Medieval nuns required education to enable them to perform their core liturgical duties of reading and singing the Divine Office, and to manage the affairs of their monastery. Nuns were long thought to be generally unlearned or lacking competence in Latin. For several decades, however, this image has been challenged by scholarship on the writings nuns produced for use within their communities, which reveals a more nuanced picture of nuns’ education and the extent of their literacies. Evidence for the content and methods of convent education is scant; nevertheless, internal convent sources reveal that, at least in some communities, women underwent rigorous instruction before they became choir nuns. While not all women within a community possessed equal levels of intellectual capability or linguistic competence, they collectively shared in a literate culture based on the liturgy and scripture.