Monastic politics -- Strategic saints and diplomatic devotions -- The sword and the cloister -- Religion and female rule -- The mystic, the monarch, and the persistence of "the medieval" -- Dissolution, diaspora, and defining Englishness -- Conclusion: The power of the past
Summary
Warren explores the political dimensions of the religious practices of women in the later medieval and early modern periods, from St. Colette of Corbie to Isabel of Castile to English nuns exiled during the reign of Elizabeth I
