UID:
almafu_9960117119102883
Format:
1 online resource (xii, 280 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-280-54583-6
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9786610545834
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1-84615-119-8
Uniform Title:
Deemoed en devotie.
Content:
In the last decades of the fourteenth century a new religious movement arose in the northern Low Countries, the so-called Modern Devotion, which had a major influence upon religious life in Europe, and was particularly popular with women. Until now there has been no study of the women who played a part in the movement, but this book seeks to fill the gap through a case study of the Chapter of Windesheim and the mystical and religious texts its sisters produced, typical of the female spiritual experience of the Modern Devotion. The author analyses texts by such important canonesses as Salome Sticken, Alijt Bake and Jacominje Costers, placing them in the context of daily life in the convent; the anonymous sisterbook of the largest convent at Diepenveen also proves a rich source of historical information. Although the women were all concerned with improving religious life in their convents, their ways of doing so are shown to have varied dramatically, leading to conflict with both other members of the convent, and the male leaders of the Chapter; significant in this regard is Bake's vision of a mystical spirituality, which ultimately led to her ejection from the convent and exile. 〈BR〉〈BR〉 WYBREN SCHEEPSMA teaches Dutch language at the Hogeschool Leiden.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).
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Frontcover; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 Introduction; 1.1 A Pious Religious Women's Movement; 1.2 The Search for Inner Meaning; 1.3 The Writings of the Canonesses of Windesheim and Their Reception; 2. Aspects of Life in the Convent; 2.1 The Inhabitants of the Convent; 2.2 Postulance, Taking the Veil, Profession; 2.3 Education and Training; 2.4 Year, Week, Day; 3. Communal Devotion and Piety; 3.1 Liturgical Celebrations; 3.2 Chapter of Faults; 3.3 Silence; 3.4 In the Sweat of Thy Face; 3.5 Copying and Illuminating; 3.6 Religious Nourishment; 3.7 Rest and Recreation
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3.8 Words of Inspiration4. Living with Texts; 4.1 Reading for a Pure Heart; 4.2 Reading with the Pen?; 4.3 Devout Exercises; 5. Written Instructions; 5.1 A Rule of Life for Devout Sisters; 5.2 Devout Epistles; 5.3 Five Letters on the Reformation of Mariënberg in Helmstedt; 5.4 The Collations of Johannes Brinckerinck; 6. Devout Biography and Historiography; 6.1 The Diepenveen Viten; 6.2 Learning Virtues; 6.3 The Work of Griete Essinchghes; 6.4 The Kroniek Bethanië; 6.5 Chronicle and Sisterbook; 7. Two Spiritual Friends from Facons; 7.1 Jacomijne Costers
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7.2 An Account of a Journey through Hell7.3 Reform through Literary Means; 7.4 Mechtild van Rieviren and Her Comforting Conversations with Christ; 8. Alijt Bake, a Woman with a Mission; 8.1 Biography; 8.2 Reading, Writing and Erasing; 8.3 Three Moments in the Literary Career of Alijt Bake; 8.4 Audience and Dissemination; 9. Literature and the Choir Nuns of Windesheim; 9.1 Language and Literature in Daily Life; 9.2 The Role of the Pastors; 9.3 The Windesheim Choir Nuns as Authors; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; Backcover
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84383-048-5
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781846151194
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781846151194/type/BOOK
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