Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: Convent Ruins and Christian Profession: Toward a Methodology for the History of Religion and Gender -- 1. Tertullian, the Angelic Life, and the Bride of Christ -- 2. One Flesh, Two Sexes, Three Genders? -- 3. Thomas Aquinas's Chastity Belt: Clerical Masculinity in Medieval Europe -- 4. Women's Monasteries and Sacred Space: The Promotion of Saints' Cults and Miracles -- 5. Priestly Women, Virginal Men: Litanies and Their Discontents -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.