Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval FranceUniversity of Chicago Press, 15 mai 2009 - 310 pagini In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitudes of secular women. In the words of one abbess comparing nuns with monks, they were "different as to their sex but equal in their monastic profession." Johnson researched more than two dozen nunneries in northern France from the eleventh century through the thirteenth century, balancing a qualitative reading of medieval monastic documents with a quantitative analysis of a lengthy thirteenth-century visitation record which allows an important comparison of nuns and monks. A fascinating look at the world of medieval spirituality, this work enriches our understanding of women's role in premodern Europe and in church history. |
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PART II ORGANIZING STRUCTURES | 103 |
PART III ASSESSMENTS | 227 |
Appendix A The Twentysix Female Monasteries Studied | 267 |
Appendix B List of Monasteries from the Register of Eudes Rigaud | 269 |
Glossary | 273 |
Selected Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 289 |
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Abbaye abbess Abbey Benedictine abbey's abbot Abelard Agnes Augustinian became behavior Benedictine bishop Bondeville Bourbourg brother canons Cartulaire de l'abbaye Cartulaire de Notre-Dame Cartulaire de Saint-Georges Cartulaire de Saint-Sulpice-la-Forêt central Middle Ages charter chastity church Cistercian clerics cloister convent daughter diocese Documents de Notre-Dame-aux-Nonnains donations dowry ecclesiastical episcopal Eudes Eudes Rigaud female France gender gift Guibert of Nogent Heloise Holy Trinity income institution Jacques de Vitry land lives male houses male monasteries masses medieval monasteries monastic monastic women monasticism monks Montivilliers Notre-Dame de Bourbourg Notre-Dame de Saintes nunneries nuns nuns and monks oblation Paraclete Paris parish patrons percent Poitiers pounds prayers prelate priests prioress professed received records religious women Rennes rents Rouen Saint-Amand Saint-Georges Saint-Georges de Rennes Saint-Jean Saint-Saens Saint-Sulpice-la-Forêt Salzinnes secular sexual sisters society spiritual superior thirteenth century tion Troyes twelfth century visited vows woman women's houses XIIe siècle
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