Description: "This timely collection of essays, from an international team of authors, spans a wide geographical and chronological spectrum and focuses on female relationships with piety and religious vocations. Ideal for students, each chapter introduces new research and offers a guide to historiographical debates and methodologies"--
Brief description: CARMEN M. MANGION is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK.
Review Quotes: "The introduction and essays provide nuanced and stimulating treatments of their topics...this volume promises to stimulate thought and debate." -- Claire Sahlin, Texas Woman's University