Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-343) and index.
Flaws in the Golden Bowl: gender and spiritual formation in the twelfth century -- Authority, authenticity, and the repression of Heloise -- "Crueel Corage": Child sacrifice and the maternal martyr in hagiography and romance -- On the threshold of the dead: Purgatory, hell, and religious women -- La mystique courtoise: Thirteenth-century beguines and the art of love -- Hadewijch and Abelard -- Gnostics, free spirits, and "Meister Eckhart's daughter" -- WomanSpirit, woman Pope -- Renaissance feminism and esoteric theology: The case of Cornelius Agrippa.
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