Susannah Crowder is Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

'We need both a deeper examination of theater archives in their local and temporal specificities and a more capacious notion of what constituted performance in medieval settings. That is precisely what we get in Susannah Crowder’s brilliant and utterly readable new book, Performing Women...Crowder paints a remarkable picture of medieval performing women, who were able to write themselves into community and memory through “the cultivation of material and embodied practice” ...Crowder’s achievement in this inspiring and pioneering book is to have placed women back in the spotlight, showing how they “contributed to their worlds in critical ways that often go unseen”.'H-France Review‘…a brilliant and utterly readable new book…’Noah D. Guynn, University of California, Davis, H-France Review

• Family tree of Catherine Baudoche and Catherine GronnaixIntroduction1 Acting as Catherine: writing the history of female performers2 ‘I, Catherine’: biography, documentary culture, and public presence3 Performance and the parish: space, memory, and material devotion4 Negotiated devotions and performed histories: laywomen in monastic spaces5 ‘Call me Claude’: female actors, impersonation, and cultural transmissionConclusionBibliographyIndex