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Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France (Women in Culture and Society) - Softcover

Buch 11 von 19: Women in Culture and Society

Johnson, Penelope D.

 
9780226401867: Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France (Women in Culture and Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226401863 ISBN 13: 9780226401867
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 1994

Inhaltsangabe

In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitudes of secular women. In the words of one abbess comparing nuns with monks, they were "different as to their sex but equal in their monastic profession."

Johnson researched more than two dozen nunneries in northern France from the eleventh century through the thirteenth century, balancing a qualitative reading of medieval monastic documents with a quantitative analysis of a lengthy thirteenth-century visitation record which allows an important comparison of nuns and monks. A fascinating look at the world of medieval spirituality, this work enriches our understanding of women's role in premodern Europe and in church history.



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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1994
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226401863
ISBN 13 
9780226401867
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
310
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