This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, is an indispensable blend of key essays in the field with specially commissioned new material by feminist

Re-examines a critical tradition unchallenged since the 19th century. The 20 essays reassess the place of women in Anglo-Saxon culture as demonstrated by the la

"[The essays] focus on class and gender not only sheds new light on old texts but also stretches the boundaries of the critical modus operandi which is often ap

An investigation of Chaucer's thinking about women, assessed in the light of developments in feminist criticism. Women are a major subject of Chaucer's writings

This volume brings together specialists from different areas of medieval literary study to focus on the role of habits of thought in shaping attitudes toward wo