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Chargement... Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800–1050 (2018)par Steven Vanderputten
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This short (roughly half the book consists of notes and appendices) study of some 40 female religious communities which existed in Lotharingia in the central Middle Ages is a useful addition to the growing body of work on medieval women's monasticism. Steven Vanderputten combs through the admittedly sparse documentary evidence surviving from these communities to add more heft to the ongoing pushback against the traditional historiography that has framed the history of these places from the ninth century onwards as one characterised by "disempowerment and descent into social and spiritual redunancy" (37). Vanderputten doesn't posit a hidden Golden Age instead, but rather points to the evidence for complex and individual circumstances that defy any master narrative, and women who were thoughtful and independent reflectors on the nature of their own vocation. His use of the sources is impressive and generally thoughtful, though at times he maybe pushes the evidence a bit too far. (If we don't know who edited the Roll of Maubeuge for instance, or why, can we reasonably attribute any motivations to said editor? Also I keep eyeing that title...) The appendices will no doubt prove useful in a classroom setting. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In Dark Age Nunneries, Steven Vanderputten dismantles the common view of women religious between 800 and 1050 as disempowered or even disinterested witnesses to their own lives. It is based on a study of primary sources from forty female monastic communities in Lotharingia-a politically and culturally diverse region that boasted an extraordinarily high number of such institutions. Vanderputten highlights the attempts by women religious and their leaders, as well as the clerics and the laymen and -women sympathetic to their cause, to construct localized narratives of self, preserve or expand their agency as religious communities, and remain involved in shaping the attitudes and behaviors of the laity amid changing contexts and expectations on the part of the Church and secular authorities.Rather than a "dark age" in which female monasticism withered under such factors as the assertion of male religious authority, the secularization of its institutions, and the precipitous decline of their intellectual and spiritual life, Vanderputten finds that the post-Carolingian period witnessed a remarkable adaptability among these women. Through texts, objects, archaeological remains, and iconography, Dark Age Nunneries offers scholars of religion, medieval history, and gender studies new ways to understand the experience of women of faith within the Church and across society during this era. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)271.90009021Religions History, geographic treatment, biography of Christianity Religious Congregations and Orders in Church history Orders of WomenClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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