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Contents

Preface

Part I Monastic Identities in Theory and Practice

1 Vows and Visitations: Textual Transactions and the Shaping of Monastic Identity

2 The Value of the Mother Tongue: Vernacular Translations of Monastic Rules for Women

3 Accounting for Themselves: Nuns’ Everyday Practices and Alternative Monastic Identities

Part II Beyond the Convent Wall: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval Culture

4 A Coin of Changing Value: Monastic Paradigms and Secular Women

5 Kings, Saints, and Nuns: Symbolic Capital and Political Authority in Fifteenth-Century England

6 Liabilities and Assets: Holy Women in the Literary Economy

7 Paying the Price: Holy Women and Political Conflict

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments