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Emma O. Bérat uncovers the striking array of female alternatives to patrilineal narratives in medieval texts and explores strategies of writing and illustration that creatively and purposefully depict women's legacies. Her book underlines the centrality of female characters and historical women to this fundamental aspect of medieval consciousness.

Women's networks - their relations with other women, men, objects and place - were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how women's networks, and particularly women's direct and indirect relationships to other women, constituted and shaped power from roughly 300 to 1700 AD. The essays in this collection juxtapose scholarship from the fields of archaeo...