Medievalists.net » Saint Birgitta http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Convents, Courts and Colleges: The Prioress and the Second Nun http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/22/convents-courts-and-colleges-the-prioress-and-the-second-nun/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/22/convents-courts-and-colleges-the-prioress-and-the-second-nun/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:05:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30410 Pilgrimage, after Whitby, and before Vatican II, was a secular activity, a performance of piety by the laity, not by the clergy; although there were a few exceptions.7 Chaucer's Monk, Friar, Prioress, Nun, Priest, Summoner, Pardoner and Parson ought not to be here. Their presence is outrageous comedy. Inns were forbidden to the cloistered clergy who, if they had to travel, were enjoined to stay in other monastic establishments along their route.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/22/convents-courts-and-colleges-the-prioress-and-the-second-nun/feed/ 0 Englishwomen as Pilgrims to Jerusalem: Isolda Parewastell, 1365 http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/22/englishwomen-as-pilgrims-to-jerusalem-isolda-parewastell-1365/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/22/englishwomen-as-pilgrims-to-jerusalem-isolda-parewastell-1365/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:30:34 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30404 Isolda Parewastell from Somerset, who was in Jerusalem in 1365, fitted into this fourteenth-century pattern. Despite the risks involved, women pilgrims were inspired by an instinct for travel and change, as well as by a sense of religious obligation and the hope of spiritual reward.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/22/englishwomen-as-pilgrims-to-jerusalem-isolda-parewastell-1365/feed/ 0 St. Birgitta: The Disjunction Between Women and Ecclesiastical Power http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/21/st-birgitta-the-disjunction-between-women-and-ecclesiastical-power/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/21/st-birgitta-the-disjunction-between-women-and-ecclesiastical-power/#comments Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:32:31 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30389 However, if one theoretically unseats the primacy of the Papal cause and instead places its importance within the context of Birgitta's life as a woman, a more sympathetic portrait emerges. When I re-examine her visions and her life in this light, I find that Birgitta was divided in her allegiance to the Papal Father in her concern for women.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/03/21/st-birgitta-the-disjunction-between-women-and-ecclesiastical-power/feed/ 0 Birgitta of Sweden and the Divine Mysteries of Motherhood http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/31/birgitta-of-sweden-and-the-divine-mysteries-of-motherhood/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/31/birgitta-of-sweden-and-the-divine-mysteries-of-motherhood/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:30:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=24741 Birgitta of Sweden and the Divine Mysteries of Motherhood Stjerna, Kirsi Feminist Forum, 24, no. 1 (1997) Abstract St. Birgitta of Sweden is most widely known as the founder of her order Regula Sanctissimi Saluatoris and as the “author” of the Revelaciones S. Birgittae, the collection of her 700 revelations. Born in 1303 to one […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2011/08/31/birgitta-of-sweden-and-the-divine-mysteries-of-motherhood/feed/ 0 A Swedish Crusader King as Russian Orthodox Saint on the Valamo Archipelago? http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/23/a-swedish-crusader-king-as-russian-orthodox-saint-on-the-valamo-archipelago/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/07/23/a-swedish-crusader-king-as-russian-orthodox-saint-on-the-valamo-archipelago/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:24:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=23157 A Swedish Crusader King as Russian Orthodox Saint on the Valamo Archipelago? Lind, John H. (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) University of Paris, Sorbonne, Cahiers slaves n°7, March 21 (2005) Abstract In 1347 King Magnus Eriksson of Sweden undertook a crusade against Novgorodian territory. In this he was inspired by the powerful aristocrat Birgitta Birgersdaughter, […]

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