Patricia Ranft

Patricia Ranft is a professor emeritus at Michigan State University and the author of various books, including 'Women and the religious life in premodern Europe' and 'Women and spiritual equality in Christian tradition'. 

You can find the full list of her published books here. 

She has also published many papers, among which the paper 'Ruminations on Hildegard of Bingen and autism' (2014). 

Patricia Ranft is now retired from academia and works as a tree farmer.