Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. ABBREVIATIONS ix
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. 2 Aspects of Life in the Convent 31
7. 3 Communal Devotion in Piety 51
8. 4 Living with Texts 83
9. 5 Written Instructions 111
10. 6 Devout Biography and Historiography 135
11. 7 Two Spiritual Friends from Facons 171
12. 8 Alijt Bake, a Woman with a Mission 197
13. 9 Literature and the Choir Nuns of Windesheim 227
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 245
15. INDEX 271