Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France
(Part of the Women in Culture and Society Series)
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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."...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226401863
ISBN13:9780226401867
Release Date:February 1994
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:310 Pages
Weight:0.98 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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