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Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500 - Debating Identities, Creating Communities (Hardcover)
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Women and Monastic Reform in the Medieval West, c. 1000 – 1500 - Debating Identities, Creating Communities (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
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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. Over the last
two decades, scholarship has presented a more nuanced view of
women's attitude to and agency in medieval monastic reform,
challenging the idea that they were, by and large, unwilling to
accept or were necessarily hostile towards reform initiatives.
Rather, it has shown that they actively participated in debates
about the ideas and structures that shaped their religious lives,
whether rejecting, embracing, or adapting to calls for "reform"
contingent on their circumstances. Nevertheless, fundamental
questions regarding the gendered nature of religious reform are
ripe for further examination. This book brings together innovative
research from a range of disciplines to re-evaluate and enlarge our
knowledge of women's involvement in spiritual and institutional
change in female monastic communities over the period c. 1000 - c.
1500. Contributors revise conventional narratives about women and
monastic reform, and earlier assumptions of reform as negative or
irrelevant for women. Drawing on a diverse array of visual,
material and textual sources, it presents "snapshots" of reform
from western Europe, stretching from Ireland to Iberia.
Case-studies focussing on a number of different topics, from
tenth-century female saints' lives to fifteenth-century liturgical
books, from the tenth-century Leominster prayerbook to
archaeological remains in Ireland, from embroideries and tapestries
to the rebellious nuns of Sainte-Croix in Poitiers, offer a
critical reappraisal of how monastic women (and their male
associates) reflected, individually and collectively, on their
spiritual ideals and institutional forms.
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