Women, Art and Observant Franciscan Piety

List of Figures and Plates, Acknowledgements, List of Abbreviations, Introduction, 1. The Pious Women of Corpus Christi Bernardina Sedazzari's House in Via Praisolo Leaders of the Community The Inventory of 1426: Ecclesiastical Vestments Relics, Devotional Objects and Altarpieces From 'Urban Hermits' to Cloistered Nuns, 2. Building a Public Image of Piety San Guglielmo as a Poor Clare 'Anti-model' Building the First Church and Convent The Poor Clares Form of Life The Entombment and Adoration of the Host Altarpieces, 3. The Sette Armi Spirituali and its Audience The Corpus Christi Community 1431-1456 Women's Education in Ferrara, Mantua, and Urbino The Nuns' Library and Lectio Divina The Sette Armi Spirituali and Teaching Novices, 4. Drawing for Devotion: Sister Caterina's Breviary Nun-artists: Aesthetic, Medium and Materials Structure and Provenance of the Kalendar and Psalter Personalizing the Breviary: The Temporale Poverty, Penitence, and Franciscan saints: The Sanctorale Vigri's Man of Sorrows and the Gaude Mater Virgo Christi, 5. Corpus Christi's Later Religious and Civic Identity The Sette Armi Spirituali and Observant Devotion The Community and Casa Romei The d'Este Duchesses as Patrons Later Fifteenth-century Art and Vsual Culture Corpus Christi as a Pantheon of d'Este Women Conclusion Appendices