Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World A Transatlantic Dialogue

This book presents a comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods. The contributors inquire into differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities of women?s agency inside and outside the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Pérez Vidal, Mercedes (Editor), Perez Vidal, Mercedes (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press 2022
2022.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Spirituality and monasticism, east and west
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009655231506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Female Dominican Identities (1200-1500)
  • Chapter 2. In Touch with the Outside: The Economic Exchanges of the Observant Dominican Convent of St. Catherine in St. Gallen
  • Chapter 3. Beyond the Wall: Power, Parties, and Sex in Late Medieval Galician Nunneries
  • Chapter 4. Reform and Renewal in the Dominican Nunneries of Spain and Latin America
  • Chapter 5. Transatlantic Circulation of Objects, Books, and Ideas in Mid-Seventeenth Century Mexican Nunneries
  • Chapter 6. Estefania de San Joseph and Esperanza de San Alberto: The Dual Discourse in the Lives of Two Exemplary Afro-Women Religious in Early Modern Spanish-America
  • Chapter 7. Le Monachisme bourbonien et la fabrication de l'autorité au féminin à Fontevraud au XVIIe siècle