This volume, designed with the student reader in mind, combines key essays in the field with specially commissioned material by feminist scholars from the UK and the US. It includes a diversity of texts and feminist approaches, an introduction by the editors, and an annotated list of further reading, offering preliminary guidance to the novice reader of gender and medieval literature. Works and writers covered include: Chaucer; Margery Kempe; Christine de Pisan; the Katherine group of Saints’ Lives; Langland’s Piers Plowman ; and medieval cycle drama. Students of both medieval and feminist literature will find this an essential work for study and reference.