Background, Social Situation and Form of Living of Women in Hessian Cloisters of the Late Middle Ages
By Christina Vanja
Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung(HSR), Vol. 6:4 (1981)
Synopsis: The theme of my work is the family background, social situation and mode of living of the women in late medieval Hessian cloisters, and other convents. In addition to the above are studies about the socalled moral decay in the convents and about daily life. A special emphasis was placed on the study of the geneological background as a part of life in the cloisters – a method of questioning, which was suggested by more recent geneological investigations and which lead to previously seldom known problematical facits.
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