Queens, princesses and mendicants : close relations in a European perspective / edited by Nikolas Jaspert and Imke Just.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaspert, Nikolas, editor.

Just, Imke, editor.

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Vita regularis. Abhandlungen ; Bd. 75.

Vita regularis. Abhandlungen ; Band 75

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Queens--Europe--To 1500.

Queens.

Princesses--Europe--To 1500.

Princesses.

Women and religion--Europe--To 1500.

Women and religion.

Friars--Europe--To 1500.

Friars.

Religion and state--Europe--To 1500.

Religion and state.

Catholics--Europe--History--To 1500.

Catholics.

Nobility--Europe--History--To 1500.

Nobility.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Essays.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 301 pages : maps (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Zürich : LIT, [2019]

Language Note:

Text primarily in English, some chapters in German.

Summary:

"The decades between ca. 1280 and ca. 1380 were marked by a striking affinity to the Mendicant orders on the part of many female members of royal and princely courts. And yet, 'Queens, Princesses and Mendicants' is both an innovative and comparatively neglected juxtaposition in medieval studies, for historical research has generally tended to neglect the relationship between Mendicants and aristocratic women. This volume unites twelve articles written by experts from seven European countries. The contributions cover a wide array of medieval European kingdoms in order to facilitate direct comparisons. Was affinity towards the Mendicants a prevalent phenomenon in the late Middle Ages? Can one even term 'philomendicantism' a late medieval European movement? The collection of essays provides answers to these and other questions within the field of gender, religious and cultural history."--Page 4 of cover.

Contents:

Queens, princesses and mendicants: systematic thoughts on female aristocratic agency and piety / Nikolas Jaspert & Imke Just

Dubious relations: Cypriot noblewomen and mendicants / Margit Mersch

Women in the Angevin court between Naples and Provence. Sancia of Majorca, Delphine of Puimichel, and the "struggle" for a female Franciscan life / Cristina Andenna

The crown, the court and monastic reform in medieval Portugal. A gendered approach / Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues

The mendicant policies of the queens of Castile in the 13th century. The implantation of convents / María del Mar Gran̄a Cid

Testaments, burials and bequests. Tracing the "Franciscanism" of Aragonese queens and princesses / Nikolas Jaspert

Englische Königinnen des Mittelalters und ihr Verhältnis zum Franziskanerorden / Jens Röhrkasten

Friars, preachers and pious princesses

Dominican relations to the high-ranking female elite of medieval Scandinavia / Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen

Fürstliche Ordensfrauen oder franziskanische Herzoginnen? Dynastie und Mendikantentum in Mecklenburg und Pommern vom 14. zum 16. Jahrhundert / Andreas Rüther

Fürstinnen und Mendikanten im Spiegel der Testamente am Beispiel der Tiroler Landesfürstinnen und der Herzoginnen von Österreich (14. Jahrhundert) / Julia Hörmann-Thurn und Taxis

Wittelsbach princesses and the mendicant orders: dynastic traditions versus personal affinities / Imke Just

Friars and princesses in late medieval Poland. Encounters, interactions and agency / Julia Burkhardt

Agnes of Bohemia and Margaret of Hungary: a comparison / Gábor Klaniczay.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9783643910929

3643910924

OCLC:

1091904086

Publisher Number:

99983106277