Medieval Work, Worship, and Power

Abigail P. Dowling is Associate Professor of History at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia. Her work considers the interplay between landscape, natural resources management, and power. Her first edited volume was Conservation’s Roots, co-edited with Richard Keyser. Nancy Ann McLoughlin is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine. Her most recent work explores intersections among late medieval understandings of the seven deadly sins, gender, community, crusading, and the environment. She is the author of Jean Gerson and Gender: Rhetoric and Politics in Fifteenth-Century France. Tanya Stabler Miller is Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago. Miller’s research focuses on lay religion, gender, and urban culture, with special emphasis on northern France. She is the author of The Beguines of Medieval Paris: Gender, Patronage, and Spiritual Authority.

Introduction: Persuasive and Silenced Voices Part 1: Saints, Monks, Power, and Piety 1. Drinking the Saints: Relic Water in High Medieval English Miracles 2. From Runaway Wife to Sainted Queen: Scandal and the Model of Saintly Queenship in the Early Middle Ages 3. Monks as Enemies: Monastic Feuds in Greater Anjou 4. Monks and Their Frenemies: Chronicling Gender, Masculinity, and Violence in Twelfth-Century Vézelay Part 2: Women and Work 5. The Medieval English Marketplace through the Experience of Women Upholders 6. Women’s Labor in Later Medieval France: Case Studies from Paris 7. Medieval Sheep, Women’s Labor, Boat Shuttles, Broadcloths, Tapestries, and Beguinages 8. Ritual Exclusion and Sacramental Transformation: Women’s Work at the Edges of the Mass 9. Between Martha and Mary: Framing Beguine Labor in Medieval France Part 3: Hitting the Glass Ceiling: Women’s Overlooked Management of Resources 10. Martine Cabot: Portrait of a Medieval Female Kennel Master 11. Growing Power of Place: Urban Gardens in Late Medieval Saint-Omer, 1302–1310 12. Three Visionary Women Hospital Founders, c. 1300 13. Urban Women’s Work as Entrepreneurs and Administrators: Cloth Sellers, Abbesses, and Leaders of Hospitals in Fourteenth-Century Douai 14. The Many Lives of Pelegrina de Saladino: Mother, Testamentary Executor, Guardian, and Patroness in Late Medieval Zadar Part 4: Women’s Agency and Networks 15. Communities of Women in Carolingian Society 16. A Persuasive Voice? Berengaria of Navarre and Female Agency at the Papal Curia, 1200–1230 17. Granting Access: Rescuing the Stories of Missing Witnesses in the Canonization Inquest for Countess Delphine de Puimichel Part 5: Interfaith Tensions and Encounters 18. From Vine to Tavern: Jews, Christians, and Wine in Medieval France and Italy 19. Finely Made, From Afar: Crusader Bourse and Histories of Reuse — Unwinding Gendered Labors in French Textile Networks 20. Philippe de Mézières’ Visualizations of Gender, Crusade, and Community