List of Tables
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Gender, Catholicism, Women's Spirituality over the Longue Duree;L.Lux-Sterritt & C.M.Mangion
Presence and Absence in Thirteenth Century Italy: Reading Clare of Assisi in Franciscan Liturgy and Community; A.Welch
Marguerite Porete and the Predicament of her Preaching in Fourteenth Century France; R.Lahav
The Impact of Renaissance Gender-Related Notions on the Female Experience of the Sacred: The Case of Angela Merici's Ursulines; Q.Mazzonis
Teresa de Jesus's Book and the Reform of the Religious Man in Sixteenth Century Spain; E.Rhodes
Mary Ward's English Institute and Prescribed Female Roles in the Early Modern Church; L.Lux-Sterritt
An English Nun's Authority: Early Modern Spiritual Controversy and the Manuscripts of Barbara Constable; J.Lay
Power in Piety: Inspiration, Ambitions and Strategies of Spiritual Virgins in the Northern Netherlands during the Seventeenth Century; M.Monteiro
'Martyrs of England! Standing on High!': Roman Catholic Women's Hymn-writing for the Re-invigoration of the Faith in England, 1850-1900; N.J.Cho
Expressions of Self-surrender in Nineteenth-Century France: The Case of Therese Couderc (1805-1885); K.Stogdon
The 'Mixed Life': Challenging Understandings of Religious Life in Victorian England; C.M.Mangion
Afterword; F.E.Dolan
Glossary
Further Reading
Index.