The various articles in this book investigates aspects of female music-making and musical experience in the medieval and early modern periods. Mentioned names are Hadewijch of Antwerp, Sister Maria Diacinta Paulsanti, Isabella d'Este, Lucrezia Borgia, Barbara Strozzi and Adrianna della Tiorba.. .Part I treats the spirituality of women in solitude and in community. Parts II and III respond to Joan Kelly's famous feminist question and suggest that women of a certain stature did have a Renaissance. Part IV plays with the notion of the allure of music and its risks in Venice during the Baroque.