Medieval Women Religious, c.800-c.1500: New Perspectives

doi:10.1017/9781800108981

Medieval Women Religious, c.800-c.1500

New Perspectives

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Edited by Kimm Curran, Janet Burton, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: June 2023
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781800108981
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781800108981

Series:: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
Subjects:: Religion, Religion: General Interest

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A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister.

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Medieval Women Religious, c.800-c.1500

New Perspectives

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Frontmatter
pp i-v

Contents
pp vi-vii

Illustrations
pp viii-ix

Contributors
pp x-xi

Preface
pp xii-xii

Abbreviations
pp xiii-xvii

Introduction
pp 1-21

1 - Reform, Change, and Renewal: Women Religious in the Central Middle Ages, 800–1050
pp 22-42

2 - New Movements of the Twelfth Century: Diversity, Belonging, and Order(s)
pp 43-60

3 - Change and Renewal: Mendicants and Tertiaries in Later Medieval Europe
pp 61-75

4 - On the Fringes: Anchorites
pp 76-89

5 - ‘Quasi-religious’: Vowesses
pp 90-104

6 - Authority and Agency: Women as Heads of Religious Houses
pp 105-120

7 - Women Religious, Secular Households: The Outside World and Crossing Boundaries in the Later Middle Ages
pp 121-136

8 - Literacies, Learning, and Communal Reform: The Case of Alijt Bake
pp 137-151

9 - Family and Friends: Gift-giving, Books, and Book Inscriptions in Women’s Religious Communities
pp 152-165

10 - Communities of Medieval Religious Women and Their Landscapes
pp 166-181

11 - Materiality and Archaeology of Women Religious
pp 182-201

12 - Between Collective Memory and Individual Remembrance in Women’s Religious Communities
pp 202-220

Select Bibliography
pp 221-246

Index
pp 247-260

Miscellaneous Endmatter
pp 261-262

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