Leadership in medieval English nunneries /

"Examination of the role of the convent superior in the Middle Ages, underlining the amount of power and responsibility at her command"--Provided by publisher

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Spear, Valerie
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Boydell Press, 2005.
Collection:Studies in the history of medieval religion ; v. 24.
Sujets:
To 1500
Abbesses, Christian > England > History > To 1500.
Abbesses, Christian > England > Social conditions.
Abbesses > Angleterre > Conditions sociales.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
HISTORY > Medieval.
Abbesses, Christian
Frauenkloster
Äbtissin
Oberin
Vrouwenkloosters.
Leiderschap.
Abdissen.
Geschichte 1280-1539.
England
History
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. The meaning of leadership in the medieval English nunnery
  • 2. Leadership and lineage
  • 3. Guardians of the brides (care of the female religious by bishops, archbishops and their representatives)
  • 4. The lady and the monarchs (the relations of the abbess or prioress with king and pope)
  • 5. The distaff and the crosier (balancing financial and spiritual responsibilities)
  • 6. The clerical view (interpretations of episcopal reports)
  • 7. Shifting perspectives (secular views of the nunnery superiors)
  • 8. Epilogue (preparations for the dissolution and reaction to its demands)
  • App. A. List of nunneries and incomes
  • App. B. List of nunnery superiors
  • App. C. Election procedures at Wilton
  • App. D. Eulogy for Euphemia of Wherwell.

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