text; Amy Livingstone Girlindis and Alpais: Telling the Lives of Two Textile Fabricators in the Carolingian Empire; Valerie L. Garver A Peasant Family in Roussillon: Understanding the Experiences of Women in the Blanquet Parchments, 1292-1345; Rebecca Lynn Winer Joan de Valence: A Lady of Substance; Linda E. Mitchell Royal Women in Late Medieval Spain: Catalina of Lancaster, Leonor of Albuquerque, and María of Castile; Theresa Earenfight Muriel, a Jew of Oxford: Using the Dramatic to Understand the Mundane in Anglo-Norman Towns; Charlotte Newman Goldy Well-Behaved Women Can Make History: Women's Friendships in Late Medieval Westminster; Katherine L. French