Convent Chronicles
Subtitle: Women Writing About Women And Reform In The Late Middle Ages
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9780271024608
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Religion - Church History; History: World; Europe; Christianity - History - General; Monasticism; Women's Studies - History; Europe - General; History; Christian literature, Dutch; Christian literature, German; Early modern, 1500-1700; German literature; History and criticism; Women authors
Description: "In Convent Chronicles, Anne Winston-Allen offers a rare inside look at the Observant reform movement from the women's point of view." "Recovering long-overlooked writings by women in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, Winston-Allen surveys the extraordinary literary and scribal activities in German- and Dutch-speaking religious communities in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the Low Countries. While previous studies have relied on records left by male activists, these women's narratives offer an alternative perspective that challenges traditional views of women's role and agency." "Convent Chronicles will be invaluable to scholars as well as to graduate and undergraduate students interested in the history of women's monasticism and religious writing."--Jacket.