Considering Medieval Women and Gender

Susan Mosher Stuard is a Professor of History, emerita, at Haverford College, USA

• Contents: Preface; Part 1 Autobiography: Latent feminist loosed on medieval history (1935-); Part 2 Dowry, Marriage and Consumption: Dowry increase and increments in wealth in medieval Ragusa (Dubrovnik); Burdens of matrimony: husbanding and gender in medieval Italy; Gravitas and consumption; Marriage gifts and fashion mischief. Part 3 Medieval Women and Slavery: Urban domestic slavery in medieval Ragusa; Ancillary evidence for the decline of medieval slavery; 'Qui natus est de ancilla mea' in medieval church law. Part 4 Historiography and Gender: The Annales school and feminist history: opening dialogue with the American stepchild; A new dimension? North American scholars contribute their perspective; From women to woman: new thinking about gender, c.1140; The chase after theory: considering medieval women; The three-decade transformation: medieval women and the course of history; Eleanor Shipley Duckett (1880-1976): historian of the Latin Middle Ages. Part 5 Medieval Lives; Dame Trot; Bencius del Buono and family; The life of Maria of Venice (1379-1399); Index.