Description: Introduction Crafts, Gilds, and Women in the Middle Ages: Fifty Years after Marian K. Dale Maryanne Kowaleski and Judith M. Bennett Women's Medical Practice and Health Care in Medieval Europe Monica Green Prostitution in the Medieval Canon Law James A. Brundage The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England Ruth Mazo Karras Medieval Women Book Owners: Arbiters of Lay Piety and Ambassadors of Culture Susan Groag Bell The Ladies' Tournament: Marriage, Sex, and Honor in Thirteenth-Century Germany Sarah Westphal-Wihl A Female University Student in Late Medieval Krakw Michael H. Shank The Conversion of Women to Ascetic Forms of Christianity Ross S. Kraemer Women's Monastic Communities, 500-1100: Patterns of Expansion and Decline Jane Tibbetts Schulenburg The Origins of the Beguines Carol Neel Creating and Recreating Communities of Women: The Case of Corpus Domini, Ferrara, 1406-1452 Mary Martin McLaughlin About the Contributors Index

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