Queens, princesses and mendicants
Subtitle: close relations in a European perspective
By: edited by Nikolas Jaspert and Imke Just
Series: Vita regularis. Abhandlungen -- Band 75; Vita regularis -- Bd. 75.
Publisher: LIT; LIT Verlag
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Zürich
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9783643910929
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Queens; Princesses; Women and religion; Friars; Religion and state; Catholics; History; Nobility
Description: "The decades between ca. 1280 and ca. 1380 were marked by a striking affinity to the Mendicant orders on the part of many female members of royal and princely courts. And yet, 'Queens, Princesses and Mendicants' is both an innovative and comparatively neglected juxtaposition in medieval studies, for historical research has generally tended to neglect the relationship between Mendicants and aristocratic women. This volume unites twelve articles written by experts from seven European countries. The contributions cover a wide array of medieval European kingdoms in order to facilitate direct comparisons. Was affinity towards the Mendicants a prevalent phenomenon in the late Middle Ages? Can one even term 'philomendicantism' a late medieval European movement? The collection of essays provides answers to these and other questions within the field of gender, religious and cultural history."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text primarily in English, some chapters in German.
Table of contents: title: Queens, princesses and mendicants: systematic thoughts on female aristocratic agency and piety / Nikolas Jaspert & Imke Just; title: Dubious relations: Cypriot noblewomen and mendicants / Margit Mersch; title: Women in the Angevin court between Naples and Provence. Sancia of Majorca, Delphine of Puimichel, and the "struggle" for a female Franciscan life / Cristina Andenna; title: The crown, the court and monastic reform in medieval Portugal. A gendered approach / Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues; title: The mendicant policies of the queens of Castile in the 13th century. The implantation of convents / María del Mar Gran̄a Cid; title: Testaments, burials and bequests. Tracing the "Franciscanism" of Aragonese queens and princesses / Nikolas Jaspert; title: Englische Königinnen des Mittelalters und ihr Verhältnis zum Franziskanerorden / Jens Röhrkasten; title: Friars, preachers and pious princesses; title: Dominican relations to the high-ranking female elite of medieval Scandinavia / Johnny Grandjean Gøgsig Jakobsen; title: Fürstliche Ordensfrauen oder franziskanische Herzoginnen? Dynastie und Mendikantentum in Mecklenburg und Pommern vom 14. zum 16. Jahrhundert / Andreas Rüther; title: Fürstinnen und Mendikanten im Spiegel der Testamente am Beispiel der Tiroler Landesfürstinnen und der Herzoginnen von Österreich (14. Jahrhundert) / Julia Hörmann-Thurn und Taxis; title: Wittelsbach princesses and the mendicant orders: dynastic traditions versus personal affinities / Imke Just; title: Friars and princesses in late medieval Poland. Encounters, interactions and agency / Julia Burkhardt; title: Agnes of Bohemia and Margaret of Hungary: a comparison / Gábor Klaniczay.