Monastic women and religious orders in late medieval Bologna / Sherri Franks Johnson, University of California, Riverside.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Franks Johnson, Sherri, 1970- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monasticism and religious orders for women--Italy--Bologna.

Monasticism and religious orders for women.

Monastic and religious life of women--Italy--Bologna.

Monastic and religious life of women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Monastic Women & Religious Orders in Late Medieval Bologna

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sherri Franks Johnson explores the roles of religious women in the changing ecclesiastical and civic structure of late medieval Bologna, demonstrating how convents negotiated a place in their urban context and in the church at large. During this period Bologna was the most important city in the Papal States after Rome. Using archival records from nunneries in the city, Johnson argues that communities of religious women varied in the extent to which they sought official recognition from the male authorities of religious orders. While some nunneries felt that it was important to their religious life to gain recognition from monks and friars, others were content to remain local and autonomous. In a period often described as an era of decline and the marginalization of religious women, Johnson shows instead that they saw themselves as active participants in their religious orders, in the wider church and in their local communities.

Contents:

New foundations in the thirteenth century

New religious orders

Convents and religious orders

Nunneries and civic life

Movement into the city

Peaceful unions and "hostile takeovers."

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-72123-7

1-107-72352-3

1-107-72817-7

1-107-44764-X

1-107-72416-3

1-107-73053-8

1-107-73228-X

1-107-72877-0