Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 write by Alison More. This book was released on 2018-02-17. Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities, 1200-1600 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Any visitor to Belgium or the Netherlands is immediately struck by the number of convents and beguinages (begijnhoven) in both major cities and small towns. Their number and location in urban centres suggests that the women who inhabited them once held a prominent role. Despite leaving a visible mark on cities in Europe, much of the story of these women - known variously as beguines, tertiaries, klopjes, recluses, and anchoresses - remains to be told. Instead of aspiring to live as traditional religious, they transcended normative assumptions about religion and gender and had a very real impact on their religious and secular worlds. The sources for their tale are often fragmentary and difficult to interpret. However, careful scrutiny allows their voices to be heard. Drawing on an array of sources including religious rules, sermons, hagiographic vitae, and rapiaria, Fictive Orders and Feminine Religious Identities traces the story of pious laywomen between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries. It both emphasizes the innovative roles of women who transcended established forms of institutional religious life and reveals the ways in which historiographical habits have obscured the dynamic and fluid nature of their histories. By highlighting the development of irregular and extraregular communities and tracing the threads of monasticisation that wove their way around pious laywomen, this book draws attention to the vibrant and dynamic culture of feminine lay piety that persisted from the later middle ages onwards.
A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries
A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries write by Krijn Pansters. This book was released on 2020-06-08. A Companion to Medieval Rules and Customaries available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An introduction to the Rules and Customaries of the main religious Orders in Medieval Europe: Benedictine, Cistercian, Carthusian, Augustinian, Premonstratensian, Templar, Hospitaller, Teutonic, Dominican, Franciscan, and Carmelite.
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Luxury Arts of the Renaissance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Luxury Arts of the Renaissance write by Marina Belozerskaya. This book was released on 2005-10-01. Luxury Arts of the Renaissance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.
Passion of the Western Mind
Passion of the Western Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passion of the Western Mind write by Richard Tarnas. This book was released on 2011-10-19. Passion of the Western Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great minds of Western civilization and their pivotal ideas, from Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud. Richard Tarnas performs the near-miracle of describing profound philosophical concepts simply but without simplifying them. Ten years in the making and already hailed as a classic, THE PASSION OF THE WESERN MIND is truly a complete liberal education in a single volume.
The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West
The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West write by Alison I. Beach. This book was released on 2020-01-09. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Monasticism, in all of its variations, was a feature of almost every landscape in the medieval West. So ubiquitous were religious women and men throughout the Middle Ages that all medievalists encounter monasticism in their intellectual worlds. While there is enormous interest in medieval monasticism among Anglophone scholars, language is often a barrier to accessing some of the most important and groundbreaking research emerging from Europe. The Cambridge History of Medieval Monasticism in the Latin West offers a comprehensive treatment of medieval monasticism, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The essays, specially commissioned for this volume and written by an international team of scholars, with contributors from Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, cover a range of topics and themes and represent the most up-to-date discoveries on this topic.
