Women's Space: Patronage, Place and Gender in the Medieval Church. Edited by Virginia Chieffo Raguin and Sarah Stanbury. New York: State University of New York Press, 2005. pp. x + 261; 53 illustrations. $85.

The editors open this collection by stating an intention to address "the location of women and their bequests …[in] the church," a project to which the parish is "conceptually central" (p. 1). The introduction takes gender as the lens through which it re-views the combination of spatial theory and historical specificity which has enabled the current wealth of scholarship on the medieval parish, in particular that of Eamon Duffy and Pamela Graves.

Sarah Salih
University of East Anglia