Using women to think with in the medieval university / Ruth Mazo Karras -- Henry Suso's Vita between mystagogy and hagiography / Werner Williams-Krapp -- Beatrice of Nazareth : the first woman author of mystical texts / Wybren Scheepsma -- 'Being a woman on my own' : Alijt Bake (1415-1455) as reformer of the inner self / Anne Bollmann -- Gender of epistemology in confessional Europe : the reception of Maria van Hout's ways of knowing / Kirsten M. Christensen -- Ghostwriting sisters : the preservation of Dutch sermons of father confessors in the fifteenth and the early sixteenth century / Thom Mertens -- What Francis intended : gender and the transmission of knowledge in the Franciscan Order / Lezlie Knox -- Textual community in the making : Colettine authorship in the fifteenth century / Bert Roest -- Maria doctrix : anchoritic women, the mother of God, and the transmission of knowledge / Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker.