Religious women’s communities in the medieval Bohemian Kingdom were self-conscious and active cultural centers, encouraging women’s education and self-expression. They reflect the unique situation of the medieval Bohemian Kingdom, which was a part of the Holy Roman Empire with German and Slavic influences, and later with two churches, Catholic and Utraquist. The earliest period is associated with the Benedictine order, represented by the oldest female Benedictine St. George monastery, with the largest surviving medieval library. The second oldest female Premonstratensian monastery in Doksany had another extensive library. Similarly to the library of the Premonstratensian convent in Chotěšov, the focus was on educational and spiritual literature. In the thirteenth century, Princess Agnes, the founder of the first convent of Poor Clares in Bohemia, maintained a correspondence with St. Clare. In the early fourteenth century, Queen Eliška Rejčka commissioned manuscripts for the Cistercian monastery in Stary Brno. The Dominican nuns are associated with the development of vernacular, especially Czech literature, most notably in the second half of the fourteenth century. The late medieval period witnesses the activities of the Poor Clares. Nuns in Český Krumlov focused on spiritual manuscripts, while the purely German nuns in the imperial city of Cheb copied mystical and spiritual manuscripts. During the Hussite movement, there appeared women who were not only listeners of the reform preachers but also experts on the Bible. During the post-Hussite period, many women actively wrote texts (Sidonie of Poděbrady, for example).