Why did hagiographers of the late Middle Ages praise mothers for abandoning small children? How did a group of female mystics come to define themselves as "apostles to the dead" and end by challenging
"This is simply the best book ever done on St. Hildegard in English--a well-conceptualized work of remarkable erudition and vigorous style. Medievalists will love it, and it will generate debate in th
The sacred and the secular in medieval literature have too often been perceived as opposites, or else relegated to separate but unequal spheres. In Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the
