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Convent chronicles : women writing about women and reform in the late Middle Ages
- Title
- Convent chronicles : women writing about women and reform in the late Middle Ages / Anne Winston-Allen.
- Author
- Winston-Allen, Anne, 1942-
- Publication
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2004], ©2004.
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- Description
- xvii, 345 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In Convent Chronicles, Anne Winston-Allen offers a rare inside look at the Observant reform movement from the women's point of view." "Recovering long-overlooked writings by women in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Winston-Allen surveys the extraordinary literary and scribal activities in German- and Dutch-speaking religious communities in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries. While previous studies have relied on records left by male activists, these women's narratives offer an alternative perspective that challenges traditional views of women's role and agency." "Convent Chronicles will be invaluable to scholars as well as to graduate and undergraduate students interested in the history of women's monasticism and religious writing."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Christian literature, German > History and criticism
- Christian literature, Dutch > History and criticism
- German literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Dutch literature > 1500-1800 > History and criticism
- Nuns as authors
- Women and literature
- Reformation > Germany > History
- Reformation > Netherlands
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-338) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : women writing in the Late Middle Ages -- 1. Late medieval nunneries : accounts by women -- 2. The "women's religious movements" and the observant movement : female piety and the establishment -- 3. Women of the reform -- 4. Opponents of the reform and enclosure -- 5. Did nuns have a renaissance? : libraries and literary activities -- 6. "Femininity-in-writing" : new heroines, strategies, and roles in late medieval piety.
- ISBN
- 0271024607 (clothbound : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004012982
- R0-473444
- OCLC
- ocm55616378
- SCSB-5132765
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries