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The visibility of women in tenth‐century Rome

Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 4, Page 522-544, November 2025.
Women played a significant part in tenth‐century Rome, and the documentation makes them visible in a way rarely seen in early medieval sources. First examining the political agency of the foremost among them, women like Marozia and the Theophylact family senatrices, this paper also highlights the socio‐economic, legal and cultural role of many women of
Veronica West‐Harling
wiley   +1 more source

Ensalades en clausura: Una primera aproximació als cançoners del convent de les carmelites descalces de Santa Teresa de Vic

Scripta: Revista Internacional de Literatura i Cultura Medieval i Moderna, 2016
La recent troballa de dos cançoners al convent de Santa Teresa de Vic, datables al segle XVII, ve a ampliar i enriquir de manera considerable el que ja se sabia sobre la creació literària conventual i la presència de música, cants i altres manifestacions
Aurèlia Pessarrodona
doaj   +1 more source

Counting Sheep: Potential Applications of DNA Analysis to the Study of Medieval Parchment Production [PDF]

, 2011
This chapter follows up on several preliminary tests that have shown that DNA survives in medieval parchment manuscript leaves and may be extracted and analyzed, and offers suggestions for defining and implementing future genetic studies of parchment.
Stinson, Timothy
core  

The Bodily and Multi-Sensory Experiences of Cistercian Nuns: The Collective Liturgy and Ceremonies of the Holy Week in Lichtenthal

Religions
Holy Week, the most significant period of the Christian liturgical year, was marked by solemn and complex rituals enacted within the sacred spaces of medieval religious communities.
Davide Tramarin
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The Ideals of Education in Convent Schools for Girls in the Period following the Council of Trent until the Early Nineteenth Century

Paedagogia Christiana, 2012
This paper discusses the upbringing and education of laic girls in convent schools from the last decade of the 16th century until 1815. The analysis is based on archival materials and literature.
Anna Szylar
doaj   +1 more source

Tra Como, Milano e Pavia: comunità religiose femminili nelle parole di Margherita Lambertenghi (prima metà sec. XV)

Studi di Storia Medioevale e di Diplomatica: Nuova Serie, 2019
The essay presents a ‘memorial’ in vernacular, written in the 1440s to be used in the controversy between the monastery of S. Marta in Milan and the domus of S. Marco in Borgovico, near Como.
Elisabetta Canobbio
doaj  

Liturgical Spaces and Devotional Spaces: Analysis of the Choirs of Three Catalan Nuns’ Monasteries during the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries

Arts
Choirs in female monastic and convent communities are spaces whose complexity has been highlighted because of their multipurpose and multifunctional nature.
Marta Crispí
doaj   +1 more source

Gandersheim and Quedlinburg, c. 852-1024: the development of royal female monasteries in Saxony

, 2017
This thesis examines the relationships between royal convents and rulers in Saxony from 852 to 1024. The spate of female monasteries founded in Saxony in the ninth and tenth centuries, alongside the close relationships of major convents to the Ottonian dynasty, has led to Saxon female monasticism being described as unique.
openaire   +3 more sources

The extinction inventories of convents in 1834

Boletim do Arquivo da Universidade de Coimbra
In 1834, by Decree of 30 May and as part of the general ecclesiastical reform undertaken by Joaquim António de Aguiar, Minister and Secretary of State, and carried out by the Commission for the General Reform of the Clergy (1833-1837), all convents ...
Maria João Oliveira e Silva, Joana Lencart   +1 more
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Purity in Seclusion: Exploring the Anchoritic Lifestyle through an Archaeological Lens [PDF]

, 2013
This paper uses both archaeological and ethno-historical data to cross-examine theoretical explanations for understanding the anchoritic lifestyle, which are grounded in gender and feminist theory, sexuality and queer theory, as well as theories of ...
Stewart, Monica
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