Women and monastic reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000-1500 : debating identities, creating communities / edited by Julie Hotchin and Jirki Thibaut.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hotchin, Julie, editor.

Thibaut, Jirki, editor.

Series:

Studies in the history of medieval religion ; v. 54.

Studies in the history of medieval religion ; volume LIV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monastic and religious life of women--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Monastic and religious life of women.

Monasticism and religious orders--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.

Monasticism and religious orders.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA : The Boydell Press, 2023.

Summary:

New approaches to understanding religious women's involvement in monastic reform, demonstrating how women's experiences were more ambiguous and multi-layered than previously assumed.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 Debating Identities: Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 10001500

Chapter 2 Liturgy and Female Monastic Hagiography Around the Year 1000: A lecture croisee of the Life of Liutrud, the Second Life of Glodesind of Metz and the So-called Pontificale Romano-Germanicum

Chapter 3 Remakers of Reform: The Women Religious of Leominster and their Prayerbook

Chapter 4 The Materiality of Female Religious Reform in Twelfth-Century Ireland: The Case of Co-located Religious Houses

Chapter 5 Women as Witnesses: Picturing Gender and Spiritual Identity in a Twelfth-Century Embroidered Fragment from Northern Germany

Chapter 6 Mulieres religiose and Cistercian Nuns in Northern Italy in the Thirteenth Century: A Choice of Order

Chapter 7 Circulation of Books and Reform Ideas between Female Monasteries in Medieval Castile: From Twelfth-Century Cistercians to the Observant Reform

Chapter 8 Women, Men and Local Monasticism in Late Medieval Bologna

Chapter 9 Building Community: Material Concerns in the Fifteenth-Century Monastic Reform

Chapter 10 Who Made Reform Visible? Male and Female Agency in Changing Visual Culture

Chapter 11 Nuns, Cistercian Chant and Observant Reform in the Southern Low Countries

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Jan 2024).

ISBN:

1-80010-974-1

OCLC:

1373343344