Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- 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
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 June 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Contributors
- Preface
- 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
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
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- Medieval Women Religious, c.800-c.1500New Perspectives, pp. vi - viiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2023