Four remarkable medieval women --
The revolutionary twelfth century --
Abelard's story of Abelard and Heloise --
Heloise as lover, her sublime submission --
Heloise, adept abbess and mother --
Heloise of the imagination --
Hildegard of Bingen, sibyl of the Rhine --
Hildegard, holy hypochondriac --
Hildegard's visionary trilogy, science, and letters --
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of France --
Eleanor and the politics of estrangement --
Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, Queen of England --
Eleanor the dowager queen --
Joan of Arc and her times --
Joan discovers her mission and her Dauphin --
Joan the warrior, holy berserker --
Joan's success and captivity --
Joan's trial, death, and retrial --
Joan of the imagination --
