Sensual Encounters - Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany

Informationen zum Autor Erika Lauren Lindgren Klappentext Paying particular attention to sensorial experience! this study explores the spirituality of monastic women as found in their writings! liturgical texts! artwork! architecture! and archival documents. Erika Lauren Lindgren focuses on the Dominican nuns and lay-sisters of southern Germany in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries! particularly the way in which these women controlled and interpreted their surroundings and incorporated these spaces into their spiritual and devotional practices.

Product details

• Authors: Erika Lauren Lindgren, Lindgren Erika Lauren
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.04.2009
• EAN: 9780231142380
• ISBN: 978-0-231-14238-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Columbia University Press; Gutenberg-e; Gutenberg-e
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries; Germany, RELIGION / Spirituality, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Monasticism, Christianity, History of Religion, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Christian spirituality & religious experience, Spirituality and religious experience, Religious communities and monasticism, Christian communities & monasticism