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This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna´s women´s monastic institutions. Through analysis of the physical and historical place such women´s institutions held in an important urban and political center, this book provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women´s role and agency.

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1. Setting the Stage 2. Mine´s Taller: On Steeple Distortions in City Depictions 3. Mental Topography and the Viennese Medieval Past 4. Foundation Stories: The Heroes of Viennese Monasticism 5. Virgin Intercessor and Other Monastic Miracles 6. The Persistence of the Medieval Appendix 1: Views of Vienna: Selected Panoramas, Plans, and Pictorial Reports Appendix 2: Vienna in Prose: Selected Histories, Topographies, and Travelogues

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"Received Medievalisms is a remarkable book - remarkable in its temporal and disciplinary scope, remarkable in its creative methodological approach, and remarkable in its fascinating arguments. Cynthia J. Cyrus brings to bear a serious depth of learning and an astute, deft critical sensibility in demonstrating the significance of women´s convents, and of the versions of the Middle Ages they carry with them, in Viennese culture from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries." - Nancy Bradley Warren, Professor and Head, Department of English, Texas A&M University

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Cynthia Cyrus is Professor of Musicology and affiliated faculty in Women s and Gender studies at Vanderbilt University, USA, where she also serves as Associate Provost for undergraduate education.

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