Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

Foreword by Catharine R. Stimpson
Preface
1: Women and Religion in Late Medieval Italy: History and Historiography
Daniel Bornstein
2: A Community of Female Penitents in Thirteenth-Century Padua
Antonio Rigon
3: Clare, Agnes, and Their Earliest Followers: From the Poor Ladies of San Damiano to the Poor Clares
Clara Gennaro
4: Anchoresses and Penitents in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Umbria
Mario Sensi
5: Mendicant Friars and Female Pinzochere in Tuscany: From Social Marginality to Models of Sanctity
Anna Benvenuti Papi
6: The Apostolic Canonization Proceedings of Clare of Montefalco, 1318-1319
Enrico Menesto
7: Female, Mystics, Visions, and Iconography
Chiara Frugoni
8: Imitable Sanctity: The Legend of Maria of Venice
Fernanda Sorelli
9: St. Bernardino of Siena, the Wife, and Possessions
Roberto Rusconi
10: St. Francesca and the Female Religious Communities of Fifteenth-Century Rome
Anna Esposito
11: Living Saints: A Typology of Female Sanctity in the Early Sixteenth Century
Gabriella Zarri
Afterword: Women Religious in Late Medieval Italy: New Sources and Directions
Roberto Rusconi
Index