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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"abbesses"”.
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The Sweetness of Suffering: Community, Conflict, and the Cult of Saint Radegund in Medieval Poitiers
Abbesses in Medieval Europe demanded not just the obedience of their own nuns, but of any dependent communities, male or female. The authority of these women rested on the history of their communities, the strength of their advocates, and their own ability to pursue their rights. In Poitiers, the …
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Mystical Relations: A Study of Feminine Relationships with Christ in the High Middle Ages and Beyond
… for centuries by women and men, nuns and monks, abbesses and abbots. This is not to say that Christ was not physically and anatomically male, rather that his nature and flesh are associated with femininity. The concept of Christ as a female figure is especially prevalent in the late Middle Ages, …
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Protestant Nuns as Depictions of Piety in Lutheran Funeral Sermons
… clergy. Convent necrologies, written by Catholic abbesses will also be used to compare what virtues were expected of female religious. Also included is an examination of nuns’ writings about theology, their doctrinal reasons for remaining Catholic, leaving the cloister, and adapting their convent …
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From Mildrith to Muriel: networks of early English women’s literacy and collaborative literate production in the past and present
… main case study of this project: a lineage of abbesses connected to the double monastery and scriptorium at Minster-in-Thanet in Kent. As the evidence demonstrates, each of these women was highly involved in scriptoria and teaching literate acts to their students. While the evidence makes it …
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Herrschaft und symbolisches Handeln im Kaiserlichen freien weltlichen Stift Quedlinburg : eine verfassungsgschichtliche Studie
Die vorliegende Studie geht der Frage nach, wie im Reichsstift Quedlinburg während der wettinischen Schutzherrschaft (1477/79–1698) die Herrschaft zwischen den fürstlichen Äbtissinnen, dem Stiftskapitel und den Schutzherren bzw. Erbvögten verteilt und organisiert war. Sie fragt danach, wie das …