Lisa M. Bitel is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland, also from Cornell.

"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. Bitel challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."—Times Higher Education Supplement

Lisa M. Bitel is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland, also from Cornell.

"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. Bitel challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."—Times Higher Education Supplement

Lisa M. Bitel is Associate Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Kansas. She is the author of Isle of the Saints: Monastic Settlement and Christian Community in Early Ireland, also from Cornell.

"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. Bitel challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."—Times Higher Education Supplement