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  1. Convent chronicles
    women writing about women and reform in the late Middle Ages
    Published: 2005
    Publisher:  <<The>> Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania

    The late Middle Ages was a time of intense religious ferment in Europe marked by countless calls for reform of the Church. Within monastic orders, the Observant movement was one such effort to reform religious houses, sparked by the widespread fear... more

     

    The late Middle Ages was a time of intense religious ferment in Europe marked by countless calls for reform of the Church. Within monastic orders, the Observant movement was one such effort to reform religious houses, sparked by the widespread fear that these houses had strayed too far from their original calling. In Convent Chronicles, Anne Winston-Allen offers a rare inside look at the Observant reform movement from the women’s point of view. -- Although we know a great deal about the men who inhabited Observant religious houses, we know very little about their female counterparts—even though women outnumbered men in many places. Often what we do know about women comes to us through the filter of men’s accounts. Recovering long-overlooked writings by women in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Winston-Allen surveys the extraordinary literary and scribal activities in German- and Dutch-speaking religious communities in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries. While previous studies have relied on records left by male activists, these women’s narratives offer an alternative perspective that challenges traditional views of women’s role and agency. Women were, in fact, active participants in the religious conversations that dominated the day. -- With its rich depiction of women as transmitters of culture, Convent Chronicles will be invaluable to scholars as well as to graduate and undergraduate students interested in the history of women’s monasticism and religious writing.

     

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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780271024608; 9780271028521; 0271024607; 0271028521
    Other identifier:
    9780271028521
    RVK Categories: BO 1790 ; GF 6713
    DDC Categories: 800; 230
    Edition: 1. paperback printing
    Subjects: Christian literature; Literature, Medieval
    Scope: xvii, 345 Seiten, Illustrationen, Karten, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [293]-338

    Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke (2. paperback printing, 2006)