Dark Age Nunneries: The Ambiguous Identity of Female Monasticism, 800-1050

by Steven Vanderputten

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 150171595X
• ISBN13: 9781501715952
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher