Front Cover
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Reform, Change, and Renewal: Women Religious in the Central Middle Ages, 800-1050
2. New Movements of the Twelfth Century: Diversity, Belonging, and Order(s)
3. Change and Renewal: Mendicants and Tertiaries in Later Medieval Europe
4. On the Fringes: Anchorites
5. 'Quasi-religious': Vowesses
6. Authority and Agency: Women as Heads of Religious Houses

7. Women Religious, Secular Households: The Outside World and Crossing Boundaries in the Later Middle Ages
8. Literacies, Learning, and Communal Reform: The Case of Alijt Bake
9. Family and Friends: Gift-giving, Books,and Book Inscriptions in Women's Religious Communities
10. Communities of Medieval Religious Women and Their Landscapes
11. Materiality and Archaeology of Women Religious
12. Between Collective Memory and Individual Remembrance in Women's Religious Communities
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Index
Studies in the History of Medieval Religion