The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages: Papers of the Sixth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, 6-7 May 1972

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• The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages *
• Contributors *
• The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages *
• Contents v
• Introduction vii
• Life Expectancies for Women in Medieval Society 1
• Appendix 21
• Transformations of the Heroine: from Epic Heard to Epic Read 23
• Isolt and Guenevere: Two Twelfth-Century Views of Woman 41
• Petrarch's Laura: the Convolutions of a Humanistic Mind 65
• A Fifteenth-Century View of Women's Role in Medieval Society: Christine de Pizan's Livre Des Trois Vertus 90
• Woman in the Marginalia of Gothic Manuscripts and Related Works 121
• Illustrations 161
• Index 189