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ISBN-13: | 9780472130146 |
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Publisher: | University of Michigan Press |
Publication date: | 11/29/2016 |
Pages: | 304 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d) |
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Table of Contents
Dedication to Carolyn P. Collette Arlyn Diamond vii
Introduction: Medieval Women and Their Objects Jenny Adams Nancy Mason Bradbury 1
Part 1 Objects and Gender in a Material World
Chapter 1 The "Thyng Wommen Loven Moost": The Wife of Bath's Fabliau Answer Susanna Fein 15
Chapter 2 Zenobia's Objects Nancy Mason Bradbury 39
Chapter 3 The Object of Miraculous Song in "The Prioress's Tale" Howell Checkering 56
Part 2 Buildings, Books, and Women's (Self-)Fashioning
Chapter 4 A Gift from the Queen: The Architecture of the College de Navarre in Paris Michael T. Davis 71
Chapter 5 Anne of Bohemia and the Objects of Ricardian Kingship Lynn Statey 97
Chapter 6 Royal Biography as Reliquary: Christine de Plan's Livre des Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V Nadia Margolis 123
Chapter 7 A Gift, a Mirror, a Memorial: The Psalter-Hours of Mary de Bohun Jill C. Havens 144
Chapter 8 "Parchment and Pure Flesh": Elizabeth de Vere, Countess of the Twelfth Earl of Oxford, and Her Book Jocelyn Wogan-Browne 171
Part 3 Bodies, Objects, And Objects in the Shape of Bodies
Chapter 9 Objects of the Law: The Cases of Dorigen and Virginia Eleanor Johnson 201
Chapter 10 Galatea's Pulse: Objects, Ethics, and Jean de Meun's Conclusion Robert R. Edwards 229
Chapter 11 Transgender and the Chess Queen in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess Jenny Adams 248
Chapter 12 Statues, Bodies, and Souls: St- Cecilia and Some Medieval Attitudes toward Ancient Rome C. David Benson 267
Contributors 289
Index 292