Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France

by Penelope D. Johnson

Book Overview

In this study of the manner in which medieval nuns lived, Penelope Johnson challenges facile stereotypes of nuns living passively under monastic rule, finding instead that collectively they were empowered by their communal privileges and status to think and act without many of the subordinate attitudes of secular women. In the words of one abbess comparing nuns with monks, they were "different as to their sex but equal in their monastic profession."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226401863
• ISBN13: 9780226401867
• Release Date: February 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"