Dominican Penitent Women (Classics of Western Spirituality)
Maiju Lehmijoki-Gardner is lecturer in the department of theology at Loyola College, Baltimore, MD, and fellow in the department of church history at the University of Helsinki, where she also directs a research project entitled Gendered Practices in Medieval Mysticism. She is the author of Worldly Saints: Social Interaction of Dominican Penitent Women in Italy, 1200-1500 and co-author, with Tuomas Keikkila, of a history of religious orders in the Middle Ages.