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Convent chronicles : women writing about women and reform in the late Middle Ages
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Convent chronicles : women writing about women and reform in the late Middle Ages

Author: Anne Winston-Allen
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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  Read more...
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Anne Winston-Allen
ISBN: 0271024607 9780271024608 0271028521 9780271028521
OCLC Number: 55616378
Description: xvii, 345 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Contents: Women writing in the late Middle Ages --
Late medieval nunneries: accounts by women --
The "Women's Religious Movement" and the Observant movement: female piety and the establishment --
Women of the reform --
Opponents of the reform and enclosure --
Did nuns have a Renaissance? Libraries and literary activities --
"Femininity-in-writing": new heroines, strategies, and roles in late medieval piety.
Responsibility: Anne Winston-Allen.
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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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