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Introduction

Women, Literacy and Invisibility in Southern Italy, 900-1200

Patricia Skinner

Female Readers in Froissart: Implied, Fictive and Other

Philip E. Bennett

That wommen holde in ful greet reverence': Mothers and Daughters Reading Chivalric Romances

Jennifer R. Goodman

Pilfering Vegetius? Christine de Pizan's Faits d'Armes et de Chevalerie

Charity Cannon Willard

The Consolation of a Woman Writer: Christine de Pizan's Use of Boethius in Lavision-Christine

Benjamin Semple

In the Voice of Women: Chinese Love Poetry in the Early Middle Ages

Anne Birrell

Women, Authority and the Book in the Middle Ages

Jeanette Beer

Francesca de Rimini and Dante's Women Readers

Mark Balfour

The Variant Passages in the Wife of Bath's Prologue and the Textual Transmission of the Canterbury Tales: The `Great Tradition' Revisited

Beverly Kennedy

Philippe de Remi's Manekine: Joie and Pain

Carol J. Harvey

Women as Readers, Women as Text in the Roman de la Rose

Heather Arden

Reclaiming the Woman in the Book: Marie de France and the Fables

Karen K. Jambeck

Lydgate's Lyrics and Women Readers

Julia Boffey

William Caxton, Margaret Beaufort and the Romance of Female Patronage

Jennifer Summit

Apocryphal Entries: Judith and the Politics of Caxton's Golden Legend

Margarita Stocker

Index of Manuscripts

General Index