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Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", displays some minor cracking at half title page. Book is otherwise in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. xiii/309 pages.""In Dark Age Nunneries," Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic communities in Lotharingia—a politically and culturally diverse region that boasted an extraordinarily high number of such institutions. Vanderputten highlights the attempts by women religious and their leaders, as well as the clerics and the laymen and -women sympathetic to their cause, to construct localized narratives of self, preserve or expand their agency as religious communities, and remain involved in shaping the attitudes and behaviors of the laity amid changing contexts and expectations on the part of the Church and secular authorities.Rather than…
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Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050 Hardcover - 2018
by Steven Vanderputten
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- Title Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050
- Author Steven Vanderputten
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 330
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cornell University Press
- Date 2018-05-15
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9781501715945 / 1501715941
- Weight 1.43 lbs (0.65 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.88 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.24 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: Medieval (500-1453) Studies
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical:
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Library of Congress subjects Europe - Church history - Middle Ages,, Monasticism and religious orders for women -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2017038573
- Dewey Decimal Code 271.900
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