'We need both a deeper examination of theater archives in their local and temporal specificities and a more capacious notion of what constituted performance in medieval settings. That is precisely what we get in Susannah Crowder’s brilliant and utterly readable new book, Performing Women...Crowder paints a remarkable picture of medieval performing women, who were able to write themselves into community and memory through “the cultivation of material and embodied practice” ...Crowder’s achievement in this inspiring and pioneering book is to have placed women back in the spotlight, showing how they “contributed to their worlds in critical ways that often go unseen”.'
H-France Review

‘…a brilliant and utterly readable new book…’
Noah D. Guynn, University of California, Davis, H-France Review

Family tree of Catherine Baudoche and Catherine Gronnaix
Introduction
1 Acting as Catherine: writing the history of female performers
2 ‘I, Catherine’: biography, documentary culture, and public presence
3 Performance and the parish: space, memory, and material devotion
4 Negotiated devotions and performed histories: laywomen in monastic spaces
5 ‘Call me Claude’: female actors, impersonation, and cultural transmission
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index