Crown and Veil
Female Monasticism from the Fifth to the Fifteenth Centuries
Crown and Veil offers a broad introduction to the history and visual culture of female monasticism in the Middle Ages, from the earliest communities of Late Antiquity to the Reformation. Scholars from numerous disciplines offer a wide range of perspectives not to be found in any other single book on the subject, placing the art, architecture, literature, liturgy, religious practices, and economic foundations of these communities within a wide historical and cultural context. Long considered marginal to mainstream history, nuns and canonesses in fact had a profound influence on medieval culture. Revered and admired as models of piety, they co…
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Weitere Autoren: Marti, Susan (Hrsg.) / Hamburger, Dietlinde (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-13980-9
- EAN: 9780231139809
- Produktnummer: 3506945
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 344 S.
- Masse: H23.7 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.4 cm 592 g
- Abbildungen: 73 illus.
- Gewicht: 592
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Susan Marti. Translated by Dietlinde Hamburger and Foreword by Caroline Walker Bynum
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