Gabrielle Storey is a historian of twelfth- and thirteenth-century queenship, gender, and sexuality and an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Zita Eva Rohr is a historian of the late-medieval and early modern period, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Chevalier in the Ordre des palmes academiques
Introduction: Premodern ruling sexualities: representation, identity, and power - Gabrielle Storey and Zita Eva Rohr
Part I Scandal, perception, and representation
1 And though she made use of three openings...: How and why to sexualise a late antique empress - Alexander Thies
2 Eadwigs coronation scandal: sexuality, rhetoric and the vulnerability of reputation - Matthew Firth
3 Scandal, romance, political affairs. Walter Maps Portuguese King and Anglo-Flemish relations in the eleventh century - Fabrizio De Falco
4 Isabella of France and Roger Mortimer: lovers or allies? - Michael Evans
5 Isabel of Castile and her images: viewing sex, scandal, and sanctity in fifteenth-century Spain - Jessica Weiss
Part II Gender, morality, and desire
6 Gender, moral, and sexual warfare in the Roman de Silence - Kathleen M. Blumreich
7 Muslim caliphs and homosexuality: al- Amin (787- 813) and al-Hakam II (915-976). Two men in pursuit of hub al-walad - Fatima Rhorchi
8 The Tour de Nesle affair: succession and sexuality in fourteenth-century France - Emily Lalande
9 Chaste kings and unsuitable women: sex, interfaith relations, and sovereignty in the Castigos of Sancho IV of Castile - David Cantor-Echols
10 Sine communi favore the intersection of power, perception, and sexual morality in the careers of Piers Gaveston and the royal favourites of fourteenth-century England - Audrey Covert