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Medieval religious women. 2 : Peaceweavers.
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ISBN: 0879078715 0879079711 0879078871 087907986X 0879076135 0879079134 9780879078713 9780879076139 9780879079130 9780879079710 Year: 1987 Volume: 113 Publisher: Kalamazoo Cistercian publ.

Lives of the anchoresses : the rise of the urban recluse in medieval Europe
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ISBN: 0812238524 132251089X 0812202864 9780812238525 Year: 2005 Volume: *55 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa University of Pennsylvania Press

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In cities and towns across northern Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, a new type of religious woman took up authoritative positions in society, all the while living as public recluses in cells attached to the sides of churches. In Lives of the Anchoresses, Anneke Mulder-Bakker offers a new history of these women who chose to forsake the world but did not avoid it.Unlike nuns, anchoresses maintained their ties to society and belonged to no formal religious order. From their solitary anchorholds in very public places, they acted as teachers and counselors and, in some cases, theological innovators for parishioners who would speak to them from the street, through small openings in the walls of their cells. Available at all hours, the anchoresses were ready to care for the community's faithful whenever needed.Through careful biographical studies of five emblematic anchoresses, Mulder-Bakker reveals the details of these influential religious women. The life of the unnamed anchoress who was mother to Guibert of Nogent shows the anchoress's role as a spiritual guide in an oral culture. A study of Yvette of Huy shows the myriad possibilities open to one woman who eventually chose the life of an anchoress. The accounts of Juliana of Cornillon and Eve of St. Martin raise questions about the participation of religious women in theological discussions and their contributions to church liturgy. And the biographical study of Margaret the Lame of Magdeburg explores the anchoress's role as day-to-day religious instructor to the ordinary faithful.

Related lives : confessors and their female penitents, 1450 - 1750.
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ISBN: 9780801442513 0801442516 Year: 2005 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell university press

The monastic discourses
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ISBN: 0888441118 9780888441119 Year: 1993 Volume: 111


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Virtual pilgrimages in the convent : imagining Jerusalem in the late Middle Ages.
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ISBN: 9782503541037 2503541038 Year: 2011 Volume: 8 Publisher: Turnhout Brepols

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"'Walking in Christ's footsteps' was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually. These exercises, largely based on real pilgrims' accounts, made use of images and objects that helped the beholder to imagine walking alongside Christ during his torturous march to Calvary. Some provided scripts whereby votaries could animate paintings and sculptures. Others required the nun to imagine her convent as a miniature model of Jerusalem. This volume is grounded in more than a dozen texts from manuscripts written by medieval nuns and religious women, which appear here transcribed and translated for the first time, and a multiplicity of (occasionally three-dimensional) images. They attest to the ubiquity and variety of virtual pilgrimages among religious women and help to reveal the functions of certain late medieval devotional images."--Publisher's description.

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Christian spirituality --- anno 1200-1499 --- Jerusalem --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Monastic and religious life of women --- Monasticism and religious orders for women --- Nuns --- Christian women --- Jerusalem in Christianity. --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Vie religieuse et monastique féminine --- Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins --- Religieuses --- Chrétiennes --- Jérusalem dans le christianisme --- History --- Religious life --- Histoire --- Vie religieuse --- In Christianity --- 271 "12/15" --- 271-7 --- Kloosterwezen. Religieuze orden en congregaties. Monachisme--?"12/15" --- Godsdienstig leven, liturgie, vroomheid en koordienst in religieuze orden en congregaties --- 271-7 Godsdienstig leven, liturgie, vroomheid en koordienst in religieuze orden en congregaties --- Pèlerins et pèlerinages chrétiens --- Vie religieuse et monastique féminine --- Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins --- Chrétiennes --- Jérusalem dans le christianisme --- Sisters (in religious orders, congregations, etc.) --- Christians --- Women, Christian --- Women --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian --- Christian shrines --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- In Christianity. --- To 1500 --- Europe [Northern ] --- Manuscripts [Medieval ] --- Netherlands --- Jérusalem --- Dans le christianisme --- Jerusalem in Christianity --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Monastic and religious life of women - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Monasticism and religious orders for women - History - Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Nuns - Europe - History - To 1500 --- Christian women - Religious life - Europe - History - To 1500

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