The contributors to this volume address issues as diverse as patronage and relationships with the outside world, organizational structures, the nature of Cistercian observance and identity among female houses, and the role of male authority, and in doing so, they seek to shed light on the divergences and commonalities upon which the female religious life was based. The different chapters within this book take a comparative approach to the emergence and spread of female monastic communities across different geographical, political, and economic settings, comparing and contrasting houses that ranged from rich, powerful royal abbeys to small, subsistence priories on the margins of society, and exploring the artistic achievements, the interaction with neighbours and secular and ecclesiastical authorities, and the spiritual lives that were led by their inhabitants. This interdisciplinary volume draws together scholars from Spain, Italy, France, the Low Countries, Germany, Transylvania, Scandinavia, and the British Isles, and offers new insights into the history, art history, and material culture, and the religiosity and culture of medieval religious women. There has long been a tendency among monastic historians to ignore or marginalize female participation in monastic life, but recent scholarship has begun to redress the balance, and the great contributions made by women to the religious life of the Middle Ages are now attracting increasing attention. Noblesse-Rocher, dans Revue d'Histoire et de Philosophie Religieuses, 4, 2016, p. La diversité des conclusions nuancées et savamment argumentées permet d’éviter à l’ensemble le piège d’une histoire victimaire.» (A. « L’ensemble du volume est de très belle qualité scientifique et sans complaisance idéologique, (…) Les études sont fondées dans leur grande majorité sur un nombre très important de sources primaires, citées précisément en bibliographie après chaque contribution. Venarde, in Catholic Historical Review, 103/4, 2017, p. “This excellent volume collects the work of fifteen scholars (…) the book presents new research, much of it quite exciting, from different eras across a wide swathe of western christendom.” (Bruce L. “This collection makes a significant contribution to the literature on female monasticism in Europe and sets a compelling agenda for further research.” (Judy Bailey, in Parergon, 33/1, 2016, p. “(…) the volume marks an important contribution, along with other recent studies, to an ongoing corrective in the male-dominated field of scholarship in the history of monasticism.” (J. lecció que arriba per esdevenir l’altaveu dels estudis monàstics europeus." (Albert Cassanyes Roig, in: Annuario de Estudios Medievales, 46/1, 2016, p.Així mateix, Burton i Stöber han dut a terme una intensa tasca editorial i han cuidat fi ns al darrer detall un volum que inaugura una nova col S’han de felicitar els diversos autors per les seves investigacions i per la difusió que en fan, obrint noves vies de recerca. En defi nitiva, Women in the Medieval Monastic World és la darrera aportació a la història del monacat femení. lecció augura que seguirà pel mateix camí."(.) Brepols sempre ha cuidat tots els estàndards de qualitat científica que l’han convertida en una de les cases més prestigioses a l’hora d’editar obres en anglès.
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