D. H. Green shows how German romances found ways to debate and challenge the conventional antifeminism of the medieval period.

"D. H. Green shows how German romances found ways to debate and challenge the conventional antifeminism of the medieval period".--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Drastic changes in lay religiosity during the High Middle Ages spurred anxiety about women forsaking their secular roles as wives and mothers for religious ones

Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an exis

Emma O. Bérat shows the centrality of women's legacies to medieval political and literary thought in chronicles, hagiography, and genealogy.