Women Religious Crossing between Cloister and the World : A Transatlantic Dialogue / / Mercedes Perez Vidal.

• Superior document: Spirituality and Monasticism, East and West
• TeilnehmendeR: Perez Vidal, Mercedes.
• Place / Publishing House: Leeds : : Arc Humanities Press, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Spirituality and monasticism, east and west
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (212 p.)

This book presents a comparative approach to the role of women in religious and monastic life in Europe and the Americas during the medieval and early modern periods. The contributors inquire into differences and similarities, continuities and discontinuities of women?s agency inside and outside the convent. The volume challenges traditional chronological and regional limitations such as those between the Middle Ages and the Modern era and stresses the transatlantic exchange of models between Europe and the Americas.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Female Dominican Identities (1200-1500) -- Chapter 2. In Touch with the Outside: The Economic Exchanges of the Observant Dominican Convent of St. Catherine in St. Gallen -- Chapter 3. Beyond the Wall: Power, Parties, and Sex in Late Medieval Galician Nunneries -- Chapter 4. Reform and Renewal in the Dominican Nunneries of Spain and Latin America -- Chapter 5. Transatlantic Circulation of Objects, Books, and Ideas in Mid-Seventeenth Century Mexican Nunneries -- Chapter 6. Estefania de San Joseph and Esperanza de San Alberto: The Dual Discourse in the Lives of Two Exemplary Afro-Women Religious in Early Modern Spanish-America -- Chapter 7. Le Monachisme bourbonien et la fabrication de l'autorité au féminin à Fontevraud au XVIIe siècle