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<table of contents, p. vii> Contents List of Portraits and Photographs 000 Preface and Acknowledgments 000 Introduction: "What has a Woman to do with Learning?" Jane Chance 000 Women Medievalists Profiled (listed alphabetically) 000 Chronology of Women Medievalists Profiled, with Fields and University Affiliations 000 1. Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756) and the Limits of Women's Agency in Early Eighteenth-Century England Shaun F. D. Hughes 3 2. Anna Jameson (1794-1860): "Primitive" Art and Iconography Cordelia Warr 000 3. By Her Works Shall Ye Know Her: The Quest for Jessie L. Weston (1850-1928) Angela Jane Weisl 000 4. Lina Eckenstein (1857-1931): Seeking Scope for Women Penelope D. Johnson 000 5. Mary Bateson (1865-1906): Scholar and Suffragist Mary Dockray-Miller 000 6. Elise Richter (1865-1943): First Austrian Privatdozentin Elizabeth Shipley, with Excerpts from a Memoir on "Education and Development" by Elise Richter, translated by Elizabeth Shipley 000 7. Eleanor Prescott Hammond (1866-1933): Pioneer Scholar of Middle English Manuscript Study A. S. G. Edwards 000 8. Caroline F. E. Spurgeon (1869-1942): First Woman Professor of English in England Renate Haas 000 9. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing": Here's to Georgiana Goddard King (1871-1939) Janice Mann 000 10. "Miss Rickert of Vassar" and Edith Rickert at the University of Chicago (1871-1938) Elizabeth Scala 000 11. Mildred K. Pope (1872-1956): Anglo-Norman Scholar Elspeth Kennedy 000 12. The Justices' Chronicler: Bertha Haven Putnam (1872-1960) David Day 000 13. Nellie Neilson (1873-1947): A Historian of "Wit, Whimsy, and Sheer Poetry" Anne Reiber DeWindt 000 14. Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941): The Practical Mystic Michelle M. Sauer 000 15. Kindred, College, and Scholarship in the Lifework of Bertha Surtees Phillpotts (1877-1932) Russell Poole 000 16. Eleanor Shipley Duckett (1880-1976): Historian of the Latin Middle Ages Susan Mosher Stuard 000 17. Hope Emily Allen (1883-1960): An Independent Scholar John C. Hirsh 000 18. Laura Hibbard Loomis (1883-1960): "Mrs. Arthur" Kathryn L. Lynch 000 19. Helen Cam (1885-1968): Charting the Evolution of Medieval Institutions Euan Taylor and Gina Weaver 000 20. Grace Frank (1886-1978) and Medieval French Drama Deborah Nelson-Campbell 000 21. Margaret Rickert (1888-1973): Art Historian Anne Rudloff Stanton 000 22. Charlotte D'Evelyn (1889-1977): An Instinct to Explore Carolyn P. Collette 000 23. Eileen Edna Le Poer Power (1889-1940) Marjorie McCallum Chibnall 000 24. Helen Waddell (1889-1965): The Scholar-Poet Jennifer FitzGerald 000 25. "Aimer la musique ancienne": Yvonne Rihouët Rokseth (1890-1948) Catherine Parsoneault 000 26. The German Historian Elisabeth Busse-Wilson (1890-1974): Academic Feminism and Medieval Hagiography, 1914-1931 Ulrike Wiethaus 000 27. "An Extraordinary Sense of Powerful Restlessness": Nora Kershaw Chadwick (1891-1972) Sandra Ballif Straubhaar 000 28. "Persephone Come Back from the Dead": Maude Violet Clarke (1892-1935) Jennifer FitzGerald 000 29. Joan Evans (1893-1977): Art Historian and Antiquary Nicola Coldstream 000 30. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957): Medieval Mystery Maker Mitzi M. Brunsdale 000 31. Doris Mary Stenton (1894-1971): The Legal Records and the Historian Patricia R. Orr 000 32. Helen M. Roe (1895-1988): Champion of Medieval Irish Art and Iconography Rory O'Farrell and Christine Bromwich 000 33. Suzanne Solente (1895-1978): A Life in the Manuscript Department of the Bibliothèque nationale Marie-Hélène Tesnière, translated by Robyn Fréchet 000 34. Sirarpie Der Nersessian (1896-1989): Pioneer of Armenian Art History Dickran Kouymjian 000 35. Women and Medieval Scholarship in Bulgaria: Vera Ivanova-Mavrodinova (1896-1987) and Vasilka Tapkova- Zaimova (1924-) Liliana V. Simeonova with a Memoir by Vasilka Tapkova-Zaimova 000 36. Margaret Schlauch (1898-1986): "Professor Prefers Iron Curtain Land" Christine M. Rose 000 37. Pearl Kibre (1900-1985): Manuscript Hunter and Historian of Medieval Science and the Universities Elspeth Whitney and Irving A. Kelter 000 38. An Anglo-Saxonist at Oxford and Cambridge: Dorothy Whitelock (1901-1982) Jana K. Schulman 000 39. Ruth J. Dean (1902-2003): "Dean" of Anglo-Norman Studies Kevin J. Harty 000 40. James Bruce Ross (1902-1995) and the Sources for Medieval and Renaissance History Constance Hoffman Berman 000 41. Marie-Thérèse d'Alverny (1903-1991): The History of Ideas in the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean Basin Charles S. F. Burnett 000 42. Christine A. E. M. Mohrmann (1903-1988) and the Study of Christian Latin Carmela Vircillo Franklin 000 43. Mary Dominica Legge (1905-1986): Anglo-Norman Scholar Harriet Spiegel 000 44. Daughter of Her Time: Anneliese Maier (1905-1971) and the Study of Fourteenth-Century Philosophy Alfonso Maierù and Edith Sylla 000 45. A Woman Historian in Oxford (1905-2003) Marjorie Ethel Reeves 000 46. Beryl Smalley (1905-1984): The Medieval Bible in the Modern Academy Henrietta Leyser and Deeana Copeland Klepper 000 47. Cora Elizabeth Lutz (1906-1985): Magistra Egregii Deanna Delmar Evans 000 48. Voicing Silenced Rituals: The Unearthing of the Life Story of Arthurian Legend by Helaine Newstead (1906- 1981) Gale Sigal 000 49. Articulating the Middle English Lexicon: Margaret Ogden (1909-1988), Medieval Medical Texts, and the Middle English Dictionary Michael Adams 000 50. Debunking the Myths, Transmitting Knowledge in Clear Language: Régine Pernoud (1909-1998) Josette A. Wisman 000 51. María Rosa Lida de Malkiel (1910-1962) and Medieval Spanish Literary Historiography Ana M. Gómez-Bravo 000 52. "To Open a Door upon the Past of Scotland": Helena Mennie Shire (1912-1991) Janet Hadley Williams 000 53. Memoir (1914-) Marjorie McCallum Chibnall 000 54. A Singular Career: College Professor and Army Wife (1914-) Charity Cannon Willard 000 55. A Scholar of Early Britain: Rachel Bromwich (1915-) Gerald Morgan 000 56. Jane Hayward (1918-1994): "Radiance and Reflection" Marilyn J. Stokstad 000 57. Getting It All Together (1923-) Marie Borroff 000 58. "Magistra Studentorum per Armeniam et Byzantium": Nina G. Garsoïan (1923-) Levon Avdoyan 000 59. Elizabeth Salter (1925-1980): Teacher and Scholar of Middle English Literature Julia Boffey 000 60. Rosemary Estelle Woolf (1925-1978): A Serious Scholar Joyce Boro 000 61. Historian of Art (1928-) Ilene H. Forsyth 000 62. Elisabeth Gössmann (1928-): Overcoming Obstacles Rebecca L. R. Garber 000 63. My Way with Misericords (1929-) Elaine C. Block 000 64. Professor Rosemary Cramp (1929-): The Hild of Durham Phyllis R. Brown 000 65. The Networked Life (1931-) Jo Ann McNamara 000 66. Another Perspective on Alterity and the Grotesque (1932-) Elizabeth A. R. Brown 000 67. Ars Longa, Vita Brevis (1932-) Meredith Parsons Lillich 000 68. Benedicta Ward, S.L.G. (1933-): The Love of Learning and the Love of God Debra L. Stoudt 000 69. Latent Feminist Loosed on Medieval History (1935-) Susan Mosher Stuard 000 70. Joan M. Ferrante (1936-): Going the Distance in Life and Literature Julie Crosby 000 71. Marcia L. Colish (1937-): Intellectual Historian E. Ann Matter 000 72. My Life and Works (1941-) Caroline Walker Bynum 000 List of Contributors 000 Photograph and Citation Credits 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Women medievalists -- Biography.
Middle Ages -- Bio-bibliography.