"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana"The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum

• 1. Prisoner, Dreamer, Martyr 2. A Pilgrim to the Holy Land 3. Calumniated Empress and Poet 4. An Ill-Fated Gothic Queen 5. Three Consecrated Women of Merovingian Gaul 6. "Words Flowing Like Gold Fringes" 7. Barbarian Women, Holy Women 8. Mother to a Young Warrior 9. Hagiographer, Playwright, Epic Historian 10. A Byzantine Historian of the First Crusade 11. The Trobairitz in Love and Strife 12. "Marie Is My Name: I Am of France" 13. Good Queen Maud 14. A Benedictine Visionary in the Rhineland 15. Handmaid of God 16. Brides of the Celestial Bedchamber 17. A Woman of Letters at the French Court 18. An Anchoress of England 19. Four English Women of the Fifteenth Century. Index

"Royal and saintly women are well-represented here, with the welcome addition of women from the Mediterranean arc...Garland has done a solid job of presenting this book." -- Arthuriana"The Anthology gives a fine sense of the great range of women's writing in the Middle Ages." -- Medium Aevum

• 1. Prisoner, Dreamer, Martyr 2. A Pilgrim to the Holy Land 3. Calumniated Empress and Poet 4. An Ill-Fated Gothic Queen 5. Three Consecrated Women of Merovingian Gaul 6. "Words Flowing Like Gold Fringes" 7. Barbarian Women, Holy Women 8. Mother to a Young Warrior 9. Hagiographer, Playwright, Epic Historian 10. A Byzantine Historian of the First Crusade 11. The Trobairitz in Love and Strife 12. "Marie Is My Name: I Am of France" 13. Good Queen Maud 14. A Benedictine Visionary in the Rhineland 15. Handmaid of God 16. Brides of the Celestial Bedchamber 17. A Woman of Letters at the French Court 18. An Anchoress of England 19. Four English Women of the Fifteenth Century. Index