Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature
Female friendships and visionary women / Jennifer N. Brown -- The foundations of friendship: Amicitia, literary production, and spiritual community in Marie de France / Stella Wang -- Friendship and resistance in the Vitae of Italian holy women / Andrea Boffa -- Sisters and friends: the medieval nuns of Syon Abbey / Alexandra Verini -- "Amonge maydenes moo": gender-based community, racial thinking, and aristocratic women's work in Emaré / Lydia Yaitsky Kertz -- Women's communities and the possibility of friendship in the Stanzaic Morte Arthur / Usha Vishnuvajjala -- Female friendship in late medieval English literature: cultural translation in Chaucer, Gower, and Malory / Melissa Ridley Elmes -- Cultivating cummarship: female friendship, alcohol, and pedagogical community in the alewife poem / Carissa M. Harris -- "All these relationships between women": Chaucer and the Bechdel test for female friendship / Karma Lochrie -- The politics of virtual friendship in Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies / Christine Chism -- Prosthetic friendship and the theater of fraternity / Laurie A. Finke -- Conversations among friends: Ælfflæd, Iurminburg, and the arts of storytelling / Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing -- Afterword: Friendship at a distance / Penelope Anderson.