Summary The contributions of this special issue - proceedings of the conference on royal nunneries that took place in Prague in July 2020 - focus on the monasteries connected to the ruling houses, which were endowed with special privileges and enriched by royal and aristocratic donations, often serving as instrumenta regni. They are introduced as active cultural hubs, stages for royal and courtly promotion, and places of personal and dynastic self-representation. This includes female monasteries, the agency of female lites in medieval society and their role as patrons and addressees of works of art. TABLE OF CONTENTS Jakub Adamski, Pjotr Pajor The Architecture of Poor Clares' Nunnery in Stary S?cz and Early Fourteenth-Century Artistic Relations between Lesser Poland and Upper Rhineland Angelica Federici Rome, Barons and Nunneries Art, Architecture and Aesthetics in Convents in Medieval Latium Jenny Vl?ek Schurr Function and Faith: Revisiting the Role of Hospital, Church, and Chapel in the Convent of St. Francis, Prague Giulia Rossi Vairo Seeing Double in Odivelas Nuns and Monks at the Monastery of St Dinis, a Royal Pantheon in Late Medieval Portugal Susan Marti Networking for Eternal Salvation? Agnes of Habsburg, Queen of Hungary and Co-Founder of K nigsfelden Agnieszka Pata?a The Medieval Furnishings of the Convent of Poor Clares in Breslau Eszter Konr d 'Helisabet filia Stephani regis ungarorum illustris' Image of a Saintly Nun of the Arpad Dynasty as Reflected in Hagiographic Sources Michaela Z schg Beyond Naples. Fourteenth-Century Royal Widows and their Clarissan Foundations in a Trans-Regional Perspective