Intro -- Prologue: Voices from the Past -- I. Enclosure -- 1. The Nuns' Flight -- 2. The Convent Living Space -- 3. The Ebstorf World Map -- II. Education -- 1. The Convent as School -- 2. The Convent as Cultural and Educational Space -- 3. The Heiningen Philosophy Tapestry -- III. Nuns, Family, and Community -- 1. Life History and Family Influence -- 2. The Family and the Convent Community -- 3. Representation and Status -- IV. Love and Friendship -- 1. Friendship Beyond Convent Walls -- 2. The Idea of Friendship -- 3. Christ Embracing John the Evangelist as Spiritual Bridehood -- V. Music and Reform -- 1. Secular Songs while Breaking Flax -- 2. Convent Reform -- 3. Music Instruction in Kloster Ebstorf -- VI. Reformation -- 1. The Papal Legate Arrives in Town -- 2. Convents during the Reformation -- 3. A Vision of the Reformation -- VII. Illness and Dying -- 1. Death in the Community -- 2. Medicinal Knowledge and the Rituals of Dying -- 3. This World and the Next in the Wienhausen Nuns' Choir -- VIII. Appendix -- 1. Convent Histories -- 2. Schematic Representations of Convent Life -- 3. Glossary of Terms -- 4. List of Illustrations -- 5. Sources and Secondary Literature -- Index.