The female body, animal imagery, and authoritarian discourse in the Ancrene Riwle
Through close reading and rhetorical analysis of numerous passages in the guide, this dissertation re-examines the importance of the body and authority in this work and notes the points at which the discourse of the Ancrene Riwle tends to place restrictions on its audience of medieval women religious.
Sex, Enclosure, and Scandal in Medieval Monasteries
To a modern reader the constraints of enclosure which were so strictly enforced in medieval monasteries may seem extreme. One could argue that some oblates found themselves subjected to a position they never desired, hence acted out against the rules of celibacy and enclosure.
VAGANTES: Between Tradition and Change: Monastic Reform in Three fifteenth-century German Redactions of the Life of Saint Mary of Egypt
Using the life of St. Mary of Egypt, this paper will consider three different Middle High German versions produced by reform communities and will analyze how the reform ideologies and goals manifest in the texts.
Convents, Courts and Colleges: The Prioress and the Second Nun
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.
Women in the Northern Courts: Interpreting Legal Records of Familial Conflict In Early Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire
This article reconsiders the story of Katherine Norfolk and her troublesome relations in light of these documents, which I found as a part of my wider research on women, conflict and power in late medieval Yorkshire.
The debate on the Epistolae duorum amantium. Current status
The methodological questions at stake are much more important and interesting. To quote the initial words of P. von Moos’ monumental article, these documents represent a real challenge for medievalism.
Embodied Voices: Women’s Food Asceticism and the Negotiation of Identity
In the cloistered halls of medieval nunneries, something strange was happening to women’s bodies. In late 14th-century Europe, reports abounded of religious women who could sustain themselves for years on nothing but the Eucharist – no other food passed their lips.
Late Medieval Women’s Communities in Conflict with the Secular Authorities: The Case of the Convent of Wienhausen
What makes the nuns from the convent of Wienhausen such an outstanding and interesting example of taking control over their own lives results from their religious, political, social, and individual life in relation to the secular world outside the convent.
Anglo-Saxon Double Monasteries
Monks and nuns living together: not a cause for scandal but, as Barbara Mitchell explains, an intriguing window onto the variety of monastic life – under the aegis of remarkable abbesses – before the Conquest.
Blood and body : women’s religious practices in late medieval Europe
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Defending the Double Monastery: Gender and Society in Early Medieval Europe
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Who was Lady Constance of Angers? Nuns as poets and correpondents at the monastery of Ronceray d’Angers in the early twelfth century
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Breaking Through the Stained Glass Barrier: The Voices of Etheldreda,
Breaking Through the Stained Glass Barrier: The Voices of Etheldreda, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret of Antioch Delsigne, Jill Scripps College (2004) Abstract…
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: Her Works and Their Messages
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim, a poetess and playwright during the tenth century, created a body of work that both reflected and instructed people in her society.
Power Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women’s Salvation in
Power Through Purity: The Virgin Martyrs and Women’s Salvation in Pre-Reformation Scotland Fitch, Audrey-Beth Women in Scotland : C.1100 – c.1750, edited by…
Patterns of Polemic: Medieval Women and Christian Doctrinal Reform
Patterns of Polemic: Medieval Women and Christian Doctrinal Reform Green, Robert Published Online in, “My Life As A Cat” (2009) Abstract The Christianity of…
Excavation of an early church and a women’s cemetery at St Ronan’s medieval parish church, Iona
Excavation of an early church and a women’s cemetery at St Ronan’s medieval parish church, Iona O’Sullivan, Jerry et al. Proceedings of the…
Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishu Nuns of Medieval Japan
Tracing the Itinerant Path: Jishu Nuns of Medieval Japan Griffiths, Caitilin J., (University of Toronto) PhD Thesis, Philosophy, University of Toronto (2010) Abstract…
Cistercian Nuns in Medieval England: the Gendering of Geographic Marginalization
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The Persistence of Late Antiquity: Christ as Man and Woman in an Eighth-Century Miniature
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Gender, religion and society : a study of women and convent life in coptic orthodox Egypt
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Embodying Mysticism: The Utilization of Embodied Experience in the Mysticism of Italian Women, Circa 1200-1400 CE
Embodying Mysticism: The Utilization of Embodied Experience in the Mysticism of Italian Women, Circa 1200-1400 CE Esposito, Elizabeth A. M.A. Thesis, University of…
From Social Death to Spiritual Rebirth: The Beginnings of Monastic Life for Christian Women between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (4th-6th Centuries)
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A Gregorian manuscript in the Ian Potter Museum of Art
A Gregorian manuscript in the Ian Potter Museum of Art Martyn, John R.C. University of Melbourne Collections, Issue 6, June (2010) Abstract In about…
Women Religious Virtuosae from the Middle Ages: A Case Pattern and Analytic Model of Types
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