This is a collection of more than 60 documents, translated from the original Latin or Old French, which relate to the history of Cistercian nuns and their (female) patrons in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Berman provides an introduction for each collection of documents, contextualising them both in the history and the historiography, though perhaps some more thorough footnoting would have been useful. That it's in the vernacular probably argues against the use of this volume in graduate classes, and it's likely too advanced for beginner undergrad classes, but it would probably be highly useful in upper level undergrad classes.