The first comprehensive exploration of women's multifaceted experiences of forced and consensual ravishment in medieval England.

What was the status of women in the Middle Ages? How have women fared in the hands of historians? And, what is the current state of research about women in the

This study of radical prophecy in 17th-century England explores the significance of gender for religious visionaries between 1650 and 1700. Phyllis Mack focuses

Royal women did much more to wield power besides marrying the king and producing the heir. Subverting the dichotomies of public/private and formal/informal that

The non-judicial confinement of women is a common event in medieval European literature and hagiography. The literary image of the imprisoned woman, usually a n