Introduction: Gender and Status in the Medieval World
Katherine Weikert and Elena Woodacre

Chapter 1. Mirrors for Margraves: Peter Damian's Models for Male and Female Rulers
Alison Creber

Chapter 2. Inaudito Exemplo: The Abduction of Romsey's Abbess
Linda D. Brown

Chapter 3. The Corpus Christi Devotion: Gender, Liturgy, and Authority among Dominican Nuns in Castile in the Middle Ages
Mercedes Pérez Vidal

Chapter 4. From Villainous Letch and Sinful Outcast, to "Especially Beloved of God": Complicating the Medieval Leper through Gender and Social Status
Christina Welch and Rohan Brown

Chapter 5. "To Take a Wyf": Marriage, Status, and Moral Conduct in "The Merchant's Tale"
Natalie Hanna

Chapter 6. Objectification, Empowerment, and the Male Gaze in the Lanval Corpus
Elizabeth S. Leet

Chapter 7. Pueri Sunt Pueri: Machismo, Chivalry, and the Aggressive Pastimes of the Medieval Male Youth
Sean McGlynn

Chapter 8. "And Much More I am Soryat for My Good Knyghts": Fainting, Homosociality, and Elite Male Culture in Middle English Romance
Rachel E. Moss

Chapter 9. Wrist Clasps and Patriliny: A Hypothesis
Frank Battaglia

Elena Woodacre is Senior Lecturer in Early Modern European History at the University of Winchester.