Women in fifteenth-century Bohemia express themselves on marriage, companionship, daily castle life, and family relations.

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The readers of Christianity& Literature can look to these two volumes for their clear-eyed, articulate, and compassionate views of our life and communal world. They are uplifting to read, hopeful, while still accurate to the situations they render. Whether it is McEntyre's description of the way that Van Gogh draws out light within darkness, or the modest hero of Willis, "a perfect I Boy Scout, much less a Nordic warrior" (31), trekking the high slopes of the Sierras, we are offered two vivid mosaics of the world, full of many clear brush strokes, two human landscapes we recognize as places we may have once been, two voices to stay the confusion of our hectic, often shadowed, lives.