"Encyclopedic, explosive, pointed—these are the adjectives that leap to mind as I reflect back on the experience of reading D.H. Green’s masterful study of medieval women readers, more specifically those we can identify in the written traditions and cultures of Germany, France, and England, from the earliest examples found in the eighth century, through the expansions of the exuberant twelfth, and on into the teeming world of the late Middle Ages from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century." -Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College

• Introduction; Part I. Reading in the Middle Ages: 1. Literal reading; 2. Figurative reading; Part II. Women and Reading in the Middle Ages: 3. Categories of women readers; 4. Women's engagement with literature; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

"Encyclopedic, explosive, pointed—these are the adjectives that leap to mind as I reflect back on the experience of reading D.H. Green’s masterful study of medieval women readers, more specifically those we can identify in the written traditions and cultures of Germany, France, and England, from the earliest examples found in the eighth century, through the expansions of the exuberant twelfth, and on into the teeming world of the late Middle Ages from the thirteenth to the end of the fifteenth century." -Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, Boston College

• Introduction; Part I. Reading in the Middle Ages: 1. Literal reading; 2. Figurative reading; Part II. Women and Reading in the Middle Ages: 3. Categories of women readers; 4. Women's engagement with literature; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.