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Medieval Women in Their Communities . Edited by Diane Watt. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997. xii + 250 pp. $50.00 cloth; $19.95 paper.

This collection of interdisciplinary studies originated in a conference on women and medieval communities at the University of Wales in 1995. The editor has construed the term "communities" to mean more than simply religious communities—although many of the contents touch on that subject, or on a sense of community with regard to religious houses for women. Included are both studies of real women and their writings—beguinages, the nuns at Helfta, Margery Kempe—and medieval men's constructions of women in community—women in Welsh tales, Chaucer's women, those in The Wooing of Our Lord. This is not primarily an investigation of as yet untouched materials on women in the archives, but a work of synthesis and consolidation with new interpretations of Margery Kempe, Elizabeth de Burgh, the Dominican Sister-books, or literature addressed to anchoresses.