Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vi
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Flaws in the Golden Bowl: Gender and Spiritual Formation in the Twelfth Century 19
6. 2. Authority, Authenticity, and the Repression of Heloise 46
7. 3. "Crueel Corage": Child Sacrifice and the Maternal Martyr in Hagiography and Romance 76
8. 4. On the Threshold of the Dead: Purgatory, Hell, and Religious Women 108
9. 5. La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth- Century Beguines and the Art of Love 137
10. 6. Woman Spirit, Woman Pope 182
11. Epilogue 244
12. Abbreviations 249
13. Notes 251
14. Appendix A: Religious Literature of Formation, 1075-1225 313
15. Appendix E: Glossary of Religious Women 317
16. Works Cited 321
17. Index 345