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Title Crown and veil : female monasticism from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Susan Marti
translated by Dietlinde Hamburger
foreword by Caroline Walker Bynum.
Additional Titles Krone und Schleier. English.
Contributors Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957-
Marti, Susan
Hamburger, Dietlinde
Ruhrlandmuseum Essen
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft Düsseldorf
Publisher New York : Columbia University Press
Creation Date c2008
Notes Essays originally commissioned for the exhibition Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklostern.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-316).
Translated from the German.
Content Histories of female monasticism / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- Early monasteries and foundations (500-1200): an introduction / Jan Gerchow ... [et al.] -- The time of the orders, 1200-1500: an introduction / Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Petra Marx, and Susan Marti -- Between this world and the next: the art of religious women in the Middle Ages / Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Robert Suckale -- Church and cloister: the architecture of female monasticism in the Middle Ages / Carola Jäggi and Uwe Lobbedey -- "Nuns' work," "caretaker institutions," and "women's movements": some thoughts about a modern historiography of medieval monasticism / Jan Gerchow and Susan Marti -- The visionary texts and visual worlds of religious women / Barbara Newman -- Patterns of female piety in the later Middle Ages / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Time and space: liturgy and rite in female monasteries of the Middle Ages / Gisela Muschiol -- Founders, donors, and saints: patrons of nuns' convents / Hedwig Röckelein -- Pastoral care in female monasteries: sacramental services, spiritual edification, ethical discipline / Klaus Schreiner -- Household and prayer: medieval convents as economic entities / Werner Rösener -- Wanderers between worlds: visitors, letters, wills, and gifts as means of communication in exchanges between cloister and the world / Gabriela Signori.
Extent xxii, 318 pages : ill., maps
24 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990037127570205171
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