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Medieval women religious, c. 800-c. 1500 : new perspectives /

"Medieval women found diverse ways of expressing their religious aspirations: within the cloister as members of monastic and religious orders, within the world as vowesses, or between the two as anchorites. Via a range of disciplinary approaches, from history, archaeology, literature, and the v...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Curran, Kimm (Editor), Burton, Janet (Medievalist) (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2023.
Series:Studies in the history of medieval religion ; 52.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reform, change, and renewal: Women religious in the central Middle Ages, 800-1050 / Steven Vanderputten
  • New movements of the twelfth century: Diversity, belonging, and order(s) / Katharine Sykes
  • Change and renewal: Mendicants and tertiaries in later Medieval Europe / Alison More
  • On the fringes: Anchorites / Cate Gunn
  • 'Quasi-religious': Vowesses / Laura Richmond
  • Authority and agency: Women as heads of religious houses / Elizabeth A. Lehfeldt
  • Women religious, secular households: The outside world and crossing boundaries in the later Middle Ages / Rachel M.Delman
  • Literacies, learning and communal reform: The case of Alijt Bake / Diana Denissen
  • Family and friends: Gift-giving, books, and book inscriptions in women's religious communities / Sara Charles
  • Communities of medieval religious women and their landscapes / Yvonne Seale
  • Materiality and archaeology of women religious / Tracy Collins
  • Between collective memory and individual remembrance in women's religious communities / Mercedes Pérez Vidal.