The Texture of Society

ELLEN KITTELL is Associate Professor of History at the University of Idaho. She is author of From Ad Hoc to Routine: A Case Study in Medieval Bureaucracy. MARY SUYDAM teaches Religious studies at Kenyon College. She is editor, along with Joanna Ziegler, of Performance and Transformation: New Approaches to Late Medieval Spirituality.

PART I: RELIGIOUS WOMEN IN FLANDERS To be Single but not Alone: Individual Liberty and Companionship in Medieval Beguine Communities Elisabeth of Spalbeek and Mystic Dance Visionaries in the Public Eye Travelling Women Death, Illness, and Healing: Sociohistorical Aspects of Female Mysticism in Medieval Flanders PART II: SECULAR WOMEN The Performative Textuality of Secular Life Testaments of Venetian and Ghentenar Women, 14th-15th Century: A Comparison The View of the Judicial Authorities on the Role of Women in Late Medieval Urban Society Unmarried Mothers in Late Medieval Flanders