%0 Journal Article %A Albrecht Classen %D 2024 %C Berlin, Germany %I Peter Lang Verlag %J Mediaevistik %@ 2199-806X %N 1 %V 36 %T Angelica Federici, Convents, Clausura and Cloisters: Religious Women in Late Medieval Rome and Latium. Rome: viella, 2022, 217 pp., 57 b/w ill. %R 10.3726/med.2023.01.121 %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1519129 %X 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,