• 1: Judith M. Bennett and Ruth Mazo Karras: Women, Gender, and Medieval Historians


• Part I Gendered Thinking


• 2: Dyan Elliott: Gender and the Christian Traditions


• 3: Judith R. Baskin: Jewish Traditions about Women and Gender Roles: From Rabbinic Teachings to Medieval Practice


• 4: Jonathan P. Berkey: Women and Gender in Islamic Traditions


• 5: Amalie Foessel: The Political Traditions of Female Rulership in Medieval Europe


• 6: Katharine Park: Medicine and Natural Philosophy: Naturalistic Traditions


• Part II Looking through the Law


• 7: Janet L. Nelson and Alice Rio: Women and Laws in Early Medieval Europe


• 8: Carol Lansing: Conflicts over Gender in Civic Courts


• 9: Marie A. Kelleher: Later Medieval Law in Community Context


• 10: Susan Mosher Stuard: Brideprice, Dowry, and Other Marital Assigns


• 11: Sara McDougall: Women and Gender in Canon Law


• Part III Domestic Lives


• 12: Maryanne Kowaleski: Gendering Demographic Change in the Middle Ages


• 13: Katherine L. French: Genders and Material Culture


• 14: Elisheva Baumgarten: Gender and Daily Life in Jewish Communities


• 15: Rachel Stone: Carolingian Domesticities


• 16: Sarah Rees Jones: Public and Private Space and Gender in Medieval Europe


• 17: Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane: Pious Domesticities


• Part IV Land, Labor, Economy


• 18: Sally McKee: Slavery


• 19: Kathryn Reyerson: Urban Economies


• 20: Jane Whittle: Rural Economies


• 21: Joanna H. Drell: Aristocratic Economies


• Part V Bodies, Pleasures, Desires


• 22: Monica H. Green: Caring for Gendered Bodies


• 23: Kathryn M. Ringrose: The Byzantine Body


• 24: Helmut Puff: Same-Sex Possibilities


• 25: E. Jane Burns: Performing Courtliness


• Part VI Engendering Christian Holiness


• 26: Lisa M. Bitel: Gender and the Initial Christianization of Northern Europe (to 1000 CE)


• 27: Albrecht Diem: The Gender of the Religious: Wo/men and the Invention of Monasticism


• 28: Fiona J. Griffiths: Women and Reform in the Central Middle Ages


• 29: Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker: Devoted Holiness in the Lay World


• 30: Miri Rubin: Cults of Saints


• 31: John H. Arnold: Heresy and Gender in the Middle Ages


• 32: Kathleen Ashley: Cultures of Devotion


• Part VII Turning Points and Places


• 33: Kate Cooper: The Bride of Christ, the "Male Woman", and the Female Reader in Late Antiquity


• 34: Constance H. Berman: Gender at the Medieval Millennium


• 35: Martha C. Howell: Gender in the Transition to Merchant Capitalism


• 36: Laura Stokes: Toward the Witch Craze


• 37: Roberta L. Krueger: Towards Feminism: Christine de Pizan, Female Advocacy, and Women's Textual Communities in the Late Middle Ages and Beyond

Judith M. Bennett teaches women's history and medieval history at the University of Southern California. She is the author of a number of books and articles on medieval women and on the feminist practice of history, as well as a popular textbook on medieval European history.
Ruth Mazo Karras teaches history at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of five books and numerous articles in medieval history and the history of gender and sexuality. She is a co-editor of the journal Gender and History, General Editor of the Middle Ages Series at the University of Pennsylvania Press, and a former president of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians.

Provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E.