The monograph offers an analysis of chief convent foundations set up in the thirteenth century by benefactors from Piast dynasty circles. The foundations are shown in a comparative perspective which looks both at the idea of the convent in Western Europe

Leontios Machairas’s fifteenth century account is beyond doubt the most outstanding example of mediaeval Greek chronicle-writing. The work is the main source on Cypriot history in the period following the island’s seizure by Frankish Crusaders

The author analyses female experience, present in Maria Pinińska-Bereś’ works, as connected with the processes taking place in socialist Poland: the development of sex knowledge and counselling, the strong influence of Catholic Church, counter-culture