Equal in monastic profession :: religious women in Medieval France /

In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitu...

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1. Verfasser: Johnson, Penelope D. (Penelope Delafield), 1938-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993, ©1991.
Ausgabe:1st pbk. ed.
Schriftenreihe:Women in culture and society.
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Zusammenfassung:In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitudes of secular women. In the words of one abbess comparing nuns with monks, they were ""different as to their sex but equal in their monastic profession.""Johnson researched more than two dozen nunneries in northern France from the eleventh century through the thirteenth century, balancing a qualita.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xv, 294 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-287) and index.
ISBN:9780226401973
0226401979
9786612089886
6612089881
1282089889
9781282089884

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