Gendering the Master Narrative asks whether a female tradition of power might have existed distinct from the male one, and how such a tradition might have been transmitted. It describes women's progress toward power as a push-pull movement, showing...

In their introduction, Mary C. Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski survey the directions in which the study of medieval women's agency has developed since the late 1980s. Like its predecessor, this volume is richly interdisciplinary, containing essays by highly regarded scholars of history, literature and art history.