Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500

JULIE HOTCHIN is an Honorary Lecturer in the School of History at the Australian National University. She has published on medieval religious women, manuscript culture, and devotion and emotion. Her current project examines gender and authority in late medieval monastic reform. JIRKI THIBAUT is interested in female religious life in the Early and High Middle Ages. Her PhD research (Ghent University with the University of Leuven, Belgium) focused on how women religious negotiated their institutional identity in ninth- to eleventh-century Saxony. KATIEANN-MARIE BUGYIS is Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame. JULIE HOTCHIN is an Honorary Lecturer in the School of History at the Australian National University. She has published on medieval religious women, manuscript culture, and devotion and emotion. Her current project examines gender and authority in late medieval monastic reform. JIRKI THIBAUT is interested in female religious life in the Early and High Middle Ages. Her PhD research (Ghent University with the University of Leuven, Belgium) focused on how women religious negotiated their institutional identity in ninth- to eleventh-century Saxony.

This book makes a respectable addition to the Studies in the History of Medieval Religion series.

• 1. Debating Identities: Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 900-1500 - Julie Hotchin and Jirki Thibaut2. Liturgy and Female Monastic Hagiography around the Year 1000: A lecture croisée of the Life of Liutrud, the Second Life of Glodesind of Metz and the So-called Pontificale Romano-Germanicum - Gordon Blennemann3. Remakers of Reform: The Women Religious of Leominster and their Prayerbook - Katie Anne-Marie Bugyis4. The Materiality of Female Religious Reform in Twelfth-Century Ireland: The Case of Co-Located Religious Houses - Tracy Collins5. Women as Witnesses: Picturing Gender and Spiritual Identity in a Twelfth-Century Embroidered Fragment from Northern Germany - Julie Hotchin and Vera Henkelmann6. Mulieres Religiose and Cistercian Nuns in Northern Italy in the Thirteenth Century: A Choice of 'Order' - Elena Vanelli7. Circulation of Books and Reform Ideas between Female Monasteries in Medieval Castile: From Twelfth-Century Cistercians to the Observant Reform - Mercedes Pérez Vidal8. Women, Men and Local Monasticism in Late Medieval Bologna - Sherri Franks Johnson9. Building Community: Material Concerns in the Fifteenth-Century Monastic Reform - Jennifer Edwards10. Who Made Reform Visible? Male and Female Agency in Changing Visual Culture - Katharina Ulrike Mersch11. Nuns, Cistercian Chant and Observant Reform in the Southern Low Countries - John GlasenappIndex