List of Figures List of Contributors Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction KIMM CURRAN AND JANET BURTON 1. Reform, Change, and Renewal: Women Religious in the Central Middle Ages, 800-1050 - STEVEN VANDERPUTTEN 2 . New Movements of the 12th Century: Diversity, Belonging, and Order(s) - KATHARINE SYKES 3. Change and Renewal: Mendicants and Tertiaries in Later Medieval Europe - ALISON MORE 4. On the Fringes: Anchorites - CATE GUNN 5. 'Quasi-religious': Vowesses - LAURA RICHMOND 6. Authority and Agency: Women as Heads of Religious Houses - ELIZABETH A. LEHFELDT 7.

Women Religious, Secular Households: The Outside World and Crossing Boundaries in the Later Middle Ages - RACHEL M. DELMAN 8. Literacies, Learning, and Communal Reform: The Case of Alijt Bake - DIANA DENISSEN 9. Family and Friends: Gift Giving, Books, and Book Inscriptions in Women's Religious Communities - SARA CHARLES 10. Communities of Medieval Religious Women and Their Landscapes - YVONNE SEALE 11. Materiality and Archaeology of Women Religious - TRACY COLLINS 12. Between Collective Memory and Individual Remembrance in Women's Religious Communities - MERCEDES PÉREZ VIDAL Select Bibliography Index.