Women's space : patronage, place, and gender in the medieval church - Raguin, Virginia Chieffo, 1941-; Stanbury, Sarah (Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2005)
Signs of the body : gender, sexuality, and space in York and the York cycle / Ruth Evans -- Ely's St. ¡thelthryth : the shrine's enclosure of the female body as symbol for the inviolability of monasstic space / Virginia Blanton -- Margery Kempe and the arts of self-patronage / Sarah Stanbury -- Real and imaged bodies in architectural space : the setting for Margery Kempe's book / Virginia Chieffo Raguin -- The seat under our lady : gender and seating in late medieval English parish churches / Katherine L. French -- Access to salvation : the place (and space) of women patrons in fourteenth century Florence / Ena Giurescu Heller -- Gender, celibacy, and proscriptions of sacred space : symbol and practice / Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg -- Men on the right-- women on the left : (a)symmetrical spaces and gendered places / Corine Schleif.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Christian women -- Religious life -- History -- To 1500.; Women in Christianity -- History -- To 1500.; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.