Dismantling the Medieval: Early Modern Perceptions of a Female Convent's Past

by Steven Vanderputten

Dismantling the Medieval studies the paradoxical relationship of the early modern canonesses of Bouxieres abbey with the medieval past of their institution. While various documentary, material, spatial, and immaterial legacies of that past remained a crucial presence in the convent's narrative of self, the canonesses also used and manipulated them to pursue and justify drastic changes in their organization and lifestyle. Thanks to an unusually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 250359347X
• ISBN13: 9782503593470
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 12.98 lbs.