A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister.

Edited by Kimm Curran and Janet Burton

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
KIMM CURRAN AND JANET BURTON

1. Reform, Change, and Renewal: Women Religious in the Central Middle Ages, 800-1050
STEVEN VANDERPUTTEN
2. New Movements of the 12th Century: Diversity, Belonging, and Order(s)
KATHARINE SYKES

3. Change and Renewal: Mendicants and Tertiaries in Later Medieval Europe
ALISON MORE
4. On the Fringes: Anchorites
CATE GUNN
5. `Quasi-religious': Vowesses
LAURA RICHMOND
6. Authority and Agency: Women as Heads of Religious Houses
ELIZABETH A. LEHFELDT
7. Women Religious, Secular Households: The Outside World and Crossing Boundaries in the Later Middle Ages
RACHEL M. DELMAN
8. Literacies, Learning, and Communal Reform: The Case of Alijt Bake
DIANA DENISSEN
9. Family and Friends: Gift Giving, Books, and Book Inscriptions in Women's Religious Communities
SARA CHARLES
10. Communities of Medieval Religious Women and Their Landscapes
YVONNE SEALE
11. Materiality and Archaeology of Women Religious
TRACY COLLINS
12. Between Collective Memory and Individual Remembrance in Women's Religious Communities
MERCEDES PÉREZ VIDAL
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Index