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Introduction

Taking Early Women Intellectuals and Leaders SeriouslyKathryn Kerby-Fulton

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Part I. Scholarship, Law, and Poetry: Jewish and Muslim Women

Preface to Part I: Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women 21Ruth Mazo Karras

1 Gender, Scholarship, and the Construction of Authority in the Pre-Modern 25Muslim World

Asma Afsaruddin

2 The Historiography of Absence: Preliminary Steps towards a New History 37ofAndalusi Women Poets

S.J. Pearce

3 Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women at Court 55Adrienne Williams Boyarin

Part II. Authorship, Intellectual Life, and the Professional Writer

Preface to Part II: Intellectuals, Leaders, DocforesDavid Wallace

5 Catherine of Siena, Ac/oyF. Thomas Luongo

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4 Agnes ofHarcourt as Intellectual: New Evidence for the Composition and 79Circulation of the Vie d'lsabelle de France

Sean L. Field

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6 Christine de Pizan on the Jews, in Three Texts: The Heures de contemplation 113sur la Passion de Nostre Seigneur Jh esucrist, the Fais et bonnes meurs dusage roy Charles F, and the Mutadon de Fortune

Thelma Fenster

7 Walking in Grandmothers' Footsteps: Mary Ward and the MedievalSpiritual and Inteüectual Heritage

Gemma Simmonds

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Part III. Recovering Lost Women's Authorship

Preface to Part III: Recovering Lost Women's Authorship: New Solutions 149to Old Problems

Kathryn Kerby-Fulton

8 A Woman Author? The Middle Dutch Dialogue between a Good-wiued 155Layperson and a Master Eckhart"

John Van Engen

9 Recovery and Loss: Women's Writing around Marie de France 169Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, with an Appendbc by Jan Short

10 The Visions, Experiments, and Operations of Bridget ofAutaiy (fl. 1305-15) 191Nicholas Watson

Part IV. Multidisciplinary Approaches to Gender, Patronage, and Power

Preface to Part IV: Methodological Innovations for the Study of Women's 213Authorship and Agency

Nicholas Watson

11 Written with her Own Hand: Perpetua's Representation ofNon-Binary 217Gender in Old English Hagiography

Leanne MacDonald

12 The Materialization of Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: 227Joan Tateshal, Robert Grosseteste, and the Tateshal Miscellany

Anna Siebach-Larsen

13 Networks of Influence: Widows, Sole Administration, and Unconventional 239Relationships in Thirteenth-Century London

Amanda Bohne

Part V. Religious Warnen in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin Ecclesiastical Culture

Preface to Part V: Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin 253Ecclesiastical Culture

John Van Engen

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14 Bede's AbbessesSarah Foot

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27715 Womens Latinity in the Early English AnchorholdMeganJ. Hall

16 The Treatment of Ordination in Recent Scholarship on Religious Women 291in the Early Middle Ages

Gary Macy

17 Saint Colette de Corbie (1381-1447): Reformist Leadership and Belated 303Sainthood

Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski

18 Women Priests at Barking Abbey in the Late Middle Ages 319Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis

Part VI. Out of the Shadows: Laywomen in Communal Leadership

Preface to Part VI: Laywomen as Leaders 337DyanElliott

19 Women Donors and Ecclesiastical Reform: Evidence from Camaldoli and 343Vallombrosa, c. 1000-1150

Maureen C. Miiier

20 Laywomen's Leadership in Medieval Miracle Cults: Evidence from 359Britain, c.1150-1250

Rachel Koopmans

21 Mechthild of Magdeburg at Helfta: A Study in Literary InfluenceBarbara Newman

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Epilogue

Positioning Women in Medieval Society, Culture, and ReligionJohn Van Engen

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Index 403

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