Gender in medieval places, spaces and thresholds

Foreword : the Virgin of Bethlehem, gender and space / Anthony Bale, page xv -- Introduction / Victoria Blud, Diane Heath and Einat Klafter, page 1 -- 1. Religious women in the landscape : their roles in medieval Canterbury and its hinterland / Sheila Sweetinburgh, page 9 -- 2. Space and place : archaeologies of female monasticism in later medieval Ireland / Tracy Collins, page 25 -- 3. Making space for leprous nuns : Matthew Paris and the foundation of St. Mary de Pré, St. Albans / Philippa Byrne, page 45 -- 4. On the threshold? The role of women in Lincolnshire's late medieval parish guilds / Claire Kennan, page 61 -- 5. Beyond the sea : medieval mystic space and early modern convents in exile / Victoria Blud, page 75 -- 6. Men on pilgrimage -- women adrift : thoughts on gender in sea narratives from early medieval Ireland / Eivor Bekkhus, page 93 -- 7. 'Yfallen out of heigh degree' : Chaucer's Monk and crises of liminal masculinities / Martin Laidlow, page 107 -- 8. The feminine mystic : Margery Kempe's pilgrimage to Rome as an imitatio Birgittae / Einat Klafter, page 123 -- 9. 'Unbynde her anoone' : the lives of St. Margaret of Antioch and the lying-in space in late medieval England / Róisín Donohoe, page 139 -- 10. Gendered spaces and female filth : Auda Fabri's mystical heresy / Kathryn Loveridge, page 157 -- 11. Shopping or scrimping? The contested space of the household in Middle English devotional literature / Louise Campion, page 171 -- 12. Tombscape : the tomb of Lady Joan de Mohun in the crypt of Canterbury cathedral / Diane Heath, page 185 -- 13. Women's visibility and the 'vocal gaze' at windows, doors and gates in vitae from the thirteenth-century Low Countries / Hannah Shepherd, page 205 -- 14. Women in the medieval wall paintings of Canterbury cathedral / Jayne Wackett, page 219 -- 15. Commanding un-empty space : silence, stillness and scopic authority in the York Christ before Herod / Daisy Black, page 237 -- Afterword / Leonie V. Hicks, page 251.

Foreword : the Virgin of Bethlehem, gender and space / Anthony Bale, page xv -- Introduction / Victoria Blud, Diane Heath and Einat Klafter, page 1 -- 1. Religious women in the landscape : their roles in medieval Canterbury and its hinterland / Sheila Sweetinburgh, page 9 -- 2. Space and place : archaeologies of female monasticism in later medieval Ireland / Tracy Collins, page 25 -- 3. Making space for leprous nuns : Matthew Paris and the foundation of St. Mary de Pré, St. Albans / Philippa Byrne, page 45 -- 4. On the threshold? The role of women in Lincolnshire's late medieval parish guilds / Claire Kennan, page 61 -- 5. Beyond the sea : medieval mystic space and early modern convents in exile / Victoria Blud, page 75 -- 6. Men on pilgrimage -- women adrift : thoughts on gender in sea narratives from early medieval Ireland / Eivor Bekkhus, page 93 -- 7. 'Yfallen out of heigh degree' : Chaucer's Monk and crises of liminal masculinities / Martin Laidlow, page 107 -- 8. The feminine mystic : Margery Kempe's pilgrimage to Rome as an imitatio Birgittae / Einat Klafter, page 123 -- 9. 'Unbynde her anoone' : the lives of St. Margaret of Antioch and the lying-in space in late medieval England / Róisín Donohoe, page 139 -- 10. Gendered spaces and female filth : Auda Fabri's mystical heresy / Kathryn Loveridge, page 157 -- 11. Shopping or scrimping? The contested space of the household in Middle English devotional literature / Louise Campion, page 171 -- 12. Tombscape : the tomb of Lady Joan de Mohun in the crypt of Canterbury cathedral / Diane Heath, page 185 -- 13. Women's visibility and the 'vocal gaze' at windows, doors and gates in vitae from the thirteenth-century Low Countries / Hannah Shepherd, page 205 -- 14. Women in the medieval wall paintings of Canterbury cathedral / Jayne Wackett, page 219 -- 15. Commanding un-empty space : silence, stillness and scopic authority in the York Christ before Herod / Daisy Black, page 237 -- Afterword / Leonie V. Hicks, page 251.