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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.
List of contents
1. Debating Identities: Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 900-1500 -
Julie Hotchin and Jirki Thibaut2. Liturgy and Female Monastic Hagiography around the Year 1000: A
lecture croisée of the
Life of Liutrud, the
Second Life of Glodesind of Metz and the So-called
Pontificale Romano-Germanicum - Gordon Blennemann3. Remakers of Reform: The Women Religious of Leominster and their Prayerbook -
Katie Anne-Marie Bugyis4. The Materiality of Female Religious Reform in Twelfth-Century Ireland: The Case of Co-Located Religious Houses -
Tracy Collins5. Women as Witnesses: Picturing Gender and Spiritual Identity in a Twelfth-Century Embroidered Fragment from Northern Germany -
Julie Hotchin and Vera Henkelmann6.
Mulieres Religiose and Cistercian Nuns in Northern Italy in the Thirteenth Century: A Choice of 'Order' -
Elena Vanelli7. Circulation of Books and Reform Ideas between Female Monasteries in Medieval Castile: From Twelfth-Century Cistercians to the Observant Reform -
Mercedes Pérez Vidal8. Women, Men and Local Monasticism in Late Medieval Bologna -
Sherri Franks Johnson9. Building Community: Material Concerns in the Fifteenth-Century Monastic Reform -
Jennifer Edwards10. Who Made Reform Visible? Male and Female Agency in Changing Visual Culture -
Katharina Ulrike Mersch11. Nuns, Cistercian Chant and Observant Reform in the Southern Low Countries -
John GlasenappIndex
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Edited by Julie Hotchin and Jirki Thibaut
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.
