Katherine Allen Smith, Ph.D. in History (NYU, 2004), is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound. She has published articles on medieval monastic communities and their saints, relics, and images. Her current project is a study of representations of war in monastic texts of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.Scott Wells, Ph.D. in History (NYU, 2003), is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. He is currently completing a book entitled From Chronicling Monks to Prophesying Nuns: The Search for History's Design in Medieval Germany, ca. 970-1180.

• List of IllustrationsPreface: Gender, Power, and Patronage – The Impact of Penelope D. Johnson on Medieval Studies, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott WellsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell Thesis, and Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott WellsPART I. SHAPING IDENTITY THROUGH SACRED SPACES AND TEXTS1. Living with a Saint: Monastic Identity, Community, and the Ideal of Asceticism in the Life of an Irish Saint, Diane Peters Auslander2. A Tale of Two Dioceses: Prologues as Letters in the Vitae Authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré, Christina Roukis-Stern3. “Within the Walls of Paradise”: Space and Community in the Vita of Umiliana de’ Cerchi (1219-1246), Anne M. Schuchman4. Architectural Mimesis and Historical Memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, Katherine Allen Smith5. Holy Women and the Needle Arts: Piety, Devotion, and Stitching the Sacred, ca. 500-1150, Jane Tibbetts SchulenburgPART II. PARTNERSHIPS AND DEVOTIONS ACROSS THE GENDER DIVIDE6. The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in East Francia: The Case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950, Scott Wells7. Noble Women’s Power as Reflected in the Foundations of Cistercian Houses for Nuns in Thirteenth-Century Northern France: Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey, Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres, Constance Hoffman Berman8. “Inseparable Companions”: Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise, Susan Valentine9. Book, Body, and the Construction of the Self in the Taymouth Hours, Kathryn A. SmithPART III. BLOOD, EMBODIMENT, AND DEFINING SEPARATION10. Abbot Erluin’s Blindness: The Monastic Implications of Violent Loss of Sight, Susan Wade11. Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault, Elizabeth A. R. Brown12. The Matter of Others: Menstrual Blood and Uncontrolled Semen in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalists’ Polemic against Christians, “Bad” Jews, and Muslims, Alexandra CuffelGeneral IndexIndex of Manuscripts

Katherine Allen Smith, Ph.D. in History (NYU, 2004), is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound. She has published articles on medieval monastic communities and their saints, relics, and images. Her current project is a study of representations of war in monastic texts of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.Scott Wells, Ph.D. in History (NYU, 2003), is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. He is currently completing a book entitled From Chronicling Monks to Prophesying Nuns: The Search for History's Design in Medieval Germany, ca. 970-1180.

• List of IllustrationsPreface: Gender, Power, and Patronage – The Impact of Penelope D. Johnson on Medieval Studies, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott WellsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell Thesis, and Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott WellsPART I. SHAPING IDENTITY THROUGH SACRED SPACES AND TEXTS1. Living with a Saint: Monastic Identity, Community, and the Ideal of Asceticism in the Life of an Irish Saint, Diane Peters Auslander2. A Tale of Two Dioceses: Prologues as Letters in the Vitae Authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré, Christina Roukis-Stern3. “Within the Walls of Paradise”: Space and Community in the Vita of Umiliana de’ Cerchi (1219-1246), Anne M. Schuchman4. Architectural Mimesis and Historical Memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, Katherine Allen Smith5. Holy Women and the Needle Arts: Piety, Devotion, and Stitching the Sacred, ca. 500-1150, Jane Tibbetts SchulenburgPART II. PARTNERSHIPS AND DEVOTIONS ACROSS THE GENDER DIVIDE6. The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in East Francia: The Case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950, Scott Wells7. Noble Women’s Power as Reflected in the Foundations of Cistercian Houses for Nuns in Thirteenth-Century Northern France: Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey, Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres, Constance Hoffman Berman8. “Inseparable Companions”: Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise, Susan Valentine9. Book, Body, and the Construction of the Self in the Taymouth Hours, Kathryn A. SmithPART III. BLOOD, EMBODIMENT, AND DEFINING SEPARATION10. Abbot Erluin’s Blindness: The Monastic Implications of Violent Loss of Sight, Susan Wade11. Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault, Elizabeth A. R. Brown12. The Matter of Others: Menstrual Blood and Uncontrolled Semen in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalists’ Polemic against Christians, “Bad” Jews, and Muslims, Alexandra CuffelGeneral IndexIndex of Manuscripts

Katherine Allen Smith, Ph.D. in History (NYU, 2004), is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Puget Sound. She has published articles on medieval monastic communities and their saints, relics, and images. Her current project is a study of representations of war in monastic texts of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.Scott Wells, Ph.D. in History (NYU, 2003), is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, Los Angeles. He is currently completing a book entitled From Chronicling Monks to Prophesying Nuns: The Search for History's Design in Medieval Germany, ca. 970-1180.

• List of IllustrationsPreface: Gender, Power, and Patronage – The Impact of Penelope D. Johnson on Medieval Studies, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott WellsList of ContributorsIntroduction: Penelope D. Johnson, the Boswell Thesis, and Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe, Katherine Allen Smith & Scott WellsPART I. SHAPING IDENTITY THROUGH SACRED SPACES AND TEXTS1. Living with a Saint: Monastic Identity, Community, and the Ideal of Asceticism in the Life of an Irish Saint, Diane Peters Auslander2. A Tale of Two Dioceses: Prologues as Letters in the Vitae Authored by Jacques de Vitry and Thomas de Cantimpré, Christina Roukis-Stern3. “Within the Walls of Paradise”: Space and Community in the Vita of Umiliana de’ Cerchi (1219-1246), Anne M. Schuchman4. Architectural Mimesis and Historical Memory at the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel, Katherine Allen Smith5. Holy Women and the Needle Arts: Piety, Devotion, and Stitching the Sacred, ca. 500-1150, Jane Tibbetts SchulenburgPART II. PARTNERSHIPS AND DEVOTIONS ACROSS THE GENDER DIVIDE6. The Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in East Francia: The Case of Gandersheim, ca. 850-950, Scott Wells7. Noble Women’s Power as Reflected in the Foundations of Cistercian Houses for Nuns in Thirteenth-Century Northern France: Port-Royal, les Clairets, Moncey, Lieu and Eau-lez-Chartres, Constance Hoffman Berman8. “Inseparable Companions”: Mary Magdalene, Abelard, and Heloise, Susan Valentine9. Book, Body, and the Construction of the Self in the Taymouth Hours, Kathryn A. SmithPART III. BLOOD, EMBODIMENT, AND DEFINING SEPARATION10. Abbot Erluin’s Blindness: The Monastic Implications of Violent Loss of Sight, Susan Wade11. Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Château-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault, Elizabeth A. R. Brown12. The Matter of Others: Menstrual Blood and Uncontrolled Semen in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalists’ Polemic against Christians, “Bad” Jews, and Muslims, Alexandra CuffelGeneral IndexIndex of Manuscripts