Research Catalog

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.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957-
• Marti, Susan.
• Hamburger, Dietlinde.
• Ruhrlandmuseum Essen.
• Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
• NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft Düsseldorf.

Description

xxii, 318 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Uniform Title

Krone und Schleier. English.

Subject

• Christian art and symbolism > Germany > Medieval, 500-1500 > Exhibitions
• Monasticism and religious orders for women > Germany > History > Exhibitions
• Convents > Germany > History > Exhibitions
• Art, Medieval > Germany > Exhibitions
• Nuns in art > Exhibitions

Note

• Essays originally commissioned for the exhibition Krone und Schleier: Kunst aus mittelalterlichen Frauenklostern.
• Translated from the German.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-316).

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 08-4638

ISBN

• 9780231139809 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0231139802 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007044186

OCLC

180989446

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.

Imprint

New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-316).

Added Author

Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957-

Marti, Susan.

Hamburger, Dietlinde.

Ruhrlandmuseum Essen.

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.

NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft Düsseldorf.

Research Call Number

JFE 08-4638