<div>The words &#8220;Listen daughter&#8221; (<i>Audi filia</i>, from Psalm 44) were frequently used in exhortations to religious women in the 12th century, a period of dramatic growth in the involvement of women in various forms of religious life. This volume looks at the &#8220;Mirror for Virgins&#8221; (<i>Speculum Virginum</i> ), an illustrated dialogue between a nun and her spiritual mentor written by a monk not long before Hildegard of Bingen started to record her visions. An appendix provides the first English translation, by Barbara Newman, of significant excerpts from the <i>Speculum</i>.<br></div> <div>The words &#8220;Listen daughter&#8221; (<i>Audi filia</i>, from Psalm 44) were frequently used in exhortations to religious women in the 12th century, a period of dramatic growth in the involvement of women in various forms of religious life. This volume looks at the &#8220;Mirror for Virgins&#8221; (<i>Speculum Virginum</i> ), an illustrated dialogue between a nun and her spiritual mentor written by a monk not long before Hildegard of Bingen started to record her visions. An appendix provides the first English translation, by Barbara Newman, of significant excerpts from the <i>Speculum</i>.<br></div>