As a participant in the Historia Scholastica Project (HSP), I have produced for the readers of “HSP III: Comestor’s Hester” a modern understanding of the gender relations that surrounded Peter Comestor as he wrote the Historia Scholastica. My research reveals that the patriarchal system was still in use and thriving, and my work provides insight into how Comestor’s writings were affected by the gender relations of his time. Throughout my research on gender relations in the 12th century, I have referred to the following secondary sources: Listen Daughter: the Speculum Virginum and the Formation of Religious Women in the Middle Ages, by C.J. Mews; Women and Power in the Middle Ages, by Mary Carpenter Erler and Maryanne Kowaleski; and Women in...