Setting the boundaries for legitimate experimentation -- Holy vessels, brides of Christ : ambiguous ninth-century realities -- Transitions, continuities, and the struggle for monastic lordship -- Reforms, "semi-reforms," and the silencing of women religious in the tenth century -- New beginnings -- Monastic ambiguities in the new millennium.
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In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic ...
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JSTOR
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22573/ctt1w0f66z
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Title
Dark age nunneries.
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9781501715945
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Convents-- Europe-- History-- To 1500.
Monastic and religious life of women-- Europe-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Monasticism and religious orders for women-- Europe-- History-- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Convents.
Monastic and religious life of women-- Middle Ages.
Monasticism and religious orders for women-- Middle Ages.