Saints, Wives, Nuns, Poets, and Prophets: Twenty Early Books on Women
I intended to select a dozen books and somehow arrived at twenty. Once gathered together, however, they seemed to belong in one conversation, and I have left them that way.
Taken together, these books demonstrate that women were active participants in the intellectual, religious, literary, and social life of Europe long before many modern readers assume. They appear here as founders of religious orders, governors of convents, poets, translators, preservers of spiritual traditions, patrons of political causes, and subjects of serious medical and philosophical inquiry.
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