Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Contributors xii
5. Acknowledgements xv
6. Abbreviations xvii
7. Chapter 1 Debating Identities: Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000–1500 1
8. Chapter 2 Liturgy and Female Monastic Hagiography Around the Year 1000: A lecture croisée of the Life of Liutrud, the Second Life of Glodesind of Metz and the So-called Pontificale Romano-Germanicum 24
9. Chapter 3 Remakers of Reform: The Women Religious of Leominster and their Prayerbook 57
10. Chapter 4 The Materiality of Female Religious Reform in Twelfth-Century Ireland: The Case of Co-located Religious Houses 81
11. Chapter 5 Women as Witnesses: Picturing Gender and Spiritual Identity in a Twelfth-Century Embroidered Fragment from Northern Germany 98
12. Chapter 6 Mulieres religiose and Cistercian Nuns in Northern Italy in the Thirteenth Century: A Choice of ‘Order’ 132
13. Chapter 7 Circulation of Books and Reform Ideas between Female Monasteries in Medieval Castile: From Twelfth-Century Cistercians to the Observant Reform 154
14. Chapter 8 Women, Men and Local Monasticism in Late Medieval Bologna 180
15. Chapter 9 Building Community: Material Concerns in the Fifteenth-Century Monastic Reform 202
16. Chapter 10 Who Made Reform Visible? Male and Female Agency in Changing Visual Culture 227
17. Chapter 11 Nuns, Cistercian Chant and Observant Reform in the Southern Low Countries 249
18. Index 271