Women's Space

Virginia Chieffo Raguin is Professor of Art History at the College of the Holy Cross. She is the author of many books, including The History of Stained Glass: The Art of Light Medieval to Contemporary and Stained Glass in Thirteenth-Century Burgundy. Sarah Stanbury is Associate Professor of English at the College of the Holy Cross. Her previous books include Seeing the Gawain-Poet: Description and the Act of Perception and Writing on the Body: Female Embodiment and Feminist Theory (coedited with Katie Conboy and Nadia Medina).

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Introduction
Sarah Stanbury and Virginia Chieffo Raguin


1. Signs of the Body: Gender, Sexuality, and Space in York and the York Cycle
Ruth Evans


2. Ely's St. Æthelthryth: The Shrine's Enclosure of the Female Body as Symbol for the Inviolability of Monastic Space
Virginia Blanton


3. Margery Kempe and the Arts of Self-Patronage
Sarah Stanbury


4. Real and Imaged Bodies in Architectural Space: The Setting for Margery Kempe's Book
Virginia Chieffo Raguin


5. The Seat under Our Lady: Gender and Seating in Late Medieval English Parish Churches
Katherine L. French


6. Access to Salvation: The Place (and Space) of Women Patrons in Fourteenth-century Florence
Ena Giurescu Heller


7. Gender, Celibacy, and Proscriptions of Sacred Space: Symbol and Practice
Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg


8. Men on the Right/Women on the Left: (A)symmetrical Spaces and Gendered Places
Corine Schleif


List of Contributors


Index