In the medieval Christian church the claim to authority possessed by abbots, bishops, and popes stood in contrast to the rights of consultation held by monks, canons, and cardinals. This work demonstrates how the latter formed themselves into more or less independent electoral and consultative colleges.
In the medieval Christian church the claim to authority possessed by abbots, bishops, and popes stood in contrast to the rights of consultation hel...
The study focuses on the abbesses in the oldest and most socially exclusive women's religious communities in lower Alsace. Drawing on prosopographic and network analytic methods, it examines the influence of origins as well as gender on the scope of action open to the abbesses.
The study focuses on the abbesses in the oldest and most socially exclusive women's religious communities in lower Alsace. Drawing on prosopographi...
What was the nature of life and death in an 18th century Catholic convent? From an anthropological and cultural perspective, Dietmar Schiersner examines the lives of the sisters in sickness and in health, their clothing, living spaces and spaces of the imagination (reading, writing, and music-making), and the rhythms of their lives: days, years, life stages, generational conflicts, the hour of death, eternity, and institutional memorials.
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What was the nature of life and death in an 18th century Catholic convent? From an anthropological and cultural perspective, Dietmar Sch...
