TY  - BOOK
AU  - Franks Johnson,Sherri
TI  - Monastic women and religious orders in late medieval Bologna
SN  - 9781107732285
AV  - BX4220.I8 F73 2014eb
U1  - 271/.904541109024 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders for women
KW  - Italy
KW  - Bologna
KW  - Monastic and religious life of women
KW  - Monachisme et ordres religieux féminins
KW  - Italie
KW  - Bologne
KW  - Vie religieuse et monastique féminine
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Institutions & Organizations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Frauenkloster
KW  - gnd
KW  - Nonne
KW  - Ordensleben
KW  - Bologna (stad)
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; New foundations in the thirteenth century -- New religious orders -- Convents and religious orders -- Nunneries and civic life -- Movement into the city -- Peaceful unions and "hostile takeovers."
N2  - Sherri Franks Johnson explores the roles of religious women in the changing ecclesiastical and civic structure of late medieval Bologna, demonstrating how convents negotiated a place in their urban context and in the church at large. During this period Bologna was the most important city in the Papal States after Rome. Using archival records from nunneries in the city, Johnson argues that communities of religious women varied in the extent to which they sought official recognition from the male authorities of religious orders. While some nunneries felt that it was important to their religious life to gain recognition from monks and friars, others were content to remain local and autonomous. In a period often described as an era of decline and the marginalization of religious women, Johnson shows instead that they saw themselves as active participants in their religious orders, in the wider church and in their local communities
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