Angelica Federici, Convents, Clausura and Cloisters: Religious Women in Late Medieval Rome and Latium. Rome: viella, 2022, 217 pp., 57 b/w ill.

We have realized already some time ago that the history of medieval women’s monasteries represents a significant desideratum in Medieval Studies. While many men’s monasteries were closed following the secularization in 1806, there was little interest in the women’s institutions (see, for instance, Jeffrey F. Hamburger,