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Saxon Female Monasticism c.852–1024
2021Abstract The suggestion that early medieval Saxon female monasticism is unique or exceptional for its intensity and prestige dominates current scholarship. Explanations for this exceptionality have focused on an apparent preponderance of widows in Saxony and a regional association of commemoration with women rather than reformed monks or
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‘For they wanted us to serve them’: Female Monasticism in Medieval Transylvania
, 2015C. Florea
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Beyond Their Gender: Contemporary Coptic Female Monasticism
Journal of World Christianity, 2009The story of Coptic women monastics is usually dismissed when recounting the history of monasticism in Egypt. This essay attempts to document the achievements of women monastics in Egypt from the beginning of the twentieth century, lest their achievements be forgotten as were their predecessors’. The difficulty that such an attempt faces is the lack of
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Female Monasticism Revived: Foundations and Vocations
2003Lady Mary Percy, with the assistance of the Jesuit, William Holt, obtained the necessary ecclesiastical and civil approbation for her venture in 1598. She purchased a suitable house and, with a few other English women, took up residence. The new cloister attracted the financial support of the Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella, who governed the ...
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Female Monasticism and Family Strategy: The Guises and Saint Pierre de Reims
The Sixteenth Century Journal, 1997This article argues for the existence of female social networks, which were centered around abbeys and which can be viewed as a female dimension to male patron-client networks. This female dimension forces some reevaluation of the nature of male patron-client networks away from the model of power structures towards a function of noble society.
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