Description: A comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods.
Brief description: Mercedes Pérez Vidal holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Oviedo. She has been post doc fellow at the UNAM, at the University of Padua, and at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
Review Quotes: [T]his is a collection that merits the attention of scholars of medieval and early modern female monasticism. Each essay includes insights and/or methodological considerations that contribute in significant ways to our understanding of convents and nuns and their intersections with the secular world.--Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt "Early Modern Women 19, no. 2 (Spring 2025): 365-67" (3/31/2025 12:00:00 AM)