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This volume contains 11 contributions that open up unknown and unstudied sources for the culture of nunneries in the later Middle Ages using examples from Germany, Switzerland and England. It focuses on the spiritual life of nuns, their education and vocational training, forms of art and piety, legal status position, and aspects of monastic architecture. Edited here for the first time are a treatise or Sendbrief on simony, a Low-German rule for Franciscan nuns, and documents on the reformation history of North-German nunneries. Art-historical contributions discuss the relationship of text and image in vernacular manuscripts. Archaeological and textual studies explore the relevance of claustration for the development of architecture. Furthermore, the history of education and libraries is discussed in studies on the instruction of young Benedictine nuns in Northern Germany, on the libraries of Dominican convents and a Saxon Cistercian nunnery.
Contributors include: Wolfgang Brandis, Falk Eisermann, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Volker Honemann, Annette Kern-Stähler, Margit Mersch, Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Eva Schlotheuber, Peter Schmidt, Werner Williams-Krapp, and Marius Winzeler.
Contributors include: Wolfgang Brandis, Falk Eisermann, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Volker Honemann, Annette Kern-Stähler, Margit Mersch, Hans-Jochen Schiewer, Eva Schlotheuber, Peter Schmidt, Werner Williams-Krapp, and Marius Winzeler.
Price: $182.00
Pages: 414
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Publication Date:
28 June 2004
ISBN: 9789004138629
Format: Hardcover
'Der Band ist ungemein anregend und informativ. Seine Bildbeigaben sind - obwohl "nur" Schwarz-Weiss - von sehr guter Qualität. Die Beiträge, so ist aus guten Gründen zu vermuten, werden die Forschung in wohl nicht unerheblicher Weise beeinflussen.'
Helmut Flachenecker, Concilium medii aevi, 2005.
'This excellent and highly insightful collection of well-researched papers concludes with an index of persons, locations, and objects. The contributors convincingly aruge that renewed efforts with late medieval women's convents, their library holdings, artwork, rules and regulations, and architectural structures promise to yield important insights into women's significant contributions to literature, art production, and, of course, religious life.'
Albrecht Classen, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005.
Helmut Flachenecker, Concilium medii aevi, 2005.
'This excellent and highly insightful collection of well-researched papers concludes with an index of persons, locations, and objects. The contributors convincingly aruge that renewed efforts with late medieval women's convents, their library holdings, artwork, rules and regulations, and architectural structures promise to yield important insights into women's significant contributions to literature, art production, and, of course, religious life.'
Albrecht Classen, Sixteenth Century Journal, 2005.
Falk Eisermann, Ph.D. (1995) University of Göttingen, is Research Associate at the DFG-Handschriftenzentrum at the University Library in Leipzig. He has published on manuscript transmission of German literature in the later Middle Ages and on early printing.
Eva Schlotheuber, Ph.D. (1994) University of Göttingen, and Habilitation (2002) LMU Munich, is Assistant Professor at the Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte in Munich. She has published on the education and culture in nunneries and the portrayal of people in late-medieval biographies and autobiographies.
Volker Honemann, Ph.D. (1978) Würzburg and Habilitation (1982) Berlin, has the Chair for Ältere Deutsche Literatur unter Einbeziehung der Mediävistischen Komparatistik at the WWU Münster. His research interests include the literature of the late Middle Ages and literature of humanism, spiritual and didactic literature.
Eva Schlotheuber, Ph.D. (1994) University of Göttingen, and Habilitation (2002) LMU Munich, is Assistant Professor at the Seminar für mittelalterliche Geschichte in Munich. She has published on the education and culture in nunneries and the portrayal of people in late-medieval biographies and autobiographies.
Volker Honemann, Ph.D. (1978) Würzburg and Habilitation (1982) Berlin, has the Chair for Ältere Deutsche Literatur unter Einbeziehung der Mediävistischen Komparatistik at the WWU Münster. His research interests include the literature of the late Middle Ages and literature of humanism, spiritual and didactic literature.