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Essays investigating the question of time, and how it was
perceived, both in philosophical/religious terms, and in reality.
How was time experienced in the Middle Ages? What attitudes
informed people's awareness of its passing - especially when
tensions between eternity and human time shaped perceptions in
profound and often unexpected ways? Is it a human universal or
culturally specific - or both? The essays here offer a range of
perspectives on and approaches to personal, artistic, literary,
ecclesiastical and visionary responses to time during this period.
They cover a wide and diverse variety of material, from historical
prose to lyrical verse, and from liturgical and visionary writing
to textiles and images, both real and imagined, across the literary
and devotional cultures of England, Italy, Germany and Russia. From
anxieties about misspent time to moments of pure joy in the here
and now, from concerns about worldly affairs to experiences of
being freed from the trappings of time, the volume demonstrates how
medieval cultures and societies engaged with and reflected on their
own temporalities.
A multi-disciplinary re-evaluation of the role of women religious
in the Middle Ages, both inside and outside the cloister. Medieval
women found diverse ways of expressing their religious aspirations:
within the cloister as members of monastic and religious orders,
within the world as vowesses, or between the two as anchorites. Via
a range of disciplinary approaches, from history, archaeology,
literature, and the visual arts, the essays in this volume
challenge received scholarly narratives and re-examine the roles of
women religious: their authority and agency within their own
communities and the wider world; their learning and literacy; place
in the landscape; and visual culture. Overall, they highlight the
impact of women on the world around them, the significance of their
presence in communities, and the experiences and legacies they left
behind.
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