A new generation of historians today is borrowing from cultural anthropology, post-modern critical theory, and gender studies to understand the social meanings

"An extremely interesting and important book... makes an important contribution to the history of medieval monastic spirituality in a formative period, whilst a

In early seventeenth-century Spain, the Castilian parliament voted to elevate the newly beatified Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint of Spain alongside the trad

Barbara H. Rosenwein here reassesses the significance of property in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a period of transition from the Carolingian empire to the