Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Commentary -- Introduction -- I. Holy Perfection in the Old French Tradition -- 2. Female Sanctity: Trial by Disclosure -- 3. Femininity Circumscribed -- Part II: Anthology -- Agnes -- Barbara -- Catherine of Alexandria -- Christina -- Elizabeth of Hungary -- Euphrosina -- Faith -- Juliana -- Margaret of Antioch -- Marina -- Mary the Egyptian -- Paula -- Thais -- Notes -- Appendices -- The Ninth-Century Sequence of Saint Eulalia -- Holy Heroines of Hagiographic Romance: Summary of Information -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.