Abstract
The Italian female monasticism in the Middle Ages has been
approached by several studies in the last few decades, which have stressed
many aspects, although institutional questions have often been neglected.
The research focused above all on the specificities of nuns’ communities,
strictly linked to their gender. The attention has often been paid to monasteries
founded by kings, ruled by abbesses belonging to the royal families,
charged of the administration of substantial estates and showing a significant
agency. This paper aims at verifying these specificities for the Early Middle
Ages – in particular the real ability of how women. belonging to these
communities. acted– as well as their effectiveness in a larger framework,
including lower level-monasteries, not founded or linked to the royal power
and disposing of a limited estate. An institutional perspective is taken, which
examines the relationships of female monasteries with the male ecclesiastic
world, concerning bishops as well as monastic communities.
Lingua originale | Italian |
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pagine (da-a) | 469-503 |
Numero di pagine | 35 |
Rivista | Studi Medievali |
Volume | LIX |
Numero di pubblicazione | 2 |
Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 1 gen 2018 |
Keywords
- monachesimo femminile
- monasteri
- episcopato
- gender history