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.... 66 Roberts, Women s Literary Capital, 247. 67 Neville s Annals, 60. 68 Clarke and Coolahan, Gender, Reception, and Form, 151, their emphasis. early modern historical writing Benedictine monastic chronicles Claude Estiennot Anne Neville feminist formalism Copyright © 2020 by Duke...

... list assembled in 1134 and documented in the Liber Eliensis, which is a compilation of deeds, charters, privileges, and estate litigation designed to recount the history of the Benedictine monastery at Ely, England. This chronicle begins with a book-length vita of Æthelthryth, who is the house’s...

... of news were also highlighted by her varied career. While Elizabeth Alkin as a parliamentarian agent, newsmonger, and mother might seem far removed from monastic women, the gulf was per- haps not so wide as one might expect. Nuns were keen recorders of daily events as convent chronicles...

... in lieu of tutoring fees.42 Most of his manuscripts were of monastic, mainly Benedictine, origin. As Michael Foster points out, “Doubtless many had come to Gloucester College in its three Benedictine centuries before the dissolution of 1541 dispersed its library.”43 The former monastic library...

... understandably have given most of their attention to the explicitly devotional, German vernacular works in such manuscripts, but other kinds of contents, such as Latin liturgical texts, commentaries on the liturgy and monastic life, pedagogical works, and local conventual chron- icles and histories...

... conventual life by organizing their house according to a monastic rule. They successfully assimilated spiritual models of feminine penance circulating in the late Middle Ages, and they fostered their temporals (worldly goods and proper- ties) just as did nuns from regular orders.1 Evidence...

... pp.; 8 figs., 11 maps. Paper $14.95. [On the Norman Benedictine priory at Fore.] Mecham, June L. Sacred Communities, Sacred Devotions: Gender, Material Culture, and Monasticism in Late Medieval Germany. Edited by Alison I. Beach, Constance H. Berman, and Lisa M. Bitel. Medieval Women: Texts...

... in the Medieval Islamic Middle East: A Historical Perspective . Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. xi, 279 pp., 28 figs. gbp 80.00. Bugyis, Katie Ann-Marie. The Care of Nuns: The Ministries of Benedictine Women in England during...

.... As critics such as Antonia Gransden and Patrick Wormald argue, the tenth-century Benedictine Reform was a movement driven by a profound sense of nostalgia that found voice in clerics’ eloquent expressions of long- ing to return to a faraway Bedan “Golden Age,” with its firmly entrenched monastic...

... of England. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 a The Effects of Exile on English Monastic Spirituality: William Peryn’s Spirituall Exercyses Mary C. Erler...

... J. Science in the Monastery: Texts, Manuscripts, and Learning at Saint-Bertin . Bibliologia: Elementa ad librorum studia pertinentia, vol. 55. Turnhout, Belg.: Brepols, 2020. 352 pp., 15 color plates, 6 tables. Paper eur 85.00. [Study of Benedictine science as seen in the evidence of the monastic...

...–1179) and Elisabeth of Schönau (d. 1164/65), both nuns of the Benedictine order. Hildegard was fluent in Latin but not schooled in learned theological writing. She dictated in Latin to her scribes or wrote out notes on wax tablets, while her scribes later polished...

... whom Chaucer chooses for this performance is a superior member of contemporary English female monasticism, but one who is unable to distinguish between present events and those, like the murder of little Hugh of Lincoln, which she thinks occurred only “a litel while ago” (686). The story of Hugh’s...

... the doubt found in writings about other holy women, especially that of Mechtild of Hackeborn, a thirteenth-century mystic and Benedictine nun who lived in Helfra, Germany. The Book never names the Liber specialis gratiae (known in Middle English as The Booke of Gostlye Grace ) of Mechtild of Hackeborn...

... of the Gesta Francorum, which in turn led to the com- position of new histories of the First Crusade by the Benedictines Robert the Monk, Guibert of Nogent, and Baldric of Dol. All three authors explicitly criticize the style of their source text along with the paucity of information it gives...

... Admirable Events (1639), which was dedicated to Henrietta Maria, Du Verger responds directly to Cavendish s reflections on monastic life, which were written in Antwerp and published as The World s Olio (1655).17 De Ávila s far- reaching influence enables a fuller understanding of the ways in which texts...

... historiography. I would propose, rather, that their transformative effects can never be as compre- hensive as their agents, and their agents’ chroniclers, would have us believe; Wallace / Mary Ward and the Premodern Canon  403 and that certain violent acts register differently...

... Nun’s Tale Catherine Sanok University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan “In this yere was the pley of seynt Katerine.” So reads the entry for 1393 in the Chronicle of London contained in British Library, MS Cotton...

... chronicled, trees of incarnation lifted the individual meditator’s imagination into varied alternate places, helping her to think herself into God’s place.36 Through them, women lived “in the blend,” as cognitive scientist Mark Turner might say.37 Through trees of incarnation, twelfth- century women...

... the Father and the male priesthood, but which is based on the celibacy of all religious orders and, for wandering friars and the far-­flung Domini- cans, Récollets, Ursulines, and Jesuits of the New World missions, the vow of poverty. The Jesuits and monastic orders in the New World fought con...