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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 ...

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Vanderputten, Steven (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.