Overview
There has long been a tendency among monastic historians to ignore or marginalize female participation in monastic life, but recent scholarship has begun to redress the balance, and the great contributions made by women to the religious life of the Middle Ages are now attracting increasing attention. This interdisciplinary volume draws together scholars from Spain, Italy, France, the Low Countries, Germany, Transylvania, Scandinavia, and the British Isles, and offers new insights into the history, art history, and material culture, and the religiosity and culture of medieval religious women. The different chapters within this book take a comparative approach to the emergence and spread of female monastic communities across different geographical, political, and economic settings, comparing and contrasting houses that ranged from rich, powerful royal abbeys to small, subsistence priories on the margins of society, and exploring the artistic achievements, the interaction with neighbours and secular and ecclesiastical authorities, and the spiritual lives that were led by their inhabitants. The contributors to this volume address issues as diverse as patronage and relationships with the outside world, organizational structures, the nature of Cistercian observance and identity among female houses, and the role of male authority, and in doing so, they seek to shed light on the divergences and commonalities upon which the female religious life was based.
Full Product Details
Author: Archivist Janet E Burton (Cardiganshire Record Office) ,
Karen Stober
Publisher: Brepols N.V.
Imprint: Brepols N.V.
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 3.30cm
, Length: 23.90cm
Weight: 1.043kg
ISBN: 9782503553085
ISBN 10: 2503553087
Pages: 385
Publication Date: 29 September 2015
Audience:
General/trade
,
General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.
Reviews
.. .the volume marks an important contribution, along with other recent studies, to an ongoing corrective in the male-dominated field of scholarship in the history of monasticism. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. --J.D. Potter, Washington State University, CHOICE, August 2016
"""...the volume marks an important contribution, along with other recent studies, to an ongoing corrective in the male-dominated field of scholarship in the history of monasticism. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries."" --J.D. Potter, Washington State University, CHOICE, August 2016"
...the volume marks an important contribution, along with other recent studies, to an ongoing corrective in the male-dominated field of scholarship in the history of monasticism. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All levels/libraries. --J.D. Potter, Washington State University, CHOICE, August 2016
