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Received Medievalisms: A Cognitive Geography of Viennese Women's Convents

A Cognitive Geography of Viennese Women's Convents

  • Hardback
  • 268 pages
  • Publisher: AIAA
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

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This study examines the post-medieval reception of Vienna's women's monastic institutions as historical icons of the medieval past. Over time, the eight major women's convents of Vienna become linked in the popular mind with the broader mythology of "Alt-Wien," the old Vienna. Accounts of the city in geographical materials of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries - maps and panoramas, topographies, travel literature, and Vienna-centric folktale collections - frequently allude to the convents' former identities at the expense of their ongoing presence as active female religious establishments. By teasing out the way people think about the physical and historical place such women's institutions held in this important urban and political center, Received Medievalisms provides a new picture of the ways in which the medieval shapes later understandings of women's role and agency within the city.

  • Title

    Received Medievalisms: A Cognitive Geography of Viennese Women's Convents

  • Author

    C. Cyrus

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    AIAA

  • Published

    June 2013

  • Weight

    432g

  • Page Count

    268

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780230393578

  • ISBN-10

    0230393578

  • Eden Code

    4379645

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