Female monasticism in early modern Europe
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary view
By: edited by Cordula van Wyhe.
Contributors: Wyhe, Cordula van.
Series: Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hampshire, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9780754653370
Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders for women -- Europe -- History
Description: "This volume of twelve interdisciplinary essays addresses the multifaceted nature of female religious identity in early modern Europe. By dismantling the boundaries between the academic disciplines of history, art history, musicology and literary studies it offers new cross-cultural readings essential to a more comprehensive understanding of the complexity of female spirituality in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." "Utilising a wide range of archival material, encompassing art, architecture, writings and music commissioned or produced by nuns, the volume's main emphasis is on the limitations and potentials created by the boundaries of the convent. Each chapter explores how the personal and national circumstances in which the women lived affected the formation of their spirituality and the assertion of their social and political authority."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-274) and index.