Introduction / Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker.-- Gender and heroism in the Old English Judith / Hugh Magennis.-- Remembering Veronica in Anglo-Saxon England / Mary Swan.-- 'Born to thraldom and penance': wives and mothers in Middle English romance / David Salte.-- Rough girls and squeamish boys: the trouble with Absolon in The miller's tale / Greg Walker.-- The stereotype confirmed? Chaucer's Wife of Bath / Elaine Treharne.-- 'Cursed folk of Herodes al new': supersessionist typology and Chaucer's prioress / Anne Marie D'Arcy.