Partners in spirit : women, men, and religious life in Germany, 1100-1500 / edited by Fiona J. Griffiths and Julie Hotchin.
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- English
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- Physical Description:
- x, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, [2014]
- Summary:
- This series provides a venue for work in one of the most exciting and fast-growing fields in medieval studies, the history of women's contributions to western culture. The series title contains a deliberate and productive ambiguity. Since women's literary culture is a history of reading, hearing, and patronage as well as of composition, the series will consider medieval women's texts as texts for an about, on particular texts are both needed in the development of this field, and so is international scholarly co-operations. The series is especially interested in making more accessible to each other scholarship on medieval women undertaken in the English-speaking world and mainland Europe respectively. Partners in Spirit focuses on relations between chaste men and women within religious life in Germany (c. 1100-1500), concentrating on the complex set of negotiations that governed contact between a male priest and his female charge. Although religious women were undeniably reliant on priests for pastoral care (the cura monialium) throughout the medieval period, it does not follow that men saw such care as burdensome or that women were spiritually subordinate in their relations with priests. Within the context of the cura, ordained men and professed women met regularly, often developing intimate friendships and providing each other with crucial spiritual support, despite prevailing fears that contact between the sexes must result in sexual temptation and sin. Examining the various interactions of priests with religious women, Partners in Spirit traces the ways in which both viewed the cura, highlighting the fluidity of gender and authority within the medieval religious life. In so doing, the volume suggests new ways of considering the intersection of gender, religion, and spiritual power within the medieval world. Book jacket.
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- Women and men in the medieval religious landscape / Fiona J. Griffiths and Julie Hotchin
- Double monasteries in the south-western empire (1100-1230) and their women's communities in Swiss regions / Elsanne Gilomen-Schenkel
- Double monasteries in images? Observations on book illumination from communities in the south-western empire / Susan Marti
- The 'freedom of their own rule' and the role of the provost in women's monasteries of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Eva Schlotheuber
- Monks and nuns at Rupertsberg: Guibert of Gembloux and Hildegard of Bingen / Fiona J. Griffiths
- Necessary priests and brothers: male-female co-operation in the Premonstratensian women's monasteries of Füssenich and Meer, 1140-1260 / Shelley Amiste Wolbrink
- Brothers and sisters in Christ, brothers and sisters indeed: two thirteenth-century letters of Thomas, cantor of Villers, to his sister Alice, nun of Parc-les-Dames / Anthony Ray
- Geistliche Schwestern: the pastoral care of lay religious women in medieval Würzburg / Jennifer Kolpacoff Deane
- Hendrik van Leuven: Dominican, visionary, and spiritual leader of beguines / Wybren Scheepsma
- Pastors and seducers: the practice of the cura monialium in mendicant convents in Strasbourg / Sigrid Hirbodian
- Women teaching men in the medieval devotional imagination / Sara S. Poor
- Negotiating autonomy: canons in late medieval Frauenstifte / Sabine Klapp
- Afterword: ordinary life and the gendered imagination / John W. Coakley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- OCLC:
- 869795243
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