Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca. 1200-1700
This book presents a comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods. The contributors inquire into differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities of women?s agency inside and outside the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leeds, Baltimore, Md.
Arc Humanities Press, Project MUSE
2022, [2022]
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| Series: | Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This book presents a comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods. The contributors inquire into differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities of women?s agency inside and outside the convent. The volume challenges traditional chronological and regional limitations such as those between the Middle Ages and the Modern era and stresses the transatlantic exchange of models between Europe and the Americas |
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| Physical Description: | 212 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781641892988 1641892986 |