Hegel: the restlessness of the negative

Medievalists, historians, and women's studies specialists will welcome this translation of Herbert Grundmann's classic study of religious movements in the Middle Ages because it provides a much-needed history of medieval religious life-one that lies between the extremes of doctrinal classification and materialistic analysis-and because it represents the first major effort to underline the importance of women in the development of the language and practice of religion in the Middle Ages.