Reading Gender : Studies on Medieval Manuscripts and Medievalist Movies (Paperback)

1 Women Missionaries: The Example of Frankish Gaul / 2 Is Mother Superior? Towards a History of Feminine Amtscharisma / 3 The Martyr, the Tomb and the Matron: Constructing the (Masculine) "Past" as a Female Power Base4 Differences, (Dis)appearances, and the Disruption of the Straight Telos: Medievalology as a History of Gender / 5 Gender and Exemplarity East of the Middle Rhine: Jesus, Mary, and the Saints in Manuscript Context / 6 Gender Trouble in Paradise: The Case of the Liturgical Virgo / 7 A Cyborg Initiation? Gender Ideology and Baptismal Liturgy in Carolingian Francia / 8 Priestly Women, Virginal Men: Litanies and their Discontents / 9 Apocryphal Acts and Legends of the Apostles as "Feminist" Narratives / 10 Destructive Dominae: Women and Vengeance in Medievalist Films11 Women: The Da Vinci Code and the Fabrication of Tradition / 12 Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality in Mid-Century Medievalist Film: The Example of Becket (1964)