A survey of female monasticism that begins with the first communities of Late Antiquity and ends with the Reformation. It focuses on the visual culture of female monasticism in the European Middle Ages. Publisher: Columbia University Press Illustration(s): 73 illus. Translator: Dietlinde Hamburger Number of pages: 344 Publication date: 2008 Dimensions: 237 x 158 x 24 Cover type: Hardback Editor(s): Susan Marti