Description
Book Synopsis"The definitive study... A learned, lively, and highly readable book, now the essential introduction to the subject."-Choice
Trade Review"A tour de force." * David Nicholas, Clemson University *
"A vivid, valuable portrait." *
History *
"Comprehensive and authoritative." *
Medium Aevum *
"Walter Simons has written a thorough, scholarly study, long on careful research, to the point on analysis, and without theoretical trappings.
Cities of Ladies is a most welcome contribution to the study of medieval religious life and women's place in the life of the Low Countries." *
Speculum *
"Indispensable for students of medieval religion and women's history." *
Journal of Religion *
"The definitive study. . . . A learned, lively, and highly readable book, now the essential introduction to the subject." *
Choice *
"This fine work reveals medieval religion as a web of overlapping interests. . . . Simons has thus both provided a detailed study of the movement in the Low Countries and place it in its wider religious, social, and economic context." *
Ecclesiastical History *
