Acknowledgments Introduction: Liturgy Matters: Christian Women and Communal Worship in the Early Modern Era, Micheline White and Jaime Goodrich Part I Liturgy and Performance: Bodies, Objects, Spaces, and Voices Chapter 1: Royal and Elite Laywomen?s Contributions to the Performance of the Mass: Catherine of Aragon?s Missal and Book of Hours, Micheline White Chapter 2: 1566: Mary Stuart, the Baptism of James VI, and the Spectacle of Religious Affiliation, Rosalind Smith Chapter 3: Catholic Laywomen and the Liturgy in Sixteenth-Century England: The Brome Sisters of Boarstall House, Paula McQuade Chapter 4: Lady Anne Clifford: Protecting and Enabling Church of England Liturgical and Communal Worship in Mid-Seventeenth-Century England, Jessica L. Malay Chapter 5: From Benedict to Butler: Liturgy and Performativity in Early Modern English Convents, Jaime Goodrich Part II Communal Worship and Writing: Agency, Community, and Identity Chapter 6: Anne Wheathill?s ?Just Account?: Using the Gifts of Grace in Corporate Worship, Susan M. Felch Chapter 7: ?To Suffer Satan?s Buffets?: Temptation and Public Worship in the Diary of Margaret Hoby, Katharine Landers Chapter 8: Thanksgiving versus Purification: Women?s Agency and Authority in the Debate over the Churching of Women, Elizabeth Sharrett Chapter 9: Living the Liturgy: Lady Anne Halkett and the Book of Common Prayer in Scotland (1650?1699), Suzanne Trill Chapter 10: Mystic Trance, Rhymed Speech, and the Poetics of Liturgical Form: Elizabeth Barton and Anna Trapnel, Genelle Gertz Afterword: Of Silence and Souls in Liturgical Worship, Susan Wabuda Contributors Index.