PART I: MONASTIC IDENTITIES IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: Vows and visitations: textual transactions and the shaping of monastic identity
The value of the mother tongue: vernacular translations of monastic rules for women
Accounting for themselves: nuns' everyday practices and alternative monastic identities
PART II: BEYOND THE CONVENT WALL: FEMALE MONASTICISM IN LATER MEDIEVAL CULTURE: A coin of changing value: monastic paradigms and secular women
Kings, saints, and nuns: symbolic capital and political authority in Fifteenth-Century England
Liabilities and assets: Holy women in the literary economy
Paying the price: Holy women and political conflict.
