Dear Sister : Medieval Women and the Epistolary Genre Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Women Writing Letters in the Middle Ages	1
	Radegund and Epistolary Tradition	20
	Visions and Rhetorical Strategy in the Letters of Hildegard of Bingen	46
	"Wholly Guilty, Wholly Innocent": Self-Definition in Heloise's Letters to Abelard	64
	"Io Catarina": Ecclesiastical Politics and Oral Culture in the Letters of Catherine of Siena	87
	"No Writing for Writing's Sake": The Language of Service and Household Rhetoric in the Letters of the Paston Women	122
	"Seulette a part" - The "Little Woman on the Sidelines" Takes Up Her Pen: The Letters of Christine de Pizan	139
	"If I Had an Iron Body": Femininity and Religion in the Letters of Maria de Hout	171
	Bibliography	193
	Index	207
	Contributors	217