List of Illustrations

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part One Images of Women

Scriba, Femina: Medieval Depictions of Women Writing

Lesley Smith

&Aelig;sop's Cock and Marie's Hen: Gendered Authorship in Text and Image in Manuscripts of Marie de France's Fables

Sandra Hindman

Interpreting Images of Women with Books in Misericords

Wendy Armstead

Mirrors of a Collective Past: Reconsidering Images of Medieval Women

Martha W. Driver

Part Two Images and Books by Women

Two Twelfth-Century Women and their Books

Therese McGuire

Worship of the Word: Some Gothic Nonnenbucher in their Devotional Context

Judith Oliver

A Library Collected by and for the Use of Nuns: St Catherine's Convent, Nuremberg

Marie-Luise Ehrenschwendtner

Women's Work at the Benedictine Convent of Le Murate in Florence: Suora Battista Carducci's Roman Missal of 1509

Kate Lowe

Part Three Images and Books for Women

The Gospels of Margaret of Scotland and the Literacy of an Eleventh-Century Queen

Richard Gameson

From Eve to Bathsheba and Beyond: Motherhood in the Queen Mary Psalter

Anne Rudloff Stanton

Fables for the Court: Illustrations of Marie de France's Fables in Paris, BN, MS Arsenal 3142

Susan L. Ward

The Wound in Christ's Side and the Instruments of the Passion: Gendered Experience and Response

Flora Lewis

The Cult of Angles in Late Fifteenth-Century England: An Hours of the Guardian Angel presented to Queen Elizabeth Woodville

Anne F. Sutton

Livia Visser-Fuchs

Women and Books of Hours

Sandra Penketh

Index of Manuscripts Cited

Index