Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife

"Brilliantly revealing history of medieval women . . . Howes’s debut has just the right meld of insightful research, enjoyable storytelling and contemporary contexts."— The Guardian "A history of medieval women’s lives as told through the prism of four exceptional individuals. . . .  throughout, the tensions of medieval womanhood strain and stretch—eroticism and purity, sexuality and motherhood, silence and speech."— The  New York Times Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife charts the lives and ti