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Equal in monastic profession : religious women in Medieval France /
In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitu...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1993, ©1991.
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| Edición: | 1st pbk. ed. |
| Colección: | Women in culture and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitudes of secular women. In the words of one abbess comparing nuns with monks, they were ""different as to their sex but equal in their monastic profession.""Johnson researched more than two dozen nunneries in northern France from the eleventh century through the thirteenth century, balancing a qualita. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 294 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226401973 0226401979 9786612089886 6612089881 1282089889 9781282089884 |