Thanks, Craig, for this valuable reference: I've just ordered it through ILL. I'll note that there's another chapter in this collection that also looks germane to the topic: Corine Schleif, "Men on the right-- women on the left : (a)symmetrical spaces and gendered places."
By the way, I located the woodcut (woodcuts?) Beth Quitslund and I referred to earlier from Foxe's Actes and Monuments. John King presents them as 2 separate woodcuts and reproduces them on two separate pages of Tudor Royal Iconography (pp. 202-3) but they may have been conjoined in their original setting of the 1563 Actes and Monuments. King identifies one as "The Image of 'True' Religion" and the other as "The Image of 'False' Religion." I'm not sure if these were Foxe's own titles. Both depict preaching conducted outdoors to mixed audiences.
Scott
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 12:18 PM, Craig A. Berry
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An essay I don't have ready access to but sounds like it would settle this question authoritatively is:
Katherine L. French, "The Seat under Our Lady: Gender and Seating in Late Medieval English Parish Churches," in Raguin and Stanbury, eds., Women's Space: Patronage, Place, and Gender in the Medieval Church (SUNY P, 2005). <
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4072-womens-space.aspx>
