Proving woman : female spirituality and inquisitional culture in the later Middle Ages - Elliott, Dyan, 1954- (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004)
Ch. 1. Sacramental confession as proof of orthodoxy -- Pt. 1. Women as proof of orthodoxy -- Ch. 2. The beguines : a sponsored emergence -- Ch. 3. Elisabeth of Hungary : between men -- Pt. 2. Inquisitions and proof -- Ch. 4. Sanctity, heresy, and inquisition -- Ch. 5. Between two deaths : the living mystic -- Pt. 3. The discernment of spirits -- Ch. 6. Clerical quibbles -- Ch. 7. John Gerson and Joan of Arc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-331) and index.
Keywords: Women -- Religious life -- History; Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Mysticism -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.; Women mystics -- Europe; Heresy -- History -- To 1500.; Inquisition