Gender, Memory and Documentary Culture, c.900-1300

LAURA L. GATHAGAN is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. She has published widely on medieval women's power. She is a Fellow of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Royal Society of Arts. CHARLES INSLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester. Andrew Rabin is a Professor in the English Department at the University of Louisville. CHARLES INSLEY is a Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Manchester. LAURA L. GATHAGAN is an Associate Professor of History at the State University of New York, College at Cortland. She has published widely on medieval women's power. She is a Fellow of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Royal Society of Arts. STEVEN ISAAC is the Simpson Professor of Medieval History, Longwood University.

Introduction - Laura L. Gathagan and Charles Insley

Part I: Gender, Documentary Memory and Lay Community

1. Gender, Justice and Community: Women's Legal Networks in Early Medieval England - Andrew Rabin
2. The Peasant Widows of Early Medieval Castile - David Peterson
3. Women, Seals, and Charters: Gendered Affirmation and Legitimation at the Hospital of Saint John Brussels - Tiffany A. Ziegler

Part II: Gendered Approaches to Charters: Memory and Erasure

4. Enough Facts to Forge a Memory: the charters of Queen Matilda III (1135—52) - Steven Isaac
5. Confronting the Void: Countess Ermengarde of Brittany (c. 1070-1147) and Medieval Charters - Amy Livingstone
6. Remembering Female Lordship: the Case of Queen Berengaria of Navarre, Lord of Le Mans (1204/05-1230) - Richard Barton

Part III: Gender, Dynasty and Historical Writing

7. Ottonian Women, Textual Memory, and Dynastic Legitimacy - Laura E. Wangerin
8. Emma of Normandy and the Gendered Iconography of Crowns - Florence H. R. Scott
9. Not all chroniclers? Orderic Vitalis and Women in the Historia Ecclesiastica - Tatum Tullis
10. Anger, Violence, and the Exercise of Power in High Medieval French Chronicles - Heather J. Tanner

Part IV: Gender and Documentary Culture in Monastic Contexts

11. Women, Memory and Benedictine reform: the monasteries of Santa María de Piasca - and San Salvador de Oña - Leticia Agúndez San Miguel
12. Women and Memory in Burgundian Charters - Constance B. Bouchard
13. Memory and Documentary Culture at Holy Trinity Abbey, Caen in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries - Catherine Letouzey-Réty
14. Encased in Silk. The Women of Bouxières and Their Archives - Steven Vanderputten