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All Saints Sisters of the Poor
Author:
Susan Mumm
Published:
2001
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This book introduces readers to the life of a Victorian religious community, both within the privacy of the convent and in its work in the wider world, based on documents preserved by the Society of All Saints Sisters of the Poor. It begins by using the memoirs of first-generation members of the community, a colourful and human introduction to the Anglican 're-invention' of monastic life in the second half of the nineteenth century. hardback
ISBN 978-0-851-15728-3
Price:
£40.00
Guidance for Women in Twelfth-Century Convents
Author:
Vera Morton
Published:
2003
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
These translated letters and texts composed for younger and older women in twelfth-century convents illuminate the powerful medieval ideals of virginity and chastity. They show that the literature of virginity and chastity could offer a wide range of role models and precedents for women in the medieval church, both intheir spiritual formation and in the practical concerns of their monastic lives. hardback
ISBN 978-0-859-91825-1
Price:
£40.00
Leadership in Medieval English Nunneries
Author:
Valerie G. Spear
Published:
2005
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The position of an abbess or prioress in the middle ages was one of great responsibility, with care for both the spiritual and economic welfare of her convent. This book considers the power wielded by and available to such women. hardback
ISBN 978-1-843-83150-1
Price:
£45.00
Medieval Religious Women in the Low Countries
Author:
Wybren Scheepsma
Published:
2004
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
In the last decades of the fourteenth century a new religious movement arose in the northern Low Countries, the so-called Modern Devotion, which had a major influence upon religious life in Europe, and was particularly popular with women. hardback
ISBN 978-1-843-83048-1
Price:
£55.00
Missionary Women
Author:
Rhonda Anne Semple
Published:
2003
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This is the first comprehensive study of the role of gender in British Protestant missionary expansion into China and India during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. hardback
ISBN 978-1-843-83013-9
Price:
£60.00
The Beginning of Women's Ministry
Author:
Henrietta Blackmore
Published:
2007
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The revival of religious orders in the mid-nineteenth century opened up a field of Christian ministry for women distinct from previous types of church work, which had been voluntary, part-time, and necessarily limited by contemporary identification of women with the domestic sphere. The Deaconess Movement posed a threat to the accepted gender order of Victorian society, creating new spheres of activity and roles of authority for women outside the home. hardback
ISBN 978-1-843-83308-6
Price:
£45.00
The Convent and the Community in Late Medieval England
Author:
Marilyn Oliva
Published:
1998
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Convents were an important part of medieval monastic life, but only now, with the upsurge of interest in women's history, are they beginning to receive the attention they deserve. The prevailing view has been that female monasticism was bankrupt, spiritually and socially as well as financially, but Professor Oliva shows the reality to have been otherwise. hardback
ISBN 978-0-851-15576-0
Price:
£55.00
Women in a Medieval Heretical Sect
Author:
Shulamith Shahar
Published:
2001
Medium: Book Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Agnes and Huguette were two Waldensian women who were interrogated by the inquisitional court of Pamiers, in southern France, in 1319 and subsequently burnt at the stake for their heretical beliefs. Shahar uses the records of their inquisition as a basis for an examination of the Waldensian sect's attitude towards its women members, and their role within the sect, comparing their lives with women in the Catholic church and in other sects. hardback
ISBN 978-0-851-15815-0
Price:
£40.00
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