Volume 60, Number 1 (2025)
This issue honors Linda E. Mitchell, Emerita Martha Jane Phillips Starr / Missouri Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of History at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, a former President of the Society of Medieval Feminist Scholarship. Linda’s multiple publications on the social history of English noblewomen and widows demonstrates her excellent training as a scholar in the midst of American second-wave feminism. Her feminist activism within the field of medieval studies is manifest in her scholarship, teaching, service, and mentorship.Complete Issue
Articles
The Fortitude of Medieval Women
Virginia Blanton
The Fortitude of Friendship: Countess Ermengarde of Brittany and Bishop Marbode of Rennes
Amy Livingstone
Women as Disputants in Thirteenth-Century English Forest Law
Paula A. Hayward
Elizabeth Brice and Elizabeth Rede: Two Female Goldsmiths
Katherine French
Book Reviews
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in Society, by Eleanor Janega
Emily C. Francomano
Women’s Literary Cultures in the Global Middle Ages: Speaking Internationally, edited by Kathryn Loveridge, Liz Herbert McAvoy, Sue Niebrzydowski, and Vicki Kay Price
Caitlin Branum Thrash
Women, Dance and Parish Religion in England, 1300–1640: Negotiating the Steps of Faith, by Lynneth Miller Renberg
Clint E. Morrison Jr
Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature, by Charlie Samuelson
Anna Klosowska
Gender and the ‘Natural’ Environment in the Middle Ages, edited by Theresa L. Tyers and Patricia Skinner
Danielle Allor
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, through the Women Written Out of It, by Janina Ramirez
Jo Koster
