Crown and veil : female monasticism from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries / edited by Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Susan Marti ; translated by Dietlinde Hamburger ; foreword by Caroline Walker Bynum.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors:	Ruhrlandmuseum Essen, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft Düsseldorf
Other Authors:	Hamburger, Jeffrey F., 1957-, Marti, Susan, Hamburger, Dietlinde
Format:	Book
Language:	English German
Published:	New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
Subjects:	Christian art and symbolism > Germany > Medieval, 500-1500 > Exhibitions. Monasticism and religious orders for women > Germany > History > Exhibitions. Convents > Germany > History > Exhibitions. Art, Medieval > Germany > Exhibitions. Nuns in art > Exhibitions.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

Histories of female monasticism / Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Early monasteries and foundations (500-1200): an introduction / Jan Gerchow ... [et al.]
The time of the orders, 1200-1500: an introduction / Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Petra Marx, and Susan Marti
Between this world and the next: the art of religious women in the Middle Ages / Jeffrey F. Hamburger and Robert Suckale
Church and cloister: the architecture of female monasticism in the Middle Ages / Carola Jäggi and Uwe Lobbedey
"Nuns' work," "caretaker institutions," and "women's movements": some thoughts about a modern historiography of medieval monasticism / Jan Gerchow and Susan Marti
The visionary texts and visual worlds of religious women / Barbara Newman
Patterns of female piety in the later Middle Ages / Caroline Walker Bynum
Time and space: liturgy and rite in female monasteries of the Middle Ages / Gisela Muschiol
Founders, donors, and saints: patrons of nuns' convents / Hedwig Röckelein
Pastoral care in female monasteries: sacramental services, spiritual edification, ethical discipline / Klaus Schreiner
Household and prayer: medieval convents as economic entities / Werner Rösener
Wanderers between worlds: visitors, letters, wills, and gifts as means of communication in exchanges between cloister and the world / Gabriela Signori.

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