Women's Space

Art historical and literary perspectives on the place of women in the medieval church.This interdisciplinary collection addresses the location of women and their bequests within the single most important public and social space in pre-Reformation Europe: the Roman Catholic Church. This innovative focus brings attention to gender and space as experienced in the medieval parish as well as in monastic and cathedral space. Through provocative handling of historical content and theory, the contributors explore strategies of exclusion and of inclusion and note patterns of later writers who neglect or rewrite records of female presence.>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).