Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050
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In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic communities in Lotharingia--a politically and culturally diverse region that boasted an extraordinarily high number of such institutions. Vanderputten highlights the attempts by women religious and their...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:150171595X
ISBN13:9781501715952
Release Date:May 2018
Publisher:Cornell University Press
Length:330 Pages
Weight:1.06 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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