Convent chronicles : women writing about women and reform in the late Middle Ages / Anne Winston-Allen.

Contents Women writing in the late Middle Ages -- Late medieval nunneries: accounts by women -- The "Women's Religious Movement" and the Observant movement: female piety and the establishment -- Women of the reform -- Opponents of the reform and enclosure -- Did nuns have a Renaissance? Libraries and literary activities -- "Femininity-in-writing": new heroines, strategies, and roles in late medieval piety.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [293]-338) and index.
LCCN 2004012982
ISBN0271024607 (clothbound : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PT255 .W56 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold