Dismantling the Medieval: Early Modern Perceptions of a Female Convent's Past - Couverture souple

Vanderputten, Steven

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 250359347X ISBN 13 : 9782503593470

Editeur : Brepols, 2021

Synopsis

Dismantling the Medieval studies the paradoxical relationship of the early modern canonesses of Bouxières with the medieval past of their institution. While various documentary, material, spatial, and immaterial legacies of that past remained a crucial presence in the convent's narrative of self, the canonesses also used and manipulated them to pursue and justify drastic changes in their organization and lifestyle. Thanks to an unusually rich and varied body of evidence, we are able to reconstruct in unprecedented detail this elite convent's highly flexible memory culture over a period of more than two centuries. Guiding the reader back through time, the book gradually reveals how and why the canonesses' connection to the medieval past lived on throughout many crises and transformations, including even the abbey's dissolution in 1971.

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À propos de l?auteur

Steven Vanderputten is an ordinary full professor in the history of the early and high Middle Ages at Ghent University. He specializes in the study of the culture and societal embedding of religious communities, with a particular focus on memory culture, leadership, and reform. His monographs include Monastic Reform as Process (213), Dark Age Nunneries (218) and Medieval Monasticisms (22). Recently he has extended his research into the early modern period, looking at long-term trends in the perception of the medieval past.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brepols
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 250359347X
• ISBN 13: 9782503593470
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 247
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