Table of Contents

Medieval Christian Debates about Female Nature; A.Matter Debating Women in Anglo-Saxon England; C.Lees & G.R.Overing Legal Discourses and the Encoding of the Debate about Women; R.Karras Declarations of Freedom: Franchise and the Querelle des Femmes; H. Solterer Framing the Debate about Women, Men, and Gender in the Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Courtly Fictions; R.Krueger Refiguring the 'Scandalous Excess' of Medieval Woman; A.Blamires The Debate in Play: Gender as Ludic Drama; T.Fenster Editorial Compilation and the Debate about Women in Medieval German Literature; A.M.Rasmussen Debating Gender in Early Modern Spain; J.Weiss The Effects of Female Sovereignty on the Debate about Women in Fifteenth-Century Spain; B.Weissberger Looking Backwards: A Renaissance Scholar's View of the Debate about Women in the Italian Middle Ages; P.J.Benson