Professor Beach's book on female scribes in twelfth-century Bavaria - a full-length study of the role of women copyists in the Middle Ages - is underpinned by t

This is the first study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence to

Argues that a reading act conceived of as female lies behind the polysemic identification of women as the audience of new media in the twelfth century.

In this volume, Georges Duby studies the relationship between the Church and women in twelfth-century Europe. By that time, the Church had begun to see the evol

Medievalists explore geographical regions and themes to expose the best current thinking about what was and what was not distinctive about the twelfth century.