Laura Kalas is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University, UK. She is the author of Margery Kempe's Spiritual Medicine: Suffering, Transformation and the Life- Course (2020) and coeditor of Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe (2021). Her research focuses on medieval religious culture and especially writings by, and about, women, on medicine, materiality, and devotion.

Roberta Magnani is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at Swansea University, UK. Her research interests lie in the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and late medieval manuscript culture with a specific focus on queer and trans theory. She has co-edited with Diane Watt a Special Issue of the journal postmedieval entitled 'Queer Manuscripts'.

Introduction

Laura Kalas and Roberta Magnani

1 Theological Approaches to Women 1000-1550

Hazel Davis and Louise Nelstrop

2 Mary in the Middle Ages: A Woman for All Women

Sue Niebrzydowski

3 Saints' Lives: Bodies, Texts, and Readers in Medieval Lives of Female Saints

Shari Horner

4 Embodying Medieval Holy Women: Science, Technology, and Medicine

Laura Kalas

5 Women as Educators in Medieval Europe: Learners, Teachers, Mentors

Deborah Youngs

6 Philosophical Views of Women

Nicole Wyatt

7 Women and Popular Beliefs

Hannah Skoda

8 Representations: The Image and Experience of Women in Medieval Christian Art

Miriam Gill