Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture.

"Taking Early Women Intellectuals and Leaders Seriously" - Kathryn Kerby-Fulton"Authorship and Intellectual Life: Jewish and Muslim Women" - Ruth Karras"Gender, Scholarship, and the Construction of Authority in the Pre-Modern Muslim World" - Asma Afsaruddin"The Historiography of Absence: Preliminary Steps Towards a New History of Andalusi Women Poets" - S.J. Pearce"Medieval Anglo-Jewish Women at Court" - Adrienne Williams Boyarin"Intellectuals, Leaders, Doctores" - David Wallace"Agnes of Harcourt as Intellectual: New Evidence for the Composition and Circulation of the Vie d'Isabelle de France" - Sean L. Field"Catherine of Siena, Auctor" - F Thomas Luongo"Christine de Pizan on the Jews, in Three Texts: The Heures de contemplation sur la Passion de Nostre Seigneur Jhesucrist, the Fais et bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V, and the Mutacion de Fortune" - Thelma Fenster"Walking in Grandmothers' Footsteps: Mary Ward and the Medieval Spiritual and Intellectual Heritage" - Gemma C.J. Simmonds"New Solutions to Old Problems" - Kathryn Kerby-Fulton"A Woman Author? The Middle-Dutch Dialogue between a 'Good-willed Layperson' and a 'Master Eckhart'" - John Van Engen"Recovery and Loss: Women's Writing around Marie de France" - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne"The Visions, Experiments, and Operations of Bridget of Autruy (fl. 1305-15)" - Nicholas Watson"Methodological Innovations for the Study of Women's Authorship and Agency" - Nicholas Watson"Written with Her Own Hand: Perpetua's Representation of Non-Binary Gender in Old English Hagiography" - Leanne MacDonald"The Materialization of Knowledge in Thirteenth-Century England: Joan Tateshal, Robert Grosseteste, and the Tateshal Miscellany" - Anna Siebach-Larson"Networks of Influence: Widows, Sole Administration, and Unconventional Relationships in Thirteenth-Century London" - Amanda Bohne"Religious Women in Leadership, Ministry, and Latin Ecclesiastical Culture" - John Van Engen"Bede's Abbesses" - Sarah Foot"Women's Latinity in the Early English Anchorhold" - Megan J. Hall"The Treatment of Ordination in Recent Scholarship on Religious Women in the Early Middle Ages" - Gary Macy"Saint Colette de Corbie (1381-1447): Reformist Leadership and Belated Sainthood" - Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski"Women Priests at Barking Abbey in the Late Middle Ages" - K.A. Bugyis"Laywomen as Leaders" - Dyan Elliott"Women Donors and Ecclesiastical Reform: Evidence from Camaldoli and Vallombrosa, c. 1000-1150" - Maureen C. Miller"Laywomen's Leadership in Medieval Miracle Cults: Evidence from Britain, ca. 1150-1250" - Rachel Koopmans"Mechthild of Magdeburg at Helfta: A Study in Literary Influence" - Barbara Newman"Positioning Women in Medieval Society, Culture, and Religion: An Epilogue" - John Van Engen