Gender and Difference in the Middle AgesExposes complex intersections between genders and other identities in medieval cultures. Nothing less than a rethinking of what we mean when we talk about "men" and "women" of the medieval period, this volume demonstrates how the idea of gender in the Middle Ages no less than now intersected in subtle and complex ways with other categories of difference. Responding to the insights of postcolonial and feminist theory, the authors show that medieval