Dark Age Nunneries : The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050 /
In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic ...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Setting the boundaries for legitimate experimentation
- Holy vessels, brides of Christ : ambiguous ninth-century realities
- Transitions, continuities, and the struggle for monastic lordship
- Reforms, "semi-reforms," and the silencing of women religious in the tenth century
- New beginnings
- Monastic ambiguities in the new millennium.