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Wallace's groundbreaking and fascinating work will be of interest to feminist scholars, historians, and all those concerned with the premodern female experience, and the evolution of Catholicism in England and Europe. Katherine Heavey, Renaissance Quarterly

<br> Few books in this field are so richly and widely erudite, yet such irresistible page-turners. Wallace's prose sparkles (at one point he translates lunatica di poco cervello as a bear of little brain [241]), making Strong Women a must not just for church historians and literary scholars, but for anyone who enjoys a rollicking good read. --Speculum<p><br> [A] fascinating series of readings of four Catholic women's lives/lives, pre- and post-Reformation. Scholars of medieval and Reformation studies, and any general reader of women and religion, travel, and European culture would learn much from this book...It will shape the field for years to come. --Recusant History<p><br> Readers in Reformation and Counter-Reformation history will enjoy grappling with Wallace's provocative introductory statements about the male domination of Reformation studies...There is much of interest in this book for literary scholars as well as historians. It will shape the field for years to come. --Recusant History<p><br>

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David Wallace studied for a BA (1976) in English and Related Literature at York and for a Ph.D. at St Edmund's College, Cambridge. Following a Research Fellowship at Cambridge (1981-3) and a Mellon Fellowship at Stanford (1984-5), he taught at the University of Texas at Austin (1985-91) and then at the University of Minnesota, where he was Professor of English and Frenzel Chair in Liberal Arts (1991-6). He has been Judith Rodin Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania since 1996, with stints as Visiting Professor at King's College, Cambridge, Melbourne University, Princeton University, and Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He has done extensive work for BBC radio, with documentary features on Bede, Malory, Margery Kempe, and John Leland. He is currently editing what will be the first literary history of Europe, 1348-1418, for OUP: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~dwallace/regeneration/

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