Overview

This book presents a comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods. The contributors inquire into differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities of women’s agency inside and outside the convent. The volume challenges traditional chronological and regional limitations such as those between the Middle Ages and the Modern era and stresses the transatlantic exchange of models between Europe and the Americas.

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Author:   Mercedes Pérez Vidal (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf)
Publisher:   Arc Humanities Press
Imprint:   Arc Humanities Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781802700442

ISBN 10:   1802700447
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   30 April 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Language:   French

Table of Contents

""Introduction,"" by Mercedes Pérez Vidal Chapter 1. ""Dominican Women. Dominican Identity for Women during the First Centuries of the Order of Preachers (1200-1500),"" by Sylvie Duval Chapter 2. ""Being in Touch with the Outside. Economic Exchanges of the Observant Dominican Convent St. Catherine in St. Gall (Switzerland),"" by Claudia Sutter Chapter 3. ""Beyond the Wall. Nuns, Power, Celebrations, and Sex in Late Medieval Galicia,"" by Miguel García Fernández Chapter 4. ""Reform and Reforms in Dominican Nunneries in Spain and Latin America,"" by Mercedes Pérez Vidal Chapter 5. ""Transatlantic Ties: The Circulation of Objects, Books, and Ideas in Mid-Seventeenth Century Mexican Nunneries,"" by Doris Bieñko de Peralta Chapter 6. ""Estefania de San Joseph and Esperanza de San Alberto: Dual Discourse in the Lives of Two Exemplary Afro-Women Religious in Early Modern Spanish-America,"" by Valérie Benoist Chapter 7. ""Le monachisme bourbonien et la fabrication de l'autorité au féminin à Fontevraud au XVIIᵉ siècle,"" by Annalena Müller

Reviews

[T]his is a collection that merits the attention of scholars of medieval and early modern female monasticism. Each essay includes insights and/or methodological considerations that contribute in significant ways to our understanding of convents and nuns and their intersections with the secular world. -- Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt * Early Modern Women 19, no. 2 (Spring 2025): 365-67 *

Author Information

Mercedes Pérez Vidal holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Oviedo. She has been post doc fellow at the UNAM, at the University of Padua, and at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.

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