Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World

"Introduction," by Mercedes Pérez Vidal

Chapter 1. "Dominican Women. Dominican Identity for Women during the First Centuries of the Order of Preachers (1200-1500)," by Sylvie Duval

Chapter 2. "Being in Touch with the Outside. Economic Exchanges of the Observant Dominican Convent St. Catherine in St. Gall (Switzerland)," by Claudia Sutter

Chapter 3. "Beyond the Wall. Nuns, Power, Celebrations, and Sex in Late Medieval Galicia," by Miguel García Fernández

Chapter 4. "Reform and Reforms in Dominican Nunneries in Spain and Latin America," by Mercedes Pérez Vidal

Chapter 5. "Transatlantic Ties: The Circulation of Objects, Books, and Ideas in Mid-Seventeenth Century Mexican Nunneries," by Doris Bieñko de Peralta

Chapter 6. "Estefania de San Joseph and Esperanza de San Alberto: Dual Discourse in the Lives of Two Exemplary Afro-Women Religious in Early Modern Spanish-America," by Valérie Benoist

Chapter 7. "Le monachisme bourbonien et la fabrication de l'autorité au féminin à Fontevraud au XVIIᵉ siècle," by Annalena Müller