Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries (Hardcover)

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Foreword, by Caroline Walker Bynum
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Histories of Female Monasticism, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger
1. Early Monasteries and Foundations (500-1200): An Introduction, by Jan Gerchow with Katrinette Bodarw?, Susan Marti, and Hedwig Ršckelein
2. The Time of the Orders, 1200-1500: An Introduction, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Petra Marx, and Susan Marti
3. Between This World and the Next: The Art of Religious Women in the Middle Ages, by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Robert Suckale
4. Church and Cloister: The Architecture of Female Monasticism in the Middle Ages, by Carola JŠggi and Uwe Lobbedey
5. "Nuns' Work," "Caretaker Institutions," and "Women's Movements": Some Thoughts About a Modern Historiography of Medieval Monasticism, by Jan Gerchow and Susan Marti
6. The Visionary Texts and Visual Worlds of Religious Women, by Barbara Newman
7. Patterns of Female Piety in the Later Middle Ages, by Caroline Walker Bynum
8. Time and Space: Liturgy and Rite in Female Monasteries of the Middle Ages, by Gisela Muschiol
9. Founders, Donors, and Saints: Patrons of Nuns' Convents, by Hedwig Ršckelein
10. Pastoral Care in Female Monasteries: Sacramental Services, Spiritual Edification, Ethical Discipline, by Klaus Schreiner
11. Household and Prayer: Medieval Convents as Economic Entities, by Werner Ršsener
12. Wanderers Between Worlds: Visitors, Letters, Wills, and Gifts as Means of Communication in Exchanges Between Cloister and the World, by Gabriela Signori
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