Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries, edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Susan Marti; translated by Dietlinde Hamburger; foreword by Caroline Walker Bynum.

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Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Crown and Veil: Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries, edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Susan Marti; translated by Dietlinde Hamburger; foreword by Caroline Walker Bynum.

Description

Histories of female monasticism / Jeffrey F. Hamburger -- Early monasteries and foundations (500-1200): an introduction / Jan Gerchow ... [et al.] -- The time of the orders, 1200-1500: an introduction / Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Petra Marx, and Susan Marti -- Between this world and the next: the art of religious women in the Middle Ages / Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Robert Suckale -- Church and cloister: the architecture of female monasticism in the Middle Ages / Carola J{uml}aggi and Uwe Lobbedey -- "Nuns' work," "caretaker institutions," and "women's movements": some thoughts about a modern historiography of medieval monasticism / Jan Gerchow and Susan Marti -- The visionary texts and visual worlds of religious women / Barbara Newman -- Patterns of female piety in the later Middle Ages / Caroline Walker Bynum -- Time and space: liturgy and rite in female monasteries of the Middle Ages / Gisela Muschiol -- Founders, donors, and saints: patrons of nuns' convents / Hedwig R{uml}ockelein -- Pastoral care in female monasteries: sacramental services, spiritual edification, ethical discipline / Klaus Schreiner -- Household and prayer: medieval convents as economic entities / Werner R{uml}osener -- Wanderers between worlds: visitors, letters, wills, and gifts as means of communication in exchanges between cloister and the world / Gabriela Signori. xxii, 318 p. :ill., maps ;24 cm.

Book Details

Place Published

City

New York

Date Published

circa 2008

Publication Subjects

Christian art and symbolism--Germany--Medieval, 500-1500--Exhibitions. Monasticism and religious orders for women--Germany--History--Exhibitions. Convents--Germany--History--Exhibitions. Art, Medieval--Exhibitions--Germany--Art, Medieval--Exhibitions. Nuns in art--Exhibitions. Frauenorden.--swd Kunst.--swd Nonne (Motiv)--swd

Call No.

N7850 .K76213 2008

ISBN

9780231139809 (cloth : alk. paper), 0231139802 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007044186

Notes

Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-316).