The Ladies of Zamora - Hardcover

Linehan, Peter

 
9780719050442: The Ladies of Zamora
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719050448 ISBN 13: 9780719050442
Verlag: Manchester University Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

"The ladies of Zamora" is the story of a convent of nuns in a thirteenth-century Spanish city, their battles with the bishop, the altogether friendlier relationship with the local Dominican friars and the consequences further afield of their activities. Based on unpublished records of the enquiry into the affair, it brings into sharp focus a number of usually unrelated aspects of the age: the tensions between the mendicant orders and the local ecclesiastical authorities: thirteenth-century religiosity, female religiosity in particular and collusion in high places; both in Castile and at the papal curia. Beyond the tale it tells of nuns observed in flagrante at the convent gate, cornered by tumescent friars in the convent infirmary and oven, giving their prioress the evil eye and threatening their bishop with stout sticks, this account lays bare the realities of life within and beyond the cloister in the later years of the century of Christian Spain's greatest achievements at the expense of Spanish Islam. Not since Montaillou have the exploits of a single medieval community been laid bare in this way.

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Verlag
Manchester University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0719050448
ISBN 13 
9780719050442
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
208
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