Creative women in medieval and early modern Italy: a religious and artistic renaissance

Introduction : women's creativity in religious context / John Coakley

The feminine mind in medieval mysticism / Mariateresa Fumagalli Beonio-Brocchieri

The authorial role of Brother A. in the composition of Angela of Foligno's revelations / Catherine M. Mooney

Women and the production of religious literature in the vernacular, 1300-1500 / Katherine Gill

Urban spaces, women's networks, and the lay apostolate in the Siena of Catherine Benincasa / Karen Scott

Chiara Gambacorta of Pisa as patroness of the arts / Ann M. Roberts

Piety and patronage : women and the early Jesuits / Carolyn Valone

Per speculum in enigmate : failed saints, artists, and self-construction of the female body in early modern Italy / Anne Jacobson Schutte

The commentary on the rule of Clare of Assisi by Maria Domitilla Galluzzi / E. Ann Matter

The mystic humanism of Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi (1566-1607) / Antonio Riccardi

Ursula and Catherine : the marriage of virgins in the sixteenth century / Gabriella Zarri

Suor Maria Clemente Ruoti, playwright and academician / Elissa B. Weaver

The making of Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana's Componimenti Musicali (1623) / Craig A. Monson

Four views of Milanese nuns' music / Robert L. Kendrick.