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Contents

Preface

Introduction: Authority and Fallibility in Medieval Textual Culture

Chapter 1. De officio praedicatoris: Of Preaching, Pardons, and Power

I. Constructing the Preacher: Authority, Knowledge, Attributes

The Sinful Preacher: Secrecy, Scandal, and Skill

Art versus Virtue: The Challenge of Aristotle

Theory into Practice: Codes of Conduct in Preachers’ Handbooks

II. Consecrating the Sacraments: Priestly Power and the Keys to Heaven

Sin versus Sacrament: Evil Ministers of the Mass

Vetula baptizat, et baptizatum est: The Power to Baptize

Authority and Agency in the Tribunal of Penance

III. Making Indulgences: Spiritual and Material Economies

Marketing the Divine Mercy

Authority and Jurisdiction in the Dispensing of Pardon

Honoring Becket: The Case for Canterbury

Chapter 2. Moral Fallibility: Chaucer’s Pardoner and the Office of Preacher

I. Alms and the Man: The Deviant Pardoner

II. Prechyng for coveityse: The Deviant Preacher

III. Breaking Bodies: The Drunkard’s Eucharist

IV. Geldyng or mare: The Deviant Body

Chaucer and the Queering Eunuch

Reclaiming Public Deviancy

Chapter 3. De impedimento sexus: Women’s Bodies and the Prohibition of Priestly Power

I. Sex versus Sacrament: The Constrictions of Symbolism

Sexus non est in anima: Orthodox Positions

Crowning Glories

A Woman’s Touch

II. Silence in Church: Private Teaching and the Denial of Public Office

Confining the auditrix and doctrix

Limiting Biblical Precedent

III. Unnatural Selection: Authorization Through Inspiration

Prophecy and Purity of Life: In Defense of Holy Women

Affirming Biblical Precedent

IV. Sexus non est in anima: Heterodox Reactions

John Wyclif: A Shameless Worker for Women?

Walter Brut: Female Ministry in the Absence of Men

Confronting the praedicatrix

Feminizing Donatism

Women Priests and Absolute Power

Changing Bodies: Pythagoras and the Transactions of Polemic

Chapter 4. Gender as Fallibility: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and the Impediment of Sex

I. Alisoun Among the auctoritees

II. Unbridling Desire: Female Sexuality and the Making of Marriage

An Unstable Human Matter

Only for Amorous Love

III. Old Wives’ Tales: Vetularity and Virtue

Challenging Obscenity: From coilles to bel chose

The Wisdom of Old Women

IV. Beyond the Body? Alisoun on Sovereignty of Soul

The Lusts of Loathly Damsels: Sovereignty as Sexual Possession

Sourcing Dominion: gentillesse and Gender

Publishing the Private

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Biblical Citations

Acknowledgments