Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World : Nunneries in Europe and the Americas, ca. 1200-1700 / edited by Mercedes Perez Vidal.
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Leeds :
Arc Humanities Press,
[2022]
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| Series: | Spirituality and monasticism, east and west.
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| Summary: | 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 convent. The volume challenges traditional chronological and regional limitations such as those between the Middle Ages and the Modern era and stresses the transatlantic exchange of models between Europe and the Americas. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (212 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781641892995 1641892994 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 22, 2022) |