English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700

English Women’s Spiritual Utopias, 1400-1700: New Kingdoms of Womanhood  uncovers a tradition of women’s utopianism that extends back to medieval women’s monasticism, overturning accounts of utopia that trace its origins solely to Thomas More. As enclosed spaces in which women wielded authority that was unavailable to them in the outside world, medieval and early modern convents were self-consciously engaged in reworking pre-existing cultural heritage to project desired proto-femi