Women In Western Intellectual Culture, 600-1500 Book

	Introduction
1	The Early Renaissance	1
	The Anglo-Saxon Renaissance	2
	The Carolingian Renaissance	10
	The Ottonian Renaissance	23
2	The Creation of a Literate Society	35
	Heloise	44
	Jutta and Hildegard	51
3	The Coming of the Vernacular	71
	Marie de France	72
	The Trobairitz	84
4	The Vernacular Mothers	91
	Vitae from Barking Monastery	93
	Beatrice of Nazareth	98
	Hadewijch	101
	Mechthild of Magdeburg	109
	Marguerite Porete	114
5	Scholastics, Mystics, and Secondary Intellectuals	119
	Bonaventure and the Mystics	120
	Secondary Intellectuals	127
6	The Great Theologians	145
	Julian of Norwich	148
	Catherine of Siena	158
	Birgitta of Sweden	168
7	Women Humanists	175
	Christine de Pizan	175
	Isotta Nogarola	191
	Laura Cereta	192
	Notes	195
	Bibliography	255
	Index	273