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Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe

An Interdisciplinary View [Hardback]

by Cordula Van Wyhe

    • Author

      Cordula Van Wyhe

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Ashgate Publishing Group

    • Published

      November 2008

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      Female Monasticism in Early Modern Europe

      Today's Price £181.85

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      Product Description

      This volume of eleven interdisciplinary essays addresses the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. By dismantling the boundaries between the academic disciplines of history, art history, musicology and literary studies it offers new cross-cultural readings essential to a more comprehensive understanding of the complexity of female spirituality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.Utilising a wide range of archival material, encompassing art, architecture, writings and music commissioned or produced by nuns, the volume's main emphasis is on the limitations and potentials created by the boundaries of the convent. Each chapter explores how the personal and national circumstances in which the women lived affected the formation of their spirituality and the assertion of their social and political authority. The production and use of cultural artefacts is thus examined as the result of processes of acculturation.Consisting of four sections each dealing with different parts of Europe, and discussing issues of social and spiritual identity, such as the formation of community and memory, spiritual direction and secular patronage, this compelling collection offers a significant addition to a thriving field of study.

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      • Author

        Cordula Van Wyhe

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Ashgate Publishing Group

      • Published

        November 2008

      • Edition

        New edition

      • Weight

        600g

      • Page Count

        240

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 18 mm

      • ISBN

        9780754653370

      • ISBN-10

        0754653374

      • Eden Code

        1212396

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      • Author/Creator: Cordula Van Wyhe

      • ISBN: 9780754653370

      • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group

      • Release Date: November 2008

      • Weight: 600g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 18 mm

      • Eden Code: 1212396

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