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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 -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Studies in the History of Medieval Religion.
A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister.