Women Intellectuals and Leaders in the Middle Ages

Wide-ranging examination of women's achievements in and influence on many aspects of medieval culture.

Medieval women were normally denied access to public educational institutions, and so also denied the gateways to most leadership positions. Modern scholars have therefore tended to study learned medieval women as simply anomalies, and women generally as victims. This volume, however, argues instead for a via media. Drawing upon manuscript and archival sources, scholars here show that more ...