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Medieval women : texts and contexts (MWTC) ; volume 28

Rules and Learning. Leoba's legacy: the Carolingian transformation of an iconography of literacy / Helene Scheck and Virginia Blanton

'Faciat eas litteras edoceri': literate practices in the Clarissan formae vitae / Julie Ann Smith

Religious Order and textual identity: the case of Franciscan tertiary women / Alison More

'To yowr gostly comforte and proffite': devotional reading for the nuns of Syon Abbey / Ann M. Hutchison

Sitting between two sisters: reading Holy Writ in a community of tertiaries in Sint-Agnes, Amersfoort / Sabrina Corbellini

A Carthusian nun's Reportationes of Henricus Cool's sermons in the Low Countries / Patricia Stoop and Lisanne Vroomen

II. Literacy and visualization What did Catalan nuns read? Women's literacy in the female monasteries of Catalonia, Majorca, and Valencia / Blanca Gari

Christina Hansdotter Brask: reading and pictorial preferences in a Birgittine prayer book / Eva Lindqvist Sandgren

Devotional books from the Birgittine Abbey of Maribo / Anne Mette Hansen

Scribal engagement and the late medieval English nun: the quest concludes? / Veronica O'Mara

Memorializing living saints in the Milanese Convent of Santa Marta in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century / Brian Richardson

III. Translating and rewriting The legacy of St Margit: a case-study of a Dominican Monastery in Hungary / Victória Hedvig Deák OP

Anonymous then, invisible now: the readers of 'Sermon a dames religioses' / Cate Gun

Translation and reform: Le livre de larbre de la croix Jhesucrist and the nuns of Montmartre / Catherine Innes-Parker

Image, text, and mind: Franciscan tertiaries rewriting Stephan Fridolin's Schatzbehalter in the Pütrichkloster in Munich / Almut Breitenbach and Stefan Matter

IV. Exchange and networks The transmission of books among canonesses of the Collegiate Church of Sainte-Waudru in Mons: the example of Marie de Hoves's books / Anne Jenny-Clark

The countess, the abbess, and their books: manuscript circulation in a fifteenth-century German family / Sara S. Poor

Transmission of images between Flemish and English Birgittine houses / Mary C. Erler

Exchange and alliance: the sharing and gifting of books in women's houses in late medieval and Renaissance Florence / Melissa Moreton.

Nuns > Books and reading > Europe > History > To 1500.

Monastic and religious life of women > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Nuns as authors > Europe > History > To 1500.

Nuns' writings > History and criticism.

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) > Europe > History and criticism.

Literacy > Religious aspects > Christianity.