Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-233) and index.
Contents:
Bound together in community : convents and their patrons -- Blurring the boundaries : the significance of convents as estate managers -- Litigious behavior : convents and lawsuits -- A carpenter resisted : late medieval monastic reform -- Habits of reform : religious women before Trent -- The cloister and the world.
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