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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Nunnery"”.
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Get Thee To A Nunnery: Rehabilitating Chaucer's Prioress
The Prioress's contrasting depictions in the "General Prologue" and "The Prioress's Tale" maintain a reputation for ambiguity and poetic irony. Historical evidence and a closer reading of Chaucer's text suggest that critical analyses of the Prioress's portrait and tale have neglected to consider …
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Holy vows, worldly manners: monastic space, consumption practices and social identity in the Cistercian nunnery of Clairefontaine
Deze scriptie richt zich op historisch fenomeen van het vrouwelijk religieus bestaan in de Lage Landen tijdens de middeleeuwen en vroeg moderne tijd. Vetrekpunt van de studie is de Cisterciënzergemeenschap van Clairefontaine. Deze werd gesticht in de 13de eeuw als necropool voor de graven van …
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An archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland
… plan was not considered an essential part of a nunnery scheme. Nunneries provided an enclosed environment where women, for a variety of motives could become brides of Christ. Through the performance and celebration of the daily Divine Office, the Mass and seasonal liturgy, spaces used by the …
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THE FIGURE OF THE WAYWARD NUN IN LATE MEDIEVAL LITERATURE: THE AMBIGUOUS PORTRAITS OF THE ARCHPRIEST OF HITA'S DONA GAROZA AND CHAUCER'S MADAME EGLENTYNE (ENGLAND, SPAIN)
… literature is the reflection of the one in the nunnery, special attention will be given in this study to those works where profligate nuns seem to have been drawn almost directly from the pages of the visitation reports by the bishops of the convents in their dioceses. Different from the studies …
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Communion of the living and the dead: valuing purgatory in A revelation of purgatory to ane holy woman (1422)
… that the text is calling for the reform of the nunnery to which it is addressed. Despite this, Revelation is positioned as an orthodox text within Catholic eschatological doctrine.
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The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Countess Urraca of Santa MarÃa de Cañas: A Powerful Aristocrat, Abbess, and Advocate
… Urraca took monastic vows at the Cistercian nunnery of Santa María de Cañas founded by her grandparents. Within a short time of uniting herself to this monastery, she was chosen as its fourth abbess in 1225, a position she held for thirty-seven years until her death in 1262. Following the …
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Chaucer's Prioress
… at historical studies of the English medieval nunnery to see Madame Eglentyne in her milieu. The exhaustive study, Medieval English Nunneries by Power, supported by historical evidence, indicates medieval prioresses generally were strong and pious though worldly. Power feels there is no reason …
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Quant Se Depart Li Jolis Tans: Betrayal In The Songs Of Medieval French Women
… Family betrayal included being sent to a nunnery against her will as either punishment for having a lover or as a means of marrying the woman to God when an appropriate suitor could not be attained, and forced marriage to an man who is undesirable to the woman. Relationship betrayal is not …
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A Reconstruction of Precipitation and Hydrologic Variability on the Peruvian and Bolivian Altiplano During the Late Quaternary
<p>The Peruvian/Bolivian Altiplano is an important hydrologic system for paleoclimate reconstruction because it is unique in its ability to record climate variability associated with the near-continental scale South American summer monsoon (SASM), which is responsible for much of the precipitation …
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Displacement and Reconfiguration: The Effects of the Florentine Guasto of 1529 on Devotional Spaces and Networks of Artistic Patronage
… suburban monasteries, including the Vallombrosan nunnery of San Giovanni Evangelista, the Clarissan convent of Monticelli, the monasteries of the Gesuati (San Giusto), the Camaldolese (San Benedetto Fuori alla Porta Pinti), the Augustinians (San Gallo), and the house of the Canons Regular of San …
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The female quest for enlightenment: Compassion and patience in transforming gender bias in Tibetan Buddhism, with specific reference to Western Tibetan Buddhist nuns and Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
… the founder and abbess of a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery Dongyu Gatsal Ling in India. Tenzin Palmo is particularly outspoken in her efforts to transform gender bias within the ranks of Tibetan Buddhism, and serves as an inspiration to countless lay and monastic Buddhist women worldwide. The …
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Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae: Amendinge of Lyf, a Middle English translation, edited from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 432
Emendatio vitae was the most widely copied of all Richard Rolle’s writings in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, and yet in modern scholarship this important work and its early audience have received comparatively little scholarly attention. My aim has been to address this lacuna by …
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Processing Piety and the Materiality of Spiritual Mission at Syon Abbey, 1415-1539
This dissertation examines the intersection of spiritual values and material life at Syon Abbey, a wealthy Brigittine double monastery in late medieval England. As an institution it was, paradoxically, directed primarily toward an evangelical goal, while being focused on contemplative women who …