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The religious and political spheres of the later medieval and early modern periods were tightly and indisputably interwoven, as illustrated by the papal schism, the Hundred Years War, the Reconquest of Spain, and the English Reformation. In these events as well as in the larger religiopolitical systems in which they unfolded, female saints, devout lay women, and monastic women played central roles. In Women of God and Arms, Nancy Bradley Warren explores the political dimensions of the religious practices of women ranging from St. Colette of Corbie to Isabel of Castile to English nuns...

Spiritual Economies Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England Nancy Bradley Warren Winner of the 2004 Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities "An ambitious study of the actual and symbolic place of women and femininity in fifteenth-century English monastic, literary, and political culture."--Nicholas Watson, University of Western Ontario "Impressive. . . . Warren is careful to honor the integrity of religious life while looking at the multiple forces that influenced it, and that it influenced as well."--Sharon Elkins, Wellesley College "The sheer range of Warren's stimulating, provocative...