Female Monasticism
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" Schwestern, so sich in geistlichen hauß deren annuntiaten coelestinen befinden. " Anatomy of one cloister community (1706–1782) The article offers a glimpse into a personal structure of the still neglected cloister of the contem-plative... more
Post–Trent Council Exceeding the Boundaries of the Enclosure in St. George’s Convent at Prague Castle as the Confirmation of “Age-Old” Prestige The article deals with the infringement of enclosure boundaries set by the Council of Trent,... more
https://www.chbeck.de/breitenstein-benediktiner/product/27671842 Ora et labora – bete und arbeite! Das benediktinische Mönchtum hat mit der Verbindung von Askese und tätigem Leben die Kultur Europas geformt. Mirko Breitenstein schildert... more
IMC Leeds 2019 presentation paper 1532-b. Session Title: Debating identities, creating communities: materialities of female monastic reform in the medieval west I - manuscript and architecture
This article concerns four liturgical codices copied in the scriptorium of the Monastery of Alcobaça between the mid-fifteenth and the seventeenth centuries. The late textual additions that concern rituals specific to Cistercian nunneries... more
This paper analyzes relevant features of the female religious community of San Zaccaria in Venice, from its foundation until the end of the thirteenth century. The study highlights, on the one hand, how complex and variegated were the... more
Doktoranden- und Examenskolloquium Institut für Landesgeschichte, 17.12.2019
St. Giulia’s Museum in Brescia preserves a capital that is a veritable rarity in the artistic pro- duction linked to the nunnery, founded by the last Lombard kings and dedicated to Christ the Saviour. On the basis of an iconological... more
Contribution aux actes de la journée d'étude "femmes et mécénat" organisée par la SIEFAR en mars 2018, publiés en ligne par Nathalie Grande, Claudine Nédelec et Julie Piront (dir.), « Femmes et mécénat en France, du Moyen Âge à la fin de... more
Italian scholarship has already underscored the similarities between the royal foundation of St. Salvatore of Brescia and St. Sofia of Benevento, founded by Arechis, duke of Benevento, before 774. However, St. Sofia is still considered... more
Généralement méconnu du grand public, l’ordre des annonciades célestes retient l’attention de la recherche universitaire depuis plusieurs années. Fondées à Gênes en 1604, ces religieuses contemplatives et strictement cloîtrées sont en... more
Des plaintes présentées en consistoire au nom de Ricarde de Montagut, prieure de Sainte-Marie de la Rive, contre Brenguier de Fabrègues, chanoine de Maguelonne et prieur de Fabrègues (paroisse située entre Montpellier et Sète), donnèrent... more
הרפורמציות פתחו פתח לתמורות ניכרות ביחסי המגדר. מאמר זה מתמקד באחת המרכזיות שבהן: ההשפעה המורכבת של ביטול מוסד הנזירות על-ידי מרטין לותר על אפשרויות הפעולה הפתוחות בפני נשים, לעומת אלה העומדות בפני גברים, בתחום הדתי. המאמר בוחן את... more
Tagung: Konfrontation, Kontinuität und Wandel: Selbstwahrnehmung und Ordnungsvorstellungen in geistlichen Frauengemeinschaften in Zeiten der Bedrohung durch die Reformation