Women in the writings of the Fathers: language, belief, and reality / Graham Gould -- Agobard of Lyons and Paschasius Radbertus as critics of the Empress Judith / Elizabeth Ward -- Nun Immena and the foundation of the Abbey of Beaulieu: a woman's prospects in the Carolingian Church / Jane Martindale -- God and man in Dhuoda's Liber manualis / M.A. Claussen -- Women and the Word in the earlier Middle Ages / Janet L. Nelson -- Women in the Ottonian Church: an iconographic perspective / Rosamond McKitterick -- Daughters of Rome: all one in Christ Jesus! / Brenda M. Bolton -- Phenomenal religion in the thirteenth century and its image: Elisabeth of Spalbeek and the Passion Cult / W. Simons and J.E. Ziegler -- Common Woman in the Western Church in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries / Peter Biller -- Woman and home: the domestic setting of late medieval spirituality / Diana M. Webb -- Holy maydens, holy wyfes: the cult of women saints in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century England / Eamon Duffy -- Aristocracy or meritocracy? Office-holding patterns in late medieval English nunneries / Marilyn Oliva -- Female strategies for success in a male-ordered world: the Benedictine convent of Le Murate in Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries / K.J.P. Lowe -- On ministering to 'certayne devoute and religiouse women': Bishop Fox and the Benedictine nuns of Winchester diocese on the eve of the dissolution / Joan Greatrex -- Segregation in church / Margaret Aston -- 'Messiah for women': religious commotion in the north-east of Switzerland, 1525-1526 / Auke Jelsma -- Religious life of women in sixteenth-century Yorkshire / Claire Cross -- Reformation and Elizabeth Bowes: a study of a sixteenth-century northern gentlewoman / Christine M. Newman -- Shunamites and nurses of the English reformation: the activities of Mary Glover, niece of Hugh Latimer / Susan Wabuda -- Priesthood of She-believers: women and congregations in mid-seventeenth-century England / Anne Laurence -- Samuel Clarke and the 'lives' of godly women in seventeenth-century England / Jacqueline Eales -- Purity, profanity, and Puritanism: the churching of women, 1500-1700 / William Coster -- 'Let your women keep silence in the churches'. How women in the Dutch Reformed Church evaded Paul's admonition, 1650-1700 / Mirjam de Baar -- Quakerism and its implications for Quaker women: the women itinerant ministers of York Meeting, 1780-1840 / Sheila Wright -- 'Lights in dark places': women evangelists in early Victorian Britain, 1838-1857 / Donald M. Lewis -- 'Cultivation of the heart and the moulding of the will ... ' The missionary contribution of the Society for Promoting Female Education in China, India, and the East / Margaret Donaldson -- Women in Victorian church music: their social, liturgical, and performing roles in Anglicanism / Walter Hillsman -- Lay-sisters and good mothers: working-class women in English convents, 1840-1910 / Susan O'Brien -- Women in Social Catholicism in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century France / James F. McMillan -- End of Victorian values? Women, religion, and the death of Queen Victoria / John Wolffe -- Turning-point in the ministry of women: the ordination of the first woman to the Christian ministry in England in September 1917 / Elaine Kaye.