List of Illustrations . . xi
Acknowledgments . . xiii

1. The Inner Life of Women in Medieval Romance Literature . . 1
2. Order, Anarchy, and Emotion in the Old French Philomena . . 27
3. What Was She Thinking? Ysolt on the Edge . . 53
4. Moral Posturing: Virtue in Christine de Pisan's Livre de Trois Vertus . . 85
5. Gesture, Emotion, and Humanity: Depictions of Melusine in the Upton House Bearsted Fragments . . 107
6. Is She Angry or Just Sad? Grief and Sorrow in the Songs of the Trobairitz . . 129
7. Between Concealment and Eloquence: The Idea of the Ideal Woman in Medieval Provencal Literature . . 147
8. Spiritual and Biological Mothering in Berceo's Vida de Santa Oria . . 159
9. Writing as Resistance: Self and Survival in Leonor López de Cordoba and Teresa de Cartagena . . 179
10. Between Boccaccio and Chaucer: The Limits of Female Inferiority in the Knight's Tale . . 203
11. In Laura's Shadow: Casting Female Humanists as Petrarchan Beloveds in Quattrocento Letters . . 223

Notes on Contributors . . 249
Index . . 253