Abstract In the fifteenth century, the Carthusians routinely adduced the visions and revelations of “approved women”, such as Hildegard of Bingen, Elizabeth of Schonau, Gertrude the Great, Mechtild of Hackeborn, Dorothea of Montau, Catherine of Siena, Bridget of Sweden, and others, as heralds of church reform in light of the bankruptcy of the leadership of […]