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This is the book that teachers of courses on women in the Middle Ages have been wanting to write-or see written-for years. Essays written by specialists in their respective fields cover a range of topics unmatched in depth and breadth by any other introductory text. Depictions of women in literature and art, women in the medieval urban landscape, an the issue of women's relation to definitions of deviance and otherness all receive particular attention. Geographical regions such as the Byzantine Empire and the Islamic Near East are fully incorporated into the text, expanding the horizons of med

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Investigating the Medieval Family -- Section I: Defining the Family in the Middle Ages -- 1. The Late Roman Family and Transition to the Middle Ages -- 2. The Family in the Medieval West -- 3. The Family in the Byzantine East -- 4. The Family in the Islamic World -- 5. The Jewish Family in the Middle Ages -- Section II: The Environment of the Family in the Middle Ages -- 6. The Physical Environment of the Medieval Family -- 7. Grooms and Brides, Husbands and Wives, Fathers and Mothers -- 8. Children and the Family -- 9. Religion and the Family -- 10. Families, Labor, and the Laboring Family -- 11. The Family as Rhetorical Device: Traditional, Transitional, and Non-traditional Families -- Glossary -- Bibliography and Recommended Further Reading -- Index.