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Spiritual Economies : Female Monasticism in Later Medieval England.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001Copyright date: ©2001Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (289 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812204551
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Spiritual EconomiesDDC classification:
  • 271/.90042/0902
LOC classification:
  • BX4220.G7 -- W37 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Monastic Identities in Theory and Practice -- 1 Vows and Visitations: Textual Transactions and the Shaping of Monastic Identity -- 2 The Value of the Mother Tongue: Vernacular Translations of Monastic Rules for Women -- 3 Accounting for Themselves: Nuns' Everyday Practices and Alternative Monastic Identities -- Part II: Beyond the Convent Wall: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval Culture -- 4 A Coin of Changing Value: Monastic Paradigms and Secular Women -- 5 Kings, Saints, and Nuns: Symbolic Capital and Political Authority in Fifteenth-Century England -- 6 Liabilities and Assets: Holy Women in the Literary Economy -- 7 Paying the Price: Holy Women and Political Conflict -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: "The sheer range of Warren's stimulating, provocative discussion . . . is impressive. The richness of her sources, a number of which are examined here for the first time, will make her book an important port-of-call."--English Historical Review.
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Monastic Identities in Theory and Practice -- 1 Vows and Visitations: Textual Transactions and the Shaping of Monastic Identity -- 2 The Value of the Mother Tongue: Vernacular Translations of Monastic Rules for Women -- 3 Accounting for Themselves: Nuns' Everyday Practices and Alternative Monastic Identities -- Part II: Beyond the Convent Wall: Female Monasticism in Later Medieval Culture -- 4 A Coin of Changing Value: Monastic Paradigms and Secular Women -- 5 Kings, Saints, and Nuns: Symbolic Capital and Political Authority in Fifteenth-Century England -- 6 Liabilities and Assets: Holy Women in the Literary Economy -- 7 Paying the Price: Holy Women and Political Conflict -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

"The sheer range of Warren's stimulating, provocative discussion . . . is impressive. The richness of her sources, a number of which are examined here for the first time, will make her book an important port-of-call."--English Historical Review.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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